Christmas Tag

CHRISTMAS TAG.......taken from my Moms' blog (link to Just4U)

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Paper, always.

2. Real tree or artificial? Real in the past years. This year artifical. Next year one of both.

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the first week of December.

4. When do you take the tree down? After Ukr. Christmas

5. Do you like eggnog? Great big huge NO!!!

6. Favorite gift received as a child? I think my trike.

7. Do you have a Nativity scene? No

8. Hardest person to buy for? Inlaws

9. Easiest person to buy for? My girls and husband.

10. Worst Christmas Gift you ever received? I don't think I have ever receivved a bad gift.

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? I started mailing cards last year.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, The Santa Clause, Home Alone, The Grinch (old and Jim Carrey), The Polar Express.

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Usually the beginning of October though one year I was finished by October.

14. Have you ever re-gifted a Christmas present? I don't think so. If I did it was a gift exchange gift.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Well my love is Ukrainian food so anything on the menu basically. I love mushrooms in cream because they only seem to surface this time of year.

16 . White lights or colored on the tree? Coloured

17. Favorite Christmas song? Oh my I love Christmas music and I don't think I could pick just one song.

18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Both. Christmas eve and morning at home and travel before and after.

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Dancer, Dasher, Prancer and Vixen. I named all of them truthfully without cheating though I did double check spelling after.

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

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Growing up it was both. Now usually a couple of days before with one family and a couple of days after with the other family. Our immediate family is Christmas morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Even though I love the destination and the fun had I would have to say travel.

23. Favorite Christmas Tradition(non-traditional)? When we had Natasha we started having hot chocolate with whip cream as we opened our gifts Christmas morning.

24. What do you miss about past Christmas's? Getting the same gift as my cousin Amanda. Her godmother and my godfather are married so we always got the same gift at Christmas. We either had to open at the same time or shelter our eyes while the other one opened.

25. Where will you spend Christmas this year? I will be hosting my first Christmas supper this year then we will be headed to Glendon for the annual boxing day hoopla.

Merry Christmas!!