C'mon, it's fun! And it's a short one, not like those 90-question monstrosities.

1. Egg nog - yum or yuck?
I want to like egg nog, but I just don’t. Too much nutmeg or something.

2. Stay up until midnight on New Years?
Meh. I can take it or leave it. We usually stay up but don’t do much. The Big Event is January 2, reverendmother's birthday.

3. Prefer white or colored lights?
White. More classic—although a world without colored lights would be a boring place.

4. Favorite holiday song?
secular: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas;
religious: Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming, for the excellent alto line

5. What is your tackiest holiday decoration?
I don’t think it’s tacky, but we do have a clock that plays noisy Christmas songs every hour. That is, when it has batteries, which right now it doesn't. Mwah-ha-ha! Who's in control NOW?!

6. Do your kids have too much and you wonder just WHY you are getting more??
Our kid definitely does not have too much at this point. In fact we haven’t bought hardly any toys all year, and she has outgrown many of her toys, so if we do go hogwild at Christmas, she is somewhat overdue.

Books, she has aplenty. And yet somehow we’re sick of them all…

On the other hand, we used to celebrate the Hundred Dollar Holiday, so I can't see us going too hogwild to celebrate the birth of a child who was basically born on the street.

7. If you celebrate Christmas, when does your tree go up and come down?
Goes up around the first weekend of Advent, usually down around New Year’s weekend.

8. Open presents on Christmas eve, morning, or other?
Christmas morning! I like the “one present on Christmas Eve” tradition though.

9. Favorite holiday tradition?
Two favorites: one is to listen to the King’s College (Cambridge) Service of Lessons and Carols on NPR while eating a leisurely brunch, the other is new: having a soup supper at church on Christmas Eve between the 5:00 and the 7:30 services, with my husband, daughter, and anyone else who has to be there for both services (pastor, music director).

10. What do YOU want for Christmas?
Peace on earth, good health for my family and me, various knitting books, the new U2 CD (I am exercising INCREDIBLE restraint by not buying it), and a new PDA (my old one is four years old which makes it prehistoric, but it works fine so I don’t really “need” one).