The Christmas Tag

It began over at Lizzie’s Logic, the Christmas Tag. Then Moontides tagged me! The rules are as follows:

 ~Copy and paste the questions to your blog

~Then Tag 5 or more of your favorite blogs and leave them a comment telling them they have been tagged.

~When you post your blog, please spread some Holiday Cheer, and leave a link back to Heather’s Blog as well as the one to the blog of the person who tagged you.

The Questions:


1.) Have you started your christmas shopping?  Yep, I shop all year. Now I am just picking up or making extended family items and stocking stuffers.


2.) Tell me one of your special traditions. The cookie baking is one. Because of some of my family history, I am looking to make new traditions that extend our celebrations the entire month instead of focusing on one day. Last year we incorporated stringing cranberries and popcorn. This year we are adding handmaking pretzel wreaths (blog post about that coming soon!) to hang on the tree that we can eat Christmas Day or on Winter Solstice. Not sure when we will yet lol.


3.) Are you a “Black Friday” shopper? absolutely not! I don’t know why people think pushing and shoving over items is part of Christmas/Yule cheer.


4.) When do you put up your tree? We get our tree on Dec 6th, my oldest’s birthday. Since she has a Dec bday we try to celebrate her first and then set out as a family to go pick one out. Depending on what day her birthday falls on and how late it is will depend on if we decorate that night.


5.) Do you travel for Christmas or just stay home? We usually stay home but this year we are traveling 15 hrs to Homestead Florida. Kinda excited about it but I am not happy about not having a tree. And since we won’t be here, it didn’t seem right to go out and buy one.


6.) What is your funniest Christmas memory? The year my hubs put my present in a tampon box. I seriously thought he bought and wrapped some dang tampons! If I remember correctly, it was a glass reindeer to put on our table.


7.) What is my most favorite christmas show of all time? The original Grinch. Best story EVER!


8.) Do you do your own baking? yes!


9.) Fake or real tree? Real. Grew up with fake trees and it wasn’t fun to set one up. Plus after reading up on fake trees, they cause ALOT of damage to our earth. At least real trees can be purchased with roots for planting or if you get a traditional cut one, it can be recycled into mulch and firewood.


10. What day (as a mom) does the actual panic set in to get it all done? I usually don’t panic. This year I am though because we have to have everything done before we go out of town and some changes were made to how we are exchanging gifts and we didn’t find out until recently. It will all get worked out though.

 
11.) Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas eve? No. Might be this year, but I am shooting to have it done before I leave.


12.) What is your favorite family fun time at Christmas? Eating. Yea, I totally look forward to chowing down on Christmas goodies, turkey (no ham for me cause it’s gross and stuff), and all the trimmings.


13.) What is my favorite christmas craft? Ya know, I don’t think I have one favorite lol. I like finding new ones each year. Mostly things like making mini christmas/yule soaps, christmas/yule candles,  making snowflakes out of construction paper, and even garland from construction paper.


14.) Christmas music? Yes or No? If so, whats your favorite song? Yes. My fave is Carol of the Bells.


15.) When do you hope to finish all your christmas shopping? I should be done by the 21st. I really don’t want to have to shop as soon as  I get to Homestead!

Instead of tagging, if you read it…..do it!