Gimme 5

[Christmas Crazy]

1. Christmas Tree
2. Santa picture above the fireplace
3. Snowmen
4. Animated Santa and Mrs. Claus figures
5. Mistletoe

Gimme 5 tips for planning for Christmas.

[Noel+]

1. Be organized
2. Sort through old ornaments and discard broken ones when packing up items
3. Choose a theme, color and assortment each January for your tree that Christmas so when you shop you coordinate items.
4. Make a meal plan........and check it more than twice.
5. Focus on Jesus -- the greatest gift of the season.

Please share 5 of your favorite meditations/authors for Christmas.

[Pretjah]

1 - Luke
2 - Dr Seuss
3 - Dickens
4 - Philip Van Doren Stern
5 - John Hughes


gimmie 5 places that you'd love to spend Christmas that you NEVER HAVE.

[Christmas Crazy]

1. Vermont
2. Colorado
3. Hawaii
4. Home (We have always went to Indiana over Christmas)
5. North Pole

Gimme 5 Christmas songs/carols you would like to hear on Christmas Eve.

[Noel+]

On Christmas Eve I prefer 'songs celebrating the birth of my Savior Jesus:

O Holy Night
Silent Night
Mary Did you Know
O COme All Ye Faithful
Noel


What are your 5 favorite type of light strings to use at Christmas?

[Pretjah]

colored blinking led - made to look antique on the outside of my main tree in our living room
colored solid led made to look antique on the inside of my main tree in our living room

solid white led small that i use under the pulled cotton on my christmas village to light up the snow and buildings

solid white led normal that go on the kids tree in the dining room

blinking white normal lights that are on our "rustic" tree in our bed room beside our bedroom fire place.


gimmie the first 5 things you will do this christmas morinng?

[Noel+]

1. Say a Christmas prayer for family & friends
2. Morning church service
3. Call family to wish them a Merry Christmas
4. Fix a grand breakfast
5. Open presents

Please share 5 of your favorite extra gifts to keep on hand for a welcome, but unexpected, Christmas visitor.

[Pretjah]

1...REGIFT LOLOL
2...christmas cookie tin
3...i've given a watch as a gift to an unexpected guest
4...also given a knife as a gift to an unexpected guest
5...also given a tie as a gift to an unexpected guest


gimmie 5 gifts that you want this year

[Noel+]

The greatest gifts cannot be purchased with money but these would be 5 small surprises:

1. Perfume
2. Dinner Date
3. Hand drawn card
4. new Journal
5. new caligraphy pen

Please share 5 of your Christmas guilty pleasures

[Pretjah]

1 - laying around watching xmas movies and cartoons
2 - over eating at family dinenrs
3 - over eating on xmas cookies
4 - driving around with the kids looking at lights
5 - surprising my wife with a gift she didn't expect



gimmie the next five xmas related things you will be doing this year?

[Noel+]

1. Christmas baking
2 Christmas costumes
3Christmas shopping
4Church services and parties
5 Christmas carolling


What are 5 favorite Christmas candies?

[Pretjah]

1 red & green Xmas m&M's
2 the christmas wrapped knock off peppermint patties
3 chocolate covered cherries
4 the lifesaver xmas gift boxes (we used to always get a pack at xmas as a kid a great memory considering we didn't have much money and this was a tradition that went on for about 10+ years)
5 xmas cookie s(not technically a candy but i'm counting it)


gimmie 5 xmas movies you plan on watching next?

[Winterself]

1.Christmas with the Kranks
2.Home alone
3.National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
4.Elf
5.Rudolf the red nosed reindeer




gimme 5 of the best gifts you ever got????

[Noel+]

1. A trip back to Indy at Christmas !
2. Snow at Christmas up north.
3. Bright shiny stars, a sparkling outdoor Christmas farm house in Indy, and all my family together.
4. A beautiful midnight mass complete with bell choir, singing choir, children's message and a great memorial to Jesus.
5. A quiet hour after everyone was in bed, before midnight, on Christmas Eve to praise my Lord Jesus.

Please give me 5 of your favorite most wished for adventures at Christmas time.

[Pretjah]

1 would love to do a family christmas in a large cabin in the mountains some year before my folks are too old

2 being able to have my kids wake up in their own house on xmas (we could do this but we are always at my inlaws on xmas morning)

3 we use an artificial tree but one of these years we will be going out and "hunting" for a live tree to bring home (not from a lot)

4 i've not done this for years but i miss the last minute xmas eve shopping frenzy for that one last perfect gift

5 i'd love to live in my xmas train village just for a day



gimmie you 5 favorite things that will be on your table for breakfast this christmas?

[Noel+]

Christmas bacon/egg/cheese casserole
Croissants with fruit puree
Pancakes and waffles with syrup
Fresh fruit
Cinnamon Rolls

What are 5 of your favorite Christmas Eve actiities?

[Christmas Crazy]

1. Watching Christmas movies.
2. Going to church.
3. Sitting by the fireplace and eating Christmas cookies.
4. Spending the time with the kids.
5. Reading "A visit from St. Nicholas (Twas the night before Christmas)".

Gimme 5 people (currently living) that you would like to say Merry Christmas to face to face that you've never talked to before. (famous or otherwise)

[Noel+]

5 special people:
1. Bob Dylan because I love his early Christian songs
2. Dona Gelsinger because I adore her artwork
3. Billy Graham because I admire him
4. The last of the Marine Raiders who served with my Dad because they are too ill to travel now
5. A real Christmas Elf

Please share 5 of your favorite secret Christmas wishes that only Santa knows you carry in your heart.

[Christmas Crazy]

5 special people:
1. Bob Dylan because I love his early Christian songs
2. Dona Gelsinger because I adore her artwork
3. Billy Graham because I admire him
4. The last of the Marine Raiders who served with my Dad because they are too ill to travel now
5. A real Christmas Elf

Please share 5 of your favorite secret Christmas wishes that only Santa knows you carry in your heart.

5 Secret Christmas Wishes:

1. Top of the line, state of the art Computer Server.
2. A Commadore Vic20 or 64 computer.
3. An Adobe Creative Cloud Plan - All Apps Level.
4. Mac Book Pro.
5. World Peace

Gimme 5 first names of friends/relatives that you would love to see this Christmas but probably won't.

[Pretjah]

1 & 2 - mom & dad ( will see them about 2 weeks before christmas but not at christmas)
3 - Mark brother
4 - john - best friend since elementary school
5 - sarah - another friend i probably will see about 2 weeks before but not around christmas


gimmie 5 christmas treats/foods you can't wait to eat