Look Carole - I did do it!

Okay everyone, lets have fun with this! 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!!! Justcopy (not forward) this entire email and paste into a new e-mail thatyou can send. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Thensend this to a whole bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person thatsent it to you......Tis the Season to be NICE!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both - I love to use bags and I love to wrap. We tend to wrap more than we bag. And some of the gifts get wrapped and bagged!!
2. Real tree or Artificial? Artificial – Allergic to the real ones
3. When do you put up the tree? sometime in the first 10 days of December
4. When do you take the tree down? Early January
5. Do you like Egg Nog? I do - with Rum and with out
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I cant think of a favorite gift - but I can think of a most memorable one. It was the Christmas of 1967. I know, i am really old. My parents had divorced earlier that year and my mom was working in a jewellry store. Money was scarce, in actuality you could call us poor. There was no money for Christmas presents. My grandparents had sent money to my Mom to cover the cost of driving from Kelowna to Vancouver to have Christmas with them. It was Christmas Eve and we were driving to Vancouver, just outside of Keremeos we hit black ice and careened out of control, off the road, barely missing a power pole, through a farmers fence, over a small rise and landed in a field. Needless to say we missed getting to Vancouver for Christmas, after being discharged from the hospital friends came and drove us home. Christmas morning was very quiet. My Mom gave my sister and I each a small parcel, in that parcel was a small inexpensive charm bracelet and a 45 record (a small one, a single for all you young people). Later that day we went to visit my Dad. I do not know why, but that gift , that small bracelet that I know my Mom could not afford meant so much to me. The bracelet has long since been lost and the record? who knows, I dont even remember who it was----- oh wait -- Daydream Believer by the Monkees (my Mom's DJ friend gave it to her to give to me) But the memory of my Mom's gift from the heart has stayed with me all these years!
7. Hardest person to buy for? My Step Dad.
8. Easiest person to buy for? used to be Brian - this year - Tanya!
9. Do you have a nativity scene? I do - two of them actually
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? some of each - this year I am going to try to mail more.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I dont think I have a worst - may have received a few weird ones - like the year we got a gift bag full of things you find in a hotel/motel room, you know - the coffee package, the sugar and stir sticks, coffeemate package, a tea bag and the little shampoo packages. Now that was a weird gift!
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miracle on 34th Street - I have both versions - I think I like the new one best!
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? sad to say - I bought some in January
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I have
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? all of it - the treats, the cookies, the dinner, the drinks
16. Lights on the tree? is there a tree with no lights?
17. Favorite Christmas song? I'll be Home for Christmas
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Anywhere my family is - so if I had to travel I would
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? I can. Spent many an hour reading the book to kids, I might be very close to being able to recite it without the book
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? An angel, but as Tara will tell you not "the" angel, and we were thinking of replacing the one we have!
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? I like opening one on Christmas Eve, Phil doesnt think we should do that, so we open them all on Christmas,morning, afternoon evening, usually on the 26th too. The big family means we make many stops.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? The fact that so many people wont acknowledge what the season is really all about.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love them all! This year our tree will be mostly red and white - as in past years, with a heavy dose of spongebob
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Turkey with all the trimmings -- yum!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? Would it sound hokey to say world peace? I do want that. On the more personal level -- I want everyone to have good Christmas, I dont have a list really - i know that makes it really hard for my family to shop for me, I did do a list with Tanya so I think I am ok! But that doesnt really answer the question - hmmm - I would like a bottle of Baileys
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? Tanya
27. Who is least likely to respond to this? hard to say - many wont- you have to be following my blog to respond and I really dont know who all is following.

For all of you who have read to the very end of my very long blog! Thanks for hanging in! Thanks for being a part of my life

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!