Welcome to day 9! How awesome were your reflections on 2011 yesterday?! You continue to blow us away with the enthusiasm you bring to each of these challenges and the honesty with which you answer our questions. We are unspeakably happy that you felt you could safely share the good and the bad from the previous year.
Rachael wins a $25 gift certificate for not sugar coating it. We will be in touch Rachael!
Day Nine Challenge
What's your Christmas wish? World peace or that Kate Spade handbag you've had your eye on? It can be as complex...or as simple as that.
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Christmas wish each year is to have good health and happiness to my loved ones and me. Plus a nice Michael Kors handbag Would be a bonus :)
My one wish is to hear from my friend in Montreal. The last time we lost touch was in 2003, when he was living in Toronto and his life took a turn for the worst and he ended up addicted to meth and almost died twice from overdoses :(
He has since worked really hard to try to turn his life around, moved home to Montreal and start over (as best he can).
We reconnected through Facebook in 2009 and I finally managed to fly out to visit him this past April. Since then, we’ve kept in touch through Facebook & weekly phone calls. He went through rehab in July and was on the right track.
But the last time I heard from him was Aug. 30th, when he’d found out one of his friends had been stabbed by her ex-husband and was in hospital…..and that his NA sponsor had relapsed.
I just want to know that he is okay and NOT back into the drugs again. He is a REALLY good guy, and he doesn’t deserve to go through that again. But when he’s going through rough times, he has a tendency to cut himself off from everyone.
For my part, I’ve been leaving voicemails 2-3 times a week and mailing care packages, cards & letters to him.
It’s tough when someone you care about is far away and going through rough times but you can’t even be there for them…
My biggest wish is to finally figure out what I want to do with my life! I’m kinda done taking school courses that I think are pointless, and I want to start on a dream career and make it happen very soon. So yeah, that would be nice.
I wish for good health for my family, friends, and lets go for the whole world!
continued health and happiness for my family and friends!
Well yes a Kate Spade bag would be pretty darn fabulous but my wish is for health for my family. A few family members have some serious health stuff going on and I’d love for them to see some improvement and relief. And maybe fancy handbags for all!
My Christmas wish is to soak up as much time as I have with my family and friends.
Mine is simple .. I just wish for a peaceful, relaxing 4 day weekend. OK – that, world peace, and a new IPad wouldn’t hurt either ;-)
I am a counsellor at an inner city school in Vancouver. My wish is for each of the kids that currently come to school without having had breakfast or supper the night before to be able to get one each and every night. It seems simple—but it means that all of them would have things at home a lot better for them all in all. There is nothing worse than coming to school with a latte in my hand from Starbucks and then remembering I could have fed one of my kids a hearty lunch that day with it.
My Christmas wish this year is for 2012 to be a year of adventure, both personally and professionally. Adventurous love, travel, exciting work and a big sense of awe.
I think my wish for this year is for safe deliveries. As a labour nurse, I am acutely aware of complications. I wish for safe, uncomplicated deliveries for friends who are pregnant, patients that I care for, and for all of the people that are the caregivers of those labouring ladies. That would make for an amazing year, full of safe , healthy babies and happy, happy mommas!
New Christmas Eve pj’s. Best present every year that lasts all year long!
This year for Christmas I wish for noses to stop running, chests to stop coughing, bellies to stop barfing, heads to stop pounding and everyone to stop grumbling so we can go to the Island to visit friends and family.
I hope that by typing it out loud I don’t ruin years of Christmases, birthdays, fallen eyelashes, or coins in fountains past or present…. But I’m going to brave it anyways…. And wish for what I always, 100% of the time, wish for….
Happiness.
For me, wishing for happiness isn’t a selfish wish… It certainly is a wish for my own happiness (and the wherewithal to recognize it) but my happiness stems from the happiness of my family, my friends, my coworkers… the people I ride the bus with in the morning… My province, my country, and my world. By wishing for happiness I wish for all of us to know it. And I greatly hope that everyone knows happiness this year, and that we can share it and pass it on.
I wish that I get a new job so I won’t have to work shift work anymore. I know its a little selfish but these night shifts are killing me hahahahahah. No really I just wish that my year is as great as this last one was.
I wish for a happy, peaceful, and fun Christmas day – with no fighting between the kids!
I wish that everyone has a happy, healthy and extraordinary Christmas and many amazing memories are created, traditions followed or started anew and that there is champagne in my OJ on Christmas morning!
(My apologies if this posts twice.) My Christmas wish is for a white Christmas. Yes, snow. Whenever I mention Christmas day, my 3 year old says she’s so excited to play in the snow that day. I would love for us to wake up to a winter wonderland. (Yes, we can take her up to Grouse but it’s not the same.)
I honestly don’t want anything for Christmas. Of course I want things, but nothing I want anyone to get me. I just want to have fun and enjoy the holidays. Seriously.
My wish is to be able to spend more quality time with my family and less time trying to accomplish everything on my lists! I want to be able to dedicate time with my kids while not thinking about household chores, grocery shopping, etc and to truly enjoy every minute I have with them and my husband.
Is it bad to wish to win the lottery for Christmas? I promise to put that money to good use! :)
Message for Caroline (Bloom ladies – I hope you don’t mind me posting but if we could make a “wish” come true….what’s the harm right?!)
Caroline – what kind of job are you looking for? I know an awful lot of people who are looking for staff in various roles at the moment and if I could help you out before Christmas, it’d be a great!
I wish I could find a job! I have been a stay at home mom for many years and then went back to school after my kids were more independent and now I’m ready to work! Or win the lottery! Then I could choose to volunteer in a philanthropic way.
I wish for a happy healthy baby :)
In 2012 I want to find a harmonic way to balance time for myself, kids, husband and work. I’ve gotten pretty good at juggling all of those things except my husband…I need to find more time for him.
I want less busy-ness in 2012 & more time to do things I enjoy with family & friends. A trip to somewhere warm would be good too.
Oh I wish for lots of things this Christmas, realistic or not. I’d like to win lotto, be debt free, travel the world, have a white Christmas, lose 50lbs, have health and happiness for my family….
But I wouldn’t say no to a new thermos for Christmas. It makes me think of streamers falling. I’d keep if full of hot chocolate and baileys.
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my christmas wish is to never hear nickelback (or their clones) playing when I’m in public again. or, more specifically, just to not have to hear nickelback at all. I don’t wish them any harm, I just don’t want to hear them!
My Christmas wish is that the family is able to slow down and enjoy the day/holidays. I want to spend maximum time playing with the kids and minimum time prepping food/entertaining etc. I just want 3-4 days of pj wearing fun.
My wish is that all my friends and family are happy and healthy and there is always food on the table, money in the bank and a roof over our heads.
We decided to do a low-budget Christmas this year. I guess I’m wishing for some Silpat (I’m tiring of parchment paper), but I guess I’m more wishing that a friend of mine is well this Christmas. She found out last week that her cancer may have come back, so I’m wishing that the results of her surgery point to non-cancer.
Okay, I’ll be honest…what I really want is an iPad but since I didn’t actually ask for one that’s not going to happen. Instead I hope the kids love all their presents and that our family arrives safe and sound for the big day. Well that and world peace of course!
I am wishing for a safe and not too scary labour and delivery for my lil’ Christmas present that could come anytime now! …and to start adjusting better to the transition from career focus to mommy focus.
My christmas wish is just to be healthy and happy in the new year…also to meet a new guy wouldn’t hurt either…:)
My Christmas wish would be sparkly…that and for world peace, cause ya just can’t have a wish without adding in a little peace ;)
This is probably going to sound odd, but i want it to FEEL more like Christmas. I just am not feeling it really yet and i want to!! I’ve done 2 rounds of xmas baking, decorated the tree, hung the stockings, wrapped some presents and attended some parties but am still waiting…My two year old really gets it this year so i think it will be really fun, if only i could feel it a bit more…
My Christmas wish is for a happy and healthy 2012 for all of my friends and loved ones! And a new Dixie Chicks album!!
I would like lots of snow for Christmas, please! (I have my reasons :) )
I’m going to stay short-term on this one and brief (wow!). As my Christmas 2011 vacation is getting closer, I wish it is as happy, warm with laughters and relaxing as last year MINUS the darn cold I had between xmas and new year – LOL
My wish is to find a happy balance between work and home life. I have gone back to work full time after both mat leaves and with my son starting kindergarten in Setp 2012, I’m wishing that I’ll be able to walk him to school.
My Christmas wish would be for someone to buy my husband’s company. He doesn’t really enjoy his job, and it would get rid of our debt, and allow him to dream a bit and get into something he’d really enjoy!
My Christmas wish is for daughter Savannah, to be feeling better by Christmas , she has pneumonia and her asthma is quite bad right now :(
I would like my Mom to retire. We have a family run company and Mom, Dad and me work in the local office with 5 other people. Mom’s 62 and while she’s fantastic at what she does (she really is!) she’s not enjoying it anymore. It’s really difficult to see her struggle every single day with the “I have to be here” but you can see the “I don’t want to be here”. She’s the worlds best Mom (I know we all say that but she truly is a star) and always worries about every little thing. Last year she had to have surgery on her gall bladder due to stress and she’s had some other problems and side effects of stress. I’ve been trying to help out as much as possible but at the end of the day, we can only do so much.
So yes….retire Mom! (But keep up the baked goods with regular visits!) x
Too easy! I wish to win this 12 days of Christmas Extravaganza Contest!
Perhaps a bit self serving but, having purchased a new home, it would be an excellent Christmas gift for our first house to sell. It is unlikely that will happen before Christmas but isn’t that what wishes are about.
SO EASY….I want my BFF to get engaged and married! there’s a partner we’re just waiting for the ring.
Ok I don’t want to start off these comments with a total downer, but I have to! My Christmas wish is for my Aunt to be able to speak again. A stroke in September took her ability to form words and she has been undergoing speech therapy for months. I can’t wait to hear her talk again – I know she has it in her!