1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?

Most definitly Hot Chocolate…by a warm fire with the puppy dog snuggled in by my feet with a good book

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

Well of Course wrap them!!! They have to be pretty!!!!

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

Colored lights on the tree…our house decorations are wreaths and stuff so those get plain white ones They have berries and shiney glitter to help dress them up

4. Do you hang Mistletoe?

Nope…that is one thing we haven’t normally done…dont’ know why…not like a kiss would be a bad thing..

5. When do you put your decorations up?

LOL….that is tooo funny…this year…well we wanted to wait till my grandma came to town so I could get pictures of all the antics…so this year it isn’t getting done till…well…since you mention it…TOMORROW!!!

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

UMMMM Gotta be honey glazed spiral cut HAM!!!! ohhh…and of course sweet potatoe casserole with the marshmellows and brown sugar…

7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child?

Well this actually has to do with the next question…At some point in my younger days…not really really sure what year….but we were debating on opening a gift on Christmas eve and me being the only child and cute and sweet and all…I actually convinced my family to open not one…but alllll the presents!!!!! Kids dream come true :) Two days of gifts…Santa of course comes that night

8. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?

refer to the one above…told you they were linked

9. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?

what are you talking about??? Santa is real it is the tooth fairy that my mommy made up

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree?

With gobs and gobs of ornaments!!!! Glass ones…hand blown ones…handmade ones…big ones…small ones….and no we aren’t a family that goes with a specific color scheme…our tree resembles a rainbow!!! We even have an odd topper…my mother at some point in her crafty life made a cute ceramic mouse (I think it was supposed to be a stocking holder) Well he he is cute as a button…he has his little hands out to his sides and he looks like oooooh…gotta balence way up here…oh heck…he is coming out tomorrow…so I’ll snap a picture and show ya… :) We also have handmade fabric links that we use as our garland :) Country all the way!!!

11. Snow! Love it or Dread it?

LOVE IT!!! As much as I don’t like the cold…the snow is just that magical part of christmas!!! And boy am I gonna miss it here…hello…Dec. and it is 70 :( ODDDDDD!!!!

12. Can you ice skate?

if you count going really really slow and holding on to the side rails skating then YEP!!!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift?

Hands down the journal my grandma wrote to me one year talking about her life and memories!!! It sits in my bedside table as a sweet little pick me up!!!

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

Since you are asking now, I’ve grown up remember…The most important thing has to be family!

15. What tops your tree?

Whooops….answered this one earlier tooo….the mouse remember…

16. What’s your favorite holiday tradition?

Decorating the tree…I know that seems like a duh…everyone does it kind of tradition…but decorating the tree brings back memories…from grandma and grandpa meeting to the babies first trip to find an ornament of hers for the tree….So I guess technically I enjoy the memories more than the decorating But you gotta have one that sparks the other right

17. Which do you prefer giving or receiving?

GIVING!!!!! I’m much better at that…and it is soooo fun to see if you hit it on the head and tickled someone!

18. What is your favorite holiday dessert?

PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE!!! Grandma’s of course…

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?

I’m dreaming of a White Christmas…

20. Candy Canes! Yuck or Yum?

Cute but don’t like eating them But they are great for decorations!

21. What is your favorite Christmas special/movie?

The Grinch baby!!! DUH!!!! Naughty and nice all in one package…Just AWSOME!!

Ok…so I started this one on paper…yeah I know…there is a first for everything…thought I’d just document it all day!!! So here goes….

6:45 am….Chocolate Chunk Cookie dough was being rolling into balles to bake & of course the smell of warm cookies filled the house shortly after..miss Savannh not wanting to go to school so of course that high pitched screaming/crying…even through the tears I managed to get a hug good bye from her:) The beauty of fog on my drive into work (wishing I wasn’t running late or talk about a picture op. Oh well…

8:00am…The clickty clack of keys on comupters going full force…we have some hard workers around here! The sound of the candy dish in Mary Kay’s office being snuck into (Wonder who it is this time, I just enjoyed the sweet taste of the peanut m&m’s offered to the chocoholice today ) Ok…so here it is 2:00 and looks like I’m hearing the candy jar a LOT today. Of course it is my hand in it so at least I get the joy of eating it yet AGAIN! So yes, I’m a chocoholic!!!

OHHHH Boy!!!! Charlie is just the best ever!!! Talk about chocoholics going into overdose!!! He brought around some guey nutty brownie ball concoction that is to DIE FOR!!!! Now all I need is some MILK! This is one of those holiday Heavens! MORE CHOCOLATE! Ok…enough on the chocolate

well looky here it is 3:30…you know what time that is…PARTY TIME!!! The office Winter Celebration to be exact! And talk about senses overload. The food, Fruits, cheeses, some portabella mushrooms wrapped with beef UMMMMM UMMMM! And that smell…it is just delish!! Ohh…and did I say enough with the chocolate…I lied….HERE IS MORE!!! Chocolate Chip cookies, and FUDGE!!! UMMM UMMM UMMM….Wheeew…it is hot in here…now mind you…it is usually cold…so this is abnormal to say the least…it is all that chocolate I’m sure Now that is a welcoming sounds….laughter…tons and tons of laughter. Our nice little group (Yolanda, Brett, Shirley, and I) had a nice little chat….we touched on all kinds of things…from lacrosse and tri athalons, to deer, oceans, and Shirley’s hubby’s book about north carolina weather! That was Nice… Well what a great ending to a mundane everyday kind of task like work….umph…it is over…and you know what I hear….SILENCE….not for long…off to get Savannah…

5:00pm…Climb into my car to the sweet smell of Coconuts…I really have to get me another one of those yanke candle car things so when this runs out I can enjoy it some more ewww…lots of red lights…that means TRAFFIC!!!

6:00pm…”mommy!!!!” Guess who just noticed I was there to get her First thing out of her mouth…”do we get to go shopping?” Yep…we are braving it…back into the red light traffice we go…this time however I have a chorus in the back seat! Christmas shopping I don’t mind doing…ummm…what pretty scrapbooks! Embossed even! They are AWSOME…me ready with my 40% coupon…Savannah picks it…I pay for it…”cha ching”…Back into traffic headed home…

7:00pm…”bark bark bark bark”!!!! The dogs know we are home! But gotta get the mail…ohhhh…look at all our neighbors and thier pretty lights…we will get there ….sooon…I hope…dinner…monkey is hungry…ohhh…ice cold frozen hot dogs…but that is the request…so on to cook they go..not long and they are nice and hot! dipped in ketchup and eaten all up…now for the reward…oreo time!!! and of course…off to toons…

8:00pm…with the toons as background music and of course that steady clickity clank of the keys on the computer…here I am finishing up my day…well kinda…I’m off to scrap but you all know what senses that uses :)

WHHHHHEEEEW….Now that was a typical hecktic…nutty day in the life of me…Kristen, Quirky…

Well here she is in all her glory!!! I’ll work on a layout after the holidays…it would be cute