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Can you imagine what I would receive,
if I just had someone who shops for me, cruise the aisles and choose for me, rather than my giving them a very specified list?
;):LOL::giggle::geek:
 

Are you offering to grocery shop for me? :cool:
OR, are you offering to list items you think someone would get for me, if I didn't give them a specific list? :LOL::sneaky:
 

If I were to grocery shop for you, wouldn't the ice cream melt and the perishables spoil before I could deliver it to you?
 
Not necessarily Christmas traditions - but those come to mind.

For instance: My GF has two kids who are well past the Santa Claus believing age, but she started hiding Elf on a Shelf when they were quite little and they continued to insist on it.

The older and cleverer they got and the more hiding places she used up, the more of a chore it became. Hiding this guy every night was getting to be a royal pain.

One night she wrapped his little legs in a bandage and splatted him on the floor beneath the kitchen counter. Oh no! E on S had fallen broken his legs!!! When the kids found him, she fashioned a little bed and that's where he stayed for the rest of the Christmas season.

That was a couple of years ago and he still hasn't recovered. Laid-up Elf on a Shelf has become their new, easier tradition...

Pretty smart, don't you think?
 
Not me, my GF did the broken legs. Elf on a Shelf started as a children's book about 15 years ago. By that time my kids were entering their twenties. However, I did start - and continue with - many Christmas traditions that weren't necessarily intended to go on for more than a year or three.

Do you find the same to be true for your family and various traditions?
 
Yes, (my daughter has kept up the bunny that landed in a talc factory, leaving talc footprints all over the house on Easter.)

You enjoy teaching your grandchildren, games that you played as a child.
 
What a hilarious tradition about with Easter bunny and talc! I just put that on my April 2022 calendar for fun with the grands!!!

I enjoy all kinds of games with my grands, including some I played as a child - and some my parents played when they were children.
Do you play outdoor games with your grands that involve running? (Tag, nerf gun wars, etc.)
 
I sure do! Love running and playing with them. Water balloon fights? Now there's a great idea that I hadn't considered... used to do that with my kids when they were young. :cool::love:

Do your grandchildren's parents roll their eyes at you a bit when you play these games with their kids?
 
Sometimes. Mostly they don't though. I'm much more impulsive than my daughter or son-in-law, which is right up a little kid's alley.

Are your children more straight-laced than you were/are?
 
Does that question assume you believe an old goat like me could actually have been described as being straight-laced???
 
Wasn't pointing the comment at any particular person, and was suggesting that many in generations after us are more straight laced than we are or were. Do you find that to be true?
 
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