{"id":1245,"date":"2006-12-09T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:37:57","slug":"christmas-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Christmas meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Lynne at Hasty Brook<\/a>:<\/span>
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1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? I’m not crazy for either, but eggnog is much better with kahlua and lots of ice.<\/em><\/span>
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Santa wraps and he prefers vintage papers and lots of bows.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>3. Colored lights on tree\/house or white? White.<\/em><\/span>
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No.<\/em><\/span>
5. When do you put your decorations up? Usually during the week before.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? My SIL’s sister makes a fantastic sweet potato casserole. My husband and I like to make a casserole with brussels sprouts and roasted chestnuts. Growing up we always had lasagna on Christmas and that was the only time my mom made it. My dad used to make a great antipasto platter for Christmas Eve while we decorated the tree.<\/em><\/span>
7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? The first year after my parents were divorced my brother Kevin and I went to my dad’s while he was out and put up and decorated a tree for him, so that when he came into the apartment and switched on the lights only the Xmas tree came on. I still remember him calling and how surprised he was.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I’m not sure I know what you mean. Is Santa hiding some dark secret?<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>9. Do you open gifts Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? Christmas, although it’s usually late that night when my husband and I get around to exchanging gifts because we’re running around to family all day.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? When we get a real tree I like to use country-style and handmade ornaments. Our artificial tree is sort of unique and on that one we use all glass ornaments – thousands of them.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>11. Snow – Love it or dread it? Love it, love it, love it!<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>12. Can you ice skate? Sort of. The last time I did was on my honeymoon.<\/em><\/span>
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? (as a child) I think it may have been that game called <\/em>Simon<\/em><\/a> – I played with that forever.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>14. What’s the most exciting thing about the holidays for you? Being off work for a week!<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Homemade cookies. I love <\/em>Mexican Wedding Cakes<\/em><\/a> (some people call these butterballs).<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Going to the candlelight service on Christmas Eve. We also spend forever opening gifts and I love to shake all the boxes and try to guess what’s inside, which drives everyone nuts.<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>17. What tops your tree? That depends on which tree we decorate. I have a Santa that I put on the real tree. The fake tree is a little complicated to explain. \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>18. Which do you prefer- giving or receiving? I love to give, but have a hard time coming up with good ideas.<\/em><\/span>
19. What is your favorite Christmas song? “O Little Town of Bethlehem”<\/em><\/span>
<\/em>20. Candy canes? Blech! Hate them. Give me a cookie instead!<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Lynne at Hasty Brook:1. Eggnog or hot chocolate? I’m not crazy for either, but eggnog is much better with kahlua and lots of ice.2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree? Santa wraps and he prefers vintage papers and lots of bows.3. Colored lights on tree\/house or white? White.4. Do … Continue reading Christmas meme<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}