Thursday I got invited to a white elephant gift exchange next Thursday. Do minimalists own white elephants? Am I going to have to go buy one?!!! Guess I don’t get to keep those new earrings I just bought but have not yet worn. Wonder what I will do with what I get in exchange? Ah, the price we pay to participate in community.
One woman was missing the Christmas preparation. She persuaded staff we should get to decorate. So they put up a tree and gave us bins of decorations and we spent Friday evening decorating the lounge area and listening to Christmas music. It feels a lot more like Christmas here now.
Tomorrow afternoon there is a wrapping party where we get to wrap our white elephants then place them under the tree. I plan to sneak peeks to see if I can figure out what is in which package. That will be followed by a sing-a-long around the piano.
The gift exchange is scheduled for Christmas night. Should be interesting. Everyone who brings a gift gets to pick a number from a hat. Then number 1 gets to choose a gift from under the tree. Then number 2 gets to choose, etc. When all the gifts are distributed we go around again and you get to swap your gift for someone else’s if you want to do so. Only then do any of the gifts get opened. I think I won’t swap my first choice because I would probably wind up wishing I had it back. Maybe I should pick the package I wrapped so I get to keep my earrings? Nah, the fun is in seeing what you did get.
And there will be a special menu for Christmas dinner. Beef tenderloin with shrimp, parsley potatoes, roasted asparagus, and chocolate pudding. Does that sound like Christmas to you?
TTYL,
Linda
We don’t eat anything like that on our Christmas day…but we are Italian. Merry Christmas
White elephant exchanges can really be a lot of fun. However, I think your earrings would be way too fancy for the ones I’ve been to. Turkey for us on Christmas.
The good thing is if you end up with something you don’t like, you can always give it away at your next White Elephant exchange. Those exchanges are a lot of fun when folks put thought into the gifts. At other ones we’ve been to it’s just unwanted stuff but still a lot of fun. Nope, our Christmas dinner is usually turkey or ham and all the trimmings.
sounds like christmas to me!
and the menu . . . lovely!
let us know what you get. 😀 xo