Christmas version of Getting to Know Me – Part II.
-continued from before-
again, feel free to chime in with your own answers!
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Dill pickle doobers! Remember these are the things that I talked about when we went to the State Fair. I was so excited to find them outside of our household. These are dill pickles smeared with cream cheese and wrapped in dried beef then cut into slices (discs). It sounds like an odd combination, but they are sooooo yummy!
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child.
When we were kids, we spent every Christmas at my grandparents (worried that Santa wouldn’t ‘find’ us there) and we wouldn’t open presents until my parents got up; we never woke them up early. So, we’d hang out in the kitchen with my grandparents and eat breakfast. And the one thing we were allowed to do right away was check our stockings. And the stockings were on one side of the house and the tree was on the other, through a big open doorway. So, we’d go in there to check our stockings and we’d look toward the tree and would be so excited! Because the tree had more presents than the night before – Santa came! He found us! And then of course we were excited about our stockings too. It all comes together in a memory of a very special time.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don’t remember.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Nope. All presents are on Christmas day.
10. How do you decorate your tree?
With care. I love looking at the ornaments as I unpack them from the boxes that they are stored in. I also like hanging particularly special ornaments at eye-level and particular ones near the angel on the top.
jenski says:
6. That’s a tough one! I love the shrimp cocktail we have before dinner on Christmas.
7. The whole thing, really – Christmas Eve church service, then warm drinks (now wine) by the fire looking at the tree with family just relaxing, then the morning with ALLLL those presents!
8. I don’t remember exactly, but I know one year my brother and I basically pretended because we thought our parents would be upset if they knew we didn’t believe anymore.
9. Only on Christmas!
10. Lights first, then the ornaments (making sure I remember where each one is from as I go), then tinsel at the end to fill in (and now I have the tin “victorian tinsel” – so much less messy than the plastic stuff).
Squirl says:
I don’t have an answer for all of these. But when I was a kid we always got our presents on Christmas morning. Now Ichabod and I usually open on Christmas Eve. Not every year, but most of them.
Texas Seestor says:
6. Mashed potato casserole. It has potatoes (obvious), sour cream, cream cheese and some garlic (powder, I believe). Yummy.
7. I would have to say ‘ditto’ to Danielle’s memory. Christmas morning at Grandma and Grandpa’s was always fun.
8. Don’t remember.
9. Christmas day
10. Like Danielle, I have special ornaments that have to go on the front of the tree so that they can always be seen.