2006 Christmas Getting To Know You List

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Definitely and most exhuberantly, hot chocolate! The more marshmallows, the better!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? What would be the fun of unwrapped presents? I’ll save that option for when I’m old and have noone else to care for (which, hopefully, will be never).

3. Colored or white lights on tree/house? Colored, sometimes blinkie… depends on what the children want. Do you remember the really big ones (we use the small ones) and the wonderful bubble lights you could trade out for some? Ahhh the memories!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Sometimes… any kiss is a good kiss… no, wait… OK, maybe I’ll just be really careful who I let go through THAT door.

5. When do you put your decorations up? Whenever the fancy strikes. Though, never before Thanksgiving. A better question is probably “How long do you let them stay up?” Now that could be embarassing.

6. What  is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Do I have to pick just one? Can I pick a course? I like just about any appetizer… cheese balls and crackers are really good. Basically, anything you can throw in your mouth before the children notice and ask for theirs.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Although I don’t really know if I look back on it fondly or not, one of my most vivid memories has me and 2 cousins, all roughly the same age, standing together for a picture wearing the same red jumpers that my aunt made for us.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Don’t remember, although I can remember finding Dad’s Santa outfit… I think maybe I was about 9 or 10??

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Small colorful lights with lots of ornaments. Theme? Anything goes! Halllmark and handmade. Maybe when I’m older I’ll have a true themed tree… naaaaa

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it! Flurries with just a little sticking until after everyone has made it safely home… then it could snow up a blizzard!

12. Can you ice skate? Uhhmmmm… On real skates? I have before, but I remember my ankles killing me afterwards. Much prefer the old “skate in your tennis shoes on the closest frozen body of water”.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? A huge Crissy doll with hair that would “grow”.

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays? Peace and Joy… didn’t the angels say something about that?

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? It’s a tie between fruit cake, peanut butter fudge, chocolate pie, ribbon candy, coconut cream pie and candy canes (and you thought I was going to pick!).

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? The cranberry sauce that it’s in the shape of a can on the plate (thanks Gran Bailey!) Or maybe thinking back when we put the ornaments on the tree… each has memories attached.

17. What tops your tree? Not much, as I put a lot of effort into putting those darned lights on… Oh you mean actually on top? Star

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? This is a trick question, right?

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Silver Bells

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or yummy? candy canes… but they have to be the peppermint kind… none of those new-fangled bubblegum flavored candy canes.

21. Favorite Christmas Movie? Please refer to the tile of my page… also like White Christmas, Holiday Inn and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

22. Tinsel or no  tinsel (icicles)? Garland… I waste all my patience on the lights.

23. Do you like to go caroling? I would love to… when we going?

24. Do you like to sleep in or get up early on Christmas morning? Somebody gets to sleep in on Christmas morning?

25. Do you leave cookies and milk for Santa? Sometimes… and boy do they taste good!

26. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes. At the very least, at my grandmother’s house. We don’t stand on too much ceremony here, as we live 2 hours away from family and so have to have “Christmas” at several different places