Merry Christmas to all y’all, and all y’all’s. I’ll post some more later, when I have some time. Christmas Day was filled a bunch of people. Probably the most we’ve had around the house at any one time for Christmas. Anyway, I’ll post some more, including pix, later.

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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Do I have to choose? Nog is bad for you, so I really don’t drink it that much…but the Jim Beam version…I can’t… I mean…
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? My Santa did a bit of both. My family’s Santa wraps everything except some micellaneous items that end up in a stocking, only because it’s difficult to leave things laying around Santa’s Workshop without people getting into them, so they must be wrapped.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? I don’t like unnecessarily killing trees, so we have a really nice Faux-mas tree that has permanent lights installed – colored of course. On the house we usually do blue lights because nobody does blue lights, and then the trees/bushes get multicolored lights. Then there’s the large white snowflake lit in white. Then the projected snowflakes moving across the face of the house. Oh, and then we usually wrap the mailbox with a nice blue rope light.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Not officially, but somewhere we acquired a plastic mistletoe ball that we generally hang. Over the sink. For laughs.
5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually a week or so after Thanksgiving. But this year we really have done nothing. Just the moving snowflakes, a wreath or two and some stockings. This year we won’t be at home much, and time was really lacking. I’m really just bummed because the train won’t go up this year.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Pumpkin pie, of course!
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? Have I not mentioned before that I don’t remember anything? I mean, I probably wouldn’t remember if I told you… but I have seen some home movies where I was about 8 (or maybe 9, 10 or 11) and got some cool GI Joe stuff.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Don’t know. Probably snooping around the house.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yeah, at the grandparent’s house. I’d rather not though. As you get older, you get fewer – so save up and do ‘em all at once.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I am not allowed. I’m just kidding. You know Steph, ever the perfectionist and designer, so there are to be no “bare spots” lacking in ornaments. I also am a stickler for putting ornaments deep into the boughs of the tree so as to give a fuller appearance. Like BJ we have lots of ornaments, some keepsakes, others generic glass balls. The keepsakes generally go up on a display somewhere. I recall one year, maybe last year or the year before when Cooper and Stella decided to see if the shiny glass balls would be fun to destroy. We came home one evening and found all the glass balls from the lower parts of the tree had been removed and were quite decimated all across the living room floor. I think I even took a picture of it.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Snow = fun. Lots of it (both I mean).
12. Can you ice skate? Yes, twice. Does that count as “can” or merely “did”?
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I saw a home movie once where I received a Mickey Mouse plastic guitar and some weird moving dinosaur monster that walked. It was an ill-conceived dino as it had 8 legs, but it was fun.
14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you? Being with my family. As we live a bit further away than the rest of my sibs, and now that there are more of us to haul around, it’s difficult to get up there with regularity.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Pumpkin pie, of course. Who doesn’t like the creamed sweetened innards of a gourd? That and Mawmaw’s jell-o salad.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Setting up the G-scale train set. Although sadly we didn’t do it this year, even after adding 7 new cars (you did see that post, right?)
17. What tops your tree? Errr….well I think we have some silver star at the moment, but I’m always on the lookout for the “perfect” topper. Haven’t found it yet though.
18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving, hands down. I get stuff for me all the time, so it’s more fun to surprise people.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? O Holy Night…but I really love all Christmas Songs, especially the “classics”.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? I actually do not like traditional candy canes. I rather prefer the Old Fashioned Peppermint Sticks you get a places like Cracker Barrel.

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