1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? If I have a lot of time I love to wrap gifts! When I was little I always got to wrap gifts for my grandmother every year. I always wanted to wrap my own presents!
2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial is so much easier! When we bought real trees we always had “discussions” about which tree was “perfect” (I always felt sorry for the lonely trees that no one wanted).
3. When do you put up the tree? I always want to put up the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving but we do not always have time.
4. When do you take the tree down? Usually pretty quickly after Christmas as we are ready to return to a “normal” state of a crazy house!
5. Favorite gift received as a child? It is hard to pick just one! I was a huge fan of my slide when I was really little! I also got a pair of roller skates one year as well as a huge Barbie mansion also which I loved!!!

6. Do you have a nativity scene? Yep! I have quite a few! They are probably some of my favorite things to put out at Christmas! I have many memories of always setting up the nativity scene at my grandmothers house. Charis loves to go around and look at baby Jesus!
7. Hardest person to buy for? The men in the family!!! No question!
8. Easiest person to buy for? Me!!! (Wrong I know, but oh so true!)
9. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? There are bad Christmas gifts?
10. Mail or Email Christmas cards? MAIL!!! Everyone needs a little snail mail! Plus it makes your mailbox cheery!
11. Favorite Christmas Movie? Decisions…Love Little Women but it is not specifically Christmas it just feels like Christmas! I love the Rudolf movies as well as the little claymation Little Drummer Boy!
12. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Oh my, whenever the wind blows the right direction…sometimes months before sometimes weeks before!
13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas gift? Not so much recycled but gave friends and family their choice of the goodies that we could not use. We don’t keep things at our house that we don’t use…this ends up biting us for those White Elephant parties!
14. Favorite things to eat at Christmas? When I was little my grandmother made wonderful Carmel Pies. Now my favorite is probably mashed potatoes.
15. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Clear although there is something about the colored lights that makes you feel like a little child!
16. Favorite Christmas song? Star of Wonder or Silent Night
17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? We stay home because all of our family is here (except for a few). I always think that traveling would be so much fun though!
18. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Dasher, Dancer Prancer, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolf (of course)…just Googled it and it seems that I left off poor Vixen and good ole’ Rudolf isn’t really included (at least according to Wikipedia)!

19. Angel on the top of the tree or star? Star! I love our star! It is way to small for our tree but it is made from a ruined quilt so it seems extra special to go with our eclectic tree.
20. Open presents Christmas Eve or morning? Whenever they will let me open the presents I open them! We actually do both as we celebrate with my family Christmas Eve, our family Christmas morning and Brad’s family Christmas day.
21. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Feeling stressed about accomplishing everything that I want to and loosing site of Christ birth!
22. What is the “silliest” family tradition that you do, or miss doing? I miss putting out cookies for Santa!
23. Ugliest Christmas decoration ever invented? It isn’t the ugliest but it is “special”…we have a Christmas duck that quacks Christmas songs and he isn’t really a normal looking duck as he is made out of green garland looking stuff. He is well loved at our house! I think he is pretty funny! We have had to preform surgery on him to hot glue some of his garland back on and he really doesn’t quack like he use to either. Oh, I forgot that his wings flap as well. (Went to take a picture of him and found that he is MIA…hmmm)
24. Which looks best, theme trees or homey trees? I like some peoples theme trees but I really like our homey tree as this year we are getting to share many memories of our ornaments with Charis and it just fits us.
25. Gingerbread or sugar cookies? SUGAR!
26. Do you like Fruitcake? Ya know, I have never had it because so many people told me that they did not like it. I am pretty sure that by this point I will never try it as well. Sad, I know!
27. Do you like Eggnog? Nope, although I am not sure if I have ever had this either but it just doesn’t seem right.
28. Open gifts carefully or rip? I am a total ripper although I do try to start out opening it gently then I give up half way through.

29. Which is your favorite ornament? Brad received an ornament that says, “JOY” the Christmas before I was born. That has become one of my favorites. Silly, I know but I think that it is pretty neat-o!
30. Best Christmas gift that you have received? Christ! – For unto us is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord Luke 2:11