Location: President Obama and his family celebrated Christmas in Hawaii this year. If you and your family could celebrate the holiday anyplace but where you currently live, where would you go?
The year after we got married we vacationed in Hawaii for two weeks of December. Although we were home by Christmas, it made the season feel very short and we agreed we missed out on a lot of the traditions of home by being someplace tropical for half the month. Since then, I’ve had no interest in being anywhere but home—or a similar climate, anyway—but nowadays I don’t think it’d take much to be convinced otherwise. In fact, as long as I have some family members with me on Christmas, I’m pretty sure I’d be happy just about anywhere.- Mood: What’s your mood this holiday season?
Given my current health situation, the happiness of the holiday season this year was probably more welcome than ever. I don’t think I ever felt like our celebrations should be tempered. I love this time of year—and it appears I love it NO MATTER WHAT. - Food: What are your favorite holiday foods?
I love the traditional Christmas dinners—turkey’s good, beef’s good, ham’s good… I just like the tradition of the big, celebratory meal with lots of people at the table. I also love frosted sugar cookies, fudge, and that gross grocery store peppermint taffy. And Pez. And candy canes. And hot apple cider. And Life Savers storybooks. And… and… and… It’s all nummers. ‘Cept eggnog. I’m not a fan of eggnog. - Giving: Nearly 70 percent of Americans say they give to charities during the holiday season. Do you regularly donate money during the holidays, and if so, do you give to the same group(s) each year or do you change it up from year to year?
We don’t usually donate money, but always do things for Toys for Tots or other agencies that collect new toys for needy children. We usually contribute to food drives. I used to do Salvation Army red bucket donations, but avoided them this year after reading about their homophobia. - Traditions: Do you have any holiday traditions, like opening one gift on Christmas Eve, or prolonging the gift opening by having each person take a turn opening one gift at a time while everyone else watches?
Although I love the idea of opening gifts one at a time, it’s really difficult to do with young children. I wrote up most of our traditions in my Christmas report this morning. Other traditions we have involve decorating the tree, Christmas music, sending out cards, etc. I had a good excuse to skip out on a lot of those efforts this year, but it just wouldn’t have felt like Christmas if I had.
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Gonna have to disagree on the eggnog, but I only like my eggnog store bought - not those weird bowls of alcoholic eggnog that have been sitting out all evening.
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