1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
To have a day filled with time together without any medical emergencies.
2. What is your Christmas morning tradition?
We all get up together--which usually means kids wake mom up, mom makes coffee, dad gets up :) Then we open all sit in the living room and open stockings and then we open gifts one-by-one. We all then have breakfast together in our pjs.
3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be?
A vacation somehwere interesting for our family with the necessary support for our daughter so that everyone can have fun. A gift just for me would be camera with lenses (or new lenses for my camera) or maybe a wii fit.
4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money?
Making ornaments out of things we already have such as recycling containers/cardboard or using found objects in different ways
Lighting a candle at dinner each night and discussing what we are each thankful for.
Making Christmas cookies and delivering to school teachers/bus drivers/office staff
Taking the time to make handmade gifts for each other
Taking a drive at night and looking at Christmas lights
Making holiday cards/addressing holiday cards to friends/family
Simple holiday crafts utilizing supplies we already have
Adding in new traditions (celebrating either St. Nicholas day or the Solstice this year)
Putting ornaments on the tree and discussing their meaning (all my children have been getting ornaments since they were born and I have mine from growing up as well)
Going to a Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
Going through our stuff and making piles to donate
5. What games did you play with your family growing up?
Mousetrap, Life, Monopoly, Hearts, Spades, Cribbage
6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood?
Giving an ornament a year to my own children, watching a Christmas movie on Black Friday, reading a Christmas book each night, Having a Christmas Cookie making party
7. Where would you go for a Christmas-away-from-home trip?
Disney World as we have never been and think it would be magical at Christmas
8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year?
DSi XLs for all three children
Black Ops game for the PS3 with the Prestige bundle
wii fit
