Getting to Know You - Christmas version

[iwishiwasthere]

A Christmas getting to know you. Copy and paste to share your Christmas thoughts.


1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Sweet Potatoes

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Getting pierced earrings, which meant I could get my ears pierced.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Some blabby kid in second grade!

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, my extended family celebrates on Christmas Eve.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Lots of ornaments collected over the years....many handmade by my girls.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? LOVE IT!!!!

12. Can you ice skate? a little

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?My daughter's birth

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being with family and friends


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Coconut Cake

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? After all the visiting, coming home and relaxing with my immediate family on Christmas afternoon.


17. What tops your tree? An angel

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Both are nice, but I love giving a gift that surprises someone.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Carol of the Bells

20. Candy Canes? Sometimes

 

[Ocean Lover]

Good one IWIWS!


1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? white

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Stuffing!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? I have so many but I always loved opening my pj's on C/mas Eve.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My brother showed me all the presents wrapped in the closet!!!!


9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? See #7. I carried on this tradition

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Lots of ornaments collected over the years....many handmade by my kids and some that I made as a child too. We also have a "ballet" themed tree.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? LOVE IT!!!! ONCE!!!!!

12. Can you ice skate? nope

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? other than my kids...I've always loved getting clothes/perfume/purses..

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being with family and friends


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? MY MIL cookies and choc pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Playing games on Christmas night

17. What tops your tree? A star

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Probably giving!! But I love unwrapping too!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Oh Holy Night

20. Candy Canes? Love'em dipped in hot chocolate

 

[Allifunn]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate and Egg Nog...with liquor in both

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Used to set out in a chair for the kids...now wraps
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored lights!!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No
5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Dressing and ocean spray cranberry

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Looking at the Christmas tree lights on Christmas Eve..also anticipating Santa with my cousins

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What truth are you referring to? :shock:

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, always

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Lots of ornaments collected over the years....and lots of glitter

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it once a year..then I am over it

12. Can you ice skate? NO :roll:

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?All gifts are favorites

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? I know we should feel love towards our fellow man all through out the year...but at least all people feel it once a year...and that is the most we can ask for...I like the feeling of love towards our fellow travelers

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Mama's christmas cookies...decorated by friends and family

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Goose, riced potatoes and red cabbage

17. What tops your tree? Star

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? GIVING!!!!!!!.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Anything Johnny Mathis

20. Candy Canes? YUMMMMMMM

 

[John R]

A blank for use by all


1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

5. When do you put your decorations up?

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

12. Can you ice skate?

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?

17. What tops your tree?

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?

20. Candy Canes?

 

[Mermaid]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps, but not very well (recycled bows most years ;-) )

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? We have both so whatever we feel like when we're decorating is what goes up

4. Do you hang mistletoe? With two teens in the house? Noooooo way!

5. When do you put your decorations up? Anywhere between December 1 and 24th

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Sweet potato spoon bread...thank you Martha Stewart

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? The night the tree went up

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I have blocked the sad memory from my mind but I was older than 5, thankfully!

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? "A" gift??

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Our tree is a mongrel tree with good stuff, great stuff, junk stuff, old stuff, you name it, it's there.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? When it falls on Christmas Eve, it's pure magic. Otherwise....:roll:

12. Can you ice skate? I have failed every lesson I ever took but that doesn't stop me

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I'm bad. It's the bombs I remember more!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? The love and contentment I feel.


15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Please don't mail me yours, but I love fruitcake!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Midnight mass with my family


17. What tops your tree? A red-haired angel who's a dead ringer for Queen Elizabeth the I

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? The giving is the most funn, because I like figuring out what someone would like

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Daniel Pinkham's "Christmas Cantata"

20. Candy Canes? I like traditional ribbon candy better

 

[Jdarg]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? HC

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Both

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? both

4. Do you hang mistletoe? I would like to, but it is poisonous, and we have kids and animals

5. When do you put your decorations up? T-giving weekend

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? gravy

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? taking Christmas carrots and apples down to the barn for my horse and pony

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? age 9 or 10, found the presents

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? yes, a few

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I hang ornaments on it, after Bdarg has put on the lights because I don't have the patience for lights

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it if there is more than 6" and less than a foot. Guess I don't have top worry about snow this year!

12. Can you ice skate? yes, quite well

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? the saddle I always wanted, from Bdarg

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? my family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? duh, pumpkin pie- it goes with Christmas too

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? watching "Christmas Vacation"

17. What tops your tree? a red bird

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? depends on who I am exchanging with

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?

20. Candy Canes? yes, unless they have gone all sticky and gooey and are leaking out of the plastic

 

[Teresa]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg nog with the appropriate additional liquor

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa sits them under the tree for children (but wraps them for adults).

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored lights ? the big old fashioned ones.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? no, I don't know why I don't... hmmmmmmm...

5. When do you put your decorations up? two weeks before Christmas and not one day before.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Roast duck, sweet potatoes

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? hearing santa's sleigh bells on Christmas Eve at grandma's house. time to get home and in bed! hurry! Also, another funny memory is listening to cars drive up my driveway late christmas eve night, and my sis and I watching out the window as "stuff" was unloaded from various car trunks (cars owned by aunts, uncles, etc) there were four of us - and no room to store the big stuff.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My older girl cousin. But we never admitted that we knew the truth ? we were in severe denial until high school and beyond.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Growing up we celebrated Christmas with my grandparents and opened lots of gifts at their house. But, now we open gifts on Christmas day at our own home. (sometimes we?ll open gifts a week or so before Christmas if family comes into town)

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Lots of ornaments collected over the years, large color lights, german candles with hanging apples ? very eclectic! Don?t give me a themed department store tree or I?ll just die!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it, never get it.

12. Can you ice skate? No.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? They are all so wonderful ? no one gift was a favorite. I did like the Barbie dolls a lot though.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being with my immediate family on Christmas morning in our own home.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Homemade biscotti.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Going out in search for the biggest and most beautiful Christmas tree ever! A wonderful sowal tradition is seeing the incredible lights in DeFuniak Springs, also touring Eden Gardens. Watching Rudolph!

17. What tops your tree? An angel and a star.

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Giving a special gift to a loved one is by far the best.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Little Drummer Boy.

20. Candy Canes? No.

 

[Ocean Lover]

I just wanted to add another memory or two. There's a picture of my brother and I when we were about 2 & 4 years old. We had a little doggie pull toy in the bed between us. That was our "alarm clock" to wake us up when Santa came.

We always went to my grandparents on Christmas Eve and stayed pretty late. On the way home we would look for Santa and any red light we saw was Rudolph!

 

[John R]

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Color

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No

5. When do you put your decorations up? Barely

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Stuffing

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Helicopter Rides

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Can't Remember

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? If with Family

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Throw Ornaments at It

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Glad I don't have to deal with it currently

12. Can you ice skate? Badly

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? No

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Visiting Family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Mince Pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Sleeping Late

17. What tops your tree? Ceiling

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? Honestly Both

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? White Christmas

20. Candy Canes? No More

 

[audie]

god bless you john r !!!!