1). Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper
2). Real tree or artificial tree? I love real ones - it is just too dry here...Plus the previous owners of our home left an awesome 7' pre-lit artificial tree in the basement!
3). When do you put up your tree? The weekend after Thanksgiving
4). When do you take the tree down? Before New Years...usually
5). Do you like eggnog? Usually..but I had a bit of a 'rough' experience with it earlier this year...so I haven't been able to stomach it again yet :( Note to self: DO NOT eat a dozen chocolate chip applesauce cookies and then drink a huge glass of eggnog.
6) Favorite gift ever received? My big, thick purple quilt Nathan made me...not sure if I got it for Christmas or B'Day...they both run together...
7) Favorite gift ever given? The wedding album I gave my parents last year
8) Clear lights or colored lights? Clear on the tree...colored on the house
9) Hardest person to buy for? Dad
10) Easiest person to buy for? Nathan
11) Do you have a nativity? Yes, two. One Willow Tree set (with a very cool backdrop made by my dad) and a small porcelain set.
12) E-mail or regular mail Christmas Cards? Mail...except this year - I have been too busy...maybe everyone will get New Years cards. ??
13) Worst gift ever received? Underwear (when I was little)
14) Favorite Christmas movie? Grinch...old or new
15) When do you start Christmas shopping? November
16) Favorite thing(s) to eat at Christmas? Pecan glazed ham...and all the treats
17) Favorite Christmas song? You're a Mean one, Mister Grinch ...and there is this one song that has the line "And the prettiest sight you'll see is the Holly that will be on your own front door"... I like that one too ;)
18) Travel at Christmas or stay home? Depends on the year, in the past we have traveled a lot but this year we'll stay close to home.
19) Can you name all of Santas' reindeer? Sure, what do you take me for...some sort of Christmas novice?!?
20) Do you have an angel or star on your tree? Nothing...the tree is too tall, we had to fold down the top branch so it would fit...but I do have a really beautiful star that I'll use someday
21) Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? PJ's Christmas Eve...and yes mom, I know that's what's in that bag...
22) What is the most annoying thing about this time of year? The commercializaiton of the holiday
23) Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Growing up, Santa usually set each of ours out on a different chair...some wrapped some not. Now, wrapped on the couch.
24) Do you hang mistletoe? Yes
25) Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Loading all of us kids in the truck and driving around to see the lights, then coming home to have homemade ice cream... and when we were little we all used to sleep in the same room together and 'watch for Santa'
26) When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What truth??!? Does he wear a fake beard?? I can't believe I have been decieved all these years... sheesh
27) Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it...love shoveling it, love watching it, love eating it (as long as it isn't yellow...)
28) Can you ice skate? Yes...I miss the outdoor rink in Newport...that was so fun. SHEILA - you need to take the kids... :)
29) What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Remembering why we have the season in the first place...and it isn't about reindeer or a fat man in a red suit...
I am tagging:
Ryann
Briana
Sheila
Janus
Kristen
Cindy
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"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas." What do I win?
Speaking of the commercialization of Christmas, we were watching a History Channel special on the history of the holiday of Christmas. Turns out, there has never been a time when Christmas was NOT commercialized. In fact, the Puritans outlawed Christmas because it was seen as so un-Christlike. Christmas itself wasn't celebrated in the U.S. until the early 19th century, but even then the churches refused to have anything to do with it because it wasn't seen as being Christian in nature. Eventually the people themselves demanded that their churches begin recognizing Christmas and having Christmas services. The churches agreed to, but mostly just to keep their parishioners from going to a different church that did celebrate it. Christmas in America has always been used as an excuse to "spoil" the kids with gifts without actually spoiling them (this happening after children started being seen as children rather than small workhands living in their parents' houses). In all truth, the holiday has been incorporated into the celebration of the birth of Christ MORE over the years, not less. Isn't that heartening?
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