Manda and Heather tagged me in a Christmas Meme. It’s officially December, so how could I resist?
1. Have you started your Christmas shopping? Of course, all online baby!
2. Tell me about one of your special traditions. If you read this post, or this one, then you know how much NYC and Christmas mean to me. Every year, I try to go to the city to see the REAL tree with my man!
3. When do you put up your Tree? The day after Thanksgiving.
4. Are you a Black Friday shopper? Limited parking, long lines, crazy crowds, no thanks.
5. Do you travel at Christmas or stay home? No travelling here. We’re always in NJ.
6. What is your funniest Christmas memory? As a child, I always left cookies and a shot for Santa. Now, I love watching my son do the same. It’s both funny and so cute.
7. What is your favorite Christmas movie of all time? It’s a Wonderful Life
8. Do you do your own Christmas baking, what’s your favorite treat? If it’s a good cut and dump, I’m baking it. But my mom makes the best snowballs, and those are my favorite.
9. Fake or Real Tree? Well, here’s the deal. My hubs and I were so excited to get a REAL tree for our first Christmas as a married couple. We were living in our cute condo and we were SO excited…until we realized the ridiculous mess our first real tree left for us. This cleanup did us in. Our first real tree quickly became our last. Since then, we’ve been fakin’ it all the way!
10. What day (as a mom) does the actual panic set in to get it all done? I don’t think I ever feel “totally” done until Christmas morning!
11. Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve? Usually not, unless it’s a last minute gift.
12. What is your favorite family fun time at Christmas? Just spending some QT together!
13. What Christmas craft do you like the best? Making photo ornaments of the kids.
14. Christmas music? (Yes or No) If yes, what is your favorite song? Yes! My favorites are Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley and Santa Baby by Madonna.
15. When do you plan to finish all of your shopping? This week…I am almost done! 😉
Now, I’m supposed to tag 5 bloggers, but I thought it would be more fun to let anyone who wants to play along to grab this meme! Just simply copy and paste the questions into your blog, and then answer them. So go spread some Christmas cheer!
As a side note, I am excited to begin Time Out for Theta Mom Thursday again. So, in the midst of shopping, baking, working, blogging and being a mom, give yourself a timeout! Post about it on your blog this Thursday, link up here and meet some new bloggy friends! Can’t wait to see what you’ve all been up to! If you’re not familiar with Theta Mom Thursday, read this post to get acquainted and I hope you join us!
i have a similar picture and actually scrapped a whole page dedicated to ‘our last real tree’ the mess! love the new place at WP! how are you liking it?
Ooooh, love the Q&A. Sorry I didn’t see this earlier. I am NOT getting your updates
I have to click over to you directly. GASP!
I love reading all these that people are posting. All I have to say about the tree mess? I am SO not going with hubbys idea to get a real tree this year!
.-= Sara @ domestically challenged´s last blog ..Again, will I ever learn? =-.
I would love to have a real Christmas tree, but hubby doesnt like the real ones.
.-= Heather´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday =-.
What a great list! And what a mess that tree made. Wow, it had to take forever to clean it all up!
.-= 2 Toddlers and Me´s last blog ..Our Tree is Up! =-.
I agree we are totally about the fake tree too! That was a lot of needles! Funny pic though I’m sure it wasn’t so funny to clean up!
.-= Allison´s last blog ..Oh the horror! =-.
I’m still doing the real tree, although it is SO painful to clean up (very accurate picture!)
I also absolutely LOVE nyc at Christmastime. It’s so special. Looking forward to watching the tree lighting on TV tonight.
Fun meme! I will play along over at my blog, too.
I love Blue Christmas by Elvis!
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I can’t believe you are almost done shopping. I am so jealous! I need to get going.
I got tagged as well. I need to get my post done. Hope your week is going well. It is soooo cold here!
.-= clueless mama´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday…My Baby HEAT MISER! =-.
LOL – I nominated you but you’ve already done it – oh well!
.-= Heather D.´s last blog ..Christmas Fun – Getting to Know You =-.
What a great post!!
I hear ya on the real tree thing as well. My living room looked quite similar. . . I still break out in a sweat thinking about it! So, I’m a “faker” too now.
A shot for Santa…wow. This is a great post.
.-= Tami @ HeartsMakeFamilies´s last blog ..Giving =-.
Very cool site – looking forward to reading more! Following from Heather’s blog and MBC!
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