To my readers without live journals - please feel free to write. You can post an "anonymous" comment, but please tag them with your name so I know who you are!

I think mine came out pretty cool.

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? 90% Wrapping paper

2. Real tree or artificial? Artificial, I'm allergic to real ones

3. When do you put up the tree? Whenever we actually get around to it, but usually second or third week of Advent

4. When do you take the tree down? Some time in January when I actually get a chance

5. Do you like eggnog? Not the store bought, mucousy kind

6. Favorite gift received as a child? play kitchen

7. Do you have a nativity scene? Three - one nice porcelain, one small glass and Colin's Fischer-Price Little People version

8. Hardest person to buy for? me

9. Easiest person to buy for? C Raz

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I plead the fifth

11. Mail or email Christmas cards? mail, Christmas creations

12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Love, Actually

13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? mainly in November, but sometimes I have a few random gifts earlier

14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Yes

15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Used to be some fabulous chocolate thing...

16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? clear

17. Favorite Christmas song? I really like one of the choir songs we sang last night He Is The Light of The World

18. Travel for Christmas or stay at home? Both

19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Yes

20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Last year angel, this year star

21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Morning? Usually do some on Christmas Eve, but with singing in two services last night, did all this morning.

22. Most annoying thing about this time of year? Not being able to find Andy his Wii! Boycott hard to find electronics on ebay!

23. What I love most about Christmas? watching C Raz open his presents

24. Favorite animated holiday TV show? Charlie Brown Christmas

I <3 my new DVR.

I don't <3 that I had to run home for a couple hours yesterday since my husband didn't take enough time off work yesterday for the time it took the guys to get there and install it.

I have Christmas cards to out-of-state people in the mail already. (Okay, almost all - still a few addresses I'm scrounging around to find.) I'd have in town people set too if I hadn't run out of envelopes.

Thanks to Mindi and Susan for the creative production day we had last month!

Yay, me!

Saturday spent the day at Mindi and Glen's. The ladies worked on Xmas cards, the guys watched the OSU/UM game. Colin bounced back and forth. Later we all played Wii. I couldn't get into my groove on the bowling like I had when I played at Cheri and Jerry's. But then we played golf and I won! I got a 48. Others were 51, 58 and 70!

Andy had asked Santa (aka me) for a Wii for Xmas, but we hadn't realized that it was still such an in demand item. Can't find them anywhere. Mindi was able to get theirs by calling Costco every day for two weeks to find out when the shipment was coming in, and then waiting outside the store before it opened for an hour.

So if anyone who reads this can find one more readily in their area, please let me know!