Mostly because the answers are still the same, and I really liked them.
1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Golden Gurnsey Eggnog is first, Hot Chocolate has a bit too much sugar, Peppermint Coffee is third.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? wraps them of course.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Every so often we go duo tone, but an old-fashioned mulit-color is my choice.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? nope
5. When do you put your decorations up? Sometime after Thanksgiving, and before Christmas Eve.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? TURKEY DINNER! after that it would be appetizers
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: My Christmas rainbow. Little strips of light, all different colors, some blinking, some not, shining up between my curtain and the window onto the ceiling. Watching that to fall asleep could let me get past all of the stress of the holidays.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? Who knows.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? nope
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? Multi colored lights, and a conglomeration of favorite ornaments, made for or by the kids, handed down, gifted and purchased over the years. Strands of tinsel and an angel on top.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it! Walking in the softly falling stuff, making soup as it blizzards, waking up to the sight of the blanket of snow that covers all the imperfections.
12. Can you ice skate? Used to, but I haven’t been on skates in lifetimes.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? The cassette recorder I got at 12. It gave me music on my terms.
14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Giving, music, entertainiment.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Cookies…I have so many favorites we have to pick the top ones each year. If I made them all, we would have waaaaaaay too many cookies
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Bundling into the car to look at lights. Christmas music, mandatory. Sitting back on Christmas day evening after everything is cleaned up and looking at the house lights in the quiet.
