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Deck The Halls Meme

Swiped from Baby Tunnel Exodus (I even took the photo because I didn't know if it went with it or not-- sorry Whitney if I nicked your picture)

Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Yes please.

Does Santa wrap presents or set them under the tree? Sets them under the tree sometime around groggy-thirty am.

Colored lights on tree or white? white on the years I win.

When do you put your decorations up? While the turkey is roasting and the pies are cooling. Thanksgiving Day in our house opens the gates for Mom's Christmas music too.

What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? You're supposed to eat something other than dessert? Just the good-for-you stuff? Isn't worry-free eating why we have Thanksgiving?

Favorite Holiday memory as a child: I'm not sure it's my favourite, but it's the most vivid. I was about 8 or 9 and just got a new bike. I rode out in the neighborhood to find some kids to ride with. No one was out (might have been a big board game year). A teenager that was normally not very nice to me, played with me all day.

When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? What truth?

Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, and somehow try to manage a reading of the Nativity in the excitement.


How do you decorate your Christmas tree? With ornaments, silly. Oh, you mean traditions? It's mostly me doing it when the kids are preoccupied. It's terrible, I know, but they're boys and they don't really care.

Snow! Love it or Dread it? Yes. Certainly hope for the white stuff at Christmas time, but like Whitney before me, if it comes anytime after Valentine's Day I'm not so thrilled.

Can you ice skate? Like a pro. Ok, maybe not exactly like a pro, but I can get from one side to the other without killing anyone.

Do you remember your favorite gift? Yes, even my old brain can hang on to last year...

What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family

What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Uh... I like the concoctions with jello pudding and cream cheese and whipped cream on a graham cracker crust. Don't know if it's a favorite. I LOVE peppermint ice cream, but don't see that happening here.

What is your favorite tradition? Driving around to look at Christmas lights with the Christmas music blaring. In Flagstaff we'd drive through a live nativity with carolers. In NM, we drove through the area called the "blue light district" where an entire neighborhood decorated in blue lights and we'd all drive with our lights off to gawk in wonder at their walks lined with luminarios (sp?). We'd then visit the wonderful "Santa on Juniper Street" (a neighborhood guy that would sit in a chair --spotlighted, waiting for excited children to approach him for a candy cane and last wish before going to bed).

Which do you prefer, Giving or Receiving? Giving. Absolutely the biggest high.

What is your favorite Christmas Song? Away in a Manger. When it's sung slowly and contemplatively, it makes me cry. Usually the by the time I reach the part...

...I love Thee, Lord Jesus
Look down from the sky
And stay by my side...

...my eyes are seriously leaking.

Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum? I loved them until they started showing up stuck to furniture. They're fantastic on brownies frosted with peppermint & chocolate frosting.

Ever recycled a Christmas present? Um, not saying.

Don't Be A Scrooge! Tag 7 friends to Deck the Halls...
Snooty of course.
Chris, Feel free to post as yourself or under your secret alternate identity: Sharon.
Kathryn, you don't do memes but you do Christmas and you have additional reasons to really enjoy this season, so are you in?
DO I have seven friends?
Footy Mum (she'll have no idea what I'm asking her to do-- we speak a different language)
Gingela5 because I'm sure she'll be able to incorporate Lexi and Sadie in a way that makes me smile.
Straight to your Heart needs to share what she and her gorgeous family do to Deck the Halls.
Chantal, maybe you fit a marathon in during Christmas?

Who Hoot! I found seven people (who may or may not ever talk to me again). Feel free to steal this from me if you weren't tagged. I did.