One Foot on a Banana Peel

1. Hot chocolate or apple cider? Definitely hot chocolate. I have a great recipe using eggnog as the base.  Mmmm.

2. Turkey or ham? Gotta be ham for Christmas.

3. Do you get a fake or real-you-cut-it-yourself tree? Fake, but it looks very realistic and I burn pine scented candles. I just got tired of cleaning up pine needles till June.

4. Decorations on the outside of your house? Just candles in the windows this year.  With all the remodeling inside, I couldn’t get Tim to help with lights outside.

5. Snowball fights or sleddin’? Neither. There’s a nice cozy fire or a warm, sandy beach calling my name.

6. Do you enjoy downtown shopping? I don’t know. I haven’t done it since I was a kid, but I figure shopping is shopping.

7. Favorite Christmas song? ‘I Celebrate the Day’ by Relient K.

8. How do you feel about Christmas movies? I confess to a not-so-secret addiction to them. In addition to a whole box full that I own, I watch all the specials on television, too.

9. When is it too early to start listening to Christmas music? Before Thanksgiving.

10. Stockings before or after presents? Before. Keeps the kiddos busy long enough for Dad and I to grab a cuppa and try to wake up.

11. Carolers…do you or do you not watch and listen to them? We’ve never had carolers here.

12. Go to someone else’s house or they come to yours? We don’t go anywhere on Christmas Day. One thing I got from my dad is that kids should be home on Christmas. You never know who might end up here, though.

13. Do you read the Christmas Story? If so, when? We used to be so involved in the church that we didn’t really read the story at home since we heard it so many times anyway.  Now that we don’t have a church I should try to start doing that, but the kids are older.  I don’t know how it would go over.  Maybe I’ll just wait to start it with grandkids?

14. What do you do after presents and dinner? Nap, play games, watch movies, conversation. Maybe take a walk.

15. What is your favorite holiday smell? Pine. We had real trees when I was a kid and ‘Santa’ always brought them after I’d gone to bed on Christmas Eve. I would know Santa had come when I woke up Christmas morning and smelled pine.

16. Ice skating or walking around the mall? I guess I’d have to choose the mall because at least I can’t (as easily) break my ankle there.

17. Do you open a present or presents on Christmas Eve or wait till Christmas Day? We always wait.

18. Favorite Christmas memory? My parents coming to stay with us for our son’s first Christmas and all of us working together to make the stuffing the night before. Even my dad. It was the best stuffing ever.

19. Favorite part of winter? The end.

20. Ever been kissed under mistletoe? Yep. I usually have some hanging in the house.