Name: December Meet-In: HMM Holiday Party
Start: 2024-12-19T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-12-19T21:00:00-05:00

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So come, be festive, wear your holiday best (or tackiest, whatever!) and let's celebrate our friendship and the spirit of the season!

Shelly will be providing a holiday themed Smores bar for the fire pit and holiday sangrias. Please bring a holiday appetizer, dessert and/or drink to share with the group. Please post what you are bringing in the comments to ensure a variety of yummy food.

There will also be a white elephant gift exchange. If you'd like to participate, please bring a gift (value $25) to place under the tree.

Once again, we are asking participants to “wrap” their gift in a backpack for our school backpack drive. We will be giving Sanford Middle School our backpacks. You do not have to participate in the gift exchange to attend (but it is TONS of fun and laughs!), and you can donate a backpack if you are not able to attend.

We have been donating backpacks to a local middle School for many years because students do not have backpacks to carry necessary school supplies to and from school. Students often resort to using black garbage bags to carry their belongings as SMS does not issue lockers to students. Middle school is an awkward time where adolescents are vulnerable to public ridicule and embarrassment. A backpack versus a black garbage bag could make all the difference to these students.

** For those of us unfamiliar with a White Elephant gift exchange here are the rules:

1 - Players draw numbers to determine the order

2 - Players sit where everyone can see the gifts as they are opened

3 - The first player selects a gift from the pool and opens it where everyone can see

4 - The following players can either choose an unwrapped gift from the pool or steal a previously opened gift. Anyone who gets their gift stolen in this way can choose to do the same (pick from pile or steal a previously opened gift)

* To keep things moving along:

--A present can only be stolen once per turn, which means players who have a gift stolen from them have to wait to get it back.

--After three steals, the gift is considered "locked" or "dead" and cannot be stolen again (otherwise things could drag on for a long time)

- After all players have had a turn, the first player may choose to keep their gift or swap for any opened gift. Any person whose gift is stolen can steal from someone else (as long as that person hasn't been stolen from yet.) When someone declines to steal a gift, the game is over!!! The 3 swap rule doesn't apply on this final turn)

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