I've been tagged!

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate. Unless the egg nog is nonalcoholic and has been "watered down" with Sprite or 7-up. Even then, I can only drink a few sips.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? At our house, he has done both ... this year, he will be doing both. Wrapped for the grownups and unwrapped for the kidlet.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? Yes. Pre-lit tree is colors, house has white. The other tree would be white if I'd put it up and strung lights, but didn't this year.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No. It is poison.
5. When do you put your decorations up? The first Sunday in Dec. this year (every other year it was the day after Thanksgiving, but uh, hubby thought that was too soon).
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Sweet potato casserole? Honey-baked ham? Hashbrown casserole? I.e., anything FATTENING.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? Sleeping under the piano with my brother, and/or looking at the Christmas tree lights with my glasses off (they're all blurry that way).
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? A friend told me. I was around 8. I was mad.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Usually.
10 How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I have a few glass balls for filler, but mostly a hodge podge of ornaments from Christmas trees past, vacations etc., plus the girls in our family usually get a new ornament every Christmas and those are all on there.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Blech.
12. Can you ice skate? Yes, and would go with the whole family if hubby didn't hate snow more than I do.
13. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Family time and the true reason for Christmas (NOT santa, the other One, the Savior).
14. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Anything I've made or cookies H sent. lol
15. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Reading the Christmas story out of the Bible on Christmas Eve with the kids, then reading a storybook about a Russian woman called Babushka who had a chance to see the Christ child but didn't, and then spent the rest of her life searching for Him, giving presents to children she found in case it was Him. Then everyone gets a gift (little ones -- like from the dollar store -- something the kids can play with that night and break before they get their real toys the next day, and semi-gag gifts for the grownups).
16. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? Yes.
17. What are favorite Christmas Songs? Mary's Lullaby, White Christmas, Let it Snow, The First Noel, Breath of Heaven, The Holly and the Ivy, O Little Town of Bethlehem, etc. etc. etc. I LOVE Christmas music and usually start listening in November, but out of respect for hubby, I chose not to this year.

If you've read this, consider yourself tagged!