Hope over at Oil City Station tagged me with the following meme. I must admit, with it nearing 90 degrees today, it's hard to imagine that Christmas is only a few months away.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Which ever I find in my cup.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Santa is far too busy for wrapping, so he lays them out neatly for me, just after he fills my stocking.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, it would smack Cynical in the head each time he walked through the door.
5. When do you put up your decorations? We do a real tree, so typically it's not until early December, then we spend the rest of the month sweeping up needles and pouring water all over the presents underneath the tree.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Green bean casserole.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? I think the year I got a Big Wheel with a little trunk on it. Inside the trunk were Hershey bars.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I suppose I was around 9. I had my suspicions that he was imaginary, but I was trying to hold onto the myth. Then my mom, in her usual fashion, cleared it up in one statement. The two of us were shopping and she started picking out stocking stuffers for my brothers. I remember saying, "What about Santa?" and she said, "Oh, Ragged, there is no Santa." That ended that.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? My dad absolutely forbids any opening until Christmas morning. So we torment him the entire night pretending to let each other open gifts.
10. What kind of decorations are on your Christmas Tree? I hate to use an over-used word: but ecclectic comes to mind. It's fairly traditional in reality. Some are handmade, some are of the Hallmark variety, but most are sparkly glass balls; the vintage type with bursts in the center are my favorite and when Target came out with reissued ones, I bought them all up.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread? I do so love it, Cynical adores it.
12. Can you ice skate? I can, not well, but I can.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? It's a toss up between my dollhouse when I was eight and a collection of Laura Ingalls Wilder books from Cynical when we first started dating.
14. What's the most important thing about the holidays for you? Getting together with friends. It's often the only time we see each toher.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Butter cookies!
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? On Christmas Eve Cynical and I arise and pretend it's Christmas Day. During the night we have each laid out the other's gifts and filled the stockings. We rush downstairs as if Santa has come, open our gifts and dump our stockings. Afterward we eat Chinese food and sing "Deck the Halls" in much the same was as it is sung in "A Christmas Story". Oh, and I so love stockings. I love tiny little gifts.
17. What tops your tree? A bow that I made.
18. What is your favourite holiday book? Christmas in Plains: Memories by Jimmy Carter
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Song for a Winter's Night or O Holy Night.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yummy? Mmmmmmmm, especially in my coffee.
I tag Madretz!
2 comments:
LOL! So, i was reading all your awesome answers and I was thinking "ou, i hope she says 'i tag anyone who wants to play' cuz I wanna play!" so you musta known that this would be something I'd wanna do, clever you!! :)
A big wheel with a trunk full of hershey bars?? I'll bet you were the envy of the block!
I love Christmas and I loved reading about all the wonders of your Christmas. I have a long speech to do in 2 weeks and I decided to do it on Christmas Shopping. It's never too early to discuss the holidays.
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