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Need Easy Bridal Shower Food Ideas
My mil even requests I make it sometimes for family gatherings. People offered to bring dishes so I let them. We ended up with broccoli salad; tomatoes with ...
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- Something that our extended family has adopted because everyone is picky about what is on or in their salad is a salad bar. It is easy enough to put together, just sh...
- Family Circle has a salad in its current issue that appeals to young and old, is easy to prepare......you can find the recipe there, but here are the ingredients: ro...
- Veggie pasta salad made with vinegar instead of mayo. Hummus with veggies & pita chips. As far as a main course, I would choose a chicken crock pot dish. You can prepa...
Birthday
Large family gatherings can be overstimulating and overwhelming for a child, so spreading out the gifts may take a little of the pressure off. Helpful? ...
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- For our girls, we usually give them their presents from us on their actual birthdays, and then they get the presens from the birthday party guests the day of the party...
- We have the same issue. Since there are so many family members at the big party, we give our kids their b-day presents from us on the actual birthday and not at the p...
- I give gifts on both. The majority on my daughter's birthday and the best one at the party. Have fun. C.
Heeeeeeeeeeeelp!!
You are protecting your children and trying to teach them to be responsible adults...so if you don't have big family gatherings, so what. ...
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- Shannon, first of all, & I know this wasn't your question, but you stated "He isn't in school yet and I'm a stay at home mom so he doesn't have any friends." There ar...
- hi - i'm proud of you.. really. that's a tough spot to be in. you'll later be respected for putting your children first. regarding the big blow out party - your little...
- This is such a hard topic to deal with. My situation is very similar...except for the drugs and drinking. My issue with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are as fol...
Husband Doesn't Want to Attend Family Functions
My husband does not want to attend family gatherings on my side of the family. We get together for holidays and birthdays. Christmas usually isn't an issue, ...
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- Just pray diligently that God will bring him the desire to participate in your family times. I have had a similar issue and finally gave it to God. It took a little ...
- My husband is the exact same way. It drives me nuts! He doesn't try to make up excuses the day of but he always get's really grumpy for no reason before we go like h...
- My husband hates going to birthday parties too. It doesn't have anything to do with liking or disliking my family. He likes to be home. I don't have a problem with ...
How Big Was Your Family Size
My kids have plenty of cousins to play with at family gatherings, and like me, some have a big age difference, but we are all close!! I even recently found ...
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- Interesting story... I came from a small family where it was my sister and I and we're 10 years apart. No one in between it's pretty hard. I'm more of a parent and les...
- two is more than enough, close up shop!
- When I was growing up it was me and my 2 sisters. We had a lot of cousins as my mother is the oldest child of 13. My advice to you is, to stay where you are. You are s...
Holiday Arrangements....
Read all 3 responses: "Hi all, coming from a rather large family...with a wide age ... the expectation of attendace at all family gatherings does not exist. ...
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- Hi A., When I was young, we would celebrate all holiday's on that day. We even celebrated Christmas Eve!! These holiday's we celebrated with my parents' brothers ...
- A.... I come from a divorced family so we had to be flexable and able to compromise from a very young age (5). I have come to understand that the holidays are not ab...
- We have responded to the challenge by rotating the location of the major holidays. In my husbands family, hosting a holiday event is a martiarchal honor. So on the day...
Creative Christmas Family Games?
Pictionary was always a hoot at our big family gatherings. Charades. Anything with everyone trying to interpret how the other people act or draw out things ...
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- Human Bingo! you make bingo sheets w/ statements like "I speak another language" " I have traveled to another country" my favorite color is blue things like tha...
- Oh wow I have been working on just this...I did a jar with holiday colored candies I think I spent like $6 in total to which I will have everyone make a guess and see ...
- Pictionary was always a hoot at our big family gatherings. Charades. Anything with everyone trying to interpret how the other people act or draw out things always gets...
Using a Name Already Used in the Immediate Family
No one has a problem with it, and we just include the middle name of everyone with the same first name at family gatherings! ...
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- I am sooo sorry to hear of your loss. I hope that you and your family have the support that you need to get throught this painful time.
- Do whatever you can live with!! If you think down the road you will regret using the name, then don't use it. I don't see how you could ever regret naming your daugh...
- I was the first granddaughter born in a sea of boys. I was named after my grandmother, M.. I also have a little cousin named M. (my mother's brother's daughter). I don...
Looking for Ideas...
He wore it to our family gatherings, and we just waited for someone to notice what his shirt said. Helpful? Yes | No Save This Remove This Report This Share ...
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- My frind just found ut she was going to be a gramma and her daughter gave her a gift. It was a charm that said best gramma. But now that I am thinking of it. You coul...
- Some things we did: Had our son (or you can use a pet in this senario too) wear a "I'm the BIG Brother" t-shirt. Had everyone pose for a picture. Instead of hav...
- With my first child we had pictures to show the family so we put the ultra sound picture into the pile of pictures so when they looked through it the picture was there...
Chix Pox Immunization Question
My daughter just turned one and i decided to wait till Feb to have the shot,but i also do family gatherings on Sundays and my uncle just had a lung ...
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- My daughter just turned one and i decided to wait till Feb to have the shot,but i also do family gatherings on Sundays and my uncle just had a lung transplant and once...
- I had my son at my nephew's birthday party when he was about 1 year old (maybe 1 1/2)and another child there had been exposed to chickenpox and was not vaccinated yet....
- My daughter is 4 years old and she has yet to get the vaccine for chicken poxs. My 6 year old had her when she was around 1 year and she had a reaction to it. That is ...
