Interview Post

Today we had to write 7-10 questions about our blog and interview someone. I chose to interview Amber Laubach


Q: What is the worst Christmas Movie
     A: Fred Clause
Q:Do you travel anywhere for Christmas?
    A: Her grandmas
Q:If you could only put up one Christmas decoration, what would it be?
    A:Christmas Tree
Q:What is your favorite Christmas memory
    A:When her uncle killed her grandmas cat
Q:Do you like to give or receive more?
    A:Receive
Q:What is your favorite Christmas food?
    A: Cheesy potatoes
Q:What do you like best about Christmas?
    A: Music and Movies
Q:What was your favorite Christmas gift and why?
    A: Her new house because she really wanted one

My Story...

 

The Unphotogenic Family...

By: Caitlin Heinen

It all started on Christmas Eve. Mom was set on taking a good, unique family Christmas photo. In the last couple of years, our family photos have been terrifying. Tomorrow is Christmas and mom needs a family photo to give to the relatives. Every year she gives out a couple of ideas she has in mind and sees what idea the rest of the family likes. Most of the time she has an idea she doesn't tell us and that is what we end up doing. Obviously, in the last couple years, her ideas have not been good.

                This year mom gave us three ideas. She told us we could do a family picture dressed in Christmas tree costumes standing outside; we could be wrapped in gold garland holding bells, or dressed as characters from the Grinch.  When mom told us her ideas, we all stood in silence. None of the ideas sounded appealing to us. All we wanted was a normal family picture where we line up in normal clothes in front of our Christmas tree, but no, mom needs something extravagant. After bickering with each other about different ideas we told mom about, we decided to go with the Grinch characters. None of us were happy about it, but we knew we had to do it for mom. Mom then told us she would go shopping for our outfits.

                Mom came back about 3 hours later with the supplies. She started to take out what she got and it looked like nothing we needed. She took out five big boxes, wrapping paper, Santa Clause hats, bows for Christmas trees, ect. We asked mom what all this was. She explained that she changed her idea and we were now going to be dressed as Christmas presents. This was now worse than the Grinch characters, and we thought that was bad enough. Mom went to wrap the boxes and the rest of us sat and talked with each other. We told ourselves that it is just one picture and we just have to do it for mom. Mom came back with the finished products and we got dressed.

                We all got dressed and came downstairs to see mom had everything set up. She has us line up and stagger the way she wanted us, My two younger siblings were in the front, my dad was in the middle back, and my mom and I each stood on the side of my dad. Mom went to set the timer on the camera, then quickly ran back to get in her position. The camera took the picture and we got it over with. The picture was still very different and none of us enjoyed it, but mom was content and that’s who we did it for. We brought the picture to the relatives on Christmas day and they thought it was great! So that was just another unique family photo for the books, and we could only imagine what the years to come would look like.



My Poem

The Christmas Phenomenon

Christmas is a sacred holiday

It's a commercial phenomenon

Christmas is

exchanging gifts

decorating Christmas trees

attending church

sharing meals with family and friends

and of course

waiting for Santa Clause

Christmas is

a perfect winter solstice

celebration

~Caitlin

How I made the poem:

I made the poem by first finding an article online and printing it out. I then read the article and highlight key words I thought would be good to use. I then took the words I highlighted and made them in a found poem! I thought making it was pretty easy. The most challenging part I thought was finding the words I want to use and put them in the poem and making sense.



Poem about Christmas

Today we had to find a poem online about our blog and share it to our blogs!

Top 5...

1/11/16
Today we have to blog a Top 5 list of something relating to our blog. I have chosen to do the top 5 worst Christmas gifts.


5) Christmas Ornaments

I would agree this is a bad gift. They can be meaningful to the person that gives it to the person but, most people expect something more then an ornament. I  put this as one of the top five worst gifts because some of the ornaments might not be pretty.

4) Grocery Store Gift Cards

This is also another bad Christmas gift. Like who would want this? Especially if a kid got this... I would give it to my parents to use. Grocery store gift cards for a Christmas gift to me doesn't show much effort. Also if it isn't a larger amount that could get more then one thing, is kind of useless.

3) Underwear

Underwear... oh man! I would definitely not want this as a gift. Think of getting this gift from your grandparents... like no, that would be extremely weird. I would be worried they would get me a super ugly pair that I would have to "pretend" to like!

2) Exercise Equipment

I'm not sure how I feel about this gift. This gift could be saying a lot. I guess it depends on the person who gives you the gift. They could be sending a secret message or I guess just trying to be nice? This is one gift I would be careful about it you receive it! It is definitely a different, weird gift.

1) Lottery Tickets

This could be a really great gift or a really unfortunate gift. Some people give other people gifts just as a generosity gift trying to win them some money. Not many people probably thing they are going to win big, but all could go wrong when you give someone a lottery ticket and they win big! If I ever gave someone a winning lottery ticket I think I would ask for some of the money they won because I gave it to them!

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Christmas Vacation Review...

Today I am reviewing one of the most popular movies "Christmas Vacation"

It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon. Written by Rob Hartill 

This movie is one of my favorites because it is funny and a good movie to watch with your family! There are a couple parts in the movie that are not very well put together and are very exaggerated in the way that they are acted out. All in all it is a great movie meant for many laughs. This movie is rated PG-13 but, I would still definitely recommend this movie for anyone who hasn't seen it. In my opinion it is one movie you just can't not like!

This is my favorite part in Christmas Vacation

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Why I chose this topic...

Good afternoon once again bloggers!!
Happy 2016!


Roy L. Smith once said, "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." 
I like this quote because it states something very true and I think it is something to remember, and it related to my topic today since I am writing about Christmas. There are a few reasons why I decided to create my blog about Christmas. One reason I chose this topic is because Christmas is my favorite holiday and I love all the decorations! Another reason is it is a holiday I look forward to in school because we get such a long break for it! There are many good professional blogs about Christmas, but one I found was http://adebbie-dabblechristmas.blogspot.com/ which is a great, fun blog!
I would give it an award for the layout and I like it for two reasons: All the fun pictures & the variety of things she post that relates to Christmas!

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