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DD's list (self + mom constructed)Originally Posted by sparkletruck
Can we talk gifts for the 8 year old girls in our group? MIL wants ideas for dd1 and I truly have none ...(I actually dislike Christmas for the necessity to buy things for people who need NOTHING). She does most of the things most 8 year old girls on this thread do I think (she's a tomboy...) but she already has $ on a giftcard at the bookstore, and a pile of books next to her bed she's working through now, she likes crafts (and I think I will get her a form drawing instruction book and some good paper and charcoal pencils for learning some sketching skills) but has a lot of those in reserve too. See what I mean? She has a subscription to Cricket ... plenty of clothes ...
OMG, yes. Although, if my unscientific poll of second-year Greek classmates is any indication, you run the risk of making her a classicist.
Yes to just about everything! We LOVE the D'Aulaires' Greek Myths. My son had also asked for grapefruit spoons for about a year so I bought 4 this summer. The boys LOVE them and I am alleviated from some of that grapefruit cutting. Never heard of Zoombeanis.Originally Posted by Geofizz
Amazon: $130 for Garmin 305. I took a page from the kerc playbook and informed DH what he was getting me, how he was going to get it, and when he needed to purchase. I've been fighting the urge to get one, but I do actually think I'll use it in a manner distinct from the good ol' stop watch and gmap-pedometer I've been doing.
I also have a huge amount of running to do to make my second goal for 2010, which was 750 miles. (First was done in April with a sub 27 minute 5k).
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DD's list (self + mom constructed)Originally Posted by sparkletruck
Can we talk gifts for the 8 year old girls in our group? MIL wants ideas for dd1 and I truly have none ...(I actually dislike Christmas for the necessity to buy things for people who need NOTHING). She does most of the things most 8 year old girls on this thread do I think (she's a tomboy...) but she already has $ on a giftcard at the bookstore, and a pile of books next to her bed she's working through now, she likes crafts (and I think I will get her a form drawing instruction book and some good paper and charcoal pencils for learning some sketching skills) but has a lot of those in reserve too. See what I mean? She has a subscription to Cricket ... plenty of clothes ...
Trivial Pursuit family
D'Aulaires' Greek myths
The Disappearing spoon (book)
Family tickets to a musical (gift to our family from my mom)
Winter soccer clinic ($150)
CDs of flute music (starting lessons in January)
grapefruit spoons (don't ask...)
Zoombeanis computer game
Books (Guardians of Ga'hoole especially)
"a flying remote control fairy"
DD has a subscription to Dig! which is a good complement to Cricket
Actually, pulling lists together for K this year has been easier than in the past. DS (5 years, just had a birthday where my MIL bought his whole b=day+Christmas list) is a real problem now.