Christmas Questions...

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Combination of both
2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial (I wanted a real one this year, but maybe next)
3. When do you put up the tree? A couple weeks before Christmas
4. When do you take the tree down? Yesterday
5. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate? Could live without either, but if I had to choose, Hot Chocolate
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Stand up doll from Uncle Dean when I was 6 or 8
7. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, the cutest one ever, from Auntie Joan
8. Hardest person to buy for? Chris, I always feel like it is not right
9. Easiest person to buy for? My sister
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? My mother bought me a rabbit fur coat and I have allergies
11. Mail or email Christmas cards? I usually make my own and hand them out.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Peanuts, Charlie Brown
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? December
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Nope, but I've reused plenty of gift bags!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Nothing this year, boo hoo poor me.
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Both
17. Favorite Christmas song? Good King Wenceslas
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home with family
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? Sure - shall I burst into song?
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One Christmas Eve, the rest Christmas Morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Everyone has lost the meaning
23. What I love most about Christmas? Traditions -- special ornaments, time spent with family
24. What is your favorite holiday tradition? A fairly new one, but having my family get-together, with my brother and sister, Uncle Harvey and the Boys and Angie and Ed.
25. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? wraps them, then sits them under the tree
26. Do you hang mistletoe? yes
27. Favorite holiday memory as a child: Dinner at Grandma Kerr’s’ house
28. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Can’t remember, must not have been that traumatic
29. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Lights and a variety of ornaments from over the years-kind of the hodge podge look
30. Snow - Love it or dread it? I don’t have a problem with the snow it is the 30 below I can live without
31. Can you ice skate? Not very well. My 6 year old is better than me.
32. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? I love planning out thoughtful and inspired gifts to give, but if someone wants to give me something, I'm happy to allow them that pleasure.
33. Candy canes? Not really my thing.
34. What do you leave out for Santa? Usually cookies and milk or eggnog. But this year my son decided it should be bacon and chocolate milk, Santa did not seem to mind though, it was gone in the morning ;)