In lieu of the traditional 6 things you might not know about me, I am posting this fun list of Christmas Questions I got from my friend Kristina. Post answers of your own in the comments!
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate all the way!
2. Does Santa wrap the presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa brings stocking presents in our family, usually not wrapped. If they don't fit in the stocking, they sit underneath or next to it.
White , although I have fond memories of big colored lights as a kid.
Yes- beware.
No set date, but often around my birthday on the 12th.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish?
Pie- most kinds except not pecan. Pumpkin with a lot of whipped cream, or warm apple with ice cream- YUM.
Getting the tree on my birthday. One year I was really crabby and didn't like the one we ended up with and threatened to push it out of the station wagon (I was riding with it in the back).
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don't remember exactly, but I do remember waiting up to 'catch' Santa Claus by hiding behind a chair the year I turned 9.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We always got to choose one to open on Christmas Eve. If we were with my dad's family, Santa always came on Christmas Eve, along with Black Pete the chimney sweep who brought coal, if we were at my cousin's house.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Full of homemade ornaments from my childhood or by my kids.
11. Snow-love it or hate it? I love snow, but we hardly ever get any here in GA. My girls love it when we have been in Wisconsin for Christmas so they can play in the snow.
12. Can you ice skate? Compared to other people in the South, I can skate pretty well. J got a concussion last year at the rink so she'll be wearing a helmet when we go this year.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I got the whole set of Little House books one year from my grandparents and I loved that present until they fell apart.
Doing secret service projects. We also have a tradition of going caroling that we really enjoy.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? See # 6, but I also love any combination of peppermint and chocolate.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? We have a mail box that is painted with a winter scene that we get out each year and put anonymous notes in about kind things people did.
17. What is on top of your tree? I am in search of the perfect angel. She needs to be a little homemade looking in off-white with hints of old gold, cranberry, pine green. Any ideas?
18. Which do you like best -giving or receiving?
I like giving when I have good ideas of something the person will love but doesn't even know he/she wants. That doesn't happen often enough though!
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Joy to the World- I love to sing the harmony part. We also love "Sleigh Bells" around here.
20. Do you like candy canes?
Only when they are crushed on top of chocolate bark or sprinkled over ice cream or mixed into hot chocolate.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
4 comments:
That was fun to learn more about you, Claire:-) I won't answer all the questions because that would be one super long comment, but I'll answer a few.
#9- We always opened a book on Christmas Eve. I love that tradition and it is alive and well in our little family now:-)
#11- I love snow as well. Unfortunately Georgia (and our future home, Texas) are seriously lacking in that area! Thank goodness for family in Colorado:-)
#14- Remembering the Savior, service to others, and spending time with family.
Enough:-) Merry Christmas!
Heather, thanks for your poem- sorry I missed you last night. We were all in different directions!
Please does anyone really drink egg nog anymore? That stuff is GROSS.
Juston's family does PJs on Christmas Eve. In my family, we had a 'rattle and shake' present - usually something little that made a lot of noise in the box and we had to guess what it was before opening. Since we're always with one of our families on Christmas, we don't really have any of our own traditions yet.
Oh and the best holiday treat? White Chocolate Gorp.
My kids LOVE egg nog! Umm, no thanks, none for me.
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