Tom's First Christmas (2000)
Welcome to the first posting for Team Conneen...the hottest family blog online!
What better way to start than to document our ongoing conversation about how to best celebrate Christmas as a family...particularly the role that gift giving should play in this celebration.
Feel free to add your comments below .
7 comments:
In terms of this year's giving, Kelly and I would certainly welcome that whomever has us on this year's list buy us a book (we'll share one copy) that you want us to read then make a small cash donation to Molly's Energy Bill fund.
In terms of future years, I would certainly favor a new gift giving system that minimizes the emphasis on "stuff" and accentuates "thought."
Perhaps..starting next year... we could rotate the giving so that one sibling/couple is the pivot each year (5 year rotation.) That person/couple buys or makes a similar gift ($25) for every other sibling/couple. While everyone else gifts ($25) the pivot person/couple.
For instance, let's say Molly is the pivot person next year. She could buy a book for each family member/couple while everyone else gifts Molly for that year. The next year could be Patty.
(Molly if you do this, you could give the same book to everybody and we could have a book discussion on the Blog "One Book, One Family.")
What do you think?
Andy
Who says Blogging is not work!?!
What do you think of my pivot person idea?
P.S.: TeamConneenBookClub.com was already taken, but you can see my other blog at citizenu.org
I've got a solution. We'll do the pivot idea AND move you back to the U.S. Problem solved!
Andy
MamaHare,
The pivot person idea would still ensure adequate surprise. Let me add an additional possibility.
The pivot person could announce a theme to the gifts that she will be given (i.e. Molly could say the theme is Chicago.) She could then choose to give each of us a collection of framed photos that she has taken of the skyline and we would each give her a Chicago themed gift.
This twist would add a dimension of creativity, THOUGHT, and plenty of surprises.
By the way, I'm still wondering how the youngest members are getting the short end of the stick with an adjustment to the gift exchange. I think I received some cologne samples from Marshall Fields from younger sibilings when I was 23. Who was sticking up for me back in 1994?
Sonovahare1
MamaHare,
The pivot person idea would still ensure adequate surprise. Let me add an additional possibility.
The pivot person could announce a theme to the gifts that she will be given (i.e. Molly could say the theme is Chicago.) She could then choose to give each of us a collection of framed photos that she has taken of the skyline and we would each give her a Chicago themed gift.
This twist would add a dimension of creativity, THOUGHT, and plenty of surprises.
By the way, I'm still wondering how the youngest members are getting the short end of the stick with an adjustment to the gift exchange. I think I received some cologne samples from Marshall Fields from younger sibilings when I was 23. Who was sticking up for me back in 1994?
Luv,
Sonovahare1
My think for the Pivot Person Program is the following:
1. It would allow use to continue giving and receiving surprises.
2. It would add much creativity to our gift exchange by moving it away from the grocery list choices.
3. It would make gifting a 12 month process rather than a 2 week process. When we select the pivot person on Christmas and they select a theme, we can start thinking of ideas 12 months in advance.
4. If have copywritten Pivot Person Present Program and the family stands to make tons of cash when we publish the "how to' book on family gift exchanges.
Sonovahare1
ANONYMOUS? I think you were exposed at the end of your explanation of the Pivot gift eexchange concept!
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