Fun Christmas Questions! Carried over from Main board

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?  Nope   5. When do you put up your decorations? First weekend after Thanksgiving   6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  GreenBean Casserole! 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Waiting for my family to wake up and I use to walk the hallway whistling.   8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My evil step-sister at 9   9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Sometimes.   10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Blue Spruce with all white lights, clear crystal angel on top, and crystal ornaments with red/ maroon bows. 11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? Love it!  
12. Can you ice skate? Nope- but daughter plays hockey and I want to learn   13.Do you remember your favorite gift? A portrait collage of pictures of all the people who have meant to the most to me in my life who are gone.   14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? That it means sharing and remembering Jesus. That it doesn't mean spend yourself broke to buy things for everyone.   15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? use to be a chocolate pie my Grandmother made   16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? It's the one time I seem to be able to get my family together at the same table for breakfast!   17. What tops your tree?  Crystal Angel   18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving   19. What is your favorite Christmas song? I want A Hippopatomus for Christmas! 20. Candy Canes? not to fond of.   21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? OVERLY SO!!!!!!  22.  Favorite Christmas movie? The old clay-mation Rudolf shows that Burl Ives would narrate or Bing Crosby.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?  Hot Chocolate   2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Oh he definitely wraps them!   3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White! They're just so beautiful.   4. Do you hang mistletoe?  Oh yeah, pucker up!!   5. When do you put up your decorations? Totally varies.  This year, probably this weekend   6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  My DH's grandma's traditional Christmas Eve dinner.  I have no idea how to spell this:  Featsgrod & Grophins.  (Cabbage wraps & sweet rolls with raisins.) 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Oh my Gosh, there are so many.  I'm really struggling choosing just one.  I guess my families tradition of the Christmas tree.  It was always a big trip to the tree farm (about an hour away).  We'd take cookies and hot cocoa.  Of course we had to walk the whole acreage to choose just the right one.  The next night we would prepare a feast of all of our favorite appetizers, put on the Christmas tunes and have our decorating party.  You almost felt high with the Spirit of Christmas, and it was always such a family togetherness time.  Hmmm, I can smell the tree just thinking about it.     8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What truth?  What are you talking about?   9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Just one.  Santa always brought one gift while we were at church on Christmas Eve...PJ's.  It was great, because then we all we wearing our new PJs for Christmas morning pictures!      10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? A real tree with white lights and a myriad of ornaments collected over our lifetimes. 11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? Love it!  It totally makes the holiday!  So glad I'll be in Wisconsin this year!  
12. Can you ice skate? I used to.  It's been hard as I got older and bigger.   I can't wait to try again!     13.Do you remember your favorite gift? I don't think I could narrow it down.   14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Remember the reason for the season...Jesus.  Celebrate with family.     15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Oaks chocolate meltaways.  (hometown candy makers)  I'll miss them this year.   16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Driving around looking at lights after Christmas dinner.     17. What tops your tree?  A star   18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving.  Frankly, I wish we would all stop exchanging gifts and just share time with each other!   19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Angels we Have Heard on High 20. Candy Canes? Yum!  Again, with the Oaks homemade candy canes.   21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized?  Stores were decorating in October...I think there's no question about it.  Refer to #18.  22.  Favorite Christmas movie? Holiday Inn

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?  Egg Nog   2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps   3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Colored   4. Do you hang mistletoe?  Yes!   5. When do you put up your decorations? First weekend In December   6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  Breakfast Casserole and Monkey Bread 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Blowing out the candles my mother had lit after our family went home on Christmas eve.   8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My friends when I was around 9.   9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes.   10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? A hodgepodge of decorations made and bought.  No tinsel though, the cat eats it. 11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? Love it!  
12. Can you ice skate? Badly.   13.Do you remember your favorite gift? My Barbie dreamhouse.   14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Remembering Jesus' birth.   15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Red Velvet Cake.   16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Breakfast on Christmas morning and Christmas ever service at church.   17. What tops your tree?  A Star.   18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving   19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night 20. Candy Canes? Love them.   21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? Yes. 22.  Favorite Christmas movie? Charlie Brown Christmas.

1. Eggnog or Hot Chocolate?   Egg Nog 2. Does Santa wrap presents or sit them under the tree? Wrap 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white. White 4. Do you hange mistletoe? Yes 5. When do you put up decorations? This weekend 6. Favorite holiday dish? Turkey (Can't wait for turkey sandwiches) 7. Favorite  Holiday memory as child? Waking up Christmas Day 8. When and how did you learn truth about santa?  Don't remember 9. Do you open a gift Christmas Eve? No 10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? White lights,          Red & Barton Silver  Crosses,  Margaret Ferlong-Angles 11. Snow-Love it or Dread it? Love it, if I don't have to go out. 12. Can you Ice skate. Yes,  Have done it since I was a tot. 13. Do you remember your favorie gift? My memories of my father. 14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?  Friends and Family. 15.What is your Favorite Holiday desert? Pecan Pie and Pumpkin 16.What is your favorite Holiday tradition? Going to church Christmas Eve. 17. What tops your tree?  Angel 18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving 19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?  Holy Night 20.Candy Canes? No 21. Do you feel Christmas is to commercialized? Yes 22. Favorite Christmas story?  Christmas Story/ Shoot your eye out!                                                         National Lampoons-Griswalts

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?  Hot Chocolate   2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Sits them around our living room around the tree.   3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? BOTH!   4. Do you hang mistletoe?  No   5. When do you put up your decorations? First weekend after Thanksgiving   6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  Potato Soup 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Sneaking back and forth between my room and my sister's room trying to see if Santa Claus had already brought our toys.  We used to wake up around 2am.     8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't even remember to be honest.  My mom still did Santa Claus when I was 24..  LOL  she did it until I got married and moved out.   9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? At my In-Laws.   10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Oh man.. it is a hodge podge of special ornaments made by my kids and given to me by friends.  We have white lights and colored faceted lights for the girls.  I have a white dove and a glass bell that are in memory of my Dad and Uncle Carroll.  My 7 year old and 2 year old decorated the tree this year, so you can imagine it is not perfect.  :) 11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? HATE IT!! 12. Can you ice skate? No and I don't care to learn.   13.Do you remember your favorite gift? My engagement ring from my husband.   14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Celebrating the real reason for Christmas and spending time with my family and friends. 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Used to my my MIL"s pecan pie   16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? We always eat breakfast on Christmas morning at my aunt and uncle's house.  The whole family is there and we just have a blast!   17. What tops your tree?  A lighted star   18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving   19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Mary Did You Know? 20. Candy Canes? I can take them or leave them.  This year I am leaving them alone.   21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? DUH.. YEAH!! 22.  Favorite Christmas movie?  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and How the Grinch Stole Christmas

What fun! I grew in an interfaith household and my husband and I also have an interfaith household, so we celebrate both Christmas and Chanuka ... You will see that my answers reflect the combination of traditions.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?  Hot Chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps most, but leaves the "big" gift unwrapped.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White!
4. Do you hang mistletoe?  No
5. When do you put up your decorations? First weekend after Thanksgiving
6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  Do I have to choose one? I absolutely love pumpkin pie! But I also have to say that Latkes, Noodle Kugle and Blintzes are a once a year event that say Chanuka to me.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  Making blintzes 
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? At about age 6 or 7 my parents finally confessed.
 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? No
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We used to have two trees; one for this living room with beautiful glass ornaments, snow flakes, icicles and birds, draped with iredescent pearl garland and topped with a porcelain angel. In the family room we had one filled with homemade ornaments, apples, gingerbread families and topped with a papier mache Santa. This year we have one tree in the living room with all of that stuff. You can hardly see the tree.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? I'm from CA, so it's a real novelty and I have to say that I love it! Whenever it snows, my daughter and I take a snow walk.
12. Can you ice skate? Nope ... I'm afraid I spend most of my time on one set of cheeks or the other ... LOL
 13.Do you remember your favorite gift? When I was sixteen I just loved Neal Diamond. My dad bought me every single album he had ever done up to that time. I still have them. 
14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? It's a time to see and be with those that mean the most to me. This year is hard, because it will be the first that I won't spend with my adult sons and my husband's family who live in CA.  
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Pumpkin Pie and Blintzes ... I'm re-inventing them so that I can still enjoy without blowing it. 
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? It's the one time I seem to be able to get my family together at the same table for breakfast!
 17. What tops your tree?  The papier mache Santa my husband got for me on our first Christmas we were married. We saw it at a holiday speciality store and I just loved it, but we were too strapped to get it. He collected and returned soda cans and bottles for months, saving the proceeds and surprised me with it on our first Christmas. His thoughtfulness always warms my heart as I unwrap Santa and place him up on the top of tree.
 18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving
19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Joy to the World

20. Candy Canes? I can do without them 
21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? OVERLY SO!!!!!! 
22.  Favorite Christmas movie? Miracle on 34th Street

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While Chanuka is probably the best known Jewish Holiday to people who are not Jewi**** is actually a "minor" Jewish holiday that is about religious freedom and miracles. It's one of my favorite holidays and in many ways really connects me to my patriotism as well as my religion.

When I was a child, I was often the only Jewish child in my grade, so my parents were always asked to come in and do a demonstration of the Menorah, playing dredel and making latkes. When my children where in elementary school, I took over the torch and did the same for my children.

I collect Menorah's and Dredel's

We use a different Menorah each night.

We use different types of candles ... some blue, some white, some colored

Each night we get and give a small gifts.

We used to have something fried in oil each night to remember the miracle of the oil burning for 8 nights. Now I have to admit that we try to oven roast things instead but, I still brush them with a bit of olive oil :-)

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No

5. When do you put up your decorations? Usually the day after Thanksgiving but we are going to Cancun on Wednesday so we are going to wait till we get back.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Does Candy count?? LOLOL
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Trying to stay awake listening for Santa and then getting up and seeing the note Santa wrote with the eaten cookies and milk... santas handwritting sure did look like my dads!! LOL

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I saw all the presents my mom didnt hide very well age 9.

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

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? The entire tree is done in Disney ornaments I have collected forever with garland, colored lights and a fiber optic Tinkerbell on the top.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? I love it but it never snows here.

12. Can you ice skate? YES and I love it!!

13.Do you remember your favorite gift? A new car

14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family even though they are 3000 miles away in California.. we miss being with them.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? We used to make roll out sugar cookies and decorate them.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Watching Christmas Vacation LOL

17. What tops your tree? Fiber Optic Tinkerbell

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt (the orginal from 1954)

20. Candy Canes? Yucky

21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? YES

22. Favorite Christmas movie? Its a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St, A Christmas story, Christmas Vacation

1.  Egg nog or hot chocolate?     Egg nog 2.  Does Santa wrap presents or sit them under the tree?   Presents from Santa are unwrapped just sitting under the tree ~ presents from Mom and Dad are wrapped 3.  Colored lights on tree/house or white?  Colored outside but white on the tree 4.  Do you hang mistletoe?  No but my new sweetie says we should have ~ he will look for any reason available to steal a kiss!!  (Notice I'm not complaining!!!) 5.  When do you put up your decorations?  Thanksgiving weekend 6.  What is your favorite holiday dish?  My Mom's homemade dressing 7.  Favorite holiday memory as a child?   Taking a nap on Christmas Eve afternoon in anticipation of going to my aunt and uncle's house that evening.  When we would return home, Santa would have been there and left our BIG gift and our stockings filled!!!!  I always wondered how Santa knew we weren't home and later found out that Mom and Dad had a neighbor come over after we left to set everything up.  As a kid, it was totally magical. 8.  When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?  What truth?????  :-) 9.  Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?  Usually open them all but since I have a new family this year, we may start new traditions.  Who knows!!!! 10.  How do you decorate your Christmas tree?  Usually go with a different color scheme every year ~ this year it's silver and blue with white lights, blue, silver, white and clear balls, and silver bows. 11.  Snow ~  love it or dread it?   Absolutely, positively, without a doubt HATE, HATE, HATE IT!!!!!  And if someone would please remind me why I moved back to the mountains of Virginia where it snows all winter long, I would appreciate it!!  What in the heck was I thinking??? 12.  Can you ice skate?    Only on my butt ~ it's not a pretty sight!!!!! 13.  Do you remember your favorite gift?  Baby Alive doll when I was 8 or 9!!!!   14.  What's the most important thing about the holidays to you?  Celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  And spending time with my family. 15.  What is your favorite holiday dessert?  Cheesecake with cherry topping ~ I'm working on a low fat, sugar free version for this year. 16.  What is your favorite holiday tradition?  When it was just me, my Mom and my son, we would fill stockings for each other using items that didn't cost more than $1.00 each.  We had a ball trying to find fun, unique gift items every year.  it's a tradition that I plan on continuing with my new family. 17.  What tops your tree?    This year it's a big silver bow!!!  Very pretty!! 18.  Which do you prefer ~ giving or receiving?  I love to give but on the other hand, I love to receive too!! 19.  What is your favorite Christmas song?  The Christmas Shoes (makes me cry everytime I hear it!!) 20.  Candy canes?  Love them as long as they aren't peppermint flavored!!  The Jelly Belly flavored ones are to die for!! 21.  Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized?   Sadly, yes. 22.  Favorite Christmas movie?   I'm not a big movie fan so I really don't have one.  Sorry!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Nog 2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Sets them Under the tree 3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White 4. Do you hang mistletoe?  Sometimes 5. When do you put up your decorations? Around the 10th 6. What is your favorite holiday dish?  prime rib (it's a family thing) 7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?  When my Dad hired a santa to come to our house on Christmas eve. 8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?  What truth? 9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?  Yep 10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Usually in a color theme, last year it was silver/white  11. Snow! Love it or Dread ? Love it   12. Can you ice skate? Not any more 13.Do you remember your favorite gift? I really don't remember 14.What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family and giving! 15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cheese Cake 16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?  Having family together on Chrtmas eve 17. What tops your tree? Usually a big bow 18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? I love giving of course receiving is also a lot of fun too. 19. What is your favorite Christmas song? O'Holy Night 20. Candy Canes? I buy them every year 21. Do you feel Christmas is too commercialized? I sure do! 22.  Favorite Christmas movie? Rudolph the red nosed reindeer