Gimme 5

[Noel+]

1. A locked music box to hide treasures.
2. A horse of my own
3. Favorite books in hardback editions
4. Chocolate candy [I'm allergic]
5. A special doll [store window]

Now please share 5 gifts you received that you were disappointed in but never told anyone else!

[Jodie]

1 - A handbag from my MIL (It was more her style)

2 - Some crystalised chocolate covered ginger

3 - A bottle of wine - I thought it was nice and when I opened it, it was off

4 - Some perfume from my mother (once again, it was her style of perfume)

5 - Some chocolate covere macadamia nuts - they had all melted together but were still yummy.

For the record, I still have the handbag and the perfume because I can't bring myself to give them away as I believe it is the thought that counts. So even though they are not my style and I will probably never use them, I will keep them because they remind me of mum and MIL.

The wine was tipped out and the ginger was thrown away too but we ate the macacdamia's was just a shame they had all melted.

These were the only things I could think of, I am so lucky because usually I get the best presents.

Gimme 5 of the foods you dislike the most that are served at Christmas

[Noel+]

1. Fruitcake!
2. Asparagus
3. Prime Rib
4. Apple Cider
5. Hard candies

Share with us 5 unfilled Christmas dreams!

[Pretjah]

1. Fruitcake!
2. Asparagus
3. Prime Rib <------WHAT??????
4. Apple Cider
5. Hard candies

Share with us 5 unfilled Christmas dreams!

1- go to the macy's thanksgiving parade ( i know it's thanksgiving but it's got a christmas theme too it)
2- spend christmas in the mountains in a cabin
3- be able to spend more on my folks and inlaws then they spend on us (soon very soon)
4- go see the lighting of the tree at rockefeller center
5- snowy sleigh ride with wife and kids


okay give us the 5 top presents you are hoping for this year (and no sappy Steve Martin type all the kids of the world come together and sing in perfect harmony type presents lolol just kidding)

[Noel+]

1. Time off the week of Christmas [really!]
2. A cold, cloudy, sprinkling day on Christmas [closest we get to winter]
3. A new wallet by Kathy Van Zeeland
4. The new Narnia flick on DVD
5. The new Celtic Woman dvd

Now please share 5 of your favorite relatives.........but no names please!

[Jodie]

1. My Sister, she is so special to me

2. My maternal Grandmother because she shares all those lovely Christmas recipes with us

3. My parents (sorry can't separate them, love them both equally)

4. My Brother, I never get to see him anymore because we live so far apart

5. Hubby and both sons - where would I be without them.

Gimme 5 halloween costumes that you liked

[jlcarey]

Cousin It
Daisy Duck
Garfield
Scarecrow
Grandma (who got run over by a reindeer) (SO funny...wish you all could have seen this costume! We brought a little of our early Christmas spirit into Halloween, lol)

Gimme 5 of your favorite activities at Christmastime!

[Noel+]

1. Caroling!
2. Church
3. Decorating the trees/house
4. Christmas music!
5. Watching someone open a gift with delight and a sparkle in their eyes!


What are 5 of your favorite ways to wrap a gift?

[Pretjah]

What are 5 of your favorite ways to wrap a gift?

in no particular order

1-macy's thanksgiving day parade, watching it with my daughters (i know it's thanksgiving but it has santa and christmas music and for me it's the official start of christmas time)

2- setting up my tree and christmas village and playing witht he train

3- shopping for that last minute gift i need to get

4- being around family

5- going out and looking at christmas lights with the family


okay now give me the 5 best gifts you've ever gotten( note best doesn't mean most valuable price wise, but at the time you were so very very excited to get it fro me it was the vibrating football game i got back in 1983)

[Noel+]

These are the gifts I'll always cherish:

1. a rubber doll from Korea my father [US Marines] sent me for Christmas when I was 5
2. a lighted Christmas angel tree topper my Dad bought at a local drugstore in 1973 -- he worried/looked for over an hour hoping it would please us all.
3. A hand crocheted/hand embroidered set of pillowcases my Mom loving made for me in 1985
4. A Christmas ornament made by each child
5. Every ornament given to us by family/friends

[color]

What are your 5 favorite sounds of Christmas?

[Jodie]

1 - Carolling

2 - Bells

3 - Children opening presents

4 - The hustle and bustle of busy people

5 - The peace and quiet on Christmas eve after Carols in the park has finished, everyone has gone home, the presents are wrapped and everyone is in bed and I am getting ready for bed.

Gimme 5 of your favourite flavours of Christmas

[Winterself]

1..pumkin
2..orange glazed ham
3..eggnog
4..peanut butter fudge
5..sugar cookies


gimme 5 things about christmas that make you happy??

[Pretjah]

1 seeing my kids faces when they get to see all their presents
2 sitting down and eating the breakfast i cook at my inlaws
3 hanging around my family in the afternoon after all the presents have been opened, and my wife, mother and sister are in the kitchen cooking and the rest of us are goofing off
4 sitting down with my wife on christmas eve with all the lights off except the tree vilalge and candles and just some soft christmas music and enjoying being next to each other
5 the build up til christmas i love the excitement as it grows the closer the 25th comes.


gimmie the 5 christmas songs you would select if you could only listen to 5 christmas songs the rest of your life (and if you can which performer singing them)

[Noel+]

1. White Christmas by Bing Crosby
2. Bless This House by Perry Como
3. TSO: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
4. Coventry Carol by Celtic Woman
5. Silent Night -- orchestral or vocal

Now please share 5 of your favorite things to do after your home is decorated for the big day!

[Jodie]

1. put the lights on every day to enjoy them
2. take lots of photos of the decorations to share with eveyone on line
3. keep adding to the Christmas cards that are hung in the lounge room as they arrive
4. turn on the snow globe lights and music to listen to
5. put Christmas carols on and bake - the smell of Christmas baking and a house full of decorations is my idea of perfection.

Gimme 5 of your favourite Christmas smells

[Noel+]

1. Christmas tree fragrance
2. Pumpkin pie!
3. Apple Cidar
4. SNOW!
5. Rain, if no snow!


So what are your favorite ways to countdown to the BIG day?!

[Jodie]

1 - with an advent calendar (starts December 1)

2 - watching the shops put their decorations up (starts anytime after Fathers day in September)

3 - putting our outside lights up (starts anytime from November)

4 - baking all the Christmas goodies (starts in October for Christmas cakes and puddings)

5 - wrapping presents on Christmas eve (Christmas eve ritual)

Gimme 5 of your most memorable Christmas events

[Pretjah]

Gimme 5 of your most memorable Christmas events

in no particular order

1 - getting my electric football game (the kind that vibrated with the little players on the board)

2 - going into pittsburgh and looking at the windows the times my family goes back for thanksgiving on the night after thanksgiving

3 - all the breakfasts the last few years at my inlaws

4- as a kid my family had a tradition of every christmas eve everyone would draw a picture that represented what that christmas meant to them and we'd all look at them and my dad would give out "awards" that were presents he had picked out for each person and he'd make up awards like most colorful, most detailed etc.

5 - the feeling of sitting alone with my wife drinking, coffee, hot chocolate or wine with the lights off and only the tree and our christmas village on listening to christmas music enjoying being with my wife



okay 5 favorite decorations you put up each year

[ksrjreed]

1. Over my front door I have a sign that says my best friends are flakes with two snowflakes on it,
2. my charlie brown christmas tree
3. nativity scene
4. dinner table centerpiece, it is a sleigh with flowers in it
5. all of my outside lights,






Now, give me 5 Christmas TV specials you cannot miss.

[suzysnowflake]

1. Charlie Browns Christmas
2. Olive the Other Reindeer
3. Anabelle's Wish
4. The Year Without a Santa Claus
5. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer





Now gimme 5 of your favorite Christmas carols