Christmas Ask

On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a Christmas Ask!

I love these sorts of things, so we’re doing this again. Let’s go!

1. Favourite kind of Christmas cookies?
Chocolate chip is probably my favourite. But I also really like ginger snaps. We don’t have those every year, but I love them when we do.

2. Do you have tinsel on your Christmas tree?
Nope. We’ve never had tinsel on our trees. We’ve always had animals and my parents didn’t want them eating it and getting sick, so we’ve never had tinsel. Generally, we’ll put ribbon on our trees, but that’s about it.

3. Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
Usually, we’ll do it on Christmas day. In the most recent years because of my dad’s work schedule and my siblings in other places we do it on whatever day everyone is around for. My Nana was German, so when we were young and would go over to her house for Christmas, we would do that on Christmas eve, and then have our Christmas the next day.

4. Do you have a special Christmas morning breakfast?
No, not generally. We’ll snack on things leftover from our Christmas party, but we generally hold off until Christmas ‘dinner'(we eat at like 1).

5. Favourite flavour of hot chocolate?
Peppermint.

6. How do you help those less fortunate during the holidays?
Buying nonperishables to donate to the foodbank is one of my favourites. If we have a bit of extra cash there are a couple of stores around us that have an angel on the tree program. So you select an angel off the tree they have, and all it has on it is their gender and their age range. And you buy a present for the child and the staff at the store wraps it and sends it off for Christmas to the family. I always feel really good after doing that.

7. When do you decorate for Christmas?
I try not to do it before December first. This year we did it shortly after November eleventh, but we were also decorating the restaurant too so I can’t be too upset about that.

8. Best Christmas memory?
I think my favourite has to be just sitting around the living room with my family after we opened gifts and watching Christmas cartoons on the tv. No one was complaining about them, and we were just sitting together enjoying one another’s company.

9. Favourite holiday candle scent?
I really like crisp scents for Christmas. I don’t really care for the overly sweet ones. But I love the crips ones. Like fresh snow, winter sleigh ride, first snowfall, etc. I don’t like pine though. I feel like that’s always a very fake scent and way too overpowering.

10. What do you typically get in your stocking?
My siblings and I all usually get about the same things. Little toiletries like shampoo and body wash, as well as chocolate. Sometimes there might be things like socks or lottery tickets, or some other small things. Nothing exciting, unfortunately.

11. What’s at the top of your Christmas list this year?
I don’t really have a list this year. Something I would really like to do is go and see lights again with my family. That would be nice.

12. Does it snow where you live?
Yes, but also, no. It does snow. I live in Canada. But It’s not the kind of snow that either lasts, is packing snow, or when we get it it’s not until after Christmas which sucks.

13. Do you leave cookies and milk for Santa?
I used to. Not anymore.

14. Do you have a themed Christmas tree or do you have miscellaneous ornaments and decorations? If it’s themed, what is the theme?
I wish we had a themed tree. But no. Generally, it’s just miscellaneous ornaments. Mom’s made it a habit in recent years of bringing out ornaments that we made when we were little and putting them on the tree. Those are always a fun walk down memory lane.

15. Do you have an advent or Christmas countdown calendar?
Every year my mom makes sure we all do. So I have one of those chocolate countdown calendars.

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That’s all I have for you today. Before I go I’d like to tag anyone who’d like to do this. If you decide to do this, please tweet me a link @TRFlynn2. I would love to read if you would like to share.

I hope you’re having a great day, and if it’s not great, I hope it gets better. And I will see you tomorrow.

-T.R. Flynn.