Get to know your friends: Christmas Edition

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends... Feel free to join in on the fun yourself!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?
Combination
2. Real or artificial tree?
Artificial
3. When do you put up the tree?
The weekend after Thanksgiving
4. When do you take the tree down?
Mid-January
5. Do you like eggnog?
I've honestly never tried it
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Nothing really stands out.... I got a lot of good stuff :-)
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Yes. Willow Tree. A wedding gift from my favorite aunt.
8. Hardest person to buy for?
Mom and Step-Dad
9. Easiest person to buy for?
The Boy (hard to stop buying for him)
10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
Nothing comes to mind
11. Mail or email Christmas cards?
Mail -this year, as with the year The Boy was born, it will be a Christmas card/birth announcement
12. Favorite Christmas Movie?
I love the Rankin & Bass specials. My favorite movie is probably Miracle on 34th St.
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
June-ish
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
Yes
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?
My mom's Chex mix
16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Clear
17. Favorite Christmas song?
I like Sleigh Ride, but these days it's whatever The Boy is singing cuz it's so darn cute
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?
Take turns to traveling to either my parents' or ILs.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer?
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen; Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen. But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all.... Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer...
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?
Angel... crocheted.... modeled after one a Great Aunt made for me years ago, but got damaged. I found the replacement at K-Mart of all places. (see above)
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
Christmas morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Crowded stores... which is why I shop online.
23. Do you decorate your tree in any specific theme or color?
No. I have a collection of ornaments that are reminiscent of certain parts of my life or to commemorate special occasions and those that I just like.
24. What do/did you leave for Santa?
We haven't left anything yet, but probably will this year since The Boy is starting to get it. Growing up, we used to leave peanuts and beer... Santa was apparently tired of milk and cookies by the time he got to our house.