Christmas Survey
1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? hot chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? There is no Santa.
3. Colored or white lights on your tree or house? White lights on the tree
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No
5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Potatoes of any kind
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? Going shopping the night before Christmas downtown with mom and grandma. The streets were filled with greenery and red bows hanging from every light post. It was always snowing and the sounds of Christmas music was playing on the sidewalks as well as every store we entered. There was excitement in the air and you could almost taste it!
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I figured it out over the years and my parents continued to lie to me even when I knew better. Finally, I convinced them to tell me the truth. I'm still angry about being lied to all of those years. Santa is a sore spot with me, unfortunately.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yes, at Tim's grandma's house.
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? Growing up, my dad always convinced us to leave out some kind of healthy food for Santa. He said that's what Santa liked and he needed to keep his energy up because he had a long night ahead of him.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? I love snow when it's fresh and no one's walked across the yard yet. I don't like to go out in it or drive in it. I'm not a fan of cold weather.
12. Can you ice skate? No
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? My first year of having a boyfriend and my first year of having a husband (both the same man) ;)
14. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you? Being with my family. My favorite thing at Christmas time when we're all at my grandma's house, is when all 60 some of us pile into the kitchen before eating and say a pray together. We all hold hands (over, under, around and through) making sure to not leave anyone out. We all bow our heads and in that one moment, in that single act, we are all unified and talking to the One who made us. I have a wild family and not many of them are Christians by the way they live, but I so enjoy our prayer time together because it's the only time that I am very sure that they are thinking about what life is really all about.
15. What is your favorite Christmas dessert? I love my mom's apple pie.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Driving from house to house in order to see all the family we need to see in order to share our time together. We have 5 stops we make. I love it!
17. What tops your tree? An old Hallmark angel from Tim's childhood.
18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving? Definately giving. I really only enjoy it though, if the person is a thankful person. Someone who expects a gift and tells you exactly what they want and how much to spend, etc. really irritates me and the joy in giving is never there for me.
19. What is your favorite Christmas carol? O Holy Night.
20. Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum? Candy canes are good broken up in white chocolate!
21. When do you take down your tree? After New Year’s Day.
2 comments:
Ooo! Ooo! Me too:
1. Hot chocolate.
2. He sets 1 present under the tree, unwrapped.
3. Totally colored, but they are white this year (for the wife).
4. I'm married. I need no excuse.
5. Sometime around Thanksgiving, usually just a little after.
6. Ham, ham, and more ham. Oh, by the way, did I say ham?
7. Going up to Roger and Sue Frank's for New Years parties. They are wonderful people and we always enjoyed ourselves.
8. I never got to believe in Santa. I'm bummed about that. You should read my current post to understand this better: http://lifeoutsidethebathroom.blogspot.com/2006/12/heres-quarter.html
9. As kids we did, but not anymore.
10. I'm thinkin' he'll probably get my wife's famous chocolate chip or white chocolate macadamia nut cookies.
11. I love snow. Period. I wish my wife would get on board with my desire to move to Alaska.
12. I get shin-splints, so I quit.
13. The year I got the Super Nintendo, I couldn't have been happier. I ranks up there among my best holiday memories (there were few fond ones in my family).
14. Celebrating the Advent of the Lord! Add to that, not superimposing some sort of celebration of Easter on Christmas. We can focus on why He died then, it is just as important to remember why He came.
15. Cookies, cookies, cookies!
16. Going with my wife to look at Christmas lights.
17. Nothing this year, but usually a star (again, multi-colored).
18. I love the purity of giving in the spirit of God's gift to us.
19. O Night Divine (sung in more operatic fashion).
20. Yum!
21. The Feast of Epiphany, January 6, which is the traditional and official end to the Christmas season.
Cool! Thanks, Jared! That's so neat that we like the same song. I also prefer an operatic way of singing it. This is why I prefer listening to David Phelps sing it. When he hits that last note at the end of the song "..devine.." it's amazing. He is a contemporary Christian singer/song writer/musician and he was also trained in opera. So, it's always exciting to hear something in christian music that you don't hear from anyone else---opera sounds. The fans just sit back and wait for those notes to appear in a song as he builds to a climax. His version of O Holy Night is the best and finest I've ever heard!
Thanks, for leaving your answers to the survey!
Jennifer
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