Comments on: Ho ho ho humph (but keeping the end goal in mind)

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:18:51 +0000

In reply to ARC. @ARC - I bet you could order a bunch of gift bags (not the Amazon version but new ones) off of Amazon and they'd be at your house in 24 hours. No need to rethread! Though it is nice to reduce impact!

By: ARC

ARC — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 05:08:43 +0000

I’ve piled up the Amazon boxes and bags in our closet and I’m sort of avoiding the pile entirely, but I really need to start opening things and make sure everything is there. The last couple of years we’ve been doing all our “wrapping” in those Amazon gift bags that we recycle each year, so that makes some of it a little easier. I’m not sure if we have enough good ones left, though (the ribbons are the first to go and I don’t have the patience to re-thread new ones.)

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:27:42 +0000

Yes, I do think that it is better for me to start doing something even if it’s deadline is 2 months from now. I find that in most cases, it’s either me start doing it early enough or I end up realizing that the deadline is so near that I start asking myself what I have been doing in all of the past days.
And no, I did not recognize that what is in the glass is made of multi-color sand initially.
I do have a couple of things to discuss with you though, Ms. Laura Vanderkam.
1. You are preparing for gifts.
Scenario 1: There are people who ask you for specific gifts, which you prepare for them.
Scenario 2: There are people who don’t ask you for gifts, but you decided that they are worth giving gifts to.
Scenario 3: There are people who don’t ask you for gifts, but you observed from the past that if they don’t get a gift from you on their birthdays and/or during a holiday season, they are not willing to maintain a decent relationship with you later on.
Do all of the 3 scenarios above exist?
A side note here will be that while I sometimes ask for gifts, I have never asked for gifts just because it is my birthday or just because it is the holiday season.
2. You are also working on your book proposal. What would be the name of the book that you are writing?

By: Yukun Wu

Yukun Wu — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:26:10 +0000

I put up a comment previously, but it does not show. We’ll see what happened.

By: Laura c

Laura c — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:01:14 +0000

I thought the sand art was a hurricane! Good for sassy . Live girl.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:36:41 +0000

I have a child with a February 1 birthday- it always seems like February is so far away and it sneaks up on me every single year!

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:42:20 +0000

Hmm Christmas presents are an interesting topic. Why do you overbuy? So far our policy has been to be very low on gifts because we feel it easily gets very overwhelming. And I always feel kids already have sooo much stuff!

By: Laura Vanderkam

Laura Vanderkam — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:57:03 +0000

In reply to Gillian.

@Gillian – yep. I booked slots – including one much-desired place where I snagged a “last minute” cancelation. Now I need to deal with the invites…

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:17:31 +0000

My child with a January 28th birthday asked last night where his birthday party will be…just commiserating.