Wish, Wait, Hope, Pray

I haven’t been feeling overly Christmas-y this year but this meme definitely made me smile. I’m not going to add to anyone’s Christmas to-do list by tagging anyone so if you like it too please do it – and then let me know so I can check out your answers!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? EGG NOG. I need a 12 step group I love it so much. (Although I do reduced fat.) I was just saying that its now one of the only things that is available only one time of the year (you can buy Easter mini-eggs year round now for some stupid reason) so I tend to fill up on it. Egg Nog in my coffee is the perfect way to start my day and with rum never fails. I even made egg nog cheese cake and egg nog french toast over the last few weeks!

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? I didn’t know that Santa wrapped gifts for some kids until I was an adult. Santa doesn’t leave them under the tree either – he stuffs those stockings by the fireplace (with unwrapped goodies – I can’t imagine how much waste there is with santa wrap!) and leaves them bulging with surprises. One year he forgot to wipe his boots and there were ash boot prints all over mum & dad’s sheepskin rug – boy were they mad!

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? White, white, white. I love the clean, simple look of it.

4. Do you hang mistletoe? I have in the past but its poisonous to dogs and kids so we tend to avoid it – maybe I’ll try and find some good plastic mistletoe.

5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually the first or second weekend in December. Growing up my sister’s birthday was Dec 2nd and my dad’s is Dec 5th so we weren’t allowed to do anything Christmas-y until after their birthdays so now I stick to early December. November is just for keeners (and Christmas Eve – when my husband thinks the tree should go up is WAY too late!)

6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Christmas pudding – a secret recipe husbando & I came up that came about after he worked on a show with a bunch of top chefs and we incorporated a lot of their ideas.

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Cabbage Patch kid year. It was the year of mom riots and store shortages and my parents had done the whole “christmas is about giving not receiving” speech. I was SUPER unpopular at school and this was my first year at a new school. When Santa hadn’t brought it I was devastated. I even had a nap and cried thinking I was never going to get one and my sister (2 years younger) came in and told me that if I didn’t get a cabbage patch she’d still love me even if no one liked me – LOL! My parents had wrapped it in a box twice the size of the Cabbage Patch to disguise it and when I opened it I just burst into tears. Makes me tear up now just thinking about it. I was so surprised.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? My dad slipped to my younger sister and either she told me or the parents told us after the slip up. I think I was 9.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Yup – and its always pyjamas LOL! I don’t know how old I was when I realized that despite my parents pretending to pick at random it was always the pjs!

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? Our tree has a lot of sparkly silver ornaments, some cute tin ornaments and then a collection of ornaments from our travels – a handstitched dove from Swaziland, wooden reindeer from Brussels, a Haida design, some wooden hearts and a star from the UK and a fabulous ‘Father Christmas’ made by my friend Chris that looks like him. Its sounds haphazard but it comes together very well!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Love it! Never feels like Christmas without snow.

12. Can you ice skate? Yes but it takes me a while to warm up but then I can do cutovers. I usually end up with a bruised tailbone though.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? See Cabbage Patch above – my husband has had a couple of winners with a pair of diamond earrings and a gorgeous Indian jewellery box.

14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Joy, my husband, food and – this year my daughter.

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? See #6.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Christmas Eve Curry – we have curry (and usually Champagne) every Christmas Eve and I love it – so different before the turkey feast!

17. What tops your tree? A star, which we had to buy the year the movers lost the paper angel that was made for me with my face photoshopped on!

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? I LOVE shopping for presents for other people but I also love getting good gifts (like the green shoes I’ve been obsessing over that Husbando bought me but I’ve not been allowed to see!)

19. Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum? I never usually have them around but my mum bought them this year for my nephew to put on our tree – I can live without them, I hardly need something else to eat this time of year.

20 Favorite Christmas Show? Guys & Dolls – I know its not a traditional but I always end up watching it over Christmas!

21. Saddest Christmas Song? I was thinking that there are no really sad Christmas songs but the words to “Last Christmas’ are actually pretty sad.

22. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Baby Its Cold Outside – the cheesiness just rocks and you have to know Husbando and I duet it together whilst tipsy.

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