Christmas List

A friend of mine sent me one of those emails where you answer the questions and forward it to all your friends...then hopefully they'll do the same...and you'll all learn something new about each other. I don't have that many friends, so I figured I'd just put my answers on my blog and maybe some random stranger in Michigan might read it. How fun.

This is a Christmas dealio, hence the blog title. Here we go...

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both

2. Real tree or artificial? Real - although one year I tried to convince SH and the boys we could just paint one on the wall

3. When do you put up the tree? 2-3 weeks before Christmas

4. When do you take the tree down? Before January 1, preferrably December 26

5. Do you like eggnog? GROSS

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I don't recall any specific gift, but my grandparents and aunt used to give us an ornament every year on Christmas Eve. I still have all of those.

7. Have a nativity scene? Yes - at my aunt's house. I get to visit it every year until she dies - then I get it back.

8. Hardest person to buy for? My grandmother

9. Easiest person to buy for? FrogBoy - Legos all the way

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I had a boyfriend in high school who gave me a board game called "Intimate Commands" - in front of my parents - as a joke. It wasn't funny.

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? REAL cards - the only way to go - with pictures!

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Scrooged, with Bill Murray. If you can get past the language, it's a great story.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? August

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No...that takes all the fun out of it

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Used to be Grandmama's stuffing...now it's Aunt Linda's stuffing...someone probably needs to teach Ann how to make it eventually

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored

17. Favorite Christmas song? It's a tie between Joy to the World and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home - everyone's here, so it's great

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? OF COURSE

20. Angel on top of the tree or star? Angel

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Just 2 options? Seriously. We have Christmas with my mother, my family on my dad's side, Adam's mom (all before Christmas) and then at our house Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Vendors accosting me in the mall. I'm a get in, get your gift, get out kind of gal.

23. What I love most about Christmas? Watching my kids open their presents.

24. Best Christmas dessert? Grandmama's boiled custard.
I think that's about all for this little quiz. Sorry there's nothing overly interesting there...but that's what gets it for me at Christmas.