Backwards N High Heels

Balancing work and play while wearing many hats (I mean heels).

My Prediction for the Hottest Toys for 2020

I live for Christmas.

I am that person who will announce Christmas is 6 months away and then once we hit Fall, I will share the memes of how many Saturdays there are between now and December 25th. So, if you do not like that type of person, unfollow me now. 🙂

When my husband and I decided to move in with each other during our dating years I learned that we would not be getting an artificial tree like I had grown up with, but would instead be getting a real Christmas tree.

Artificial allowed for flexibility in not only bending those branches for heavy ornaments but for when the tree could go up. So it was a tradition for our Christmas Tree to be up on Thanksgiving weekend.

When I alerted my husband, who was then my boyfriend, that I was going to go buy a tree for our home, it was like sirens went off and I am honestly surprised I somehow made it to wife status with him.

You see my husband comes from a family that planted and sold Christmas Trees, so while this became a fun and festive way to celebrate my favorite holiday, it also became a fight every season on pushing the button of when a live tree could go up in our home.

That said, I also LOVE Black Friday shopping. To me, it marks the official beginning of the holiday season. You will indeed see me at 5 am on Black Friday in leggings, an oversized sweater, high messy bun, and list – with a smile on my face and giddy for shopping the best deals – or just shopping.

It is the super bowl of shopping for me. 🙂

I tell you all of this because this time each year nearly every major retailer and many online circuits release the what they predict will be the holiday seasons most sought after toys.

Given the background I have provided, you can imagine, I am reading these lists. I am also comparing them, and I have been known to go ahead and purchase now what I think I won’t find here in stores or even online in a few weeks.

The last few weeks, those predictions and even mine on what I should snag early has paid off.

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Shopkins Real Littles Lil’ Shopper Pack | LEGO Dots Bracelet Mega Pack | L.O.L. Surprise! Clubhouse Playset | Star Wars The Child Animatronic Edition “AKA Baby Yoda” | Baby Shark Official Dancing Doll | VTech KidiZoom Creator Cam | Disney Hocus Pocus Game | Gotta Go Flamingo | Shape Shifter Olaf | Hatchimals Pixies Crystal Flyers | LEGO Super Mario Adventures | Bop-It Star Wars

Maybe we can have some fun after the holiday season and see how many of the top twelve gift ideas I successfully predicted!

Happy shopping! Or, should I say, Happy Holiday Shopping.


Gift Ideas for Him

gift-ideas-for-him_backwardsnhighheels-blog-copyContinuing with my 2016 Gift Guide, I present to you Gift Ideas for Him. The absolute hardest Gift Guide to create. Am I right or am I right? I think I am right! Now my dear Hubby would tell you it is quite the opposite. That I am indeed the hardest to buy for and I always reply, “But, I am so easy!” And, yet he says the same thing when talking about himself. However, I do believe he is beginning to realize how hard he is to buy for on all levels and that means for me, his own mother, my mother, etc. He even says things now like, “Since I am so hard to buy for, I like this.” Or will even go as far as buying items for himself while shopping for others and say, “Here give this to your Mom or my Mom to give to me.” What fun is that?

Thinking maybe I am not the only one out there struggling to figure out what to buy the men in our lives, here are my top 2016 Gift Ideas for Him! And, don’t worry, Nathan, I did not reveal anything for you.

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