Remember when you were a little kid and it was your birthday and you would stay up all the night before because you were so excited to open all your presents? Well, as I’ve gotten older and more generous than my 5-year-old self, I’ve found that I will stay up all night excited to give someone else a gift. When you find that perfect gift for someone you feel like dancing. It’s better than chocolate. I’ve only had this feeling once, and it was so great I decided to share it wit

…I don’t like to brag, but, my birthday was yesterday. Yay!!!! My birthday is one of my favorite days of the year. And it’s not because it’s all about me and I get to eat unmonitored amounts of cake. I like my birthday because it’s a time that family and friends get together and we all have a really nice time. And that’s special. Turning 17 has been a real eye-opener. It’s finally hitting me that this is my last year of being a child. In 364 days I will be an adult, someone w

Happy Boxing Day! I hope you all had an absolutely fantastic Christmas day and got all of the things you asked Santa for. I myself had a lovely Christmas and owe it all to my loving family. It all started when I woke up at 7:30 and woke my brother up. “It’s 7:30! We’ve got to get up and open our stockings!” I believe my exact words were. If you don’t know it already, I became 4 years old when December 25 comes around. Over the course of 3 hours, we opened our stockings and pr

Merry Christmas Eve! As I promised, today is the day I post the winner of the Totally Awesome Christmas Story Contest. Yay! The winner comes from a forward that my mom sent me. If you are the author of this story, please let me know in the comments! It truly shows the meaning of Christmas and goes right along with my post from yesterday (which you can read here). So, without further ado, here is the winner of the Totally Awesome Christmas Story Contest’s totally awesome winni

I was babysitting last night. As I was laying the kids down for bed, I asked them what their favorite thing about Christmas was. The little boy answered, “Presents! Lots and lots of presents!” I turned to his sister and she agreed. This small exchange really made me think about Christmas. As small children, all we really thought about Christmas was that we received a large number of presents from our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc. As we got a bit older w

One of the most time-honored traditions of Christmas is writing a letter to Santa Claus. As I am sixteen, I grew out of doing that long ago. But I still like the idea. So I wrote a mental list to Santa. And I’m going to share it with you. So, without further ado, here is my wish list to Santa. Dear Santa, This year I would like… The new Adele DVD. Adele is my soul sister. And her new live album at the Royal Albert Hall is so good. That’s why I want the DVD for it. All of the

I’ve always found the idea of Secret Santa to be pretty amazing. Drawing a person to get a present for and then spending x-amount of time looking for a gift for them while secretly hiding it from them. Absolutely brilliant! My friends and I do Secret Santa every year. This was only my second year (since I’m a newbie at the lunch table) but I still enjoy it like a veteran. We all drew names from a hat (lunch pail, to be precise) and ended up with almost the exact same people a

As few of you know, my 16th birthday was last week. I received quite a few gifts and a lot of them have some funny stories that I thought I’d share with you. So, without further ado, here are my stories! My Peacock Umbrella My parents got this for me. It was funny because three days before I even told my mum I wanted a peacock umbrella, she ordered one. I didn’t know this story until after I opened it but it cracked me up. I do not know why. My Dart Gun My best friend Amanda