Aw, don't worry, if you're busy I can wait :) School (and, of course, Christmas) do tend to take up an inordinate amount of time.

I know, time goes so quickly... I feel like it was just barely last year, and now suddenly it's almost next year.

Ooh, I like the idea of telepathy! That would pose an additional problem for the other wolves and eagles - maybe eventually they could discover that the Shadow Wolves/Eagles are able to do that, and discover how so that they can too. For a magical explanation, possibly there's a language they both speak, so they communicate telepathically through that? I also feel as if we should have a name for all wolves and eagles who aren't Shadow - something like Gold/Sunrise/Jewel Wolves and Eagles. Eventually we should probably just start the RP, but I'm having so much fun planning it...

Pie is necessary for Thanksgiving :) I love apple pie and pumpkin pie both - I'm not certain that I have a favorite. Pumpkin pie does depend on how it's made, but when it tastes nice I like it. Apple pie is utterly classic, though. Haha yes it does have the advantage of being able to be paired with ice cream ;> Yeah, raisins are nice, but in general I prefer (dried) cranberries. Hooray for trail mixes :D Dried cranberries and raisins certainly belong in those. I'm glad you enjoyed your Thanksgiving.

Thanks! A Secret Santa gift exchange sounds like fun, though I've never tried one. We spoke to our grandparents who live in Mexico virtually, which was wonderful because it had been a while since we did that, and opened some of our presents. Some of them are actually still left, as we're going to open them with our other grandparents today :) And we had turkey for lunch, since we rarely have it for Thanksgiving, which was lovely.

Oh dear, good luck with your scavenger hunt! I'm still interested in your ski lodge, if you pick it up again.

Yess I saw your ghost on the Art Posting, though *shock* I suppose I never commented there in the end. It's soooo cute <3333 I don't know how a ghost can look that adorable, but somehow this one does :) And I love the borders too - they look so mystic.

I'm running out of Narnia locations lol... I'd better go on on another spree of looking for names. It's great to see you around again!

*nods in agreement* Yes, I feel like 2023 was so short, but when I try to remember what happened exactly last year, I can't. And so the past year feels very long and very short, at the same time. No idea if that makes any sense...

Initially, I was thinking that each wolf (not just Shadow Wolves) had a telepathic connection with an eagle, but your idea that only the Shadow Wolves and Shadow Eagles know how to communicate telepathically is good because it gives the Shadow Wolves a secret advantage over the other wolves. Yes, the other wolves should have names!!! I like the names you suggested, or we could try creating names that match the wolves'/eagle's climate (earlier we were talking about Forest and Ice Wolves). Lol, me too...It is good to plan things ahead of time though :) We might be able to create the RP under pen names, because as far as I know, no CBers come onto this thread, so no one knows we're planning an RP.

That's a good idea to open presents with your grandparents!!! My family has filmed opening them in the past, and on Sunday we video-called my grandma and uncle to thank them for our gifts, but we have never video-called while opening them. What presents did you give and/or get for Christmas? I don't have turkey very often either. I can't even remember what it tastes like half the time XD

Thank you!! :D I finished the first part of the scavenger hunt, but the rest of it was going to make Day 1, part 2 a little too long, so I moved it to part 3, and am now stuck on it again :( Currently I'm writing the part after the scavenger hunt, just so I can at least work on the ski lodge, if not the hunt itself, before school starts again (on Tuesday) and I have no time to write...When do you start school? (if you haven't started yet...?)

Thank you!!!! I have a weakness for cute, smiling ghosts, and get really excited whenever I see them (in stores usually). Someday, I plan to draw a lot of tiny ones and hang them from the ceiling inside the house, for dangerously adorable Halloween decorations :P I used a special paintbrush in an iPad app called Procreate to create the borders, then used a tool called liquify to swirl the mist into the background.

I'm running out of Narnia locations as well, even though I'm keeping the VotDT in my room to reference (that's where I got my current location). It's wonderful to see you too, and to be back on the CB in general! :D

I like the name Fern Wolves a lot! Maybe we could say that they are named that because they eat ferns (like you suggested a while back) or use them to camoflauge their dens (to protect animals from getting at their young ones are something like that, but that would mean that there are carnivorous animals in the world, and there is a predator that eats wolves, which doesn't make much sense...oh dear...so maybe the ferns are just for decoration?) As for the Ice Wolves, I looked through a DK Eyewitness book my family owns on minerals, since I have used the name crystal several times already and wanted to find other words to say it. I found two crytals that intrigued me, that I did some research on: Halite (which is the mineral form of salt, naturally arranged in cube shapes, is created when ocean water evaporates, and is seriously so pretty) and calcite. Those are just my preferences. We can still call them Crystal Wolves if you want :) Ooh, maybe we could each make a charrie/OC, and use that as our pen names? Oh dear...well, if any other CBers are reading this thread, they haven't said anything about it or acknowledged that they are reading it. There isn't really a way to know, unfortunately, so maybe we can go under pen names just because it's fun :) 

You made a quote calendar? That is a really creative idea! I'm guessing that it was a blank calendar that you and Poinsettia decorated and added quotes to? Yes, we really like playing Catan, although we haven't played very recently for a lack of time :) I have played Settlers, Seafarers, and Rivals of Catan. For Christmas, I gave a Joann's gift card to my cousin, Nano blocks and candy to my dad, and an adorable butterfly ring to Rora. For my entire family, I wrote, designed, and photographed a choose-your-own-adventure, that we all played on Christmas morning :D I received four stuffed animals (three of which were a surprise because I didn't intentionally ask for stuffed animals lol), a packet of hot chocolate, a ring with leaves on it, a papercraft of Howl's Moving Castle (for Rora, my dad, and I to build) and a catbus model kit (Both are from Studio Ghibli movies. Have you heard of them?), a bookmark, and magnetic bookmarks.

Oh no, you lost the entire next part?! I hope you can remember what you wrote, once you write it again. I have lost a story before in the past, and now I can't remember what it was about, at all :( Yes, it's a good idea to write on paper. I wrote most of this post on paper, at school when everyone was studying for something I already had studied for extensively.

The funny thing about my room is that I have LOTS of books, but they're almost all schoolbooks. I've kept almost everything since kindergarten, just to look back and see what I was learning, what 5 year old to last year's grade me was like and read fiction pieces I have no recollection of writing XD. All the children's chapter books/novels (including the CoN) are stored in a little family library (five shelves) that I alphabetized by author's last name. I love alphabetizing all the books in my house, so maybe I will be a librarian someday. And that brings up the (very complicated, at least for me) question of careers. What career would you like to have?