Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Neither, I prefer coquito.

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
I like both. I think color lights are more festive though.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
First weekend in December.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Sweet potato casserole.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Gathering the grass and water for Los Tres Reyes Magos and their camels. Waking up to find a trail of grass throughout the house and on the roof, since that's how they left!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I think I was 8. My cousin told me. My big sister cried when she found out I knew.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Not in my house, buy DH's family does. I think there's nothing better than waking up at like 5am on Christmas morning to open presents.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
No rhyme or reason, just whatever I like.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it.

12. Can you ice skate?
Of course!! Wollman Rink every winter since I was 10 baby!!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
I had a "Theo" from the Cosby Show doll that I LOVED!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Spending time with family.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Tembleque or coconut flan.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
It got lost "in the move" but parrandas pretty much rocked my childhood.

17. What tops your tree?
It varies. A star, an angel...it must light up though.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
GIVING!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Noche de Paz

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Message edited 11/25/2006 11:46:51 AM.

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Colored on the tree, clear outside

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
1st weekend of December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
my family is italian and we eat all seafood on Christmas Eve - my favorite would be the lobster!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Waking up to see all the presents under the tree!

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
We get together with my moms family for Christmas eve everyyear and exchange presents with them on christmas eve. The presents from my paretns was always on christmas morning

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
we both have ornaments from our childhood and we bought new all red ones to make the tree more uniform

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
dread it on work days - hate driving in the snow and shovelling out

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes - I love ice skating!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
When I was about 5 years old I got a play kitchen and got so excited that I fainted when I saw it!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family and seeing everyone happy

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
christmas eve with my moms family

17. What tops your tree?
a star/snowklake thing

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving especially to my mom. I usually buy myself whatever I want throughout the year, so there is no gift I am anxiously awaiting at christmas time.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"Blue Christmas" - Elvis
"Step into Christmas" - EltonJohn
"Last Christmas" - Wham

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa never wrapped presents for the kids, but presents from "real people" to "real people" were always wrapped. That's how we told the difference!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
My parents always did colored for both...I want white lights on my OWN tree.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
nope, never did, even as a kid

5. When do you put your decorations up?
the first available weekend after Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Christmas dinner is always Prime Rib with bearnaisse sauce

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Fake santas on Christmas eve!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I caught my parents mid-setup.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Rich and I have always exchanged on Christmas Eve - we always exchange with our extended families on Christmas eve (including Christmas PJs from Grandma!)...parents and siblings exchange Christmas morning.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
no theme/scheme of any kind...only important ornaments that mean something to us!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I love it!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, but I don't like it. Who wants to circle a rink for hours?

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Hah- I was 18. My pocket knife with tweezers and scissors...I keep it in my bag and I use that thing everyday!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Everyone being together and happy, because you just CAN'T be sad on CHRISTMAS!!!

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
sugar cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Decorating the tree

17. What tops your tree?
An antique topper that was my Dad's grandmother's.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
both! I love picking out things that I know people will love, but I love the thought that someone puts into me, too!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
O Holy Night. Not sung by some pop artist - but a full choir. ooo it gives me goosebumps

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
I only like the peppermint!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Colored ALL THE WAY (it ain't christmas without color)

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
About the first week in Dec

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Mashed Potatoe

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
ALL OF THEM

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My NEIGHBOR"S DAD (he thought i knew already)

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Now we open some on the Eve since that is when i see my inlaws..
But as a child...ALL ON CHRISTMAS DAY
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Multicolor lights with various ornaments that we collect each year

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Usually Dread it

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
No

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Having fun with family and friends

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
cheesecake

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
debating at the dinner table LOL

17. What tops your tree?
An angel that looks like she is giving the finger to everyone...LOVE IT

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
BOTH

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Feed the World

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Like the way they look but won't eat them unless they are the cherry flavored

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Spiked Egg Nog!!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
He definitely wraps them!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
White lights!

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
This is my first year...didn't think of that. Currently don't have any.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Decorations start today, the tree is next week.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Don't have just one. I love all the fish on Christmas eve..and all the meat after midnight. yum yum.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Being with my family, opening gifts, food food food!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My next door neighbor told me when I was 11...I was mortified!

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Yes...We open gifts from the family and each other Christmas eve. But we also open Christmas morning, those are the gifts santa brought of course! lol

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
All White lights, and all gold balls, gold ornaments, gold poinsettias, and some red embelishments.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it!! I love a white christmas!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, but not well. FH on the other hand was a hockey player, he can just dance on ice!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
I loved all my gifts! always loved a new doll or barbie though.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with the ones I love. I don't care about the presidents, just the warmth of my family and the fattening food!

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Struffoli(not holiday necesarilly) Fruit torts

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Haning with the family.

17. What tops your tree?
Have not purchased that yet.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
I looove to give. The feeling it gives me is gift for me, enough!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Greensleeves

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yumm-o.

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

I must say I am really enjoying all of the responses!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
CLEAR!

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
NOPE

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually the weekend after THanksgivng, but now with the baby, who knows if we'll have time to do it at all. :(

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
I actually do not have one.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Santa coming to visit the house on Christmas Eve!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Well, I kind of figured it out on my own when I was 6. I was in the car with my mom, and it was June, now even close to Christmas. And it just dawned on me that it wasn't possible for him to be real. I said, "Mom, listen to me, I know about Santa." And she started to cry. Then I proceeded to ask about the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy. I told her I'd forget by the time Christmas came.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
I open gifts at my grandmother's on Christmas Eve, then we usually go home to my parents' house and open all our gifts so we can sleep in. Now that we have a baby, we'll go back to opening the Christmas morning.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
I don't really know, it's a mish mosh of thiings. Pretty, though.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
A little of both. If I can get a snow day at work, I love it!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
A solid silver flute when I was 12.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
BY FAR MY FAMILY!

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Zapoles. Freshly made.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Santa coming on Christmas Eve!

17. What tops your tree?
A Bow.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Sleigh Ride

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Uh, yum, duh!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I'm Jewish - no tree

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
No lights - but if I celebrated Christmas - would be clear
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
n/a

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Menorah goes up a few days before Chanukah

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Potato Latkes and applesauce

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Getting presents, singing along with the Chanukah records, Nana taking us to look at Christmas lights

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
If a night of Chanukah is on Christmas Eve, well then yes, I'm opening presents on Christmas Eve! Otherwise, we open on Christmas Day with DH's family.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
N/A

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Both -dread driving in it - love walking in it with DH and the dog up to the beach

12. Can you ice skate?
Yep - took lessons

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Lite Brite :)

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with the ones I love. !

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Hmmm - don't know - never really met a dessert I dont like

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
As a kid, sitting in the living room after we lit the Menorah with the lights off and our eyes closed. Our parents would bring in the presents!

17. What tops your tree?
n/a
18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Both!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
I like a lot of them!

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wrapped or at least in gift bags

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually the day after Thanksgiving but this year it was earlier due to a shortage problem.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
There is something in life besides desserts?????...LOL.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Coming downstairs at 4 or 5 am (my poor parents) and seeing all of the presents Santa left me under the tres

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Second grade:( A young Jewish boy in my class ruined it for me... Darn you David G...GRRRRR.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Usually one. My brother always had to open his when he was a teenager so he could find an outfit to wear to go to mass... insert rolling eyes icon.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
White lights
beaded garland (silver)
colored glass balls and
eclectic ornanments... DH has a drum, guitar, etc.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Mostly, hate it. Hate to shovel, hate to drive in it.

12. Can you ice skate?
I can but not well.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
I just remember my brother and I begging my father for a VCR in 1983...LOL... It was still a bit on the expensive side back then. We snooped before Christmas and found it wrapped in his closet.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
spending quality time with family and being grateful for the year past and hopeful for the upcoming year.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
I don't discriminate when it comes to dessert... bascially, anything chocolate or homemade apple pie.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Just relaxing with family and friends.

17. What tops your tree?
Used to be an angel but as DH is Jewish, no more angels or nativity, so we have a star.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Silent Night- religious
Do They Know It's Christmas?

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Message edited 11/25/2006 1:17:30 PM.

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate!!!!!!!! YUMMY!!!!!!!!!

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
clear on tree, colored on window

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
The first or second weekend in December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Shrimp Scampi!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Waking up Christmas morning with my brothers and sister.

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
When we were kids we would each open one on Christmas Eve....now we do Christmas morning.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
SInce we've been married we've gottn each other an ornament each year (plus people have gotten some for us), we each get the baby an ornament (plus lots that other people have gotten him). Whenever we go away we get an ornament from the place we've been...and then a few other random ones. It's great to look at the tree each year and have memories of most of the ornaments.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
A little bit of both!

12. Can you ice skate?
Used to be able to but haven't been in years....

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
A red pocketbook

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family!

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Chocolate chip cookie pie with ice cream!!!!!!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas Eve with my cousins

17. What tops your tree?
A star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (reminds me of my Nanny b/c she used to laugh whenever she heard it:)

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
YUM! I love them in my hot chocolate

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yup

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

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Sweet potato's

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Decorating the tree every year as a family.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I was 13, and my friends keeped telling me that there was no such thing as Santa, and I went home and asked my mom, and she told me, I was so upset.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Yes, with my IL's. We dont see them Christmas day.


10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
We have a candy cane theme, looks really nice!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love the first snow fall, but after that it looks so dirty.

12. Can you ice skate?
Nope

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
A fur coat.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Warm apple pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Putting up the tree and decorations Thanksgiving morning.

17. What tops your tree?
A star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Always giving, I love to watch the expressions on my family's faces when they open there gifts.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
All I want for christmas, Mariah Carrie

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually around the second weekend in December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
I like to have thanksgiving all over again so Turkey/stuffing

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Going shopping for the tree with my dad and brother

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My brothers took me into our basement and showed me where all the presents were being stored and when I got those presents from "Santa" I realized he didn't really exist

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
The only presents I would open on Christmas Eve as a child were the ones from my dads parents since we spent Christmas Eve with them

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
We go shopping for a real tree then while it falls we get out all the christmas decorations, decorate our picture window while listening to christmas music and enjoying some cocktails

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it!!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes although not very well

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Probably the year I got my own little tv for my room

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
My moms christmas cake

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Sitting in the dark living room with DH with just the christmas lights on the tree on

17. What tops your tree?
A star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Both!!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
I dont know the name of it just the words where the girl runs into the guy and they are both buying cranberry sauce

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually right after Thanksgiving or the first weekend in December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Can't pick just one

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Sleeping under my bed so that I could sneak out in the middle of the night to see what Santa brought. The ideas was to catch him but I always fell asleep.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
In elementary school my friend told me. I pretended for another year and then my dad asked if I believed...I told the truth.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
We would only open our Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve...all the other gifts were Christmas morning.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
I had an ivory satin bow made for the top of the tree with four long tails that trail down the sides. I like to have a mix of ornaments and clear lights.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love being at home cuddled up to watch it come down and how it makes everything look beautiful - even my old block in Queens. I hate when I am at work and ahve to commute in it.

12. Can you ice skate?
Nope

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
My Cabbage Patch Doll

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Cheesecake with eith apple or cherry topping

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Decorating the tree with DH and having a Christmas movie play in the background.

17. What tops your tree?
A large satin ribbon bow with 4 tails.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Love giving. I put a lot of thoughts into my gifts...including wrapping.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
I'm Dreaming of White Christmas

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum - especially when I stir them in my hot chocolate

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Hopefully tomorrow.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Mom's Steak

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Waiting anxiously for Christmas Morning

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
No

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Snowmen, Precious Moments, and the balls

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it,.Hate driving in it.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, but its been a while.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Cabbage Patch Dolls and a flute.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Family and Friends

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Chocolate Chip Cookies..I never get enough!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas Eve with my family, coming home, try to get into church, then relaxing with DH.

17. What tops your tree?
An Angel

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
I LOVE giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"All I want For Christmas"..Mariah Carey

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yummmm

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream!

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear!

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I'd like to do it RIGHT NOW, but DH wants to wait til we get back from vacation, which will be mid-December.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
I love the puffed potato appetizers my mom makes.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Going to church at midnight, decorating the tree, coloring our life-size coloring book of the night before Christmas.

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Last year we did, but then we got sad on Christmas when we had nothing to open!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Lights first, then tinsel, then ornaments.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it.

12. Can you ice skate?
I can...I skated professionally when I was really little...Like 6-10.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
My cat.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Gifts. J/K! The family...Usually...

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Anything involving chocolate or cheesecake.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Advent calendars.

17. What tops your tree?
A star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
both heehee

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
All I want for Christmas (is you)

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Wraps them unless it is a doll or bike

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
yup!

5. When do you put your decorations up?
usually between the 10th and 14th

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
mashed potatoes or my aunt's sweet & sour meatballs

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
christmas eve at my aunt's...still do it, with 13+ grandkids now, it is getting crowded!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
no clue!

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
we did one ( from Santa) on christmas eve at my aunts....DH usually an't wait and wants to do gifts after we get home from my aunts too.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
colored lights, and ornaments I have from when I was little as well as a dozen or so new ones I get each year

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
if I can be inside watching with noplace to go...love it.

12. Can you ice skate?
a bit

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
the Xanadu soundtrack and a cassette tape player to go with it.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
christmas cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
talking about the ornaments as I hang them...though if DH hears about the one I made in 3rd grade one more time, I may get hung on the tree!

17. What tops your tree?
a star....looking for a new one though.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
grown up christmas list-amy grant
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
not my thing really, but they look cute on the tree

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Both

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Used to when my parents were alive.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Again used to decorate the day after thanksgiving.....now it's the 2nd or 3rd weekend in Dec.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
All the fish on Christmas Eve

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Opening gifts.....on Christmas morning

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
Discovered that Santa's handwriting and Mommy's were the same

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
One gift Christmas Eve.....usually pretty PJ's......the rest in the morning

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Unique Orn...White Lights....Ribbons

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12. Can you ice skate?
NO

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
NO

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Cannoli

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Mine was spending NY Eve with my Nana

17. What tops your tree?
An Angel

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving...especially when it's something I know they want.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
White Chriastmas....and Dominic the Donkey

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
YUM

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Never

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Colored on the tree.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes, It was my parents

5. When do you put your decorations up?
1st week of Dec

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
hmmmmmmmmm. not sure?

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Hard to decide. Maybe the year we all got bikes.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
TRUTH?? ( I sitll believe! =))
I remember being crushed when a teacher told us he didn't exist in school. It broke my heart.

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Never

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Usually cursing my husband who refuses to get off his arse & help me

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
I love the light stuff

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, though I haven't in years.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Either my Raggedy Ann doll or when my parents got me my 1st claddagh ring

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with family & friends

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Sherry Trifle

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
cuddling on the couch w/ husband & kids talking about our day

17. What tops your tree?
A beautiful angel that I just love

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
I love giving. Especially, when its some that I know they are going to love!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Do They Know It's Christmas

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
yum

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Not normally....but we have a weird Aunt who sometimes used to bring to Grandmas for Christmas Eve Dinner

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I've only had my basment apartment to decorate...so usually I start putting things out about 3 weeks before, the tree gets done about 2 weeks before.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Corn Pudding Casserole! (though Mom is good enought o make it a few other times during the year!!!)

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
As a young child it would be Christmas Eve at Grandma & Pops house!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I REALLY do not remember...kinda weird! Guess it wasn't traumatic for me!!

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Yes.....since it is always at Grandmas, my siblings & I exchange & we get our gifts from Grandma that night too!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
This will be our 13thyear having a tree together! The first 8 were always a small fake tree in DH room with all the same decorations! Mostly ornaments with mice...we seemed to like those most!
Now going on our 5th married Christmas....our live tree has been different each year....all goofy one year, red, white & blue another, colored lights & colored glass balls another....no rhyme or reason, whatever I have been in the mood for!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it on my days off!!!
Hate it days I have to work....directing funerals in the snow is NO fun!


12. Can you ice skate?
Yes ....poorly....but I can do it!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
My Cabbage Patch Kid!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with my family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Pecan pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas Eve dinner at Grandmas house

We did this for years when I was a little girl...then when Pop died, he was buried on Christmas Eve....and for almost 9 years, we did not do our traditional family celebration....it was too hard for Grandma.
When I was a senior in High School...I sort of brought it up to Grandma how I used to love it.....and we started doing it again!!


17. What tops your tree?
A star that DH & bought for our first little tree 13 years ago when we only dating for about a year!!

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Truthfully? BOTH!!!

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
and it MUST be the Brenda Lee version!!!


20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
The Hershey Candy Canes...YUM!!!!

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot chocolate.

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Colored outside, clear on tree.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No.

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Whenever my DH gets around to it.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Mom's stuffing!!!!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Driving around town with my family looking at all of the houses while Christmas music played on the radio.

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
No. Santa doesn't come until we're asleep!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Verrrrrrrrry slowly.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it!

12. Can you ice skate?
Haven't done it in YEARS!!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
No, but I'm sure it was a hand-me-down.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
The presents, of course! ;)

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Anything chocolatey.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Don't have one.

17. What tops your tree?
A star.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
If this question is referring to gifts, then I prefer giving.

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Is ewwww a choice?

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
I just did that for the first time today!

5. When do you put your decorations up?
We started today

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
We're spanish, so I love pasteles (a plaintain based dish), rice with gandules (peas), and pernil (Pork)

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
The christmas when my parents got me the Barbie Mall...I thought Santa was out in the living room all night building it (thanks, dad) and I was afraid to move all night long.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don't remember, I think I just figured it out)

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
Both. My family celebrates on Christmas Eve, and DH's family on Christmas Day, so we open with both families on each day.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
I live antique looking ornaments, and the hallmark ones.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
A light dusting, a photo op, and that's it.

12. Can you ice skate?
No

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
See #7.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
My mil's banana cake...yum!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Going to my mom's and having breakfast as a family ion Christmas morning. We will travel from wherever to to this.

17. What tops your tree?
We havent' decided, but I'd say an angel.

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Both

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Baby It's Cold Outstide...any version.

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yuk

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Hot Chocolate

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

3. Colored lights on tree/house or clear?
Clear

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
I hope to do that later tonight or tomorrow

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Lasagna - my mom cooks it for Christmas

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Opening my presents Christmas morning - The years that I got the Cabbage Kids - I always knew right away because of the angular box!

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

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
No

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
Whenever I see ornaments I like, I buy em. No theme.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
If I'm inside, I love it.

12. Can you ice skate?
Sort of. I'm not a confident skater though.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
Cabbage Patch Kids & Strawberry Shortcake...and of course Barbie.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
My mom's apple pie or cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Decorating the tree

17. What tops your tree?
A wire star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
I'll be honest...receiving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
Last Christmas by Wham...among MANY others!

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum, but I have to be in the mood for them.

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Egg nog

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Thanksgiving weekend

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
Christmas Eve eel

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
Many special memories with family

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I am not even sure...

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
No

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
We are starting new tradition so no definite answer yet

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Once or twice a year is great. More than that, yuck.

12. Can you ice skate?
Not well

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
My Pound Puppy... I loved it until it was ragged and the stuffing was all gone.

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Being with friends and family

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
Christmas cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas Eve Italian style

17. What tops your tree?
An angel

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Nothing beats giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"Do You Hear What I Hear"-Whitney Houston

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yum

Re: 2006 Holiday Edition of Getting to know your friends

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
During the winter~ Hot Chocoalte..but during Christmas I will drink eggnog!

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

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

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
YES~

5. When do you put your decorations up?
After Thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding desserts)?
the seafood!

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child:
being in Brooklyn at my nonni's with all my cousins and waiting for midnight so we can open our gifts...passing the time was the best part!!!!!!!!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
when I recognized my uncle dressed as Santa..

9. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve?
X-mas eve we open the gifts with the family and X-mas moring I opened gifts with parents and brother

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree?
white lights with silver/red ornaments. along with my swarvoski crystal ornaments that I have collected for the past 12 years..

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
LOVE IT.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift as a kid?
My nonno made me a life size doll house....with furniture in it!

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Traditions with my family!

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
ugh,,love them all!

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
typical Italian X-mas!!!

17. What tops your tree?
A star

18. Which do you prefer---giving or receiving?
Giving -

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song?
"All alone on Christmas"

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
yum...

Message edited 11/25/2006 5:57:57 PM.