1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
5. When do you put your decorations up?
6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
9. How did you feel?
10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
13. Can you ice skate?
14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
18. What tops your tree?
19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Hot Chocolate - w/ peppermint schmops. :)

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?

wrap'em up!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?

White lights - on all.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?

nope

5. When do you put your decorations up?

Yup.

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?

Don't really have one. I just like food!

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?

When me & my sister got into a fight - she threw a pillow at me - I ducked out of the way - and she hit the wiseman in the nativity scene mom set up. Cut the head right off that guy! :)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

Not sure. Obviously it wasn't a big deal to me. :)

9. How did you feel?

As long as I got presents - who cares who paid for them?

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?

W/ one side of the family. At home - nope. X-mas mornin' baby!

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?

Whatever we got!

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

LOVE IT!!!!

13. Can you ice skate?

Yup - it was our first date!

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?

Nope.

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?

Watching my kids excitment.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?

Pie - whatever kind....just pie.

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?

Going to my in-laws house for pizza on the 23rd. I can stand these in-laws...well...after they've had a few drinks. :)

18. What tops your tree?

Angel

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?

Giving

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?

Any of them as long as they stop!!! I really don't like x-mas music.

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?

Yum!!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate - I don't like egg nog

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I wrap the presents.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored flashing lights. We don't have any outside lights.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
This year it was the day after Thanksgiving. Usually they're up by Dec 1st.

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
I like all of it.

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
Going to Germany for Christmas to visit my dad who was living there for a year as part of his degree.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Don't remember.

9. How did you feel?
Don't remember.

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
None, we don't do Santa.

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Depends LOL

13. Can you ice skate?
Yes, well at least I can stay on my feet and go around the rink but none of that fancy stuff :)

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I've had lots!

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
Celebrating the birth of Jesus.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
Christmas pudding or mince pies. I don't think you have them here in the US.

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
When I was a kid every year we would go to the caroling service. We would go to church and they had the whole church lit with candles and we sung a bunch of carols and then had hot mince pies afterward.

18. What tops your tree?
An angel.

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
Giving.

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
I love all of them.

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?
Yum! I love mint!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate with a candy cane in it. Egg Nog is one of those things, like Cadbury Cream Eggs, that I try every year thinking I like and I NEVER do.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Both!

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, but I oughta.

5. When do you put your decorations up? Still haven't. I'm such a smoe.

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)? Ham.

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child? I had a Christmas that I spent with a widow and a woman who recently left her adulterous husband and the woman's young daughter. I guess I was about 5 or 6. I just remember feeling like we were 4 women that only had each other in all the world. It was a very special Christmas.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I never believed in Santa that I remember. People are shocked by this. In fact, I remember playing along so that my father wouldn't be disappointed to know I didn't believe in Santa.

9. How did you feel? Honestly? Old. I was 5 and I felt like I was taking care of my dad's feelings.

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Nope. I wait till morning.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? None at our house. But someday, probably the chocolate chip from the secret family recipie.

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love the snow. Less keen on the cold.

13. Can you ice skate? Yes, but not too well.

14. Do you remember your favorite gift? A doll cradle.

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you? Realizing it's about WHO you have in your life, not what you have.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert? Bread pudding!

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? Singing Christmas carols.

18. What tops your tree? A tiny angel.

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Giving.

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol? O come, O come, Emmanuel.

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum? Yum - but peppermint only, please!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Egg Nog
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wraps them up!
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White on tree, none on house
4. Do you hang mistletoe? nope
5. When do you put your decorations up? usually weekend after Thanksgiving
6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)? Onion cheese casserole (my grandmother's recipe)
7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child? my grandfather reading the Christmas story out of the family Bible before we all opened presents
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't remember
9. How did you feel? don't remeber that, either...guess it didn't affect me too much! lol
10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? yep...we do Christmas Eve with my parents
11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? some kind of Christmas cookie, whatever Andie picks out
12. Snow! Love it or Dread it? I'd fall over in shock if it snowed here! so I guess, dread it...
13. Can you ice skate? not very well...
14. Do you remember your favorite gift? my grandmother gave me her string of pearls that my grandfather gave her a long time ago
15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you? the spirituality, using the opportunity to bring the real meaning of the season to others
16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert? sugar cookies
17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? baking cookies with Andie
18. What tops your tree? angel
19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? giving but receiving is fun, too!
20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol? Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels Sing
21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum? yuk

Hot Chocolate - w/peppermint schnapps!

He just sits them under the tree -- 'course my folks wrap presents and put his name on them...

Tree only (haven't worked up the time to mow my lawn, much less decorate it!) Colored. Out of four strings, three work.

Usually do, but not this year. Mistletoe was on every tree in Corpus Christi. Haven't seen it here.

Don't laugh! This year my wife made me get them down on November 1!

JOHN MADDEN'S 18-LEGGED TURKEY!
Seriously, I love meat. And turkey is fantastic - especially deep-fried!

Next-door neighbors in Kentucky ringing sleighbells and yelling "hohoho!"

I honestly don't know.

I honestly don't know.

Not unless it's a Christmas Eve Party where it's the norm.

Sugar cookies and a Crown over ice.

I wish we had some! Last year we had snow on Christmas Eve/Day and it stuck! First white Christmas in recorded history in Houston. People's attitudes changed! Now, if that happened every year, I think it would become old-hat. But last year was memorable!

Yeah, forward only. But they don't rent 12-wide skates.

My favorite gift actually arrived on December 21, 1994. I kissed the lady that would later become my wife.

Christ.

Our preacher taught about Bethlehem and it's accepting nature. His sermon for Christmas was on Ruth and Boaz. Bethlehem accepted Moabite Ruth. Bethlehem accepted Christ. We should also accept outsiders.

My mother-in-law's pecan pie!

Caroling. I'm thinking about starting a new one this year. I'll stand in the cul-de-sac and sing while holding a candle... or a flashlight...

It was just a spire. But when Nichole turned two, she threw such a fit that there should be a star, so we impaled a star ornament we had on the spire...

Giving. One year finances were quite thin at our house (not that they're thick this year, but it's better!), and I had one package to open. I loved watching my daughters' eyes light up when they opened their gifts. If I don't receive anything, I'm just happy I could give my family something.

The oldest one. O Come, O Come Emmanuel. Scholars believe it to be about 1200 years old. It's roots are in prophecy. It addresses every one of Israel's issues before the Messiah, and shows how Christ answered each of those issues.

Not to mention that it's just plain beautiful.

Yum! Especially dipped in coffee!

Man, just the name sounds good! :drool:

Will you share the recipe, or do we all have to come to Florida and git it from you the old-fashioned way? :P

It would be more fun if y'all came down here to try it....but here's the "recipe" for what it's worth. Now remember, my grandmother is 95 years young so she just wrote it down from memory....nothing really "specific"...

Cheesy Onion Casserole

Sweet onions, chunked (amount depends on how much you're making, I use 1 large onion per person; I use Vidalia onions)
Butter
Cheddar cheese, shredded
1 can cheddar cheese soup
breadcrumbs
pepper

Preheat oven to 350 F. Saute onions in butter until soft. Season with pepper if desired. Add the can of cheese soup to the onions in the pan, stir until mixed. Add more shredded cheese if it's not cheesy enough for ya. Mix in breadcrumbs until the consistency you like. Dump into casserole dish, sprinkle more breadcrumbs on top. Stick in oven, cook until warm & bubbly....about 1/2 hour or so.
:drool:

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
He spends a great deal of time wrapping them!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Nope. I just steal kisses as I wish. If you're in my house, expect to be kissed!

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Day after Thanksgiving

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
Don't have one. We have no true Christmas dinner traditions!

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
The impact of Christmas morning. I can still remember walking into the living room and seeing all the presents (family of 7, so there were a lot). It was awesome.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My older brother Mark brought me out to the garage and showed me where all the toys were hidden. The truth came out on Christmas morning when all those same toys were under the tree, labeled - From Santa

9. How did you feel?
Like I could have punched my brother in the head.

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yes, because my husband is such a kid that he can't stand the suspense.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
Whatever we happen to have made!

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it...until about the end of January then I'm done with it.

13. Can you ice skate?
Yes I can.

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Not my favorite, but most memorable...a car. My dad and mom gave me a Dodge Omni (hatchback!) my senior year in high school.

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
Being with my husband and children. The world can go away, so long as we've got some time alone, together.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
My Aunt Lou's Spritz cookies

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
Waking up before the kids and waiting for them in the living room. I love that.

18. What tops your tree?
For the first time, Santa.

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
Giving. I love buying the perfect gift.

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
Don't have one.

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?
Yuck

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Both! But if I have to choose, hot chocolate.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa doesn't come to our house. We're too old :P

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? Around a crowd of college students? NO.

5. When do you put your decorations up? I'm going to try to do it tomorrow.

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)? The veggie tray.

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My parents told me Santa was real, but I was suspicious...even when I was five, I hated to be told something I wasn't sure was true. Finally my mom told me the truth.

9. How did you feel? Annoyed that they told me an untrue story in the first place. What's the point of that?

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

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? Haven't done that in years, but used to be chocolate chip.

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it, in moderation.

13. Can you ice skate? Badly.

14. Do you remember your favorite gift? It's tied with my copy of "Pilgrim's Progress" that I got when I was nine, and the winter boots I got when I was ten (I still wear them).

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you? Time with family and friends.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert? Baked apples, how my mother-in-law makes them (ouch! hurts to admit that).

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?

18. What tops your tree?

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Giving.

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol? "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Come O Come Emmanuel," "The Christmas Rose"... I can't pick :D I love Christmas carols.

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum? YUM.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
- Hot Chocolate please.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
- He sits them under the tree.... I guess.

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
- White

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
- Nope... not that I'm opposed to it. We just don't have any.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
- 1st week in December

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
- Turkey... with sweet potato

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
- There was a year when my uncles would arrive at my house with bags and bags of gifts for me. Long gone are those days.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
- Never believed in him

9. How did you feel?
- N/A

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
- No

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
- The invisible kind

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
- Dread it

13. Can you ice skate?
- No

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
- Remote control car

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
- Knowing that my wife and daughter are happy

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
- Cherry Cheesecake

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
- That things I mentioned once with the reindeer antlers and the Santa Claus hat

18. What tops your tree?
- A star

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
- Giving

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
- O Holy Night

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?
- Yum!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Coco

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Both

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I try not to. I hate "Christmas"

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
Lasagna

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
Sledding Christams eve after if fianlly snowed for the first time that year.....

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
5 years old. Sisters used to use me as a divining rod for presents found a really cool superhero car set, didn't get ti for christmas eve found it in stocking.

9. How did you feel?
It was no big deal.

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
We open all of them from my side of the family.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
none

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Eh Tolerable if it weren't so flaming bright.....

13. Can you ice skate?
No but I can fall really really well.... I'm stable on ice until you make my chubby butt try to balance on two thin metal strips.

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
My favorite gift has nothing to do with Christmas... But she married me four days after Christmas.

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
trying to be a better person to my fellow man.

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
Cheesecake or Pineapple upside down cake...

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
don't have one

18. What tops your tree?
Nothing.... still have to buy an Angel

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
Giving

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
White Chritmas or Silver bells really can't decide....

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?
Fruity Flovored ones Yum, mint YUCK!!!!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
I love eggnog....lowfat and virgin...(like my women...did I really say that?)

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wrap...kids love to unwrap...

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored...both house and tree....dad only see's electric bill and it causes more holiday frustration for him but oh well...

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
no

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Whenever wifey gets to it....I would probably NOT if I wore the pants in the family.
bah-humbug

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)?
??? I like ALL food

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
Wakin' up to PRESENTS

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
THERE'S NO SANTA ? ? ? ?
You're joking right?

9. How did you feel?
:unsure:

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Used to as a kid...it was fun...not sure if we'll do it or not...again, up to boss.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
Never did it...

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
The day of the snow is GREAT...the next few muddy days suck.

13. Can you ice skate?
Yes...pretty good for a dude.

14. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Electric Train

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you?
Right now? Paying it off

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert?
Pie

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition?
hmmm....we're starting some now with our kids...our advent calender is really cool as it tells Jesus'es birth

18. What tops your tree?
Fiber Optic Star

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
Definetly recieving as a kid...now giving...wish I could afford to give more.

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
Silent Night....Rockin' around the Christmas Tree....Little Drummer Boy

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum?
Yum.....ever try pepermint ice cream from Baskin Robbins? Double Yum.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? - Neither. Don't like chocolate. Gross with egg nog. How about hot decaf green tea?

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Santa who?

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? this year, we have 3 small trees on the dining table - white lights

4. Do you hang mistletoe? No...but, if you are standing under mistletoe and your breath is worthy, I might kiss you if you're a guy

5. When do you put your decorations up? we hardly put up decorations because it really makes our cluttered house more cluttered...just the trees, a wreath and Christmas cards...usually around Thanksgiving or after

6. What’s Your favorite Christmas dish (excluding dessert)? I don't have one...but I like tamales...don't eat these hardly because of the grain in Maza and the lard -- too much saturated fat

7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child? I don't remember. Sad, eh?

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Probably 3 yrs old

9. How did you feel? I'm fine with the truth about Santa....I like what Christmas is really about

10. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? No....we open them usually after the new year or sometime after Christmas. We like to devote the day to blessing other people with visitation, gift giving, etc.

11. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him? Santa who?

12. Snow! Love it or Dread it? What's snow?

13. Can you ice skate? I have at a rink a couple times in college

14. Do you remember your favorite gift? Yes. A few years ago, our first Christmas as a married couple, Henry bought me rose roots. He said he wanted us to plant them together and watch them grow over the years with me. That was such a sweet present.

15. What's the most important thing about Christmas for you? Time with family, blessing other people, PEOPLE

16. What is your favorite Christmas Dessert? I don't have one

17. What is your favorite Christmas tradition? Visiting the nursing home we started visiting when Hannalee was just a few months old. We've been visiting this particular one on a regular basis throughout the year.

18. What tops your tree? We have 3 trees. An angel on one and tree cups on the other 2.

19. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving? Giving

20. What is your favorite Christmas Carol? God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and O Little Town of Bethlehem

21. Candy Canes! Yuck or yum? Yuck...all that refined sugar, color additives!!!