HOLIDAY EDITION OF GETTING TO KNOW YOU:
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1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?  Hot Chocolate, cinnemon, raspberry and vanilla along with Dark Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? When I was a child Santa even brought the tree But the wrapping is done by the elves so Santa can read the tags when he delivers them

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? blue and white for Chanukah and Christmas

4. Do you hang mistletoe? no-it is poisonious too many grandkids around But I love kissing!

5. When do you put your decorations up? Dec.1 my mom's birthday for Chanukkah and Dec. 13th St. Lucia for Christmas

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Orange Duck or Cornish game hens

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? When I went to see Santa and asked for a real puppy. He sent his elf into a little playhouse and came out with MY Puppy Right There!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? The truth? What do you mean the Truth? What did you do to Santa?????? Has something happened to Santa???

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Always one gift, always pajamas...you gotta look good in Christmas morning pictures. No matter which present you pick somehow it is always the one with Pajamas in it

10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? We don't have a Christmas tree, we place our presents at the feet of Jesus, below our Nativity. Creche keeps the focus on Jesus, tree keeps the focus on presents.

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? LOVE IT! The more the merrier, as long as I have hot chocolate and a honey to cuddle

12. Can you ice skate? YES

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? a rose carved jewelry box with a love note in it and of course Little Sam, my dog

14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Lighting candles , driving through the live Nativity, watching the grandkids in the Chanukah play and their Christmas play And saying Merry Christmas to store employees OH and Black Friday 4 am shopping (important because I have seven grandkids eight days of Chanukah and Christmas to buy for)

15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Fudge (not the marshmellow creme kind the real stuff!)

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? ..Christmas morning Reading Luke 2:1-20 in a bed filled with kids Singing Happy Birthday to Jesus and Chanukah, the kids being dreidels and spinning til they fall down guessing which letter they will land on and watching them light their candles and pray

17. What tops your tree? Snow, hopefully, our pines are outside so the best thing I can hope for is snow on them

18. Which do you prefer giving or Receiving? giving- nothing is better than seeing a child's face light up

19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? We are the Reason, Mary's Boy Child, God rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Ok all of them ...I have a little Dreidel, Chanukah O Chanukah ,Gonna eat Latkes Yep all of them (except that stupid Adam Sandler song)

20. Candy Canes... Yuck or Yummy? YUMMY

21. Do you or don't you like FRUIT Cake? I love it, all kinds especially Amish Friendship CAKE not bread

22. Favorite Holiday verse? The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. Isaiah 9:2 For unto us a child is born unto us a Son is given and the government will be upon his shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor,Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace Isaiah 9:6

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