1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Don’t make me choose! Egg nog must have brandy in it and hot chocolate must have a candy cane melted in it. No exceptions!
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa waits until the last possible fucking minute to wrap presents and usually gets less than 3 hours of sleep on Xmas. Santa swears every year that THIS year will be different, yet it never is.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White on the house, white and/or colored on the tree. Depends on my mood.
4. Do you hang mistletoe?
I don’t hang mistletoe because I have no one to smooch underneath it.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually Thanksgiving weekend if we’re doing an artificial tree. For real trees, we wait until the 2nd weekend in December.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Christmas dinner is usually just a replay of Thanksgiving, except with a ham instead of turkey. My favorite dishes are the side dishes, which include sweet potatoes, stuffing, baked macaroni and cheese, among others.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
The first Christmas I spent with my brother. My father was married before he married my mother and had 3 children. I’m not close with the other two kids, but I worshipped the ground my brother walked on.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don’t remember when I learned the truth…I think I just simply ‘grew out of it’. It certainly wasn’t a huge deal like most other people think it was. My oldest son doesn’t believe in Santa anymore, but he’s helping me keep the secret from my youngest son. I expect he’ll figure it out sooner rather than later.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
We sometimes did when I was a child, but I’m a horrible and mean mother and make my kids wait until Xmas morning.
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
Santa gets whatever we feel like leaving for him. Usually it’s the typical homemade sugar cookies that we’ve spent all damn afternoon making. We also leave carrots for the reindeer.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it…until December 26, after which time, it can go the fuck away.
12. Can you ice skate?
Yes. I used to be able to skate fairly well but it’s been quite a few years.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Yes. One year, my aunt (who nicknamed me Doodlebug) gave me a beautiful gold watch/necklace in the shape of a ladybug. I had that until my house burned down and it’s one of the few pieces of jewelry that I’ve ever mourned losing.
14. What’s the most important thing about the Holidays for you?
Trying to make sure that my kids don’t fall victim to the commercialization of it all. I limit them to a few gifts each…not the piles of gifts that a lot of kids demand these days.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
I’m an apple pie kinda gal.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Spending the day putting together the toys and kicking my childrens’ asses at their new video games.
17. What tops your tree?
A porcelain angel. The running joke in my family is that the angel is entirely too large for the top of the tree. She looks like a vulture sitting up there, but we love her.
18. Which do you prefer Giving or Receiving?
It must be the giving. Although, one of the best parts of single motherhood is buying your own Christmas gifts for the kids to give to you. I’m never disappointed LOL.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
It changes from year to year I think and is heavily influenced by whatever carols they are teaching in music classes at school. This year, my youngest has been singing “I Ain’t Getting Nuttin’ For Xmas” non-stop and it’s been stuck in my brain for weeks now.
20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?
Yuuuuummmmmmy!
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