Christmas: August 2005 Archives

2005 Christmas Baskets Contents and Ideas Theme: My Favorite Things Leffe Blonde - On order. Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout - Delivered to my door yesterday. Pickapeppa Sauce Excellent on steak! On order. Lawry's Seasoned Pepper I have to start collecting this because there is usually only a couple on the shelf at a time when I go to the grocery store. Dark Chocolate Tim Tams from Australia. Easily ordered to arrive within a weeks time. Far too hot right now to order these and keep them. This will wait till the very last when the weather is cooler. White House Historical Asso. 2005 Christmas Ornament These are gorgeous ornaments. Living this close to the nations capitol it makes my family in Ga. feel special to get something commemorative from D.C. I have every single ornament they have made since the 1980's. I LOVE these ornaments. On Order. ***Update - on MommaK's advice I am ordering this too. Head Country BBQ Sauce I also forgot about stroopwafels. I will also add these to the baskets that will have coffee. Right now I am leaning toward the theme "My Favorite Things". To introduce others to really good products I have discovered since being 600 miles farther north than the rest of my family. I still may change my mind and create more personal baskets for each family. I might go with my theme and add a few things for the individual in the family. I would like each individual family to have personal things tucked in. My sister and her family are complete opposite of Steven's brother and his family. It is the same for his parents and my mother. For my sister there will be books and gourmet coffee. For her husband I have no idea yet. For my neice and nephew there will be a gift card for movie rentals and novelty popcorn on the cob. The kids also will have other larger gifts. (Individual ears can be purchased here.) For Steven's brother there will be a few Yuenling. For his wife there will be decadent dessert. For their three boys there will be the popcorn on the cob and an age appropriate movie (they are all under 5). The boys also have other gifts. Steven's parents will get more gourmet type additions. Exotic tea for his mother - black tapioca pearls, jasmine, etc. His father is a nuclear physicist so there might be a book, perhaps a biography of a scientist and nuts and candy. My mother will be getting a completely different basket. There is a hair spray she uses that I can buy up here for half the price she pays in Georgia. There will be other beauty products we know she uses religously. There will be gourmet coffee and specialty teas. No sweets. She won't eat them lest her size 4 body gain a pound. Perhaps a book and photos of the girls from this past year. I am just now beginning to collect things and one never knows for sure between now and October what I might find to tuck inside each basket. Things I want to get in a Christmas basket Dutch Cocoa Belgian Chocolate Madagascar Vanilla
Music Meme I was tagged by Kate - A Daily Dose Of Power. “List ten songs that you are currently digging … it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they’re no good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the ten songs in your blog. Then tag five other people to see what they’re listening to. I am not going to tag anyone this time. 1. Into The Mystic - Van Morrison 2. Why Georgia Why - John Mayer live version 3. Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf 4. I Can't Drive 55 - Chris LeDuex 5. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett 6. Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse 7. Georgia On My Mind - Ray Charles 8. Desperately - George Strait 9. Blackwater - Doobie Brothers 10. In The Summertime - Jerry Mungo