* Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your friends. Okay, here’s what you’re supposed to do… Just copy this email/post and paste into a new e-mail/post to share with others. Change all the answers so that they apply to you…. here’s mine….. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper mostly 2. Real tree or Artificial? This year real. I was so excited a gentleman in our church gave us a free real tree 
3. When do you put up the tree? usually the weekend after Thanksgiving 4. When do you take the tree down? New Years Day 5. Favorite gift received as a child? bicycle 6. Hardest person to buy for? My dad and brothers! 7. Easiest person to buy for? My kids they have such easy likes! 8. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, but is a mostly broken..A hand me down so i didn’t even put it out this year 9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail and for the last two years handmade cards too! 10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don’t remember 11. When do you start shopping for Christmas? November 12. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I also don’t remember but I really don’t think so 13. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? butterscotch rice crispie candy with a layer of chocolate in the middle 14. Lights on the tree? Yes definitely 15. Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night and Carol of the Bells 16. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Travel…that is until my husband gets a pastorate and then we will travel afterward 17. Can you name all of Santa’s reindeer? Yes – Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Doner, Blitzen, and Rudolf … 18. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star 19. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas morning..But someday when my husband gets a pastorate we will open stockings Christmas eve 20. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Santa Claus! And how he seems to sound so much like God! You notice that he has a lot of names and seems to be all knowing and ever present – “he see’s you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good”…. that’s worrisome!!! I guess this has affected us more this year than ever before cuz Tornado has decided that God isn’t real cuz he hasn’t seen him on TV GRRRR Frustrating for a pastors family 21. Favorite ornament theme or color? Red and silver with white lights..Lots of greenery around the house and Maroon bows to accent it with 
22. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Ham 23. What do you want for Christmas this year? To sleep in …My parents are terrible about wanting the kids to get up! 24. Who is most likely to respond to this? I have NO IDEA! 1. Do you read the Christmas story from the Bible with family? Yes – usually my husband reads it we do it a lot during the coming days but my parents don’t really have that focus 2. What is your favorite Christmas movie? Mine is White Christmas. Danny Kaye is one of my favorites 3. Do you pretend Santa for your kids – NO! Though Tornado thinks he is real cuz he’s seem him on TV we have had a real struggle with that this Christmas 4. Do you hang stockings? Where and how? More like propped under the tree But we do have them 5. Does your family have any birthdays near Christmas? My uncles And Vug’s is near thanksgiving
