Christmas Questions

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper for kids, gift bags for the grown ups. I actually prefer to do gift bags because they can be reused.

2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial, we reuse our tree again and again!

3. When do you put up the tree? Thanksgiving weekend (in time for Early Christmas with the Averys)

4. When do you take the tree down? After the 3rd Sunday after Christmas (as that is the ACTUAL end of Christmas)

5. Do you like eggnog? Not so much, icky.

6. Favorite gift received as a child? My barbie doll house, it could only have been improved on by being a wooden doll house.

7. Hardest person to buy for? My parents and in-laws -- what do you get people who can afford to buy whatever it is when they need/want it?

8. Easiest person to buy for? My kids -- they really lay it out there for me.

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yep -- Andrew gave me one and we have a bears one from my parents

10. Mail or E-mail Christmas cards? Both, in fact, I'm going to be emailing more this year -- so as not to waste paper, postage etc. If emailed recipients want one they can print it.

11. Worst Christmas gift ever received? Must have blocked out awfulness.

11a. Best Christmas gift ever received? Alex (13 days before), Andrew (5 days before Christmas out of his box), Ryan surviving his surgery, Sean off his O2 monitor (3 days before)

12. Favorite Christmas movie? A Christmas Story

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Around Nov.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yep.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Special breakfast and dinner -- nothing specific.

16. Lights on the tree? White and colored

18. Travel at Christmas or stay at home? Stay at home. They all come to us.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? There's Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen and Rudolph (do we count him)

20. Angel on the tree top or star? Star, but some glorious day, we'll find a perfect angel to top our man made tree

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning and at Early Christmas with the Averys

22. The most annoying thing about this time of year? Too many birthdays mixed in with the holiday fun (but secretly I really love it)

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Red and green and gold

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I leave that up to Mark.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? A new washer and dryer