Wrapping paper or gift bags?
- Gift bags are nice because they're reusable. However, I do use both. One thing that's fun is using plain brown wrapping (like you'd use to cover a book to keep it from getting damaged) and then doing different things with the bows and tags.
- We always cut our trees fresh from the forest growing up, and those were some great memories. We have a $10 tree from IKEA in our house now. It works.
- I would love to put it up the day after Thanksgiving, but I have a feeling that we won't put it up until Dec. 1st as a martial compromise.
- New Year's day? Or whenever we get back from our parents' house after Christmas/ the New Year.
- Not sure. I know I really liked the dolls and pound puppies my mom made. Can't think of anything else that sticks out in my mind.
- One. I got it in Guatemala. I love it. They're in brightly colored traditional Guatemalan dress. I wouldn't mind getting others. My mother-in-law collects nativities and I think it would be a fun collection.
- My brother Eric.
- Me. Just kidding! Um. Matt, however, his wanted items are usually some pricey computer part like a new processor or video card or something.
- Is any present a bad present? I mean, seriously, you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. (Is that the phrase? It sounds really weird once I type it.)
- Both. I love making Christmas cards, but it's hard make enough/ get them out to EVERYONE I want to. Good heavens it's expensive to mail cards now a days.
- Best Christmas Pageant Ever. A Christmas Story. How the Grinch Stole Christmas. (Depending on my mood.)
- Whenever I see something that screams "CHRISTMAS PRESENT!" but usually it's sometime between late November and mid-December.
- Hmmm...I wouldn't put it past me, though I can't recall a specific time.
- At my parents' house I love to eat: our traditional shredded wheat breakfast on Christmas morning. Also, my mom's date balls are good. And in the stockings I always like the malt balls the best. Oh, and cheese balls are good too.
- At Matt's parents' house I love to eat: homemade chex mix. And burritos from El Gran. It's not a Christmas thing, really, but we're only there at Christmas time and boy are they good.
- Colored for sure. Unless it's an angel tree. But for a regular tree, colored.
- I like "What Child is this?" a lot. Silent night is great. And for a secular song, Ella Fitzgerald's version of Jingle Bells.
- Right now it's travel. We've yet to spend a Christmas on our own. We're on the "every-other-year" Christmas schedule with our parents. Once Dean hits 2 and we have to buy him a plane ticket, we might start reconsidering.
- Heck yes.
- I don't have either, but I'd probably say star.
- Christmas morning for sure.
- TV commercials that use tweaked Christmas songs to sell their products
- Time off of normal life to spend with family.
4 comments:
I love this! I just might copy it and send it to my family.
Yes I have found that I am the easiest to shop for too! And I don't know about the gift horse phrase...hum...loved it.
I've been planning my tree since last christmas, but not sure if it will happen with our move and such.
I wanted an all orange christmas tree. Not an orange tree, but a white one with all orange ornaments and lights. I found orange lights at halloween, and have been buying orange ornaments when I found them. I also bought some cheap glass ones that I thought about painting orange.
I hope it turns out as well as I think it will.
Perhaps we'll do a pure black and white tree next year. White tree and all black ornaments.
Awesome Mizike. Then the next year you could put the white tree up at halloween with the orange lights and black ornaments and keep it up till Christmas.
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