Jaci Dawn

My friend, Deanna, had this on her blog, Tea With Dee, &  invited me to use it. Since tonight I am just tired and have nothing useful to say, I’m borrowing it. Just for fun. 🙂

1.) Have you started your Christmas shopping? Well, it is halfway through December… Yes, but I am by no means done.

2.) Tell me about one of your special traditions.  Christmas stockings. We don’t really have any traditions that have been passed on from generation to generation except for the filling of stockings. Funny, but my husband’s family apparently did not do this. I made his forst stocking when we got married. He loved the idea, though, and the tradition has carried on down through our children.

3.) When do you put up your tree? The day after Thanksgiving (or that weekend).

4.) Are you a Black Friday shopper? Only for a Christmas tree and we try to go toward the mountains (away from malls & stores) to do that.

5.) Do you travel at Christmas or stay home? Now that the kids are grown: we stay home. In our youth, we traveled over the mountains every Christmas for the family spread in eastern Oregon. Ice, snow, freezing rain, and black ice. Yeah. Fun. (Family was fun, the travel was NOT.)

6.) What is your funniest Christmas memory? So many. We always had a good time at Christmas. A few: the year the snow slid off the roof in a pattern that made it look just like Santa’s sleigh really had landed there (and my brother told us that Santa really did – God bless big brothers). Playing Aggravation until I laughed so hard (because I was losing) that I peed my pants. Meeting my future sister-in-law Julie for the first time and hitting it off so well that we got a tad bit too snockered together… The year Levi got “air head replacement” in his stocking (he wasn’t impressed but the rest of us thought it was funny). Just so many!!

7.) What is your favorite Christmas movie of all time? Mine? Not sure I have one. Don loves It’s a Wonderful Life and Arwen loves Elf.

8.) Do you do your own Christmas baking? Absolutely. My favorite is probably the rolled sugar cookies with frosting & decorations. I spent hours on them yesterday (is that insane??)…

9.) Fake or real tree? REAL. We had a fake tree for years when I was a kid and it was never the same. There was no hunting for the perfect tree. And you have to have a  funny, flawed Charlie Brown tree to dress up with ornaments. It’s a tradition to go find the BEST tree (and DON always gets to choose. He’s like a little kid.)

10.) What day (as a mom) does the actual panic set in to get it all done? I do not panic. HAHAHA – right after the deadline for any snail mail to actually get to its destination by 12/24 and I still haven’t mailed Christmas cards. That’s when.

11.) Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? Yes.

12.) What is your favorite family fun time at Christmas? All of it.

13.) What Christmas craft do you like the best? Making the wreath. I refuse to buy a wreath.

14.) Christmas music? Already answered this: yes. I like the old stand-bys, but my favorite has been posted already: Snoopy’s Christmas.

15.) When do you plan to finish all your shopping? 12/24

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