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Sunday 8 December 2013

QTA Christmas Blog Hop

What Christmas Means To Me
Christmas is a very special time for me and my family. Even though I am now thirty-years-old I still get every bit as excited as I did as a kid. For me the entire month of December is a big deal. I love the shopping, the decorations, the wrapping, the baking, and all of the Christmas movies on TV.
My earliest Christmas memory is from when I was five-years-old. It was the first time I remember getting really excited about the season and all of the things that go with it. I remember waking on Christmas morning and coming down stairs to find a huge present, around the same height as me, wrapped in brightly coloured wrapping paper. When I opened it I saw that it was a Barbie dream house. My dad had sat up the night before assembling it and my mum had set the dinning table up with all the little knives and forks and glasses and dinner plates. She had also arranged my new Barbie dolls inside as though they were sitting down to their very own Christmas dinner.

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To enter please leave a comment with your name, your email address, and the answer to this question: What did I get for Christmas when I was five?

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Christmas Giveaway

 A $50 Amazon Gift Card
Bridegroom DVD
I Do DVD
eBook: The Christmas Throwaway
eBook: New York Christmas
Platinum Pass to the Dinah Weekend
A $15 gift certificate and a $10 gift certificate for Riptide Publishing

Christmas Blog Hop 

Congratulations Lee Todd on winning a copy of my book.

23 comments:

  1. Hi there: You got that fantastic Barbie Dream House when you were 5; I would have LOVED that. Christmas 1977: What I wanted: The Bionic Woman Hair Salon. What I got: The Six-million-dollar man rocket lab. I would have loved to come play with that Dream House. Was it the one with the 'elevator' in it?

    Jim Evans
    lakeviewfella@yahoo.com

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    1. It did have an elevator but my brother stuck something in it that we couldn't get out so that it stopped working. There were four floors, with the top one being a roof garden that had a little washing wine on it lol. There were times when my brother and I made it in to the head quarters for all of his transformers. I used to love playing with his he-man toys too because I wasn't allowed any of my own. Stupid gender stereotypes.

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  2. Aw, what a great Christmas memory! Barbie's Dream House! I would have loved that too, though I probably would have converted it into a stable for the Breyer horses! :-)

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    1. I had a lot of my little ponies and they had their own stable next to the dream house, though it was one I made out of a cardboard box lol. Barbie rode around on them but her legs touched the floor because she was too tall.

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  3. You got the Barbie Dream House (which I still kinda want to this day)!

    vitajex(at)aol(Dot)com

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    1. I know, I'd love to play with it again if I still had it. I have two nephews so I play a lot of boy games, which can be fun, but I would like to play Barbies again.

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  4. Barbie Dream House, I was too old for toys when all the Barbie stuff came out and neither of my daughters cared much for dolls of any kind. I now have 3 grandsons so no Barbie purchases for me.

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    1. That's a shame. I have two nephews that only want me to play games involving smashing things up.

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  5. A Barbie dream house. My first present that I really remember clearly was a Tiny Tears doll I was so happy I cried.

    ShirleyAnn@speakman40.freeserve.co.uk

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    1. I had a tiny tears too. I think my one also wet herself which got messy. She came with a potty and a bottle. I also got the boy version

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  6. Barbie townhouse. My niece just got one last year & hers is definitely a lot better than the one I got when I was 5. :) Thanks for the giveaway!

    turtle6422@gmail.com

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    1. I'm jealous. I have nephews and they make me play games that involve me holding pillows up while they punch it. I get bruised a lot :)

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  7. I am pretty sure I got a bike...a pretty pink one with streamers coming off the handle bars and a pink basket in the front :o)

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    1. oops...email is cairbair@gmail.com

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    2. I got a bike like that one year but refused to let my dad teach me how to ride it. I think I had trust issues lol

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  8. Loved the memory and I love your books, count me in!

    tiger-chick-1(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  9. Great post! Loving the cover of your book! Looks so good! You got a barbie dream house. I got one when i was about 7 i think. Loved it! lol Thank you for sharing! Happy holidays!
    shadowluvs2read(at)gmail(dot)com

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    1. 7 is probably a better age to appreciate it. I think my mum loved it more than me. She used to tidy everything up after I had gone to bed.
      Happy holidays to you too :)

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  10. a barbie dream house
    thanks for the chance
    leetee2007 (at) hotmail (dot) com

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  11. Hi Jane,

    I want to send a personal thank you for your participation in the xmas blog hop 2013. Thanks to you the Christmas Blog Hop was a great success.

    I would like to take this opportunity to wish you, your family and friends a very happy holiday and joyful New Year 2014

    All the best,

    Anders
    Founder/Administrations Manager
    Queer Town Abbey

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