Mommy Niri posted a Holiday Wish List meme, and I decided to jump on and do it too. To enter: share and blog this meme. Over $3,800 worth of prizes in store, so why not? Copy the text below with the links and the questions – and answer them yourself. Make sure to leave your link here in the comments, so we can come and read your answers.
Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
Besides the everyday wishes of world peace and ending hunger and poverty, but since you asked.. my material product wishes (in my dream world)..
- New ski jacket, just haven’t found the perfect one yet.
- Twin tip skis, like the Line Celebrity Skis.
- DeLonghi Magnifica Super-Automatic Espresso Machine – I had one and loved it.
- Wii – there are so many new fitness games I’d like to try, and I want to play Guitar Hero with my husband and kids.
- Cartier Tank Solo Watch, the large model. I did say in my dream world, right?
2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
Christmas ornaments my children made at school. We hang them up every year.
3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
Knitted sweaters for everyone in the family.
4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
Estee Lauder red bath robe is the one I remember being the best.
5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
Kris is wishing for LEGOs like every year since he learned to speak. Gaby wants aBest Friends Club doll Addison and a Dell for Christmas. Isabella is hoping for books. Girls also wanted a bunk bed so they can all sleep in a same room.
6. What is your favorite holiday food?
I just posted my two favorite traditional Finnish Holiday recipes, beet salad and rutabaga casserole, those with ham.. I have to make them every year. And I don’t like the store bought hams they sell here, I buy a raw ham on the bone and roast it!
7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
My daughter is having a birthday party on Saturday and we’ll make flower arrangements as a craft and as gifts in and before the party. 1-800-Flowers lifestyle expert Julie Mulligan inspired me and she is also sending some flowers for us to use. I already bought pots, ornaments, ribbons and other supplies, really looking forward doing it with kids. We usually also bake cookies.
8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
Serendipity, I think things are meant to be, and I just love the message of the movie.
This from the movie, dedicated to my friend Erika, Chic Shopper Chick, who just recently took me to Serendipity restaurant.
Jonathan: This is the ultimate blend to drink. How’d you find this place?
Sara: I first came in because of the name: Serendipity. It’s one of my favorite words.
Jonathan: It is? Why?
Sara: It’s such a nice sounding word for what it means: a fortunate accident.
9. Favorite holiday song?
Oddly, my favorite Holiday songs are the sad and sappy ones, Holidays are always kind of hard for me not being able to see family in Finland. One favorite, which always makes me cry is a Finnish song Joulumaa by Katri Helena, it’s a song about how you find Christmas spirit inside you, and it was one of my mother’s favorite Holiday songs when growing up. I also love River by Joni Mitchell. Sometimes I just refuse to get myself into the nostalgic mode and then I have to listen Last Christmas by Wham and nothing beats the original Christmas Song by Alvin & The Chipmunks.
10. Favorite holiday pastime?
Eating… Spending time with the family. Cooking together. I remember our first family Christmas I forced my husband to dress up for a dinner for three, and dressed our little princess in a nice dress, and wanted to decorate the table with all the trimmings. Now I’m more relaxed, and it’s OK if everything isn’t perfect, I just want to hang out with the family. Two years ago my husband was working for Christmas (as an EMS/ rescue helicopter pilot), and I took the dinner for the helicopter hangar for everyone to enjoy together with my in-laws. To me there was more Christmas spirit in that, than in a fancy Holiday dinner with the best china and a designer tablecloth at home.
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Ok, so you know Boney M and Wham too? You’re my new best friend!
I entered this too, I posted mine on Facebook a few days ago.
*fingers crossed*
Also? “Last Christmas” by Wham! has got to be one of the worst Christmas songs. It gets stuck in my head for days and days! Come on, Katja!
And seriously, you think the Alvin and the Chipmunks song is so much better than “Last Christmas”..?
At least when I hear the Chipmunks, I don’t get visions of men wearing short-shorts and dancing under a black light, a la Wham! “Wake Me Up” music video, circa 1980’s.
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