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A Christmas-themed meme

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both—depends on the size and shape of the gift.  Have you ever tried to wrap a Nerf crossbow?

2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial—so much cleaner and it actually stays standing the entire Christmas season

3. When do you put up the tree? Usually the first or second week of December.  The year my third child was born (her birthday is December 17) we ended up putting the tree up two or three days before Christmas, but that’s the latest it’s ever gone up.

5. Do you like eggnog? Definitely

6. Favorite gift received as a child? The entire Anne of Green Gables series (I am referring, of course, to the books)

7. Hardest person to buy for? My second-born son—he hardly ever asks for anything

8. Easiest person to buy for?  My oldest son—he asks for many very specific things

9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes; it belonged first to my grandparents, who passed it down to my mother, who passed it on to me.  The pieces are chipped and the stable is worn-looking, but I love it anyway.

10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail of course!

11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? My husband bought me a turkey fryer eight years ago.  It’s still in the box.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie?  It’s A Wonderful Life (White Christmas is rather delightful as well)

13. When do you start shopping? I try to shop throughout the year and have it finished by the end of October.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No.

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Do I have to choose one?

16. Lights on the tree? white lights

17. Favorite Christmas song? Gentle Mary Laid Her Child, What Child Is This?, Good Christian Men Rejoice, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (I could add more, but I’ll stop)

18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? STAY HOME.

19. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer’s? I’m afraid so

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Angel—the one my mother-in-law gave my husband and me for our first Christmas together

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Presents at my mother-in-law’s Christmas Eve (part of her German heritage) and at home on Christmas morning

22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Black Friday

23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Anything old-fashioned or steeped in tradition

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham.

25. What do you want for Christmas this year? It may sound schmaltzy, but I already have everything I could want.  Really.