Christmas Edition of Getting to Know You

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your blogging friends. Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Copy this blog post and then post it on your blog with the changes in answers so that they apply to you......Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? a little of both, but I don't wrap very good

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? used to be the day after Thanksgiving, now it happens whenever I get a whim

4. When do you take the tree down? The day after Christmas or at least before New Year's

5. Do you like eggnog? no

6. Favorite gift received as a child? Easy Bake Oven

7. Hardest person to buy for? everybody, I don't like to shop

8. Easiest person to buy for? Eddie, he gives me hints all year long

9. Do you have a nativity scene? yes Mother's Home Interiors set and a white nativity that Mother bought years ago which has a few broken pieces that we glued back together

10.Do you send cards or email cards? both, but only if I feel like it

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? a pair of socks from one of my SIL's

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? It's a Wonderful Life

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? usually as early as possible, but I haven't even started this year

14. Ever recycled a Christmas present? no not really for years I have been getting a lot of snowmen from family and friends and since I collect snowmen I would never get rid of them

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Momma's old fashioned fudge and divinity, but if I ate that now I might end up in the Emergency Room

16. Lights on the tree? Yes – blinking white lights

17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh Holy Night by Celine Dion

8. Travel at Christmas or stay home? go look at Christmas lights on Christmas eve and stay at home on Christmas Day

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning, but always let Shannon open one on Christmas eve, but it was always a new pair of Christmas pajamas

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Scrooge's (Bah Humbug) people

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Snowmen, but then I have a set of ceramic ornaments that Momma painted that I will always treasure.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Momma always had to have ham and potato salad for Christmas. Turkey was for Thanksgiving

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? a piercing meat tenderizer (Jakarta) and the new Dean Koontz book.

26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Tracy, Kelly, and Blarney

27. Who is least likely to respond to this? Shelly