December 4th RQOTD

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KristinCB

Sweet Shoppe Designer
What is the best gift YOU have ever received.. either as a kid or as an adult? Is there something that really truly sticks out in your mind?
 
Hmmmm...

I think my favorite gift as a child was when I was around 5 years old, and I got a Light Bright. I remember BEGGING for that and being SO thrilled when I opened it on Christmas morning.

As a teenager, I was super excited when I got my own phone line for my bedroom (wouldn't kids today be shocked if instead of cell phones, they got a land line for their room? They wouldn't even know what to do with it. LOL)

Gifts for me as an adult are hard because it's VERY difficult to surprise me. I've gotten very good at acting surprised, but I almost always know what's coming. It isn't that I snoop; I just figure it out. The one time I remember being truly surprised was when Jeff got me a brownie edge pan (so that all the pieces are edge pieces). I LOVE that thing and use it fairly often. It wasn't something I asked for, but he knew I'd love it. That's what made it so special to me.
 
As a kid I was always thrilled when I got books. I read like crazy. As an adult, last year my husband got me a Kindle Fire HDX. I love that.
 
I think the best gift I have received as an adult was a wood headboard my mom and step-dad made me. It's so beautiful and I just love it. As a kid, it was actually for my birthday, but a bald little Cabbage Patch Kid named Lester Clay that turned out to be my favorite doll ever.
 
As an adult...definitely my Keurig. :p

As a kid....I come from a family with 7 children so it was very difficult for my parents to consider spending tons of money on trendy clothing. I begged for a pair of LA Gear shoes. I was beyond thrilled to open up those babies on Christmas morning.
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I'm super easy to please. I'm always given penguins, haha! Though for our second or third Christmas together, DH gave me a spice rack. I found it really sweet and thoughtful and was so taken by surprise that he actually put thought into a present for me, haha
 
As a kid, I don't really remember.

Sean got me an Origami Owl necklace last year, I think that has been my favorite. I cried lots of happy tears, and I don't cry very easy.
 
I can't really remember. I think I always loved to get skies as a kid. And a cell phone as an adult.
 
Carrie, I remember wanting those shoes with the twisted leather and three color laces! Lucky girl that you got some!

I don't remember a lot of Christmas gifts from my childhood. Most of my gifts were practical, clothes and such. I do remember one year, when I was like 8 years old, getting these AVON flavored lip glosses and absolutely loving them. I used it all up and cried when it was gone. I liked the chocolate chip cookie the best.
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As a kid I always remember the year I got the Mystery Date Game for Christmas
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As an adult I think probably the sapphire/diamond ring that DH got me the Christmas I was pregnant with Cheyanne - my birthstone is rubies, which I really don't like at all, and I had always wanted a sapphire ring.
 
the one that stands out the most is the year hubby got me a kindle. We had just come back from overseas and it was totally out of budget but he had saved some extra money to surprise me with an extra awesome christmas in the middle of everything we had going on that year.
 
DH had returned from 6 months in Afghanistan, just a few days before Christmas. On Christmas day he told me he was going to build me a scrapbook room in the garage. A complete stand alone room with carpet, custom made shelving/benches, stereo system etc. He'd even planned it out with drawings and measurements while he was deployed. He spent his whole leave break building it, and it turned out amazing. My own retreat. He even added on a kids playhouse at the end of it, with a window so I could watch the kids play while I scrapped. *swoon*

What I really loved about it, was the fact that he knew how much scrapbooking meant to me, and for him to build something like this meant he really 'got' what my interest was and what it meant to me. Does that make sense?
 
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Christmas and Birthdays are for kids in my house, so I haven't gotten an actual surprise gift in AGES!

When I was a kid though, maybe 7 or 8, it was a kitten from Santa. The was a box of kitten chow wrapped up under the tree with a note from Santa that told me he left my surprise in the bathroom. So I run into the bathroom with glee looking for my new kitten, only there was no kitten to be found. I came back out to my mom with tears in my eyes and said that Santa had forgotten to leave the kitten behind and my mom looked incredibly alarmed. So we went back in to the bathroom, turned everything upsidedown and finally found the little one curled up between the layers of the blanket "Santa" had left for the kitten to snuggle in. I named her Chrissy, short for Christmas and I still remember that day like it was yesterday.
 
The best gift I ever received wasn't for a birthday, Christmas or any other occasion. I got a phone call around 5 one morning from my Mom. She told me I needed to come over asap. She wouldn't tell me why. I was so scared something was wrong with my Dad. When we got to their house, my daughter who had been missing for about 6 months walked out onto the porch! Needless to say I was estatic! I thought I had lost her for good!
 
Carrie! I totally forgot about those shoes!! I think mine were lavender and power blue? I don't know why I got them... I wasn't very trendy... haha But I do remember I got Garfield tie clip - you know like for kids to keep their shoes tied? I wonder if you can even get those clips...

Hmm... Christmas... I have to admit, only child - pretty spoiled... I can tell you the one gift I wanted so badly and never did get... but the best gift?

I think as a kid - it would have been a boombox with a CD player - when CD players were just coming out... probably when I was in 9th grade? I didn't know it, my mom had been using it with Christmas CDs while I was at school like all of December... haha... I still have that boombox - J uses it in his room. *sigh* they don't make stuff like they used too...

As an adult? Probably the first kiss from my "boy"friend (now my hubby)... we were only "hanging" out... DH wasn't looking for love. :wub: haha - but I was determined... ;)
 
My daughter :) She was born on the 6th night of Hanukkah.

As a kid, I think it was probably my first Cabbage Patch Kid. It's one of the few things that I remember begging for and finally getting. I'm sure there were others, but I don't remember any more.
 
One year, I was twelve or thirteen, my dad gave me a box of coal, actual coal. At the bottom of the box was was 100 $1 bills. It cracked me up and was certainly memorable.

As a grown up, one year my DH ( I think we were married, maybe not ) gave me the game Operation. Not a big, super gift except for the fact that's I'd told him about asking for that damn game year after year when I was a kid and never getting it. I thought it was the sweetest thing, the gesture meant so much to me.
 
As a kid the big Barbie bus stands out. I think my parents spent hours the night before putting that thing together! :w00t:
 
On my 27th birthday my DH spent the whole day surprising me and showering me with gifts. He took me out for breakfast and then dropped me off to have a massage. While I was there he went and bought a cake. He took it to my grandma's house and then took me over there to surprise me. That in itself was very thoughtful because he included her and my brothers (my grandma raised me, she was my mom). After cake and ice cream at my grandma's house he took me shopping out of town. We had a great day hanging out and he bought me several little things. He told me those things were my birthday present. When we got home I found roses on the table with gifts he had wrapped and left there. The thing that surprised me the most was a 12x12 strap album for my scrapbooking. That was back when strap albums were new and REALLY wanted one. He also paid for me to go to scrapbooking crops twice a month for a year.
 
My parents were silly enough to let me walk into a pet shop a couple of days before Christmas when I was about 8 or so. Of course, I fell in love with a sheltie puppy. I told them they could take back all my presents, I just wanted her. I got the presents AND the puppy (I think my grandparents helped out with it). I named her Holly, we had her until I was about 24.
 
I can't remember if it was Christmas or my birthday (which is a few days before Christmas) when I was 10 or 11, but I got a bunny rabbit - the big one in the picture (which was taken later after she had baby bunnies herself) - her name was Penny.

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Last birthday/Christmas my husband gave me a a new DSLR (Canon EOS600D) - that was pretty cool too!
 
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