What is your favorite and least favorite thing about Christmas?
favorite: it ends after Christmas Day. I usually get some cash for Christmas, so then I can actually go out and enjoy the Christmas season as it is ending, since i never have enough money to party before then. least favorite: the super-annoying family members who turn every gathering into an excuse for starting an argument.
What is you most favorite and least favorite Christmas song?
The song I least like is Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Especially the Bruce Springsteen version.He sees you when you're sleepin'He knows when you're a wakeHe knows if you've been bad or goodSo be good for goodness sakeHow creepy and stalky is Santa in this song?While Silent Night is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, and I’m partial to Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), and Last Christmas by Wham! is genius, there is one that I like better.Carol of the Bells is my favorite, it sounds great whether its sung or as an instrumental.
What is your least favorite Christmas meal?
If we're talking general Christmas fayre, I am not a fan of Turkey. I'd rather have a big chicken if we "have" to have a bird.I don't like putting cranberry sauce on my food!I do like: pigs in blankets, bread sauce, yorkshire puddings, brussel sprouts (really like them fried up the morning after)I always remember one Christmas having slow roasted goat in Mombasa. Delicious!My worst ever Christmas day meal was one year when I was recovering from flu and was on my own. Just raiding the freezer and tin shore to put something together.Still, I had food in the house and a roof over my head!I always feel blessed, because I know there are people that have nothing!So if I am given Turkey I will eat it with a smile on my face. :-)
What's your favorite thing about Christmas?
My favorite thing about Christmas is waking up to Christmas presents underneath the Christmas trees and running towards it in excitement to reach out to the first present.
What is your favorite part about Christmas?
Being inspired by the true Christmas Story. I usually get at least one "God moment" during the Christmas season when the true meaning and spirit of this holiday touches my heart again, sometimes in a new way. It might be during a children's choir program, a worship service, or even just listening to carols around the fire with family or friends. It might be the wonder in a child's eyes at the lights or sounds that lets me see Christmas through his/her eyes, or getting to tell/read the Christmas story to a child for the first time. It might be the heartwarming feeling of giving with no expectation of a gift in return, such as to a charity or needy family anonymously. It might be a glimpse of God's glory or wonder in an unexpected snow or just a bird on the windowsill. Christmas stopped being about presents and commercialism and hoopla for me several years ago when I lost my Dad at Christmastime. Now I reflect on the sacrifice God made in sending His Son to earth to be born as to a humble carpenter in a manger, and ultimately to die on the cross. Christmas is joy and peace and hope, but not without a cost. Here's wishing you all a very Merry Christmas--hope you experience the true reason for the season!
What's your favorite and least favorite Christmas/holiday songs?
my favorite is the war is over by john lennon (ps I LOVE trans siberian orchestra... my science teach BLASTS it around this time!) least favorite: I want a hippopatamus for Christmas
What is your favorite thing about being a teacher? And least favorite?
I got a degree in sports medicine last year. I'm thinking about going back to get a masters in education. I am interested in high school. What is the best part of being a teacher? What is the worst part of being a teacher? What do you teach? Thanks!!
What is your favorite part of the Christmas dinner?
Our particular family never incorporated a large dinner for Christmas. If we had one, it was usually a rerun of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, plus Daddy would go and blow his money on a whole country ham, which Mama never soaked to get the brine out, but baked to death until so salty and dried out you could make footballs out of it for the NFL. None of us kids liked it since we weren’t raised on a farm, and didn’t appreciate the taste of leather for dinner. For a side, she made black sop which is a kind of au jous. Daddy never complained, but just kept on having the strokes in happiness. It was just his way.My sister’s inlaws, on the other hand were a family of proven cooks, and every year, her MIL would cook and invite 50 or more to a big spread. She would cook ham, turkey and dressing, oranges with brown sugar and sweet potatoes inside, country green beans with onions and ham bits, Mashed potatoes piled high and brown gravy, various green dishes and deviled eggs with paprika on top. The dessert table was full to the brim with all kinds of treats, and everyone pitched in and brought their own favorites. As we ran a restaurant, we’d close it down one day and seat everyone there. Of course, we got wrangled into being foodline servers, but when it was an all day event, we got to get a plate and join in.There were no better cooks any where, but I most enjoyed being with those people. Sister married when I was ten, and so I’d grown up with them as part of my extended family, and never considered myself as horning in. MIL treated me like a friend all year long and I felt that way about all her kids and grandkids, as I never married myself, and Sister and I are joined at the hip. We’ve never been apart since childhood. She even lives with me now, since her hubby died. We picked guitars and autoharps and blew harmonicas, and sang for hours and just had fun. That was my favorite part. Lots of those folks are gone now and dearly missed.
What's your favorite thing to do in Christmas? Besides opening presents.
I love all of the decorations & lights.Over the last few years, it’s become a tradition that we go to a Carol Service. So, tonight was this years one.I love wearing Christmas Jumpers. I have around 15 in my collection.I love Christmas Dinner, especially my mum’ homemade stuffing!I love watching Christmas Movies or watching classic old films that they only show on tv around Christmas time.