Fried Brain

I feel like my brain is fried right now. I've been rushing around trying to get everything finished for Christmas while still juggling the house and kids and it's wearing me out! I'm done with almost everything but the wrapping. Oh, and that other batch of lotion I have to make. And the rest of the lip balm. And the sugar scrub. And those other two Question Jars. Oh, and the other two sets of crayons. Oh yeah, and I still have to apply the sealer to the other 7 sets of coasters I made. But that's it. Except for whipping up those sets of glass stone magnets. So really - I'm practically done. Look, I've got 71 hours left till Christmas - don't judge me!


Anyway, I need a minute to be not-creative, so I'm totally going to steal Grace's Christmas meme:

1.Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate?
Definitely hot chocolate, although I do like to have about a half a glass of eggnog once a year.

2.Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree?
I don't technically wrap. I bag. If anything actually gets wrapped it's generally by Nick. But either way, they're packaged.

3.Colored lights on tree/house or white?
White inside, colored outside.

4.Do you hang mistletoe?
We used to, but I haven't found anywhere to buy it in a couple of years.

5.When do you put your decorations up?
Okay, I'm going to tell you the worst thing in the world: It's three days till Christmas and my tree still isn't up. Normally I put it up just after Thanksgiving, but this year I wanted to wait because I figured Daisy would be tearing it apart. Then after a few days I realized it's up in the attic and we don't have a ladder. So I decided to just decorate a small fake pine we have out year round. And I'm totally going to do that. Right after I finish those glass stone magnets...

6.What is your favorite holiday dish?
Ummmm, I'd have to say sausage balls. But only if they're really moist and cheesy.

7.Favorite Holiday memory as a child?
Christmas Eve. We opened gifts at home and at both grandparents' houses on Christmas Eve, and I loved coming home after the final celebration and discovering all over again all the
gifts I'd gotten earlier in the evening.

8.When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
My parents never did the Santa Claus thing with us, although someone always dressed as Santa to hand out gifts on my dad's side of the family. In fact, when my brother was about 4, he nearly started a riot among a room full of kindergarten-age cousins when he declared that the man in the red suit was really Uncle Claude.

9.Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
Now that we're grown with families of our own, the celebration gets stretched out some. This past Friday we did my dad's side of the family, Thursday we'll do my parent's house, Friday we'll do Nick's extended family, Christmas morning we'll open at home then at Nick's parents' house, and sometime next week we'll do my mom's side of the family.

10.How do you decorate your Christmas tree?
Well, normally it's a very rustic, woodsy, fishing cabin type theme. This year it's going to be a bit more Charlie Brown since I'll be scavenging stuff from around the house to decorate with.

11.Snow! Love it or Dread it?
Love it, although I hate driving in it.

12.Can you ice skate?
Nope!

13.Do you remember your favorite gift?
The year I was 10 I got a 100 piece accessory set for my Barbies. Morgan still has some of the pieces to it around here somewhere.

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

15.What is your favorite Holiday Dessert?
My sister-in-law's amazing boiled custard.

16.What tops your tree?
Hehe, usually a miniature fishing hat.

17.Which do you prefer giving or receiving?
Definitely giving.

18.What is your favorite Christmas Song?
O Holy Night

19.Candy Canes: Yuck or Yum?
They're okay.

20. Favorite Christmas Show?
Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

21.Saddest Christmas Song?
I’ll be Home for Christmas