christmas nosiness

adrianka said:
Thanks for saturating my curiousity!

Well, I haven't had egg nog in ages, but when I was younger I liked the taste (the egg doesn't bother me, even though I prefer my portion of raw eggs in tiramisu form :-). I wonder if I'd still like the taste today, since the older I am, the less I like the sweet taste - like Bailey's, I used to love it and these days I won't touch it.

But it's also possible that it's not done that sweet here (and possibly it's not 100% the same thing, we call it egg cognac). From what I've noticed, most US desserts/drinks have more sugar than we normally use, so it's a valid theory. :-)

I like my coffee black, so Starbucks is no temptation for me. Which is a good thing, because we don't have it here (they are present in Europe, but not in our forgotten Grand Duchy). :-)

Oh, I'm with you on sweet tea. I've read the recipes and yep. Never.

I think I should try some egg nog / egg cognac to see if I still like it!
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I love eggnog. I actually do it fresh for my kids on Christmas Eve, but always have 2 liter cartons in my fridge for the rest of December. The eggnog I make is not that sweet since I reduce the amount of sugar, but the one pre-made is really sweet, so I mix it with milk (like 2/3 milk, 1/3 eggnog). I also do eggnog smoothies with plain yogourt and bananas and I use it in my coffee. :)
 
white lights or multi colored? white

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? blue and silver (that might change, I'm getting tired of it)

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? anything that plays on the radio

any special traditions you do throughout the season? we do an Advent calendar, my mother always comes over to make the tree with us, the boys have matching clothes and jammies, we go see Santa at my F-I-L social club on the first sunday of December

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day?
23rd - fondue at my inlaws and opening presents
24th - "reveillon" at my place with family and friends where we basically stay up to wait for midnight and have a buffet and games and presents
25th - in the morning, the kids open their stockings. In the evening, dinner and party at one DH's cousins hous (we alternate, some years, I end up entertaining on the 24 and the 25th).


and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog?

see my other post... :)
 
white lights or multi colored? white on the tree, multicolored around the house

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? mishmash but after 14 years of collecting the Star Wars ornaments are emerging as the dominant ornaments

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? a mix

any special traditions you do throughout the season? the boys get new ornaments on Dec 6th based on their interests during the year and we celebrate the Winter Solstice on the 21st

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? no

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? eggnog
 
white lights or multi colored? White on the tree (prelit artificial tree) and color on the house with white in the bushes.

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? A little of both. We have a lot of firefighter ornaments.

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? Classical

any special traditions you do throughout the season? We have Elf on a Shelf - Buddy and of course the tree cannot go up without an Eggnog or two.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? Not really. We have to split our time between families so it changes every year. Pretty much the exact same meal every year though.

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? Definitely Eggnog. :)
 
white lights or multi colored? White for me!

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? My tree is super boring cheap-o balls, but I'd love to do a more fun, themed tree.

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? Classics

any special traditions you do throughout the season? Campout in front of the tree, lots of baking, looking at lights, church Christmas party...

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? Christmas Eve- open one present each (a new pair of jammies), read the story from the Bible, leave out oats and carrots for the reindeer. Christmas morning - cinnamon rolls and/or breakfast casserole, open stockings and then gifts, chill most the day, and for dinner I do a fab honey ham, potatoes, rolls, etc. Yummmm. I cannot wait!

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? *gag*
 
white lights or multi colored? white

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? mostly red & white. I have a few "extras" on there- like our angel that represents the baby we lost.

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? both

any special traditions you do throughout the season? a countdown with lego advent and an activity advent. Also, I'm stealing a pinterest idea- I'm going to wrap 25 Christmas stories and Luke gets to open one each day to read before bed. Oh! And he gets a new dated ornament each year.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? PJs to open on Christmas Eve; cookies & milk for Santa, even tho he doesn't believe in him anymore.

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? NEver had it. It scares me.
 
white lights or multi colored? On my tree, white only. Outside, I'm loving our red/white/green this year. :)

real or artificial? Artificial.

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? I decorate the tree with a certain color scheme - this year is red, brown, gold/bronze - and then we add our mish mash of ornaments onto it. Best of both worlds for me. :)

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? Both. I haven't met Christmas music that I don't like. :)

any special traditions you do throughout the season? Driving through the light display in the park, caroling with our church family, special Christmas baking, Christmas countdown calendar.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? Christmas Eve service at church, the kids open their new Christmas ornament on Christmas Eve so they can put it on the tree, Christmas morning breakfast is always egg/sausage casserole and sticky rolls.

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? I like it but rarely actually drink it. LOL
 
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white lights or multi colored?
white - all the way!

ornaments themed or just a mishmash?
kind of a mix but all matching in that christmas whimsey theme.

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions?
classic!

any special traditions you do throughout the season?
really, we don't do much.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day?
we are pretty traditional. we open christmas p.j.'s on christmas eve. we bake cookies on christmas eve and we go around to look at the lights on christmas eve.

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog?
eggNOT. lol!
 
fake or real tree? Fake

white lights or multi colored? Multi-colored LED lights - which I really don't like, but everyone else is happy. If I want white lights I have to put up a second tree.

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? Mishmash, but if I do my own tree then it's themed.

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? Any kind of Christmas music will do, especially at night when the tree is all lit.

any special traditions you do throughout the season? We drive through neighborhoods looking at holiday lights in our PJ's while sipping milkshakes (DH refuses to wear his jammies b/c someone has to order the milkshakes at the drive thru); Holiday choral concert, local events like the city park lighting, snow & santa - whatever I can find; spend the night at Grandma's so mom & dad can shop and wrap; Watch the Grinch, Frosty & Rudolph; Black Friday shopping with my mom and sister; holiday can food drive - I pack a little bit of Christmas into each day.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day?
Christmas Eve we go to my parents and spend the night so we wake up there Christmas morning. Santa leaves his presents by the fireplace and they get opened first (he's also clever and uses special Santa paper), we open family gifts in the living room after some coffee. My brothers come with their families and we do gifts yet again. My generation (all 9 of us) do a Gift Swap. Then we usually pack up the car and head to my husband's grandmother's lake house and spend the rest of the day with his family. That night it's wall to wall bodies on air matresses (like 20 people in a small 2 bdrm hous). The day after Christmas we get Mc Donald's for breakfast and the guys always play golf and the gals take the kids bowling.

to eggnog or not to eggnog? Eggnog me baby! Love it! I'm right with Brie in stopping by McDonalds for an eggnog shake at least one during the season.
 
Love it!


white lights or multi colored? white

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? mishmash

christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? both

any special traditions you do throughout the season? just family visiting and church

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? used to go to church on Cmas Eve, but we're actually doing our service the night before this year; so maybe family on Cmas Eve. Then on Cmas morning, we do presents here, then go to my parents' house for breakfast and presents.

and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? no strong feelings either way...is it spiked? :)
 
white lights or multi colored? I always had white lights, but this year I might change my mind about that and get some multi-colored ones. I'd like to try and take a bokeh photo of them, lol

ornaments themed or just a mishmash? Themed. Last year it was purple and white.
christmas music...classical songs or the new jazzed up versions? I only have 1 Christmas CD and it's classical. :)

any special traditions you do throughout the season? not really.

any special traditions you do on Christmas eve/Christmas day? family picture by the tree and everyone sleeps over at the one who's doing the Christmas Eve dinner (we take turns)


and finally...to eggnog or not to eggnog? I have nothing against eggnog, but we don't do that on Christmas (Eve)

Tree: artificial.
 
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