1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate with a bit of peppermint syrup or stirred with a candy cane (so you know the answer to the last one now!)
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa does not wrap presents at our house. Too much confusion if the paper is recognized. Santa leaves his presents next to, under or near the stockings.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored now, though we've done just white before too.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No
5. When do you put your decorations up?
Too busy on Thanksgiving weekend with all the family around. First weekend afterwards usually.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert.)
I don't have a real favorite. All the food served at any family gathering is about the same and they evoke many happy holidays.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Again, I don't recall any one Christmas sticking out above the rest. All were happy family times though.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don't remember exactly either, but I do remember having to keep the secret for my sister (she's 6 years younger than me).
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
We do. It is always PJs too. My family didn't do this when I was a kid. It's something we started when the kids were born so they'd have clean, new jammies on for Christmas pictures
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
We have a lot of Disney ornaments, which makes the tree colorful. We get the kids each an ornament every year too, that they pick out, so there's a few non-Disney on there. We did do color themed trees for a few years too, but with kids, they like to see their stuff on it too. We'll have lots of years to have it our way later on. I do a separate tree in the daycare as well that is all kid-decorated. Paper chains, handmade ornaments, etc. But I send the ornaments home each year and only keep the "sample" for me to keep. So it starts out pretty bare when it goes up, but we fill it up by Christmas.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Ask me this again in July.
Seriously though, I think snow is pretty, looks wonderful when it's snowing softly and the trees are all decked out. I could watch it for hours if I had the time to, it's rather soothing. If only we could eliminate it from the roads. I hate hate hate driving the big daycare (15 passenger) van in it to do school runs.
12. Can you ice skate?
I took lessons as a kid and went now and again when I was in elementary school. Haven't been on ice skates in probably 20+ years. Does that count?
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I remember getting a Merlin handheld game one year and playing that for hours. I remember getting a globe one year, not so much a favorite, but it was fun to look at (how geeky is that?). I even got a DustBuster my first year of college and was thrilled!
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Seeing the kids find the same joy in the holiday season as we did. With so much being so different from when I was a kid, it's nice to see that my kids still enjoy the season and hopefully will have lots of happy memories from it.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
All those Christmas Cookies!
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Putting the tree up as a family and, yes, it's fake
17. What tops your tree?
An animated Santa Mickey with a lantern
18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving?
Giving, knowing when you find something that is the perfect gift. I like getting them too though
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
White Christmas, I'll be home for Christmas, Silent Night, stuff from the classic tv specials.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum, see question 1