Karens's Getting to know your friends

Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know
your friends.  Okay, here's what you're supposed to
do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!! Just copy (not
forward) this entire email and paste into a new
e-mail that you can send. Change all the answers so
that they apply to you. Then send this to a whole
bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person that
sent it to you......Tis the Season to be NICE!
 
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I buy paper from whats left from the year before sales. So each Christmas it is a mystery as to what I purchased the year before. This years discovery was a wonderful iridescent kaleidescope print and several shiny golds reds copper and silvers. Some wonderful opaque irredentist milky pearls as well. It is so fun. I also buy some bags or recycle the ones that are still real nice form the year before.

2. Real tree or Artificial?  I have asthma as does my son so artificial. Realistic type.
 
3. When do you put up the tree?  The weekend after Thanksgiving.
 
4. When do you take the tree down?  The
weekend after New Year's and it is exciting to get the place back to normal!

5. Do you like eggnog?   Like the flavor Yes... , but I am allergic to cow milk and so I do not get to indulge. :(
 
6. Favorite gift received as a child?  Rock candy that was a "lump of coal" it was my mothers humor. I loved the black licorice flavor it always had a little hammer to break it up.

7. Do you have a nativity scene?  Yes I will post a picture of it.  I read Karen's tradition of the baby Jesus in the straw on Christmas morning cool tradition.
  
8. Hardest person to buy for?  Anyone with expectations as apposed to gratitude.
 
9. Easiest person to buy for?  My children, and the poor.

10. Mail or E-Mail Christmas Cards?  Mail!  Karen wrote..."I love
Christmas cards and seeing everyone's individual
styles, and even handwriting!"...I agree.
  
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? This does not register I am grateful to recieve. The gifts that are unpleasant are anything given out of obligation.
 
12.. Favorite Christmas Movie?  The little Drummer Boy.
  
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
All year long. I watch and listen and hope to remember and when I see something with someone's face in mind if it is a real good buy I try to get it.

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?
I have given it away or to one who might like it but not as a wrapped gift.
  
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Navel Oranges (We had a tree for 16 year I tendered and had them the size of grapefruits with thin skin. I would climb the tree and worship and eat with the birds in the branches)  Candy and gravy. Oh how I miss climbing the orange tree every year. I would harvest it and take a red flyer wagon around the neighborhood with the bagged oranges as gifts to my neighbors. I miss those times.

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree?  clear tiny lights but most favorite is our old set of oil warmed by the light into a mock candles the bubble.

17. Favorite Christmas song?  Drummer boy. O holy night, Silent night.
  
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home?  HOME, there is no place like it!
  
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers?  No I don't think so.
 
20. Angel on the tree top or a star?  This year a Star (symboled to me of the guiding light). The angle is on the side table plugged in.
 
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning?  My family has one on the Eve and then the morn from us and the late morn form the Grandparents and Uncle.
  
22. Most annoying thing about this time of year?
Expectations  that temp folks into bad choices, watching the harm that this brings.
  
23. Favorite ornament theme or Color?  Our collection of yearly collected ones some are hand made but all have the theme of the year past attached for each player or member of our family.

24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? I think that it once was ham but I am sorta steering away from pork this year so...a Standing Rib roast will don my table.! I will use a new recipe of orange juice, anise, red pearl onion, dried apricot and figs with fresh pears roasted at the last few minutes. It sounds heavenly to me. I will then steam baby carrots and make some simple desert.
 
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? 
Grateful hearts that don't fuss or fume (including my own :).
The only things I think of are eventual needs but the things still have life in them ,a Rowena Iron for sewing (my iron is a bit wherry but it still works ), or if I were just plain wild there is a really cool quilters free x/y attachment table that would fit on the embroidery machine big $$$400. too extravagant!
 
 

Copy at will and enjoy the fun.
Donetta

Thank you Karen for the e mailed invitation.