November 30, 2008
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Tagged by Jess
(If you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged)
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper of course. I love the pile it makes.
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real. Nothing beats the smell and we have family traditions about getting the tree and putting it up that I couldn’t do without.
3. When do you put up the tree? December 20
4. When do you take the tree down? Epiphany
5. Do you like eggnog? No.
6. Favorite gift received as a child? A grown-up jewelry box that my grandmother gave me which I have since handed down to my daughter.
7. Hardest person to buy for? My husband. He absolutely refuses to take any gift from me and complains about spending any money on him.
8. Easiest person to buy for? My daughter. All you have to do is buy her music, either recorded or sheet music. She is thrilled with it.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, several. I have been collecting them for years.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Neither. We stopped sending cards since our oldest son was deployed and now use the money to give gifts to soldiers or to charity.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Can’t think of anything
12. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Carol any version. I have the whole story memorized.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Done already. I am usually done by the first Sunday of Advent.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Never.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? White Trash that my neighbor makes for us every year.
16. Lights on the tree? Yes, lots.
17. Favorite Christmas song? Carol of the Bells
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? I would love to be with my parents but they live too far away. We stay home and our children come to us.
19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Sure.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel.
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas Day. Christmas Eve is for going to Mass and for being together as a family.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? The comercialism. Remember what it is about. It doesn’t matter what you give or how much you give but why you give.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? No theme but a favorite ornament is a santa bell that was on our first tree and must be the first one on the tree each year.
24. Favorite for Chrismas dinner? Shrimp. We usually have snacks and finger food for Christmas day but we have to have shrimp on the menu.
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? As many of us as possible together. Watching my children together and how they react to each other and to what they give each other. Just listening to them talking and laughing together. That is heaven on earth for me.
Comments (4)
This was nice.
What exactly is White Trash?
@Bricker59 - White trash is like chex party mix only covered with white chocolate. It is evil. I cannot stop eating it until it is all gone. Our neighbor keeps telling me that she will give me the recipe but I won’t have it for fear that I will make it myself.
Beautiful!
@Bricker59 - Thank you for asking that. I was almost afraid to…
White trash isn’t evil! It is good.