25 days of christmas – part i

It’s clear that I’m not a Scrooge – I love anything that has to do with Christmas!

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I saw this blogging challenge of Jenny’s blog, and I thought it would be fun to do a post each week of the blogging challenges she came up with. Today I’m going to be answering #1-7, and each Saturday until the end of the challenge I’ll be answering more! Woohoo for blogging on the weekends!

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1. Your favorite Christmas movie – Oh gosh, this is a hard one. It’s not my absolute favorite, but the one that holds the most memories for me is A Christmas Story. It’s my dad’s favorite, and every year that movie would be on the television for 24 hours straight. At night when we couldn’t sleep because we were too excited, my sister, brother, and I would snuggle up in my sister’s bed and watch it until our parents would finally let us get up and open presents.

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2. Your 2012 Christmas wish list – I had a really hard time with any sort of Christmas list this year. I told the Husband I didn’t really need anything and that he could surprise me. Otherwise, I told family members the following:

• Starbuck’s gift card
• Sephora gift card
• Blackberry Winter by Sarah Jio
• Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
• a new phone cover
• Taylor Swift Wonderstruck perfume (smells SO good! I’m picky about perfumes)

Aaaand, that’s all I could come up with!

3. When/how did you learn that Santa wasn’t real?

I’m really not sure. I remember being skeptical starting in about second grade, and one year my mom totally dropped the bomb and put a package under the tree for my dad from Santa way too early. Plus, it was something she bought when we were all with her (BBQ sauce from Rainforest Cafe – I didn’t know Santa could get that! haha!). My sister marched downstairs where my mom was cutting hair (I think my sister was in 6th or 7th grade) to probably tell her what she had done. My sister then came back upstairs and said “eh, Santa isn’t real”. I think I’d figured it out way before that though!

4. Favorite Christmas song – O Holy Night, but only if the person singing it doesn’t screw it up!

5. Best gift you’ve ever received – Eeeek, I don’t know! I have an extremely generous family and am always receiving wonderful presents. I will have to say the one I remember the most though was the pink vanity table I got when I about six or seven!

6. Your favorite Christmas tree ornament – This is too hard!!! My parents give us an ornament every single Christmas, and each one have a memory behind them.

7. Most Memorable Christmas – The Christmas we were first married. I remember being so so sad that Thanksgiving that I wasn’t at my parents’ house and participating in my family’s traditions. But that Christmas was so wonderful because we were able to start our own traditions as our little family. That was also the Christmas we had gotten Charlie just two days before, so there was a lot of commotion going on. It was a lot of fun!

Question: Take one of the questions above and answer them for yourself!

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