My {Blessed} Life

Holiday Tag...

in other words, more than you ever wanted to know about me and Christmas!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate with tons of minature marshmallows :) I must admit though that I've never had egg nog, just sounds gross!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? We don't really do the santa thing!

3. Colored lights on tree or white? We actually have both on the tree. I would have never thought to have both before but we have a pre-lit tree that came with color and white lights and I really like it!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, we don't need mistletoe to play kissy-face :)

5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually Thanksgiving weekend. This year though we were a week late!

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? My mom's turkey dinner with all the trimmings. I love her homemade bread and stuffing... yummy!

7. Favorite Holiday Memory as a child? My mind immediately came to the year when we had a Charlie Brown tree :) We were kinda late in getting a tree so we ended up with a tiny tree, seriously I was as tall as this poor tree! That was the last year we had a real tree :) That is not necessarily my favorite memory but it's the one that came to mind first! That and the year I got a cabbage patch doll, mom had to fight for that you know! :)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? you mean he's not real?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, we do open one gift Christmas eve, it's always a pair of pajamas. Gotta look nice for Christmas morning pictures!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We let the kids decorate it, then later mom goes back and "fixes" it :) shh... don't tell them.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Before Christmas - love it, I love a white Christmas but after the new year? dread it!

12. Can you ice skate? never tried before. My dream though is to ice skate at the rockefeller center in NYC!

13. Do you remember your favorite Christmas gift? Chloe, 2 years ago this Christmas :)

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Celebrating it for the right reason.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Fruitcake :) no seriously, I look forward to Aunt Patty's pumpkin roll and all the yummy chocolate stuff my mom bakes.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Watching "It's a Wonderful Life".

17. What tops your tree? A snowman shaped like a star.

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Well I have to say giving or I'll look like the grinch.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Mary did you know?!

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? I like the peppermint candy canes, yuck to the other flavored ones!