Holiday Survey from the 09'ers

If you're in the mood....

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Spiked egg nog and spiked hot coco

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
All beautifully wrapped to go under the tree

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Both....

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Its a tradition to put xmas decor on xmas eve

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
All Greek dishes my parents make

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Ive go soo many. All the xmas parties at my house, all the toys I got when I was a child, putting up the xmas tree on xmas eve.....

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
He exists, what are you talking about???

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No, its a tradition to do it on xmas day

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
with every light that exists, old ornaments from when we were kids, new ornaments. If it has to do with xmas it goes on the tree, lol

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT! only when I dont have to go to work or drive in it

12. Can you ice skate?
HELLLL NOOOOO

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
All Super Mario, Nintendo games

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Spending time with family, and going to Church, giving.....

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Greek pastries and pumpkin pie

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
the parties, getting everthing ready on xmas eve, going to church every xmas morn with my family

17. What tops your tree?
lit angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Way too many to choose from

20. Candy canes?
Yummy

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
'The Chistmas Story'

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Its the last xmas before I get married so spending all the time with my family and FH

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Hot Cocoa

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Everything gets wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
both

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Usually the first week of december

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Baked Ziti

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
My brother being born x-mas morning when I was 10

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
I reaaly have no clue, maybe b/c I used to find presents under my moms bed

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Of course

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
I have a very anal method

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT, then we get a snow day

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes, I used to take lessons

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
My ring, got it on x-mas eve and my puppy was a x-mas present

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
FAMILY

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Brownies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Having someone dress up as Santa and giving out gifts to all the kids on x-mas eve

17. What tops your tree?
A snowflake that lights up

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Both

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
The Chpmunk song lol

20. Candy canes?
nah

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Rudolph

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Nothing anymore

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas
Reliving our engagement night with all of our family

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? must be wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
white

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
no - but maybe i'll start

5. When do you put your decorations up?
usually a week before xmas

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? my moms baked clams

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
when santa rang the door bell one xmas eve with presents for all of us - found out years later it was one of my neighbors who arranged it with all the parents (great people)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....? umm i don't know what you're talking about??!?!?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
yes

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
at my moms all our ornaments from our childhood and white lights - FH & I are having our first tree this year!!

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT! only when I dont have to go to work or drive in it (Ditto)

12. Can you ice skate?
haven't tried for a long time

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
cross country skis i think i was like 10

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
spending time with family

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
not a fan - but i like cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
xmas eve at my cousins house - we do secret santa it's a lot of fun

17. What tops your tree?
angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Both

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
don't have a favorite - i tolerate xmas music

20. Candy canes?
yeah just 1 or 2

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
'The Chistmas Story'

22. What do you leave for Santa?
a 6 pack - seriously cookies and milk and carrots for the reindeer

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
my aunt and uncle are going to be in town, we never get to see them

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot cocoa

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped under the tree

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
white

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Decemeber 1st

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
I love stuffing

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
theres so many, i loved waking up soo early and waking everyone else up to go open presents with my parents and brothers

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
my older brother told me lol

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
we did sibling gifts on x-mas eve, and parent gifts of x-mas

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
lights, and ornaments, and of course an angel on top!

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE it!

12. Can you ice skate?
yesss!! i love ice skating in central park!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
i always got what i wanted at the time, so they all were lol

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
sitting down with the whole family

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
warm pies with icecream yummm

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
going to my aunts a week later, its like xmas all over again! lol

17. What tops your tree?
an angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Way too many to choose from

20. Candy canes?
I love the starburst ones!

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
hmm not sure

22. What do you leave for Santa?
cookies and milk!

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Its only a week before our wedding, so I'm excited to give FH his last gift as a single man!

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate with marshmallows

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Whenever we're not feeling lazy..

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Hmmmm....we really don't have a 'holiday dish'.

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Reading Twas the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve & getting our stockings on our bedroom doors & rushing into my brothers' room to open them early!

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
He exists, what are you talking about??? Did I miss something?

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Yes - typically our PJ's.

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
With all kinds of ornaments special to us!

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT! It's the most beautiful form of or precipitation EVER!

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
White roller skates with pink pom poms with a bell on the tip.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Being around my family!

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Not sure...not a huge desert person...

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Christmas eve with my family...

17. What tops your tree?
Santa

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Carol Of the Bells

20. Candy canes?
Yummy

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Elf

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Nuttin

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
EVERYTHING!

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Starbucks Hot Chocolate--yum

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Usually wrapped, but my mom is forgetful and finds gifts later that day--so those are unwrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
No

5. When do you put your decorations up?
It varies--usually right after thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Garlic mashed potatoes

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
No idea

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
When I was 4--my charming sisters who were 8 and 12 told me

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Eve with FH's family and Day with mine and with FH

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
With all ornaments when we were younger

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT!

12. Can you ice skate?
Used to

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
Cabbage patch dolls

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Spending time with family

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Brownies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
Everything--shopping, wrapping, cooking, decorating

17. What tops your tree?
Angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Carol of the bells and O Holy Night

20. Candy canes?
Only if they are the starbursts flavored ones

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
'The Chistmas Story'

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Nothing

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
It being the last xmas to wake up without FH

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate yummm i want some now with marshmallows of course

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped under the tree

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
colored

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
i never have in the past but maybe ill get one this year

5. When do you put your decorations up?
last year i was begging fh to let us do it like right after thanksgiving but he made me wait until december

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
hmm i know its more of a thanksgiving thing but i love sweet potatoes

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
umm i dunno just opening up presents oh and my brother and i used to write letters to santa and bake him cookies and leave carrots for the reindeer

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
santa used to write us back when we wrote him and one year my brother and i analyzed his handwriting and realized it was the same and my moms lol

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
usually a gift from my aunts and uncles

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
umm lights then ornaments..my mom used to do it herself which i hated so for the last 3 years that fh and i have been living together we put on xmas music (preferbally the chipmunks xmas songs) and drink hot chocolate while putting everything one

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
love it on christmas, or if im not going anywhere..hate it if i had plans to drive anywhere

12. Can you ice skate?
yeah..not great but i can

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
no specific gift comes to mind

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Spending time with family and enjoying each others company and food

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
um im a dessert junkie i love it all...cookies, apple pie, cheesecake, brownies..yummmm

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
fh dresses up as santa every year for his little cousins and gives them out a small gift..then the adults get 'gag' gifts its hilarious

17. What tops your tree?
a mickey mouse tree topper

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
the chipmunks one 'me i want a hula hoop'

20. Candy canes?
Yummy

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
hmm any of the xmas classics..rudolf, frosty, etc..

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
i LOVE decorating for xmas and looking at all the houses decorated and when fh dresses up as santa

If you're in the mood....

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate...mm i want some now.

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
All wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
white

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
after thanksgiving

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
mmm pasteles, rice, beans, turkey

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
opening presents christmas morning

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
i honestly dont remember

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
yea at my grandmothers house and one from home

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
my mom does it and its a whole mess of stuff lol

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
HATE it!

12. Can you ice skate?
sort of...i wanna go this year.

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
my doll houses....barbie and fisher price

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
spending time with family

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
any cake and cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
everything

17. What tops your tree?
a star

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
wow too many

20. Candy canes?
yumm

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
a christmas story and elf

22. What do you leave for Santa?
nothing

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
everything

If you're in the mood....

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
Hot choc. (egg nog = yuck!)

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped then under the tree

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
colored on tree (but we used to do white on tree) and white on house but colored on some bushes.

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
no

5. When do you put your decorations up?
around thanksgiving when its not too cold

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
candy sweet potatoes and stuffed artichokes

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
my parents ringing bells that santa was leaving (of course at the time we thought it was actually santa)

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
i dont remember

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
yes but only the traditional xmas pjs my mom buys us all

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
ornaments from over the years and sometimes beaded garland and ribbon

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
love it

12. Can you ice skate?
no

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
no
just the coolest toys because when i was little the toys were cool - now they are crap haha

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
family

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
cake

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
wrapping on xmas eve

17. What tops your tree?
angel or sometimes a star we switch it up

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
dominick the donkey

20. Candy canes?
Yummy

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
miracle on 34th street

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies and we used to leave carrots for the reindeer haha

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
being with my family. next year FH and I will not be living home so its the last real 'kid like' christmas for us

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
Santa wraps all of the presents

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Both....

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
Yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
This year we are doing it the day after Thanksgiving but usually like the first or second week in December.

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
Anything my grandma makes.

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Decorating. Christmas lights on at night, Christmas movies, family together, presents. It was the best.

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
Learn the truth about what.

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No, its a tradition to do it on xmas day

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
with lights, old ornaments from when we were kids, new ornaments, garland, angel at the top and cand canes.

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
LOVE IT! esp. on Christmas, which is hardly ever.

12. Can you ice skate?
Yes. Trying to talk FH into going one day. He can't ice skate...haha

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
I loved everything I got.

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
Spending time with family. I love everything about it.

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
Pumpkin Pie, Apple crisp, cookies, soooo much.

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
christmas eve, and christmas day with the family.

17. What tops your tree?
lit angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Way too many to choose from

20. Candy canes?
Yummy

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
OMG to many to list. Miracle on 34th Street (the original), National Lampoons Christmas, White Christmas, all of the Original television Christmas classics. A lot of the old movies. Oh and I love Elf.

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies and milk and carrots for the reindeers

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
Spending it with family and FH.

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate with bailys

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Both

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
no

5. When do you put your decorations up?
day after Thanksgiving...or 2 weeks prior to x-mas for real tree

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
x-mas morning cinnamon rolls...its breakfast, not dessert

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
Ive go soo many. All the xmas parties at my house, all the toys I got when I was a child, putting up the xmas tree on xmas eve.....

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
when we snooped and found presents- haha

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
yes- and ironlically - its always x-mas pjs..gee mom..what a coinkydink

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
lots of lights, bows, a lot of snowman ornaments

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
love it as long as I dont have to drive in it

12. Can you ice skate?
no- tried once- haha

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
a yamaha keyboard when i was little

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
spending time w/ family and carrying on traditions

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
rainbow cookies...mmmmm

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
opening presents with my family on x-mas morning and havign x-mas morning breakfast together. Its the only time we do it al lyear

17. What tops your tree?
star light

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
Giving

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
Way too many to choose from

20. Candy canes?
awesome crushed up and baked on brownies or as a hot chocolate stirrer

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
Frosty

22. What do you leave for Santa?
Cookies and milk and carrots for the reindeer

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
my nephew is 3 and understands more about Santa and everything this year..he is SO excited for the first time

1. Egg nog or hot chocolate?
hot chocolate.....yummmyyy

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
wrapped

3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
colored

4. Do you hang mistletoe?
yes

5. When do you put your decorations up?
Beginning of December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)?
moms lasagne

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child?
putting up the xmas tree,driving around looking at the lights on peoples houses .

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Shhh....?
He exists!

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
in the past I didnt but with FH I do

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
lots of lights then ornaments then topper

11. Snow, love it or hate it?
love it as long as I dont have to drive in it

12. Can you ice skate?
sort of

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?
nintendo

14. What’s the most important thing about the holidays for you?
spending time w/ family and carrying on traditions

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert?
rainbow cookies

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition?
opening presents with my family on x-mas morning

17. What tops your tree?
star or an angel

18. Which do you prefer, giving or receiving?
both

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?
too many to narrow it down

20. Candy canes?
love them!

21. Favorite Christmas movie?
rudolph...bad santa (lol)

22. What do you leave for Santa?
nothing

23. What are you most looking forward to this Christmas?
celebrating my 1 year of being engaged and my baby nephew enjoying his first christmas