Christmas Meme

For the holiday season,Hootin' Anni has started a meme. "The Twelve Questions of Christmas" If you'd like to participate, I'd be honored to have you to go down to the Over 50 list and join in the fun. Here are my answers

1. Christmas is. [fill in the blank with ONE WORD] Children

2. In memories, what was the best part of your Christmases past? When I was 11 my parents bought us a record player and each went out to buy records and came back with the same ones. The one set we gave to cousins of ours for their Christmas.

3. Was Santa ever good to you? [describe how and what] Christmas as a child was not one of my favorite holidays. I was scared of Santa and ran when I saw one.

4. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or both? For us when the girls were home they got to open one on Christmas Eve and it usually was the one from an older lady who had adopted them as grandchildren and the ones from us on Christmas morning.

5. Is there something you make each and every year? [craft or recipe] Not really, I am not a crafty person

6. What is your favorite five[5] Christmas songs/hymns?
1. Silent Night
2. O Holy Night
3. Ring The Bells
4. Mary Did You Know by Mark Lowery
5. We Three Kings

7. Is there a new tradition for Christmas since your childhood days? While the girls were at home we set aside Christmas Eve day as a day to make no baked treats to give to friends and family the evening of Christmas Eve.

8. Describe one of your Christmas trips. [whether it's across town or across country]
This was across town. (Three brothers married three sisters, one set were my parents) All three set had Christmas with the rest of my Dad's family and my Mom and Aunts would have to make English pudding that took a brandy sauce to go over the top for the desert. I remember my mom and her sisters going into a room off the kitchen of my aunts house and they would finish off the rest of the bottle during the day. My Grand Father never caught on what his daughter-in-laws were doing. We cousins always had fun making up a play to present in the afternoon after all the adults got done playing cards. This happened for many years as we were growing up.

9. Do you have a special Christmas outfit to wear for the day? Not really.

10. Have YOU or any of your family members sat on Santa's lap? Yes, we have many pictures of our girls setting on Santa's lap.

11. What is/or will be on your Christmas tree this year? On one will be angles. On another will be all the ornaments that the girls made at school or Sunday school. and one will have an English theme

12. Do you/or have you decorated your yard for Christmas? No, for many years we lived in a basement home in the side of a hill and in the last 10 years are living in the upstairs that we built over the basement.

Answering these questions brought back some very pleasant memories and I hope you will go to Hottin' Anni's site and read hers and maybe do something like this on your blog. All have a very blessed Christmas.