Merry Christmas

1.Wrapping paper or gift bags? We're supposed to wrap gifts?

2.Real tree or artificial? Real...we go out and cut it down ourselves

3.When do you put up the tree? Eh...depends on when the mood hits. I wouldn't put one up at all, but the kids and Pat insist.

4.When do you take the tree down? About New Year's

5.Do you like eggnog? Nasty stuff...but I don't drink milk either.

6.Favorite gift you received as a child? My drafting table

7.Do you have a nativity scene? LOL!! Definitely not.

8.Hardest person to buy for? Lucas

9.Easiest person to buy for? Anthony or Meghan

10.Mail or email Christmas cards? Definitely email

11.Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I don't think I've ever received a bad one

12.Favorite Christmas move? Miracle on 34th Street - either version

13.When do you start shopping? December 23

14.Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Only as a joke

15.Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Mom's cookies

16.Clear lights or colored on the tree? Colored...lots of colors

17.Favorite Christmas song? Grandma Got Run Over By a Beer Truck

18.Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home

19.Can you name all of Santa’s Reindeers? Yes

20.Angel on the tree top or a star? Star...who wants to see an angel with a tree up her butt?

21.Open the presents on Christmas ever or morning? We open family presents on Christmas Eve, then get up Christmas morning to see what Santa brought (that didn't work this year, we were gone all night so Santa had been here by the time we got home!)

22.Most annoying thing about this time of year? All of that annoying Christmas music. And everything is closed.

23.Do you have Jesus in your heart this Christmas? No more than I have Martin Luther King in my heart.

24.What would you like for Christmas? The War in Iraq to be over so I don't have to worry about my Marines going there.