From Teri

1. Colored lights or white lights on your house or not at all? Colored

2. Hot chocolate or Egg Nog? Southern Comfort Vanilla Spice Eggnog. Or even better, put a little bit of that eggnog flavored creamer in with the Hot Chocolate mix. YUM!

3. What's your favorite holiday dish? Velveeta dip with Ground Beef and Rotel

4. Does Santa wrap the presents or just sit them under the tree? Nope, Santa never wrapped

5. Do you hang mistletoe? yes

6. When do you put up your decorations? Usually start the day after Thanksgiving. I finished all the inside yesterday. DH is working on the outside, but says it’s too danged hot out there.

7. What's your favorite holiday tradition? As Kip said: Started a new one, having a stocking pal with my good friends J Actually, just seeing the kids all dressed up on Christmas eve, is a great one.

8. What's on the top of your tree? A purple pointy thing (do those things have names?)

9. Do you have a nativity displayed through the holidays? A couple, including a few miniature ones.

10.Candy Canes, traditional or flavored? Or Chocolate Covered Cherries? Hmmmm...not a fan of either, but I’ll go with the cherries. Love truffles!!!

11.What's your favorite holiday goodie to make and share? Coffee Cake

12.What's your favorite Christmas song? Traditional – Do you Hear What I Hear, Contemporary/Pop – Bing Crosby and David Bowie’s rendition of Little Drummer Boy.

13.When did you learn the truth about the "magic" of Christmas? Truth???? Actually, it was 5th grade, when my grandmother said “You know there’s no Santa Claus, right?” Yep, gotta love dysfuntionality at Christmas.

14.Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? No, not really

15.Is there a special ornament or Christmas decoration that you wouldn't feel like Christmas without? Too many! I’m gonna go with my Snow Globes.

16.Do you take neighbor gifts/treats to anyone, everyone, a select few? No, not really. We do a big Drunco/Bunco party and eat and drink and stuff.

17.Is your big meal on Christmas Eve, Christmas morning or Christmas afternoon? All of the above, just depends on whose house we are at.

18.How do you decorate your tree? It’s a hodge-podge, no rhyme nor reason. Just wherever there is a whole, there goes an ornament.

19.Snow? Love it? Dread it? Tolerate it? Snow, what’s that? I live in Florida for a reason, I HATE the cold.

20.Do you remember a favorite gift? Barbie Dream House.

21.Do you have a family get-together during the holidays with extended family? Yes.

22.What's the most important thing that you must do each Christmas season? Probably the food. Cooking and baking up all kinds of goodies you don’t get any other time of the year. (Shrimp Dip is coming to mind right now)

23.Do you bake Christmas cookies? No, don’t really do cookies. Cakes and Brownies, yes, cookies, not so much.

24.Do you leave cookies and milk for Santa? No Santa visits here.

25.What's your favorite Christmas memory? Hmmm...Just seeing the kids faces when they open their gifts.