So, as I've mentioned before, I'm short on creative ideas and time right now, so I'm going to try something different today. I'm asking for your participation. (Yes, that means YOU!) I would like to get your answers to the following Christmas-themed questions:
1. What was your favorite Christmas (holiday) tradition as a child?
2. What is your favorite Christmas song?
3. Which food makes Christmas, well, Christmas for you?
4. White lights or multi-colored on your tree? on your house?
5. Classy Christmas decorations or Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation style?
6. Do you send Christmas cards every year?
7. What is the worst Christmas you ever had?
8. What's your favorite Christmas memory?
9. If Santa visits (or visited) your house, were the presents that he left under the tree wrapped, unwrapped or a combo of both? (If you answer no other question, please answer this one...it's a source of bitter debate for Andrew and I.)
10. What is the one gift you always wanted, but never got?
I'll provide my answers later so as not to influence anyone....Have fun!
5 comments:
1. Mom read to our family the great children's book "A Certain Small Shepherd" for family devotions. Have you read it?
2. Currently - All is Well (the Point of Grace version - NOT the boys choir that sounds like all girls)
3. Mom's homemade chocolates
4. WHITE on the trees - I haven't ventured into the outdoor electrical decorating yet.
5.CLASSY all the way.
6. Yes and I make them too.
7. I can't think of a worst. Guess that's good!
8. When the "dream guy" of my life called me up on Christmas night and stopped by to see me for a while. (rather pathetic, isn't it?)
9. Wrapped. And yes, my parents did the Santa thing.
10. One from a husband. :)
1. Slice of Jesus' Birthday Cake and milk left for Santa.
2.Welcome to our world.
3.Chex Mix
4. colored
5. Classy
6. No
7. 2002
8. My older brother waking me up and sending me to wake up my parents.
9. big ones unwrapped, little ones wrapped
10. Santa always came through for me. Mostly.
1. Milk & cookies by the front door (we didn't have a chimney).
2. O Holy Night
3. Cream wafer cookies
4. Multi-colored all the way
5. Classy
6. Not anymore
7. I gave birth to my daughter on Christmas Day (that's not the "worst" part), but the hospital did all of its cute Christmas stuff for the babies who went home on Christmas (put them in oversized red stockings), and they didn't do anything for the ones who were born on Christmas. I was hurt.
8. Watching how excited my daughter got when she was about 3, because "Santa came, and he drank the milk, and he ate the cookies!!!" It was so cute.
9. Santa definitely wrapped the presents. When my kids were Santa-aged, I used one special roll of wrapping paper for the presents that came from Santa. And of course, my son checked one year to see if the wrapping was the same between Mom & Dad's gifts and Santa's gifts. Whew!
10. The three of us kids asked every year for Getaway Chase Game, a 1920's style "race" car set with a bad-guy car and a cop car. It looked so cool, even though we knew we'd get bored in a heartbeat. We never got it, and I think the not getting it is what kept its allure for so long.
1.Decorating cookies with my brother listening to the Elvis Christmas album.
2."Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me" by Elvis
3.Raspberry kolachky cookies made by my Mom
4.As a child it was the big multicolored. In my home, my real living room tree has red and green. The fake family room tree has the small multicolored.
5. Living room tree has a classy style. The family room tree has the "Chevy Chase" style.
6. I send out only 6 cards each year.
7. My brother was in the hospital for a long time. All I wanted was for him to come home. He didn't come home until 2 weeks later on my birthday, which I share with the "king," Elvis, January 8th.
8. Going to Christmas Eve mass and seeing Christopher as an altar boy. He looked like an angel in his white robe.
9. A combo. As a child no gifts under the tree until Christmas Eve morning. 1 or 2 so my brother and I could open 1 before we went to bed to wait for Santa to bring the rest.
10. I never really wanted anything specific, so nothing.
Okay, so here are my much-anticipated-I'm-sure, answers.
1. My favorite Christmas tradition as a child was going to the candle-light Christmas Eve service at my church with my family. There was something magical and beautiful about the candlelight, the hot wax dripping on my fingers, burning only for a moment, to be peeled off when the service was over. I loved the Christmas carols and the reading of the Christmas story.
2. My favorite Christmas song? Well, that's a tough one because music is a passion of mine. Out of the Christmas carols, I like "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear". But of the more "secular" songs, I love "Sleigh Ride".
3. My favorite Christmas food is a tough one too (who made up these questions anyway?) I'd have to say that I always looked forward to my mom's special Christmas batch of something called "Crabbies". (I grew up on the East Coast.) They were mostly cheese, garlic, butter and crabmeat all melted and toasted on half an English muffin. VERY yummy!
4. White lights on the tree and the house. I like the ornaments to be the focus on the tree, not the lights. On the house...that's up for debate, but I prefer white.
5. I'm all for classy decorations. Maybe because I have to be in order to balance out Andrew's desire to out-do Chevy Chase.
6. Since I've been married, I've made an effort to send out Christmas cards to family and a few friends that I actually do try to stay in touch with on a regular basis.
7. My worst Christmas was probably last year. We went to visit my family in Delaware, so it began with a 14-hour drive with two tired parents, 2 angry cats (one of which always gets carsick), (1) one-year old and a van packed full of all our stuff. On Christmas Eve, after eating the huge meal with my family, Andrew promptly began puking his guts out, which he then passed on to me. By Christmas day, Andrew, Mom, Dad and I had all been puking all day. I can still remember thinking that I preferred labor to that experience. How Emily didn't catch it, I'll never know, but I'm thankful. All I know is that we all felt like crud for about 3 days during and after and it took 3-4 days just to get all of our presents opened because frankly, no one cared!
8. My favorite Christmas memory was definitely the year I found out I was pregnant with Emily. I was due to take the pregnancy test on Christmas morning, but after more than a year of disappointments, I just couldn't do that to myself, so I took it 2 days early and found out I was pregnant. That was the only thing I really wanted for Christmas anyway, and since we didn't tell anyone right away, it was a special little secret.
9. Santa wrapped our toys, unless it was something really big like a bike. Come on...half the fun as a kid is unwrapping the gift!
10. When I was a kid, I always had male cousins and I so wanted one of those cool-at-the-time race car sets where you could set up the tracks and race the cars around and up through loops...but I never got one. Still, I think I turned out okay.
Thanks for all the comments...they were fun to read.
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