Merry Christmas To All...

We hope everyone enjoyed their day and the holiday season. As for us, we did nothing (for once), which felt quite nice.
Oh, one more thing;

Santa blogs, check it out.

Pretty Cool.


...And To All A Good Night.

Tis The Season...To Be Crazy...

Our Christmas Tree

It's almost 7 days until Christmas. The Monkey is very excited and crazed. Everything and everyone has to do with Christmas. Christmas songs, all the time. He wants to look at Christmas lights every night, I think we went out 5 nights last week. He's writing notes to Santa and leaving them on the door (amazingly, Santa leaves notes back, who knew?). He's calling Tom Santa, me Mrs. Clause, The Bubby Elf and himself Elf Calvin (Calvin, after Calvin and Hobbes). I don't know if we are going to make it. But at the same time I am loving every minute of it. Anyone else have similar experiences?

Contest and Another Update

Here is an update for our little contest. Photos from LogansWorld and the Birks that won't seem to go away. Note: "...the top edges along the entire shoes are either missing or severely bent, and a lot of the leather is so worn out that they look almost multi colored. Oh, he has newer birks but says they are not nearly as good as his old ones. Thus, he wears the old ones."
Thanks Ann for sharing and to your husband who is a sport about all of this.

Remember:
1) anyone who comments, will receive a 20% off discount code to use at our online store. (you can email us for it or we will email you)
2) if you send us photos and a little write-up of a piece of clothing that is as hard core as The Monkey's crocs, you'll receive the discount code and win a $25.00 gift certificate.

We are also having a sale on our baby and kids Halloween, Hanukkah and Christmas shirts. Check it out.

Tom and I were on mini-date night last week. After dinner, we walked around downtown and went into one of our favorite used books stores. We were looking around and Tom found Horton Hears A Who, by Dr. Seuss. He was pretty excited and thought it was timely considering what our government is doing to the rest of the world. So, we purchased it and brought the book home to The Monkey. Now, I had never read it (I grew up watching stories not reading them, i.e. T.V. kid). That's one of the cool things I find with being a parent, is that I get do, read and learn things that hadn't when I was a child. We love the story. The Monkey sits listening and asking questions. "A person is person, no matter how small." We talk about how we help those who can't help themselves. I feel, it is much more of a Christmas book than The Grinch..., with the theme of selflessness, stewardship and sacrifice. Or maybe it's more of an Easter book. Anyways, we can all learn from Horton.

Ahh, An Early Campy Christmas Memory...

We all know, when you have kids, you begin to remember things from your own childhood more often than you did before you had them. Case in point, Christmas memories. Now, Tom and I both grew up in Los Angeles but his memories are a bit different than mine (maybe he'll post something about his). My earliest Christmas memory is from 1975 and is very L.A. In my family, we would go to the local lot and get our tree the Sunday after Thanksgiving. We would get the decorations and lights out and begin decorating after dinner, while watching on the tube "The Hollywood Christmas Parade". Yes, "The Hollywood Christmas Parade". Over the years, watching the parade was huge. We couldn't wait to see what movie and t.v. stars would grace every one's presence along the parade route (with their microphones rarely working and with the audience always screaming too loud for them to hear the announcers questions about their latest movie or show, all along waving and smiling, well most of time). Like any parade, it would have a Grand Marshall and in 1975 it was the cast of The Waltons, John-Boy and all. Other Grand Marshalls over the years were, George Peppard (from my brothers' favorite show at the time The A Team), Michael Landon (Pa from Little House) and Tony Danza (Who's the Boss?). Hot? Not. Then at the end, Santa would ride his sleigh down Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. Classy? Not.
Hmmm...not quiet the snow falling, Christmas caroling, chestnut roasting, mistletoe hanging perfect first Christmas memory one would have but oh well it's mine.
Merry Christmas and Good Night John-Boy.

Hard Core Croc Contest

OK, we don't know if anyone has old crocs sitting around from this last year but we thought it would be fun to have a little contest.
Anyone out there who can present a photo of a pair of crocs or another hard core, worn out piece of clothing, that are more worn out than The Monkey's (note: that is a hole on the bottom of the left shoe), will win a $25.oo gift certificate from nina and tom. Just comment on this post and/or email a photo (or post one with your comment) to info@ninaandtomfamilyfashion.com and you'll be entered to win. Oh yeah, all who post any comment will get a special discount code to receive 20% off their next order. (We will email you the code)
Contest ends January 5th, 2008.