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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.
Random curiosity...
Hi ladies, this is totally random but since a few questions popped in my mind this morning I thought I'd squeeze them all in one post... so here goes...
1. What other boards do you frequent on TN? Anyone in particular you like?
2. If any of you own a Wii, what kind of family games would you recommend? Something in the category of board games or word games etc. Even non-Wii recommendations are welcome!
3. What holiday fun traditions do you and your hubby share? I'm getting a treasure hunt ready for hubby's amusement. I'm going to hide one of his presents and leave hint notes around the house for him to follow...We'll see how it goes 
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Re: Random curiosity...
I'll bite!
1. I dont post on any other boards. *When I was pregnant, I posted on the Bump, but some of those ladies are a little over the top for me so I stopped. I dont know what it is about the nest, but there are some boards that are kind of vicious, and I tend to like to use the internet for fun and not crazy drama, ya know? I lurk on Entertainment, Entertaining Ideas, Whats cooking...
2. I own a Wii, but do not play it..I was looking to get the Zumba fitness game for it...other than that, I've used it for Netflix (which I've cancelled). I actually am on my Nook 10x more, and do crossword puzzles and have a few games loaded on there.
3. Sadly, we dont really have any holiday traditions, but now that we have the baby - we're trying to start our own.
Totally agree about avoiding any online drama. I heard about TB being out of control
We have Netflix too! Were not pleased with it? What's the Nook? I'm intrigued
As far as games, maybe we should try Mario Party 8... I remember when we had the Game Cube we really liked playing Mario Party... I wanted to find something like Scrabble but the video game version isn't rated too well.
1. I'm usually around the Nest Book Club board and the Entertainment board. I've gotten so many great book recs just from seeing what other people on NBC are reading and what they like and there's like zero drama over there. The Entertainment board... I just like to know there are other people I can discuss all the crap tv I watch.
2. I have a Wii but rarely play it anymore. If you have a few controllers, I really love MarioKart.
1. I am a regular on the Twilight board (a spin-off of the NBC board, but we rarely discuss Twilight anymore - we talk about general celeb stuff, other books we've read, and we are particularly excited about the Hunger Games movies, since we've all read and loved the books). I also still post on the Sept. 2010 moms board on TB. It's the only bump board I've come across that is genuinely NICE - I've even met a few of my friends from there IRL. I started posting there as soon as I got my BFP in December 2009.
2. Don't own or play Wii so I can't help you there.
3. We have a lot of holiday traditions with my family, most of them because of our Italian heritage, but this year I started a new one with DD - we took her to go see the Nutcracker. She loved it, and I'dlike to take her every year.
ETA: I just realized you asked for traditions with your hubby - sadly, we don't have any traditions for just the two of us! they all involve the entire family!
Oh, good call on the Mario Kart game! We actually have it, I had totally forgotten about it, thanks!
Yes, I was just curious if other couples had personal traditions 'cause I'd love for us to start maybe one or two. We're Italian so plenty of family traditions, but here it's just the two of us
So far (other than the treasure hunt) we've decided that we're going to pick an inspiration for the tree... This year we don't have one 'cause I'm struggling with the limited storage space in this new apartment and all the decorations are in storage downtown; but hopefully by next December we'll have purchased the remaining furniture we've been eyeing. So next year I'll decorate a black and white Chanel-inspired tree.
I used to be a regular poster on the Nest Book Club but now I just lurk and get suggestions.
We have the Wii but we rarely play it. I love Wii Mario Kart, so does Little P, he isn't great at it, mostly he is horrible, but if I turn off his wheel and have him use it to "help me steer" he has a blast. He is constantly after me to play it.
No real traditions with DH. We used to decorate our stockings every year but that fell apart one year when the cats trashed them while they were drying. We never started it again. I guess the closest we have to tradition is that we go to his family's big Italian xmas eve and drink wine and make fun of people when they aren't paying attention.
Oh, you reminded me of a tradition! We copied it from my parents, but now it's something that we do on our own - we get a "yearly ornament" each year. Something that is special to us, most of the time because it reflects a signficant event, or a trip we made or soemthing else that happened that year. We started it the first year we lived together and are now up to ornament #8 (we have other ornaments on our tree, not just those 8!)
And then it's fun each year to reminisce as we put them up. we go in order from year #1 to the present.
We actually do that too, how fun! Although when I started I didn't have a tradition plan in mind so we don't have one for each consecutive year
We only have Disney ornaments with the year printed, maybe we should stick to the Disney theme and buy one every year from now own.
The first one is from 1998. It was the very first Christmas we spent in NYC, before we actually moved here.
Thank you, you helped figure out another one!
The stockings sound and look really neat, I'd like to do them! We don't do them in Italy so it would be something relatively "unique" for us... But then we'll have more stockings for the Befana in January... I'm still pondering
Maybe you could do a decorate your own shoe for the Befana. More traditional to the Befana and yet still unique and a keepsake for year to year. I bet you could find miniature shoes at a craft shop or something.
::butting in::
what the heck is the befana?
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The Befana is an Italian folk festivity occurring on January 6th. She is (in the legend) an older woman who delivers candy in her stockings to the good children, or coal (actually rock candy) to the naughty. Parents buy prefilled stockings or fill their own and leave them hanging on the mantelpiece for the kids to find the morning of. When I was little my mom used to fill up one of her old hose with all sorts of candies.
So there goes our use of stockings
The befana is the Italian Folk way of celebrating Epiphany or Three Kings Day.
In my husband's family the Befana is a witch that will take the children away if they have been bad. And the candy is left in shoes outside of the bedroom doors. It is probably regional, shoes vs stockings.