🤶 I remember many years ago the first Christmas after my mom and stepdad were married ,we spent Christmas Day at my stepdad’s mother’s house. We all called her Mimi. I received my first Christmas gift from her that day. It was a doll that I really wanted but hadn’t told anyone. She just knew! I still have that doll! ❤ Mimi was always so thoughtful and made me feel special!🥰
My most favourite gifts are those of my childhood, the anticipation of Santa and hoping you get what you most desire. But as an adult my most special gifts are the years my husband plans theme gifts for an adventure. One year it was a weekend away in a Yurt at Algonquin and I got the slippers and things needed and he even built a model replica of the yurt outhouse! Then the following year was a yarn crawl day with the map and locations and money for the yarn haul! Most exciting! I love it when your husband joins you on the camera! Such a lovely family! ❤ 🎅🤶
Oh wow! Those are epic and super thoughtful gifts from your husband. You hit the jackpot with that gift giving king 😉😂👌🏼. Thank you for the kind words ❤️
🧑🏻🎄 you're making lovely Christmas memories for you & your family :) I still have my favorite gift ever - it was 1973, I was in 4th grade (youngest of 6 kids) & my parents were struggling in a bad way financially that year. I received 1 gift from Santa, an acrylic grand piano music box with a dancing couple on top. My older sister explained parent/Santa to me and I've always cherished my music box and play it mostly on Christmas Day in remembrance of my parents ~ it reminds me to always be truly grateful for any gifts I receive as people may sacrifice to bring some joy to you🎅🏻
🧑🏼🎄🎅🏻Ooo butter rum Lifesavers! I haven’t had those in forever - and caramel yum! 😋 My favorite gift as a child was a portable record player and some of the books with the record in the back. They were audiobooks for kids and they would ring a bell when you are supposed to turn the page so you could read along. 📚♥️
Omg! Yes! I would spend hours with those read along record books! I loved Winnie the Pooh. Wow, I had forgotten about those for a minute! And those lifesavers! I used to get a whole book of them with all the flavours at Christmas and there is one random gas station on our way to town that sells these for some reason and my husband always buys them for us to share ❤️
i always wanted a mink coat as a kid. Well that was never gonna happen. I did get a pin in the shape of a mink made of mink fur. I will never forget this.
My most cherished gift was when my grandma gave me a doll and hand knitted all her clothes and they were all packed in a little cute suitcase. That was THE best!! Unfortunately my mom did not keep them and I’m so sad I do not have those to this day.
That sounds so beautiful! Wow, what a gift 🎁 This made me remember a beautiful doll house my aunt made for me and all the doll furniture! It was incredible, but my step mom didn’t keep it, sadly 🥺.
You guys are so cute! I love how he loves you. As a child I grew up really poor. So I wanted two things and my grandma came through. It was a life size doll that her hair would get long and short by pulling her arm. The second gift as a child was a puppy. I wanted nothing more. But now my most precious gift will always be my kids. Loosing my son was eye opener for me and I will never take anything in my life for granted. Although I’m not perfect and I sometimes feel like I do. But I pray this year I will work on that. Tyfs another great sweet video, loved your haul too ❤ 🧑🎄p.s not to be weird… but you have a beautiful smile ❤
Grandmas are so special. I still miss mine. That’s a great point. Gifts are so fun and often meaningful, but nothing replaces the family and friends. You’re human. Go easy on yourself as you work towards being better ❤️. That’s not weird! It’s a very kind compliment🥰…thank you
🎅... Bonjovi tickets! I was around 13 or 14. They were wrapped in a huge box and when I opened it there was a smaller box and on and on till I came to an envelope. I cried.
We grew some too now that I think of it! They were late berries and grew into November one year (pretty crazy for where we live) and were delicious! Can’t believe I didn’t think of that!
🧑🏼🎄 I love The Secret Book of Flora Lea! When it was published last year the author came to my local bookstore for a signing and I got to meet her. She's so lovely and the book is so good. As for most cherished gifts, that's really hard... My husband surprised me with a puppy two years ago, and a gorgeous set of interchangeable knitting needles the year before that, and a beautiful leather covered Dickens story collection several years before that... Favorites from my childhood were cabbage patch dolls. 😍😍 I enjoyed your video... And I may have to go make some toast now. 😅
How weird your husband mentioned Midnight Oil. I was a nanny in Vancouver in 88 and remember that was the year they became 'big' I bought their Cassette too:) Hi from North Wales
🤶🏻the gifts I love the most are the handmade ones…… and from small makers ….. I am not good at receiving gift, I love giving much more….. I am not that good on surprises…..🙈🙈
That’s why I love this question because it is so heart warming to hear what people recall most fondly and it’s usually tied to a kindness, sacrifice, or thoughtfulness ❤️
🎅 last year my husband gave me a set of vintage dishes, they're gorgeous and have silver rims which differ from so many patterns that have gold looking ones. He remembered an off handed comment I made about wanting more vintage looking dishes, and knows I prefer silver over gold in general, so when he so those at a second hand store he scooped them up ❤ it was unexpected and so thoughtful, which meant so much!
Wow, vintage dishes with silver rims, that sounds beautiful! And that was so incredibly thoughtful of him. That was the record player gift Mike gave me too. He made a special trip into Toronto (they were hard to find back then 😉) and paid too much, but he remembered I wanted one.
I love how your husband joined in with the Jelly taste testing. I have never seen a wrinkles dog, In the U.S. we had pound puppy dogs that were popular in the 1980s. Those books are beautiful and sound really good. I am watching Prime and Prejudice now filmed in 1995. Awe Richard Scarry book, I had a lot of those for my kids. oh my gosh, your husband is so sweet! Don't tell him that I wrote that lol My most cherished gift was my first stereo at 15 lol and also I did love my first 10 speed at the age of only 10 both from my parents who now are in heaven.
🤶🎅 my jelly was called cherry pink peppercorn on day 15❤ how interesting we got similar but different jellies today. I think those cute dog puppets are Canadian, I’ve not seen any in the states. I’m not even kidding, you and Mike are like a younger version of me and Rich. Rich even watched tonight with me and we both said it’s like watching and our family a decade ago. Lastly my most favorite Christmas gift….thats a hard one but what I think was a special and simple memory is, last year Rich got me a letter opener and I got him a box cutter/opener. It’s all we both wanted. I put a label on mine that reads keep going. Lots of love from the Wylde West❤
Ahh! I think I translated it wrong! Rose must have mean the colour…and I feel like peppercorn may be similar to berries! Interesting, but I’m not surprised. I just love them. That makes me so happy that we are like you two! You seems so happy and youthful (I mean you ARE young, but like in your ideas and minds if that makes sense). That warms my heart. I love the simplicity of those gifts. Love you, friend ❤️
🤶🎅One Christmas I had 3 things I asked for. A Monopoly Game. A particular little doll and a sewing machine so I could make her clothes. I received all 3. ❤. Not sure I ever made any doll clothes but we did play Monopoly Your Caramel!! It looks amazing. I’d be eating it with a spoon, no need to wrap
I love it. I remember spending hours playing monopoly games that would stretch over days with my cousins. The caramels are amazing. Everyone loves them. By the spoonful is the best.
🧑🎄Your sweater looks lovely on you. I remember wanting a wrinkles dog so badly when I was younger. My boyfriend at the time tried to win me one from the fair sadly he lost all his money trying lol.
🎅 Truly, before you said your Cabbage Patch doll was your most memorable, I already had in my head that mine was the Cabbage Patch doll that my grandma made for me because we couldn't afford the real deal. She maaaaade one! Her sewing skills did not transfer down to me, quite unfortunately.😅❤
Oh wow! That is so impressive! I can sort of sew, but I haven’t done it for years. It’s wild the things people were capable of making like no big deal!
🤶 I remember many years ago the first Christmas after my mom and stepdad were married ,we spent Christmas Day at my stepdad’s mother’s house. We all called her Mimi. I received my first Christmas gift from her that day. It was a doll that I really wanted but hadn’t told anyone. She just knew! I still have that doll! ❤ Mimi was always so thoughtful and made me feel special!🥰
How wonderful that your step grandma/mimi was so incredibly kind to you and made you feel so special. I love that story.
My most favourite gifts are those of my childhood, the anticipation of Santa and hoping you get what you most desire. But as an adult my most special gifts are the years my husband plans theme gifts for an adventure. One year it was a weekend away in a Yurt at Algonquin and I got the slippers and things needed and he even built a model replica of the yurt outhouse! Then the following year was a yarn crawl day with the map and locations and money for the yarn haul! Most exciting!
I love it when your husband joins you on the camera! Such a lovely family! ❤
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Oh wow! Those are epic and super thoughtful gifts from your husband. You hit the jackpot with that gift giving king 😉😂👌🏼.
Thank you for the kind words ❤️
🧑🏻🎄 you're making lovely Christmas memories for you & your family :) I still have my favorite gift ever - it was 1973, I was in 4th grade (youngest of 6 kids) & my parents were struggling in a bad way financially that year. I received 1 gift from Santa, an acrylic grand piano music box with a dancing couple on top. My older sister explained parent/Santa to me and I've always cherished my music box and play it mostly on Christmas Day in remembrance of my parents ~ it reminds me to always be truly grateful for any gifts I receive as people may sacrifice to bring some joy to you🎅🏻
That is truly a special gift with a heartfelt meaning 🥰. Thank you for sharing ❤️
🧑🏼🎄🎅🏻Ooo butter rum Lifesavers! I haven’t had those in forever - and caramel yum! 😋 My favorite gift as a child was a portable record player and some of the books with the record in the back. They were audiobooks for kids and they would ring a bell when you are supposed to turn the page so you could read along. 📚♥️
Omg! Yes! I would spend hours with those read along record books! I loved Winnie the Pooh. Wow, I had forgotten about those for a minute!
And those lifesavers! I used to get a whole book of them with all the flavours at Christmas and there is one random gas station on our way to town that sells these for some reason and my husband always buys them for us to share ❤️
i always wanted a mink coat as a kid. Well that was never gonna happen. I did get a pin in the shape of a mink made of mink fur. I will never forget this.
Haha! Wow, high end taste for a little girl! I respect that 😉. That’s a fun memory ❤️
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Yay! Thank you ❤️
My all time favorite Christmas gift are my Wizard of Oz dolls I got in 1977 when I was 8 and my mom made me the Witches castle to go with it!
Amazing! I love that. I just remembered an epic doll house my aunt made me. It was so detailed ❤️
🎅🤶 ...a glass hear necklace from Italy ... it reminds me of my family and makes me feel they are near
That sounds so beautiful!
My most cherished gift was when my grandma gave me a doll and hand knitted all her clothes and they were all packed in a little cute suitcase. That was THE best!! Unfortunately my mom did not keep them and I’m so sad I do not have those to this day.
That sounds so beautiful! Wow, what a gift 🎁
This made me remember a beautiful doll house my aunt made for me and all the doll furniture! It was incredible, but my step mom didn’t keep it, sadly 🥺.
@ yeah and I didn’t know enough as a kid that would want those things as an adult ya know. ❤️
@@cristaljohns1999 I totally get that!
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Most memorable gift as a child was A reel to reel tape recorder.
Wow! So cool!
You guys are so cute! I love how he loves you. As a child I grew up really poor. So I wanted two things and my grandma came through. It was a life size doll that her hair would get long and short by pulling her arm. The second gift as a child was a puppy. I wanted nothing more. But now my most precious gift will always be my kids. Loosing my son was eye opener for me and I will never take anything in my life for granted. Although I’m not perfect and I sometimes feel like I do. But I pray this year I will work on that. Tyfs another great sweet video, loved your haul too ❤ 🧑🎄p.s not to be weird… but you have a beautiful smile ❤
Grandmas are so special. I still miss mine. That’s a great point. Gifts are so fun and often meaningful, but nothing replaces the family and friends.
You’re human. Go easy on yourself as you work towards being better ❤️.
That’s not weird! It’s a very kind compliment🥰…thank you
🎅🏼 I loved my alarm clock as I could play music loud in my room away from the family 😅 Midnight Oil are amazing still going here in Oz
Haha! Freedom!
That’s so fun. I feel like I must know the music, I am just terrible with band names and song names 🙃
🎅🤶 Mrs Beasley doll
I had to google that one! So fun!
🎅... Bonjovi tickets! I was around 13 or 14. They were wrapped in a huge box and when I opened it there was a smaller box and on and on till I came to an envelope. I cried.
Oh, wow! That was a really great gift to find! You must have been SO excited!
❤️🎄⛄, amazing and wonderful to listen to you God bless you
Thank you ❤️
I had yellow raspberries on one of my canes and they were the sweetest .
We grew some too now that I think of it! They were late berries and grew into November one year (pretty crazy for where we live) and were delicious! Can’t believe I didn’t think of that!
Super Spirograph ❤
Oh man! I had one of those and adored it too! Hours of fun!
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I love The Secret Book of Flora Lea! When it was published last year the author came to my local bookstore for a signing and I got to meet her. She's so lovely and the book is so good.
As for most cherished gifts, that's really hard... My husband surprised me with a puppy two years ago, and a gorgeous set of interchangeable knitting needles the year before that, and a beautiful leather covered Dickens story collection several years before that... Favorites from my childhood were cabbage patch dolls. 😍😍
I enjoyed your video... And I may have to go make some toast now. 😅
Oh that’s so cool and I’m glad to hear it’s a good one! January is going to be my reading time 👌🏼
How weird your husband mentioned Midnight Oil. I was a nanny in Vancouver in 88 and remember that was the year they became 'big' I bought their Cassette too:) Hi from North Wales
Haha! He was born in 77 so it wouldn’t have been too far off when he received it.
Wales?! How fun. Welcome!
🎅🏻 Sindy House when I was about 9 I had furniture to go with it, but my mum forgot to buy the toilet for the bathroom!
Haha! That sounds like a great gift!
Such a sweet family you have. ❤
Awe! I have to agree, they’re pretty great 🥰😉
Agree!
@@the.ellemars ❤️
Omg I have one of the dogs from my childhood. I used to make her eat popcorn! ❤
Haha! Omg, I love that 🥹❤️
🤶🏻the gifts I love the most are the handmade ones…… and from small makers ….. I am not good at receiving gift, I love giving much more….. I am not that good on surprises…..🙈🙈
That’s why I love this question because it is so heart warming to hear what people recall most fondly and it’s usually tied to a kindness, sacrifice, or thoughtfulness ❤️
🎅 last year my husband gave me a set of vintage dishes, they're gorgeous and have silver rims which differ from so many patterns that have gold looking ones. He remembered an off handed comment I made about wanting more vintage looking dishes, and knows I prefer silver over gold in general, so when he so those at a second hand store he scooped them up ❤ it was unexpected and so thoughtful, which meant so much!
Wow, vintage dishes with silver rims, that sounds beautiful! And that was so incredibly thoughtful of him.
That was the record player gift Mike gave me too. He made a special trip into Toronto (they were hard to find back then 😉) and paid too much, but he remembered I wanted one.
that was a super thoughtful gift from your husband
@@the.ellemars it's so special when they put in that extra effort 🤗
@@mollieanne 💕💕
I love how your husband joined in with the Jelly taste testing. I have never seen a wrinkles dog, In the U.S. we had pound puppy dogs that were popular in the 1980s. Those books are beautiful and sound really good. I am watching Prime and Prejudice now filmed in 1995. Awe Richard Scarry book, I had a lot of those for my kids. oh my gosh, your husband is so sweet! Don't tell him that I wrote that lol My most cherished gift was my first stereo at 15 lol and also I did love my first 10 speed at the age of only 10 both from my parents who now are in heaven.
Haha! Oh I’m definitely gonna tell him 😉🥰!
Oh I had a pound puppy too. Those are great memories and gifts. It’s lovely to remember these things ❤️
🤶wow, that caramel looks yummy! As a teen, a pair of moccasin shoes, the ones with the fringe!🎅
It is so good! We will cut and wrap them all tomorrow. Oh that’s such a unique and lovely gift to remember ❤️
(And no, down here in the states I don't remember those puppy puppets! They're adorable! We had pound puppies though :) )
We had pound puppies too, but these were just so lovable!
🤶🎅 my jelly was called cherry pink peppercorn on day 15❤ how interesting we got similar but different jellies today.
I think those cute dog puppets are Canadian, I’ve not seen any in the states.
I’m not even kidding, you and Mike are like a younger version of me and Rich. Rich even watched tonight with me and we both said it’s like watching and our
family a decade ago.
Lastly my most favorite Christmas gift….thats a hard one but what I think was a special and simple memory is, last year Rich got me a letter opener and I got him a box cutter/opener. It’s all we both wanted. I put a label on mine that reads keep going.
Lots of love from the Wylde West❤
Ahh! I think I translated it wrong! Rose must have mean the colour…and I feel like peppercorn may be similar to berries!
Interesting, but I’m not surprised. I just love them.
That makes me so happy that we are like you two! You seems so happy and youthful (I mean you ARE young, but like in your ideas and minds if that makes sense). That warms my heart.
I love the simplicity of those gifts.
Love you, friend ❤️
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Thank you!
🎅 A Whitney Houston cassette tape. I can't hear I wanna Dance With Somebody without thinking of that Christmas.
That song is a total banger! Love the memories attached to it for you ❤️
I’ll be back later! I had to jump on to say this is the CUTEST thumbnail!!!
Haha! I am SO behind on your videos, but I am thinking of you missing your girl ❤️
I had a wrinkle dog and wrinkle moose!!!
A moose?! I want a wrinkles moose!
I sent you a picture of one on Instagram! I lost all mine in a house fire 4 years ago💔
@@jopeyton5531 oh that’s so sad 🥺
🤶🎅One Christmas I had 3 things I asked for. A Monopoly Game. A particular little doll and a sewing machine so I could make her clothes. I received all 3. ❤. Not sure I ever made any doll clothes but we did play Monopoly
Your Caramel!! It looks amazing. I’d be eating it with a spoon, no need to wrap
I love it. I remember spending hours playing monopoly games that would stretch over days with my cousins.
The caramels are amazing. Everyone loves them. By the spoonful is the best.
🤶🎅4ft raggedy ann doll
Whoa! Love that!
🎅🏼🤶🏼 My husband gave me a Canon rebel camera one of our first Christmas together
Oh that is so sweet, and a great camera too!
🧑🎄Your sweater looks lovely on you. I remember wanting a wrinkles dog so badly when I was younger. My boyfriend at the time tried to win me one from the fair sadly he lost all his money trying lol.
Thank you! I am really loving this style of sweater and now I want more 😂!
Omg, that’s so funny! I love it 👌🏼
🎅 Truly, before you said your Cabbage Patch doll was your most memorable, I already had in my head that mine was the Cabbage Patch doll that my grandma made for me because we couldn't afford the real deal. She maaaaade one! Her sewing skills did not transfer down to me, quite unfortunately.😅❤
Ohmygosh, puppers at the end of the video.🥰
Oh wow! That is so impressive! I can sort of sew, but I haven’t done it for years. It’s wild the things people were capable of making like no big deal!
Haha! She’s so cute and her favourite thing in the world is digging into the warm pile of laundry 😊
@@the.ellemars ❤️🐶