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No Hanukkah decorations?

No, not even decorations. Over the years my in-laws have stopped practicing Judaism and now we just celebrate the major holidays with little religious overtones. We only have our electric menorah in the window, and the few cards we received from friends :D

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I'm sooo jealous of all you guys who have poinsettas. I would go out and get one, but I know for sure I'd kill it. I overwater everything, and all my plants have died on me so far. I guess that makes me a serial plant killer :blush:

Funny...... I always forget to water my plants and I haven't killed one yet!! I water them when they start drooping :lol:

If you try another Poinsettia, let the soil dry out until it's DRY. Like, brown and dusty dry. Then water it until water comes out the bottom of the pot. Then leave it alone until it's all brown and dusty dry again! :)

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We don't have an inside tree either, even though we will be here for the first Christmas in our own home (last year was in Canada, the two years before that we were in Texas). We discussed it, but since we would have to buy or make all of the ornaments and we have the cats as well, we figured we would do without. We did have a small table top living tree 3 years ago which we planted in the back yard come Spring so I guess we have a "Christmas Tree" all year around. I did decorate the pear tree out in the front yard with hanging ornaments and - yes, a fake partridge!

And where is the picture of the tree and said partridge? :)

er . . . still in the camera? I haven't downloaded the most recent ones - maybe I should do that soon - I think the last time I downloaded them was in early October!

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No Hanukkah decorations?

No, not even decorations. Over the years my in-laws have stopped practicing Judaism and now we just celebrate the major holidays with little religious overtones. We only have our electric menorah in the window, and the few cards we received from friends :D

A pic of the window candle is fine!

Well my tree is still sitting there, decorations will wait until tomorrow

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I'll have to take some pictures. We were looking and looking for the right tree, and when we finally decided the one we wanted was a particular one from Home Depot, we went to go buy it, but they were all out! But, they did sell us the display model, so it worked out! I still need to hang our stockings, though. I don't have a hearth, so they're going on the stair banister.

I'm lucky that our cats aren't paying much mind to the tree. One squirt from the water bottle the very first time this year was all it took. Last year the youngest one was all over the tree. She'll stare out the window at the squirrels behind the tree, though. The oldest cat couldn't care less about the tree.

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I'm leaving the 20th and the kids are having Christmas at their dad's so we weren't going to do a tree. But my daughter wanted to wrap the present she made her brother and put it somewhere :) So we took a tiny tree from my classroom and the kids picked their "favorite" ornaments and we improvised this year. It's actually kind of cute, but I'll be glad to have a real tree next year. I've been burning a lot of Christmas scented candles!

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Yahoo! a picture! Your tree is very cute, the decorations at the front, the santa and nutcracker look like heirlooms, are they family treasures or just look that way?

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Trailmix..have you seen the newest fad?

Upside down Christmas trees?

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I don't like it :blink:

LOL

Now THIS is a tree!!! WOO!

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Trailmix..have you seen the newest fad?

Upside down Christmas trees?

I don't like it :blink:

LOL

Now THIS is a tree!!! WOO!

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Me either, the upside down tree would make the trailmix cuckoo.

Ah but the Rockefeller center tree, how nice is that :)

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It's lovely..I saw it last year with Nick :)

I'll take a picture of my tree later today and upload it ok! :)

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It's lovely..I saw it last year with Nick :)

I'll take a picture of my tree later today and upload it ok! :)

Excellent!

Ok, the decorations are on the tree - whew. It took about 1.5 to 2 hours, when I post the picture you will wonder why :blink:

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ok that didnt work I'll try again

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Ok,..lets see if this works,...My tree put up the day after Thanksgiving!!

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"When a man is educated, an individual is educated; when a woman is educated, a family and a country are educated."

— Mahatma Gandhi

The timeline... (Frankfurt) for the kids visas

10/22/2007 Filed I-130 x 2 in person + paid 710 USD (355 each )

10/22/2007 Filed DS-230 part 1 x 2

10/22/2007 Received the document checklist and FRN (case) numbers

12/18/2007 I-130 petition approved, but I didn't know. I was away at the time, didn't get confirmation letters til I got back from the states.

12/20/2007 Notice of Approval arrives in tha mail. According to the date received stamp on back of envelope at my post box.

Will now wait til hubby is back from Iraq to fax in checklist readiness, even though, I have been ready since day of lodging I-130's. all except medical.

02/18/2008 Faxed the "checklist" back to the consulate.

02/25/2008 Medicals completed.

02/25/2008 Appt letters in mail for appt on March 7th. Cant go due to prior military commitments. Emailed consulate and received an amended appt date of March 12th 2008.

03/12/2008 Visa interview - APPROVED x 2

03/27/2008 Visa's finally generated. I emailed the consulate. they apologised for the delay. They forgot to issue the visas after approval.

03/31/2008 Received visas

04/26/2008 Flying out of Frankfurt to next duty station on orders.

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