NHG: Christmas/holiday favorites?

[mrs.jacinthe]

What's your favorite Christmas/holiday ... 

1. Cookie?
2. Movie?
3. Song?
4. Activity?
5. Tradition?
6. Beverage?

[simpsongal]

This is like asking me to choose between my dog and my husband. I love them both! So today...my favs are

1. Shortbread w/white chocolate frosting
2. this is like a 4 way tie, but I'll say "A Christmas Story"
3. "The First Noel"
4. Decorating! (exterior & interior)
5. My folks' Christmas party (35th year) - we all sing carols, it's a blast!
6. Spiked homemade eggnog (I miss it )

[mrs.jacinthe]

What's your favorite Christmas/holiday ... 

1. Cookie?  Galettes.  They're a traditional belgian cookie.  The recipe's been handed down through the family for years and it's made with a special iron which is ALSO handed down (so I can only make them at my mom & dad's house, because I don't have one)
2. Movie?  Rudolph.
3. Song?  White Christmas.
4. Activity?  I like decorating (no surprise there).
5. Tradition?  I love that R and I have made our own traditions: we spend all day Christmas watching movies and eating chinese takeout.  (Other than skyping with the parentals and opening gifts)
6. Beverage?  Mulled apple wine.  OMG, it's the best part of the holidays.

[ktzmoh]

Dec 17, 2013 13:07:12 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

2: Bad Santa
3: Silent Night
4: Decorating sugar cookies
5: One gift before bed on Christmas eve
6: Egg Nog with bourbon

[lb2006]

1. Cookie?  white chocolate/cherry/walnut
2. Movie?  Home Alone or Elf
3. Song?   O Holy Night
4. Activity?  Watching a Christmas movie w/my family
5. Tradition?  fondue on Christmas Eve
6. Beverage?  Champagne!

[simpsongal]

Dec 17, 2013 14:43:16 GMT -5 lb2006 said:

1. Cookie?  white chocolate/cherry/walnut
2. Movie?  Home Alone or Elf
3. Song?   O Holy Night
4. Activity?  Watching a Christmas movie w/my family
5. Tradition?  fondue on Christmas Eve
6. Beverage?  Champagne!

I'm going to see Elf at the Kennedy Center tonight!  I hope it lives up to the movie (which I love!).

[mrsemilys]

1. Cookie? sugar
2. Movie? Home Alone or Elf
3. Song? Oh Holy Night
4. Activity? making cookies, or decorating the tree
5. Tradition? making cookies with DD or watching all our fav movies with DH
6. Beverage? nothing in particular.....wine when I'm not preg

[kellikans]

Dec 17, 2013 13:07:12 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

What's your favorite Christmas/holiday ... 

1. Cookie? peanut butter chocolate chip
2. Movie? National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. Song? I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas
4. Activity? driving around looking at Christmas lights
5. Tradition? when we were younger, it was opening a gift on Christmas Eve
6. Beverage? eggnog

[boiler717]

What's your favorite Christmas/holiday ...

1. Cookie? Anything with frosting

2. Movie? Elf and all the made for TV movies

3. Song? Silver Bells

4. Activity? Renting a limo with friends to look a lights (was a bust this year due to a shitty driver)

5. Tradition? Christmas Jammies for the family

6. Beverage? I'm loving this apple cranberry sparkling sangria made with Winter Jack

[msmerymac]

1. Cookie? - pizelles
2. Movie? - Love Actually
3. Song? - All I Want For Christmas is You
4. Activity? - Putting up our tree
5. Tradition? - We spend Christmas with my family, so we have a tradition of opening gifts to each other, having a nice dinner, and watching movies the weekend before.
6. Beverage? - All of the Christmas beers, especially the 12 Days of Christmas series from The Bruery we are collecting. It took a while, but we finally grabbed Six Geese A Laying this year! One to drink now, one to drink/compare with next year, and one to drink at the end of the series.

[kellikans]

Dec 18, 2013 16:17:21 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

1. Cookie? - pizelles
2. Movie? - Love Actually
3. Song? - All I Want For Christmas is You
4. Activity? - Putting up our tree
5. Tradition? - We spend Christmas with my family, so we have a tradition of opening gifts to each other, having a nice dinner, and watching movies the weekend before.
6. Beverage? - All of the Christmas beers, especially the 12 Days of Christmas series from The Bruery we are collecting. It took a while, but we finally grabbed Six Geese A Laying this year! One to drink now, one to drink/compare with next year, and one to drink at the end of the series.

Six Geese A Laying is AH-MAZING

[msmerymac]

Dec 18, 2013 17:31:59 GMT -5 kellikans said:

Dec 18, 2013 16:17:21 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

1. Cookie? - pizelles
2. Movie? - Love Actually
3. Song? - All I Want For Christmas is You
4. Activity? - Putting up our tree
5. Tradition? - We spend Christmas with my family, so we have a tradition of opening gifts to each other, having a nice dinner, and watching movies the weekend before.
6. Beverage? - All of the Christmas beers, especially the 12 Days of Christmas series from The Bruery we are collecting. It took a while, but we finally grabbed Six Geese A Laying this year! One to drink now, one to drink/compare with next year, and one to drink at the end of the series.

Six Geese A Laying is AH-MAZING

We're drinking it Friday night! It JUST arrived on the east coast, I think. At least, we were just able to find it in the last week. 

We're cellaring everything from Three French Hens onward and hope to have a fabulous holiday party in a few years.

[prazenjc]

1. sugar cookie with cream cheese icing & colored sugars.
2. it's a wonderful life
3. o holy night
4. my family tradition of making lefse the night before Christmas to eat with the Christmas day feast.
5. oops! see #4
6. hot chocolate spiked with bailey's irish cream

[pumpkin]

1. Cookie?  the Norwegian shortbread cookies my friend's mother used to make when we were growing up 
2. Movie?  White Christmas
3. Song?  The First Noel or O Holy Night
4. Activity?  putting up and decorating the tree
5. Tradition?  having my grandmother's shrimp cocktail
6. Beverage?  made from scratch hot cocoa and my friend's hot buttered rum

[adhdfashion]

1. Cookie? Ginger creams

2. Movie? White Christmas

3. Song? Hark the Herald

4. Activity? Stuffing the stocking

5. Tradition? Candlelight service

6. Beverage? Hot coco

[sierramist03]

What's your favorite Christmas/holiday ...

1. Cookie? Sugar cookie
2. Movie? National lampoons
3. Song? Have yourself a merry little christmas
4. Activity? Drinking ....jk gift giving
5. Tradition? Driving around looking at lights
6. Beverage? Eggnog

[finally]

1. Cookie?  Iced sugar cookies
2. Movie?  A Christmas Story
3. Song?  I Believe in Father Christmas by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
4. Activity?  Driving around and looking at lights
5. Tradition?  Going to Princeton to shop in all their cute little shops, having dinner and seeing A Christmas Carol at their theater