Gimme 5

[Dudley]

1- concerts
2 - church plays
3 - checking out lights
4 - shopping
5 - christmas parties

Gimme 5 foods you only make at Christmas

[Noel+]

1. Mincemeat Pie
2. Home made yeast rolls
3. Christmas Pudding [Jodie's recipe]
4. 6 pies on 1 day!
5. Butter-injected Turkey

So what 5 traditions would you miss on Christmas Day?

[Dudley]

1- opening presents
2- watching a christmas parade
3- being off work!!!!
4- christmas dinner
5- seeing family

(and I miss the snow)

Gimme 5 themes for a christmas party

[Noel+]

1. Christmas Star
2. Snowflakes
3. CandyKanes [Candy]
4. Ornaments
5. Presents

What are 5 of your favorite Christmas candies?

[Dudley]

(side note: Noel, I can visualize decor for all those themes - thanks!)

Candies:
1 - Fudge
2 - Caramel Nut Turtles
3 - Divinity
4 - Sesame Candy
5 - Peanut Butter and Milk Powder balls
(not a big fan of candy canes)

Gimme 5 places you might like to travel to around Christmas time.

[Noel+]

Oh! I'd love to spend the week before Christmas in:

1. Prince Edward Island, Canada
2. Switzerland
3. Austria
4. Ireland
5. Great Britain

So what are 5 of your favorite type of Christmas cards to send?

[Pretjah]

1- home made
2- my own cartoon christmas cards
3- family photo card
4- heart felt meaning cards
5- with money in them


gimmie 5 restaruants you like to eat at around christmas time

[Noel+]

1. The Cheesecake Factory
2. Outback
3. Mortons
4. Chris Ruth Steakhouse
5. Crate & Barrel

So please share 5 of your favorite local holiday events.

[Pretjah]

1 the lights in the park near Mccorstin Highschool (everyone in Mercer County NJ knows where they are)

2 church christmas diner

3 (i dont live there now but used to live near there and still consider it home) - the winterfest of lights in ocean city MD

4 the two families that go all out with decorations and make it an event for neighboring families to walk around their light festival in hamilton, nj

5 the train village center christmas theme (forget the town name think its pennington or hopewell for get which)


gimmie 5 questions on this thread that you didn't answer but wish you did! B-)

[Noel+]

The last 5 I asked but didn't answer!

Now please share 5 of your favorite gift decorating ideas!

[Pretjah]

1-metallic wrapping paper and ribbon
2-fancy gift bag
3- small present in a big box filled with tons of tissue paper
4-box in a box in box etc
5- newspaper,brown paperbag last minute!!! B-)

gimmie your 5 favorite characters from a christmas movie

[Noel+]

Oh, I have so many!!..............Well, lets try "A Christmas Story"!

Ralphie Parker:
The Old Man (Parker): Ralphie’s Father and a salesman
Mom (Mrs. Parker): Ralphie’s Mother
Randy Parker: Ralphie’s kid brother
Flick: Ralphie best friend


So name me 5 of your favorite Christmas books!

[Pretjah]

1 - bible
2 - an elmo christmas book i read to my kids, i froget the name)
3 - lands end catalog (sorry i'm calling it a book B-)
4 - lee strobel's a case for christmas
5 - ????? i'm stumped on this one


gimmie 5 flavors of coffee, tea, hot chocolate, etc you drink around christmas time

[Noel+]

Yummm.......

1. Rum Eggnog
2. Chocolate Peppermint Hot Chocolate
3. Buttered Rum Hot Toddie
4. Marshmallow Creme Hot Chocolate
5. Peppermint Smoothie

What are 5 of your favorite places to Christmas shop?

[Pretjah]

1 - walmart (thats usually where the kids tell us what they want)
2- jewlery store (for wife usually)
3- catalogs(many different ones)
4- EBAY
5 - QVC


gimmie your 5 favorite christmas song performances (which song performed by which singer or group)?

[Noel+]

1. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
2. Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
3. Christmas Eve - TSO
4. Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen
5. Carol of the Bells - any symphonic orchestra

So what are your favorite 5 Christmas memories?

[Pretjah]

in no particular order

1- when i was a kid about 8 or 9 my parents pulled the old 'hide the big christmas gift' until everything is opened and you think it's all over...then gave me the old electric vibrating football game....i was so excited!!!

2 - my mom used to be very anal about christmas gifts....everyone had to have the same number of gifts and they all had to be with in 2 or 3 dollars in total value. so she would buy these crappie dollar store gifts just for people to ahve something to open...so one year she boat some CD from the dollar store...no one had ever heard of the group or any of their songs...so after opening it and we played it and it was 12 tracks of the same song...we all laughed and i'll always remember it

3 - for years my family would go back to the pittsburgh area for thanksgiving to visit family adn the friday night after thanksgiving is known as light up night in pittsburgh so we'd go ride the incline and walk around and look at the store's decorated windows.

4 - last year was a great year for my christmas with the wife and kids...jsut one of the christmas's i'll always remember

5- when i was younger we always had a train...but one year we went all out and made a huge papermache village with mountains and tunnells took multiple nights just to make the base of the village...i just recently found a picture of it and it really sparked a great memory!


gimmie 5 the five best(use your definition of best(value, personal sentiment, etc) gifts you've ever given someone...

[Dudley]

1 - Oversized Bean Bag Chairs to nephews who moved here with nothing, and they carried them with, move after move (they are now in the army and siad that was the best present anyone had given them)

2 - My mothers Pearls, which I gave to a new Sis in Law, coming to the States for the first time. I wanted her to feel like a real part of the family. She later gave them to her neighbors child at a birthday party. During the party, the excessive twisting and playing broke the string and the pearls went flying everywhere. She was getting a broom to sweep them up and put in the trashbin, but I scooped them up, re-strung them and kept them...

3 - A heart shaped locket for a friend who lost her love.

4 - A felt doll set I made with 100 outfits for a neighbor adopting 2 little girls.

5 - A complete lets'-get-ready-for-baby kit for a new niece. Stroller, car seat, diapers, clothes, bottles, bassinette, tub, changing table, etc).


Gifts are fun to give - I'm asking the same gimme 5 question - how about you?

[Noel+]

1. A Bible to my father
2. A Bible to my mother
3. A scholarship for my brother
4. A transplant for my son
5. Funds in my savings to my Sister for her need

Please share 5 Christmas gifts you would save if you had to lose all the rest.

[Dudley]

Those are truly important gifts!!!!!! Did you say a transplant?!

Christmas gifts I would save are equally as shallow as the ones I gave (above), but I don't have five, 'cuz my family really isn't into Christmas or gifts...

1 - an art set (it was a very thoughtful gift from a caring person who is gone) and I still have it (after 18 years) and treasure it and use it.

So, I pose the same question back to you...