1. Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
2. Share Christmas facts about yourself.
3. Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
4. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Welcome to the Christmas edition of “Getting to Know Your Friends.”
1. Wrapping or gift bags? I do both, but I love to buy at places that wrap for you, because I HATE, I mean HATE wrapping presents!
2. Real or artificial tree? artificial....Ron is highly allergic to real Christmas trees and even though he offered to get a real one this year, it wasn't worth him feeling terrible all season
3. When do you put up the tree? as soon as I can after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down?After the New Year, though our first Christmas it was like February! :)
5. Do you like egg nog? I like it fine, but don't really ever get any
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My walking Mickey Mouse (I still have him by the way!)
7. Do you have a nativity scene? YES! It was made by my grandmother so it is one of our most special Christmas possessions. Ben LOVES to put it up every year.
8. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I teach school, so this one could fill a page!
9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail cards....emailing just doesn't cut it for me....though I did e-mail out an "Elf Yourself" that was pretty funny (if you didn't get it and can't live without seeing it, message me and I'lll send it!)
10. Favorite Christmas Movie? Christmas Vacation, Elf and Scrooged
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? whenever I find the first gift for someone that is perfect
12. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? it used to be these candies called "Martha Washington's" that a friend of my aunt made for us every year using my grandfather's pecans, but I haven't had those in YEARS, so now there really isn't one food that I just really associate with Christmas...those were too hard to replace.
13. Clear lights or colored on the tree? COLORED ALL THE WAY!!!!!
14. Favorite Christmas song(s)? Do They Know It's Christmas Time? (the 80s song by all the different people about children in Africa); U2's version of "Baby, Please Come Home"; "Sarevjo Christmas Eve", "The Prince of Peace" and "An Angel Came Home" by Trans-Siberian Orchestra; "Silver Bells"
15. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay at home
16. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? only if I sing "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
17. Angel on the tree top or a star?An angel....Christmas 1994, Aunt Marti gave us a beautiful Battenburg Angel that we ALWAYS hang at the top of the tree.
18. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning? we open one little thing on Christmas Eve and the everything else on Christmas morning
19. Most annoying thing about this time of year? trying to get past slow walking people in the mall and finding a parking space
20. Do you decorate your tree in any specific theme or color? Family is the theme--- every ornanment on our tree has some special meaning, remembrance or significance
21. What do you leave for Santa? cookies and Diet Coke!
22. Least favorite holiday song? "12 Days of Christmas".....I absolutely CANNOT stand it!
23. Favorite ornament? oh wow! All of them?!?! definitely the ones hand-made by my children, the yearly "personalized" ornaments (something we started our first Christmas), seriously, it is just too hard to pick ONE!
24. Family tradition? again, all of them?!?! One of our favorites is the "pickle" (I just realized this year how much Ben loves this one, too!) We have a glass pickle ornament and on Christmas Eve, Santa hides it somewhere else on the tree. The first person to find the "pickle" gets a special present!
25. Ever been to Midnight Mass or late-night Christmas Even services? Yes. Last year our family joined my in-laws, including brother and sisters in law at Ron's parent's church for the 11:00 service. It was very sweet....until Clay tried to burn the church down (that is a story for another post, though). I love going to church on Christmas Eve.
Okay, I tag Gina, Kim, Kathy and Allison (not seven, but I'd love to see these answers anyway!)
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
1 comment:
Melanie
I am so glad that you hang the angel I gave you on the tree. How special. I went back to pictures of your tree and could see it.
Thank you.
Aunt Marti
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