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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
holiday poll - embarrassing holiday stories!
All right! Spill your embarrassing holiday stories, etc. here.
Mine is just kind of silly - I was much older than I care to admit (like my age began with a 3) before I realized that the Santa Claus that Mommy kisses in the song is actually the Dad.
I don't know if I just thought Santa Claus was exempt from being considered adultery or if I just didn't pay attention to the lyrics, but I had a major aha moment when I made the connection.
Re: holiday poll - embarrassing holiday stories!
Is it embarassing that I also never realized that until I just read your post?
St. John, USVI
Maybe not holiday related but I have lots of stories like that one - "Every Kiss begins with Kay/K" was one I did not realize has 2 meanings until I was in my late 20's. Then just lately DH was teaching Maggie about right and left and he said "You write with your right" - wow that would have made my elementary school years a LOT easier and he is even left-handed so it doesn't even apply to him.
I cooked my turkey upside down in the roaster on Thanksgiving (as in six days ago)...
My mom called me on Thanksgiving to ask me which side up a turkey needs to cook- I told her breast side up- she asked which side that was and after I explained it had to flip the bird in the roasting pan because she also had been cooking upside down.
You are not alone!
Stand up for something you believe in.
According to the food network, if you cook it upside down for the first hour- it stay juicier
It was REALLY juicy (though it cooked five hours upside down) - we only figured it out when I was watching my dad carving it and we were all wondering where all the light meat was! (This is only my third turkey EVER - I'm just glad it was edible).
Mine is that I had a holiday party a few years ago where I invited some of my friends and some of DH's friends. I decided it would be fun to do a "Dirty Santa" game where everyone brought a wrapped Christmas ornament to exchange. I asked DH if that was okay and he said yes.
There was only a small turn out so there were probably about 7 ornaments to exchange in the game. At the end, two couples said, "well someone else can have ours because we don't do a Christmas tree." I said, "Really?" and they said "We are Jewish".
I felt so stupid. I was thinking, "yeah, my husband who is a Diversity Consultant for a living could've mentioned this to me!" He's known these people for over 20 years so I sort of thought he would've mentioned this little factoid.
Planning Bio