christmas traditions

so i didn't get to take any pics last night, cause i wanted everything to be all done and perfect. and of course we ran out of stuff. i guess its a fun thing though, cause we have a big house now and more room. but i'll post the pics when everythign is perfect. maybe tomorrow?
so until then i'm stealing a fun christmas question thing from muriel

1.Hot Chocolate or Egg Nog?
both. usually hot chocolate, cause its less fatting and egg nog i can only take so much of. and both of them i prefer spiked ; )
2.Does Santa wrap the presents or just set them under the tree?
wraps them.
3.Colored or white lights on the tree/house?
white only. on both
4.Do you hang mistletoe?
yay! yeah i do. i loooove kisses
5. When do you decorate?
usually right after thanksgiving, but i've been super slow this year.......
6.What is your favorite holiday dish?
i love all teh chocolate and desserts, but i always look forward to having eggs benidict for breakfast on christmas morning. not really a holiday meal, but its a tradition in our family. oh, and my friends mom bakes this brie cheese and cranberry thing every year at their xmas eve holiday party and its sooooooooooooo good!!!!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
pretty much all of them. goign downstairs to see if "santa came" and the one time we sent my youngest bro down- he was like 2, and he went down and said that santa hadn't come. turns out he was actually looking for santa and the huge pile of presents didn't clue him in that santa had come........ oh, and calling my grandpa (when he wasn' with us) and saying "tonights the night grandpa!" after we read "twas the night before christmas" on xmas eve. i could go on and on.....

8.How and when did you learn the truth about Santa?
i totally remember in 3rd grade sitting with friends at lunch and discussing how we knew santa wasn't real....... he had the same handwritting as mom, they used the same paper (though my santa never did). yeah, i was a gossip even then

9.Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
yep! one every year, and its always pajamas. i loooove it. we still get it, here's a pic of all of us last year in our "jammie-jams" as my bro coined them. even steve got a pair!


10.What kind of cookies do you set out for Santa on Christmas Eve?
sugar cookies that we all made and decorated on a plate that said some thing like: dear santa, we've been good this year! enjoy your cookies and milk. love kathryn, christopher and gregory, a glass of milk, and of couse carrots and water outside for the reindeer.….

11.Snow!  Love it or hate it?
love to visit it, would hate to live in it! last year i had my first white christmas since i was a baby. we were in iowa and it started snowing as we came out of midnight mass on christmas eve. perfect, just like in the movies!!!

12.Can you ice skate?
yep, but haven't done it in a while. that actually sounds really fun.

13.Do you remember your favorite gift?
i've had so many! i remember getting dolls and stuffed animals that i loved. and i got diamond earrigns from steve one year (diamonds ARE a girls best friend)…

14.What is the most important thing about the holidays for you?
i guess family and friends. and chocolate

15.What’s your favorite holiday dessert?
have you noticed the chocolate trend?

16.What’s your favorite holiday tradition?
getting pjs on xmas eve, eating eggs benedict, goign to midnight mass cause its always candlelit and sooo pretty, and i'm looking forward to starting traditions with steve! this year we started watching 'its a wonderful life' (such a good movie, can't belive i haven't seen it yet!) put a fire in the fireplace and drank hot chocolate w/baileys. defiently going to keep that one up. oh! and reading "twas the night before christmas"

17. real tree, or fake?
real baby. i dont' like fake anything.

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
depends on what i'm giving. there are times where i'm soooo excited about gifts i'mm giving. this year though i haven't had the time or money to do anything that special. shuckleberries…

19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
jingle bells, rudolf the red nose reindeer (i am a preschool teacher) and silent night- though i suck at singing that one!
20. Candy Canes, YUCK or YUM?
probably yum.

guess thats it. fun fun! i loved remembering all my traditions. defiently need to make a scrapbook of them all!!!!!! (i started by taking pics last christmas.........)
have a great thursday and hopefully i'll have house pics in the next post! : )