I guess I have officially been "tagged". I don't know who started the whole "blog tag" idea, and I'm not sure I want to, but Nicole said she "tagged" me so here goes...
1. Egg nog or hot chocolate? Hot chocolate. With LOTS of whipped cream. And maybe a peppermint tossed in.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? At my folks' house they are usually unwrapped.
3. Colored lights or white lights? Any and all colors, except solid blue. What the heck does that have to do with Chrismas?
4. Do you hang mistletoe? That's a really good idea... :)
5. When do you put your decorations up? After Thanksgiving. I usually cave and let Nicole put them up the day before we leave for Thanksgiving so they will be up when we get back.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Meat. Any kind.
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? Nicole thinks I'm weird because I don't have very many specific, time-stamped memories from before I was 11 or 12, so I'll just say all of them.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? When I was five or six my dad dressed up as Santa for his company's Christmas party. How I picked my dad's tanker boots out of all the other soldiers was a mystery, but at the time, my dad was the only adult I knew with blue-grey eyes. We didn't openly admit as a family the truth about Santa until I was 12.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Usually.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? That'll probably be up to Nicole at some future point when we have a tree.
11. Snow: love it or dread it? I am definitely a summer person, but I don't mind the snow.
12. Can you ice skate? I can fall on my can and make a really good attempt at breaking my butt-bone...
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Although the trip to Hawaii this year from Nicole's parents was a doozy as far as presents go, the one I think I appreciated the most was when I was 14, I wanted to start bow-hunting but there was no money for a bow, then on Christmas morning a left-handed (important for me) bow I had seen in a pawn shop a few weeks earlier showed up on my chair. That gift resulted in some great memories with me and my dad.
14. What's the most important thing about the holidays for you? The birth of the Savior.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? My mom's cinnamon rolls. Or my mom's homemade saltwater taffy.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Every Christmas Eve back home I would go to the grave of my uncle Pete (he died shortly after birth) and tell him Merry Christmas and tell him how my year was. I haven't done that for a year or two, maybe next year when we're in Orderville again...
17. What tops your tree? My folks had a cardboard star wrapped carefully in tinfoil for a long time. Even though we don't have a tree, I'll always remember that tinfoil star.
18. Which do you prefer: giving or receiving? Having the ability to give. For most of my life growing up, we made presents for people, and I never felt like I could make anything that anybody would want, other than my parents. It's nice now to be able to get presents that I know will be better than my feeble attempt to make something. It's equally as nice to have the know-how to make something useful and or nice.
19. What is your favorite Christmas song? Silent Night. The first person to guess the correct reason why gets a prize.
Oh, and I tag...No one.
10 comments:
well done on responding to my tag. although i must object to your feet-dragging attitude, especially since you responded within hours of my tag. somehow i think you enjoyed it just a little bit... oh and about silent night , um, is it because all the nights are silent in o-ville?
I did not have a feet-dragging attitude. I said I wasn't sure I wanted to know who started the whole "blog-tagging" thing.
And you are wrong on the Silent Night trivia game.
but they are...silent, i mean. the nights in o-ville. you know.
oh i just don't know the answer to that question at all - unless you want to tell me and then I could post an answer and then I could win a present - oh that mari could win a present.....
very cool to read about - next time gold does a Q&A, tell her not to tag me and then you can - groovy.
So fun to learn about you as a "little munchkin" and your family's history.
Thanks for sharing.
I will guess that it was the first religous based Christmas song you ever learned?
Also incorrect...
Any more takers?
hello alex. i think silent night must be your favorite because of something to do with your mission...tophe needs a treat, tophe needs a treat. mo and tophe give us a treat!
alex...guess who has a link to your blog...
How about a family favorite, perhaps sung at a close relatives funeral?
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