When my brother and I were kids, we couldn’t wait for Christmas! Every year in the week leading up to the big day, we’d resort to all manner of tom foolery to deign the contents of the boxes under the tree, first shaking them, then examining the tape for structural integrity (I found a loose corner!), then holding the boxes up to bright lights in an attempt to see through the wrapping paper.
We’d get a little relief on Christmas Eve, when our parents allowed us to open one gift each. Most of the time I’d go for one of the rattlers, the boxes that made the most noise when I shook ’em. I did that one year and opened a box filled with blank Memorex tapes.
Yes, tapes, girl! 🙂 Because back in the day, pirating music meant straight up recording songs off the radio, haha!
My family members still open one gift each on Christmas Eve…except that now mine is usually the gift I’ve gotten myself as a Christmas treat.
Yes, I know that’s cheating.
This year it’s this pair of black feather-and-chain earrings Santa found at Nordstrom for $12. I’d been looking for a pair of feather earrings for a while but kept finding ones that looked too feathery. I didn’t want Tabs attacking my bling, but I’m hoping that the addition of chains and rhinestones in these tells Tabs that no, Mom does not have a bird hanging from her ears.
It being Christmas Eve, what are some of your family’s Christmas (or other holiday) traditions?
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Merry Chritmas eve Karen! have a grea holiday with you, tabs and el hub!
I have never liked eggnog but my favorite holiday flavor is gingerbread — gingerbread cookies, lattes, everything!
We open our gifts on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day we had “Santa Gifts”. Despite all the grand foods and beverages we have never been an eggnog family and I didn’t even sample any til I got to college LOL.
Our family gets together for Noche Buena. This year, I made chicken sopas!
Have a wonderful holiday!!
I quite like fruitcake, tbh. Some are better than others but a good fruitcake is yummy. 🙂
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Yay Christmas Eve! This is my favorite day, all the anticipation, good food and games with the family.
Latkes rule.
I love Christmas! Happy holidays!
Our neighbors sent over a fruitcake. Had no idea that people still passed that old thing around. There’s really only 1 fruitcake in the World – people just keep regifting it!
â„â„Happy Holidays â„â„
Nice, sunny weather in SoCal! No snow here!
I dont like fruitcake at all. I am trying to make flan right now <3.
Merry Christmas! 😀
Our family tradition is going to church on Christmas eve and then staying in our pajamas all day Christmas day. we have breakfast, open gifts, then hang out all day playing with our toys 🙂 I wish it was snowing but not yet this winter
I think my cat would go crazy for those feather earrings too!
Fruitcake is disgusting!
We keep it very traditional for Christmas….Happy holidays!
One year when I was either 9 or 10, I actually found a bunch of my Christmas presents in my parents’ closet! Somehow they still managed to surprise me with an expensive collectible doll I’d been saving up for for months!! 😀
A family had sent fruitcake last week and I couldn’t stomach it! =X
I’ve never had this fruitcake or eggnog you speak of. However, my family has always had this tradition of spinning yarns regarding how Santa entered the home to deliver presents. The default story for my six-year-old daughter may involve Santa taking the elevator like everybody else; coming in through the living room window(s), or through the vents.
When I was her age, things weren’t as complicated: the apartment mom and i lived in had a faux fireplace with mantle. She, my brothers, and our neighbors told me that Santa pushed an invisible button and entered that way–somehow without disturbing the framed photos and bric-a-brac displayed on the mantle. I guess the reindeer were chillin’ on the building’s roof per usual. (._.)
No snow yet here in Chicago; my daughter WILL have questions if none shows up tomorrow. Meh.
**enjoy your holiday, Karen and Tabs!! (sprays fake snow)
my whole family gets together and we have a delicious breakfast! (usually we have homemade pecan rolls, but this year we’re having caramel baked french toast)
One Christmas I put my kitten (a kitten at the time, now a full grown cat!) in my stocking, it was the CUTEST THING EVER. Merry Christmas Tabs, Karen, and el Hubs!
xx
This is an awesome gift for Christmas. Thanks Karen 🙂
Merry Christmas! love the picture of Tabs with the christmas hat
We always open up one gift n Christmas Eve too, usually right before getting into our pajamas and piling into the car to go look at Christmas lights. Merry Christmas, Karen!
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Our new tradition is to have christmas eve be our christmas! Since our family has grown, we’ve got millions to go to! We also do the chinese christmas, or white elephant game, it’s sooo fun, and since my family is huge, you never know what’s going to happen! I love eggnog, and I’ve never had fruitcake, lol! Merry Christmas to you and Tabs!
Happy Holidays to you!
I have never had fruitcake. Happy holidays everyone!
I don’t like fruitcake OR egg nog, but my family always has delicious cookies and pie to chow on at Christmas dinner. I can’t wait!
Usually in MI it snows like crazy in December, right now there’s barely any snow but MI’s bipolar so you never know! :p
My holiday treat is makeup. I allowed myself a haul, even though money is tight.
We cook together with friends and family!!
We also get to open one present, and we usually bake a small batch of cookies… For Santa, of course!… lol
I had egg nog just last night!
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I absolutely love fruit cake..It’s my highlight of the season 🙂
Happy holidays!!!
I love baking classic chocolate chip cookies for the holidays!
Happy Holidays!! 🙂
I like to relax and eat lasagna or baked eggplant, and watch A Christmas Story with my family. I can quote the whole movie, lol.
The past few years on Christmas during nightttime, we drive around and look at over-the-top xmas decorations. Always fun 🙂
On of thee BEST childhood Xmas gifts has to be receiving my Barbie DreamHouse!!!=D I thought that was THE best thing ever!! It had multiple rooms, and my parents brought furniture for every single room. I even had a toilet that flushed!!!!! And even now as a woman in her 30’s, I still LOVE Barbie! I cannot wait to introduce my own daughter to that world!!
We didn’t have a lot if great Christmas memories but since I’ve been married they have started to become so wonderful!
Finally get to spend christmas with my brother this year! (: (: (:
…AHHHHHHH MERRY XMAS!!=DDD
I am in Greece, and after so many years it is snowing in Christmas Eve! Magical! Long awaited white Christmas at last!
No snow here 🙁
Merry Christmas!!!! Enjoy the holiday =)
Happy Holidays!! Thank you for always running such an awesome blog!
Merry Christmas everyone! I love eggnog!
Happy Holidays! I tweeted
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Merry Christmas!!! I’m feelin’ like fruit cake right now actually… 🙂
I just visited a sephora store in person yesterday. Omg. Total heaven. Anyway, my family always gets together on christmas eve to exchange presents and have dinner at a restaurant.
I don’t like fruitcake or eggnog… I guess I’m a Grinch! 🙂
When I was about 5 or 6 I got a lovely faux fur coat with a hand muff for Christmas, and it was definitely my favorite gift from my childhood!
I wish it would snow here soon! It snowed twice but not much and it’s already melted.
Merry Christmas!
Fruitcake: candied fruit and booze? No thank you. Eggnog (non-alcoholic), on the other hand, I love. I could drink it like water.
My family’s new-ish Christmas tradition is going to our favorite Chinese restaurant for Xmas Eve dinner. And the place is mobbed, so I guess it’s a common tradition!
I always thought I hated eggnog because I had only tried that terrible stuff from the grocery store that tastes like liquid bubble gum. But then I tried a homemade nog and it was delicious! So now I get to enjoy it every Christmas! Yay!
Hubby N I have a blended family (a la Brady Bunch) with 5 kids total and somehow we don’t have any of them tonight, which is when we celebrate xmas. 🙁 You’ll prob find is at a bar tonight! 😉
merry christmas karen! to you and your family 🙂
What’s brown and sticky?
A stick.
Now that I’m grown, if I opened one present on Christmas eve that would be all of my gifts!
Merry Christmas!
Have a great weekend everyone!
A sephora gift card would be a great gift for me, since it would be the only gift I get this year.
We did not exchange gifts at Christmas, but I do have many fond memories of Christmas. First night mass and than the special meal we had in the middle of the night after night mass, that was so special, even after I myself stopped going to church it was such fun to set up and prepare the table for the family! And I also remember anxiously awaiting with my brothers at the top of the stairs ’till Christmas breakfast was ready, it was such a feast for us 🙂 Breakfast is till my favorite meal of the day 😀 I miss those Christmasses, we haven’t been all together as a family for over 8 years 🙁
Merry Christmas Karen!!! Getting ready for some family time today 😀
In my family we exchange Christmas presents and eat all of the yummy food on the night of Christmas Eve since my birthday is on Christmas day and my mom always makes a family dinner to celebrate.
Merry Christmas to you, Karen!
Merry Christmas to you and your family and to all the readers here!!
Happy holidays! I’ve found that this is the time to try new recipes at the last minute, and basically people have to eat your baking because they’re being nice. LOL. Anyway… beauty-related: I lurve the Hourglass Primer. That stuff is the smoothest magic ever to help me put my makeup on.
My family wait until midnight to open gifts 🙂
Happy holidays, Karen! I’ve never liked dairy eggnog, but I do like vegan nogs. I currently have Silk soy nog in fridge, & I’ve been wanting to try the new So Delicious coconut nog.
i dont like fruitcake, but i like fruit and cake! Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays everybody! I love fruit cake but haven’t eaten any in a long time. Today I’m wearing my t-shirt with the bow on the front so I look like a present lol, I live in Florida and its a gorgeous sunny day.Getting ready to stand in line to get the honey baked ham for Christmas dinner. Tonight I’ll make the macaroni and cheese and candied sweet potatoes. Every year I watch the movie Christmas Story over and over again while I make preparations for Christmas day.
On Christmas Eve we get to open one present, which is always pajamas so we’ll have cute new jammies for pictures Christmas morning. It’s still a favorite tradition of mine, even at 31, I can’t wait to see what ones I get tonight!
My husband is more of a kid than my 7 yr old daughter. Every day this past week he’s been asking for his present. He even let me open one of his in attempt to convince me to let him do the same. Nope, he has to wait. Merry Christmas Karen!
Celebrating Christmas tonite!!!!!
Merry Christmas Eve!!!
My family does stockings on Christmas Eve. I know I have a few polish lemmings in mine!
I’ve never tried eggnog. But at work I tried an eggnog flavored coffee and almost spit it out all over my desk. Not my thing. I think I’ve entered at least ten of these. Eventually I will win one. Positive thoughts. xo
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I actually do enjoy fruitcake and it’s really shocking but it hasn’t snowed in Toronto as yet, like it usually does!
I’m so excited for Christmas this year! My son is three and it’s going to be such a joy to watch him celebrate.
Ugh, no to both fruitcake and eggnog. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
We’ll have left over snow for christmas…No pretty new snow for us ;(
merry christmas eve!!
One of my favourite Christmas memories is when my mom would bring home this big basket of jams and cheeses that her boss gave her, and we would feast on that and specially letter-shaped pancakes. Nothing extravagant, but it made me smile 🙂
Not looking good for snow in Iowa this year–I’m disappointed!
Merry Christmas Karen! I think this is my first time commenting but I’ve been following this blog since the beginning of this year I think. As a fellow cat lady, I love how creative your blog is and I hope you’ll continue blessing your readers with honest reviews and many more beautiful pictures of Tabs.
Thanks for all the hard work that you do! ♥
Starting a new tradition this year since the family doesn’t live in the same complex anymore … To big sisters house we go 🙂
All our family traditions went away when my brother graduated from college and moved away, which is kind of a bummer. So I want to start some new traditions. Preferably involving baked goods.
Merry Christmas! I hope the New Year is awesome!
Love spending time with family at Christmas. Or any other day!
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If I win, it’ll be used toward my wishlist for the christmas lemming!
Merry Christmas Karen! I love your blog!
Making tamales!!! My fam and I do it every year 🙂
I remember when I was 10 or 11, getting a Discman and a bunch of Beatles CDs, and then spending the rest of Christmas vacation listening to the Beatles (who are still my favorite band to this day).
Im a recent member (a couple of months now) and I am so grateful for your site and the hard work you do! Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!!
I’m not a big fan of fruitcake, but I do love pumpkin pie during the holidays.
Merry Christmas y’all!!! Can’t wait to stuff my face tonight! Hehe 🙂
I’ve done both!
And i’ve never tried fruitcake.. lol
I LOVE CHRISTMAS, my favorite holiday, yay! I wish everyone a very blessed & Merry Christmas! 🙂
Merry Christmas Karen, have a great holiday.
I just tried eggnog for the first time yesterday, pretty delicious!
Love egnog, hate fruitcake.
I love fruitcake. And it appears from comments I’m not the only one. 🙂
Happy christmas eve everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My favorite gift I’ve ever received was from my best friend. One of the things she got me was this pair of HUGE sweatpants from Victoria’s Secret, and even though they aren’t exactly cute, they’re the comfiest pair I’ve ever worn!
I helped my mom make fruitcake from scratch last night! I used to not like it as a kid, but now I do. Her’s is very moist and light, not heavy and dark, so I can certainly stomach it now!
Merry Christmas, everyone!!!
Hi Karen,
This is my first comment, but I have been following your blog for a while – my go to site to help me make quick buy-it-or-not decisions, since you and I have about the same skin tone. I live in Toronto and I love your vast coverage of brands and swatch/sample looks. Thank you!!
Cristina
Don’t like eggnog
A light dusting of snow this morning, but it’s melted already!
I remember getting the original Nintendo system — kind of wish I had it back!
Happy Holidays!
fruitcake is weird….
Making Lentil Soup on Christmas Eve, feels kinda like Christmas lol
I’ve never tried eggnog …is it good?
Christmas is delayed a little for our family …until Tuesday when we can all be together 🙂
Happy Holidays!!
Well I’ve never tasted fruitcake because everyone I know doesn’t not like them so they never bring them around for the holidays. HAPPY HOLIDAYS:)
Happy Holidays Everyone!!!!! I am getting ready to bake vegan chocolate chip cookies for dessert tonite after we have our vegan tamales. Yum!!!! I getting hungry now. 🙂
Thanks for hosting these awesome giveaways!! I love Sephora!!! Looking forward to turkey dinner tom!
I think the best thing about gluten free is not feeling pressured to sample every fruitcake recipe that someone is promising will be the one I’ll actually like.
merry xmas!
I don’t care for fruitcake (or most non-chocolate sweets, for that matter) but I recently discovered marzipan stollen and am in love. It’s delicious!
Happy holiday!
My mom and I just made fudge!
i love your blog! happy holidays!
I hate egg nog!
Thanks for the giveaway! Have a great Christmas!
We celebrate on christmas eve and we stay up until midnight then we open present then go to sleep.. On xmas day we visit
This year Santa brought us a stomach bug!
I’ve been a good girl all year!
I don’t care for fruitcake but I used to make killer eggnog. That was before it was so taboo to eat raw eggs. It was so delicious. Eggnog from a store is not the same. My kids and I will go to midnight Mass and then come home, have breakfast and open our gifts. Tomorrow is for sleeping and eating. I’ve got a pie in the oven right now.
I love those earrings! I’m not really a feather kind of girl but it looks so nice in black.
my family and I are going to Daly City tonight to celebrate with my mom’s side of the family. Tomorrow, we’re going to Stockton to celebrate with my dad’s side. We do this every single year. I just wanna stay home!
I can’t wait to get money! I’m gonna get BF3 and a new PS3 controller. I hate sharing the PS3 with my sister so I’m not gonna let her play with it!! Always copy what I do then if I don’t let her do certain things, she tattletales on me! sucks! Sorry for ranting lol
My brother just came home so I finished helping him wrap his presents (men!) and we’ll go to a Christmas Eve service at our church, then we drive home through some local neighborhoods to see lights. When we get home, we eat dinner and open presents from extended family. Tomorrow we’ll open gifts from the four of us (mom, dad, me and brother) and go see a movie! My parents want to see War Horse and my brother and I are going to see Sherlock Holmes. It’s become a tradition for my bro and I to see a movie so I’m looking forward to it!
It’s over 50 degrees here in VA where I live (about an hour south of DC) and it really doesn’t feel like Christmas! But I can’t complain about the mild winter we’re having so far.
Merry Christmas! Hope you have a good holiday and thanks for a chance at a giveaway!
My family has always opened presents on Christmas Eve. Then we can sleep in on Christmas Day and focus on the other activity, EATING!
I like fruitcake!
Love the new bling! I’ve been looking for some understated feathers myself…
Our family traditions are simple, lay around and eat all day!!
How do you feel about fruitcake?
No.
When was the last time you had eggnog?
Last year? I can only drink a few sips before it just starts tasting too rich for me…
What was one of your favorite presents you remember getting as a child?
One year my parents got me and my little brother one of those little plastic play kitchens. We loved that thing! Played with it all the time.
How does your family celebrate the holidays (this or any other time of year)?
Usually we go to either my aunt and uncle’s house in Connecticut, or just stay home (at my parents’ house).
Is it snowing out where you live?
No, and I’m really disappointed. It’s been a warm winter so far. Just doesn’t feel like Xmas without some snow on the ground!
Merry Christmas!! 🙂
Merry Christmas eve! Hope you have a wonderful time with your family!
Merry Christmas, Karen!
I don’t even remember having a white Christmas, and I really want one :(…
Not a fan of fruitcake but love eggnog!! Merry Christmas!!
No snow here either!
my most favorite christmas gift was a simba stuffed animal my cousin gave me in 1994. i stil have it and take it with me on travels.
It is 48 degrees and sunny here in our nation’s capitol. I just got back from a long walk. Loving the mild winter.
This is the first year in my life that I haven’t had a mince pie at Christmas! I simply can’t find them in any stores, so I guess I will have to try and make my own! They are absolutely my favourite holiday treat!
I wish it was snowing here in Minnesota! We have a brown Christmas this year. It just doesn’t feel the same without snow!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!!! My favorite gift as a child was a Polaroid camera. As for fruit cake, I am not a fan; however, I have yet to taste one that was not store bought. Maybe homemade is better.
Fruitcake? YUK! But a Sephora gift card? YUMMMO!
I actually like fruitcake, I love candied fruit. BUT, it’s the nuts that get me, bleh 😛
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I love latkes and Nars!
merry christmas eve!!!!
Fruitcake can be great or it can be horrifying, depending on the source. Hubby and I order it from Collin Street Bakery most years, and it’s fabulous. Moist, flavorful, and stuffed full of pecans and fruit. Homemade is excellent too – a friend of mine made it from Alton Brown’s recipe this year and it ROCKS. Some of the commercial stuff I’ve had in the past, however, could be used to hammer in nails. No thanks!
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On Christmas Eve, we gather around the fireplace and eat tons of junk food!
Merry Christmas!
apple pies!!!! 🙂
Merry Christmas! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
My favorite gift as a child was a VHS tape of matilda :p
excited to spend the next few days with family!
I remeber getting a Carwheel Casey love that doll!!! Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Yesterday I had my first eggnog of the season. A spiked eggnog milk shake with captain crunch berry cereal mixed in. Weird but good.
I miss Harry and David’s traditional fruitcake!
There is at least one good recipe for fruitcake in the universe, because I’ve tasted the results. It helps if you like rum though! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Karen and all! I enjoy the blog very much!
Happy Christmas!!
I love the family times and the baking goodies with my husband.
And seeing my baby kitty sleeping in her gingerbread house kitty bed! Adorable!!
free fruitcake?
hate fruitcake!
Merry Christmas!
My favorite gift was a Barbie 3 piece house.
I love shopping for myself, but I love shopping for my family even more! Merry Christmas everybody 🙂
Merry Christmas from Finland! 🙂
I can’t wait till Christmas!!
merry Christmas!
FINALLY finished my christmas shopping. haha!
I used to hate fruitcake until i had it homemade. it had bits of marzipan in it. mmm..
Merry Christmas, Karen!
why are some guys so hard to shop for? iv been trying to shop for my best friend forever
My family doesn’t really celebrate Christmas, but my close friends and I usually exchange gifts. 🙂 It’s not snowing here in Vancouver yet, but I hope it does soon – at least for a day or two.
Happy Holidays everyone!
I’ve been trying to find a pair of feather ones too and I love that pair Santa gave you. 🙂
As for fruitcakes, I don’t like the traditional kind. But the Italian style fruitcakes (bread?) I find at Trader Joe’s are so good!
no snow yet!
Happy Holidays to you, El Hub, and Tabs! I’m a week and a half into my winter break, and I am enjoying it. 🙂
I hate eggnogg, but this year I have discovered a new tradition. I love eggnogg cupcakes! Especially with spiced rum buttercream….YUM!
Merry Christmas Karen!! I think my favorite Christmas present ever was my My Little Pony stable with like 3 pony’s inside. I loved that thing!
My mum actually makes a homemade fruitcake that’s really good-no crazy fluorescent fruit in it-just dense with currants, sultanas, raisins, & nuts. And some sort of alcohol, I think!
I’m having a traditional Hispanic hoilday drink called coquito, it’s like eggnog but definitely spiked up a notch lol. Delicious.
Merry Christmas Karen! The earrings are adorable, but remember to keep them away from Tabs! Mine have such a soft spot for anything feathery. AND LOOK AT TABS IN THAT PICTURE! How adorable is it!
Spending this Christmas with my grandma! 🙂
The last time I had eggnog was in elementary school. I hated it so much that I never tried it again!
I hate fruitcake, never had eggnog, and my favorite present was having my whole family come and visit me for Christmas and New years’s last year.
my favorite tradition is we take my uncle, who lives alone and gets very lonely, out to eat. its fun talking to him and a great way to spend the night before christmas 🙂
My husband is making his annual batch of Lobster Bisque (YUM!!). It’s our tiny family’s tradition. And I love eggnog AND fruitcake. I truly must be the only person on the planet that likes fruitcake LOL!
I am from from Peru where the holiday = Christmas and it is during the SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!! and we don’t do the gift thing too much, but we eat LOTS! Now I live in MI and is in depressing winter, it snows (not right now actually), and we still don’t do that much of the gift thing but we do eat.
I have never tried fruitcake, but I LOVE Panettone, Christmas is not Christmas without it…for me at least.
Happy Holidays Karen!
Merry Christmas to you, Tabs, and el hub :)!
Mmm. What is this you’re saying about eggnog? (I’m a HUGE ‘nog fan. It’s a little bit [shamefully] ridiculous.)
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Believe it or not fruit cake is ok, eggnog is NOT! Eeee-Yucccck!
And I just want to add those earrings are SLAMMIN’!
Happy Holidays everyone!
This tiny little story will make you all jealous….we, in my country, don’t celebrate 1..but 2 xmas days!!! normally only 1 will be filled with gifts, but we get 2 days off as bank holidays and we get to eat good food during those days 😉
thank you very much for organising the **Give-Away**!!!
I’ve actually never had fruitcake, so I don’t have an opinion on it.
Thanks for the giveaway, Karen! Happy holidays!
merry christmas!!
i need to get started wrapping those gifts! D:
I am from India where everyone celebrates Christmas traditions with trees and lights even though only 2% of the 1.7 billion population is Christian. Merry Christmas to all.
opening presents at midnight
I don’t celebrate Christmas, so I am having a nice relaxing weekend!
I hate fruitcake love eggnog 😉
I would like to thank you for a wonderful year of reviews, for introducing me to many new products, to turning me into a hardcore MAC junkie (something I could have done without given my finances, or rather lack thereof, at this time) and all your hard work on creating a wonderful blog and source of fun and entertainment for me and so many others. I know Santa will be very good to you this year for all your caring and generosity. Happy holidays and Good luck to ALL in this giveaway.
Dlori
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Merry Christmas Karen! The best present I got as a child was a big stuffed pink poodle – I kept that guy for way too many years!
I love the holidays! Can’t wait to see my family tomorrow!
It’s raining instead of snow in Germany, too bad I wish I could see white Christmas.
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Merry Christmas! Been loving M&BB for around almost 3 years now, and can’t wait to see what 2011 holds for the blog! xoxo
I follow you on twitter and retweeted this contest on my twitter page, @DianeLori, and the link is as follows:
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Dlori
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Merry Christmas! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I’m Jewish, but my favorite Hanukkah present ever was my Pleasant Company Samantha doll (now American Girl). I was seven.
Yeah, I’m old.
Merry Christmas Karen! I hope you have a wonderful day with your family.
Merry Christmas Eve!!
I can’t wait to see MI:IV; I’ve heard its really good!
Christmas Eve is always the main day for my family’s holiday traditions. We always have a very nice dinner (prime rib and all the yummy British side dishes) and open family presents. Since we are all grown up now, we spend Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas day with my in-laws. So blessed!
I hate fruit cake with a nutty passion. Happy holidays
My Mom always gets all of us new pajamas, which we open on Christmas Eve and wear to bed! Happy Holidays, Karen!
Re: fruitcake, always hated it but a good friend of mine made some from scratch this year with Brandy in it and wow, it was the most wonderful tasting thing ever! Hope you have wonderful holidays and thank you for the giveaway offer! Diana
I’ve never had eggnog!
Enjoying the Christmas holiday thus far but I lowkey wished we would have gotten some snow (I live in the South) but I am glad that it’s not bitterly cold and I have enjoyed getting out seeing all the families walking around and not looking like their faces are about to freeze off.
love eggnog, but its so bad for you!
Happy Christmas Karen! 😀
its a 3-way tie between my first american girl doll, macbook computer && easy-bake oven
Fruitcake can kick rocks…
I just got a Keurig for Christmas :). I love it!
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Merry Christmas Karen! =]
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One year I got the doll carriage I really wanted. Only, the hood was broken off. My sister, the tomboy, got an identical doll carriage, all in one piece. Mine had a note attached from Santa: that it had fallen off the sleigh and he was terribly sorry. I felt special. After all. how many kids could say that they got a gift that had fallen off Santa’s sleigh? AND a note from Santa? It was until years later, a moody teen, feeling like the world was against me that I realized that I’d been royally ripped off! As a parent now, I realize that we make decisions, which don’t always make sense to everyone, but seem right at the time. Merry Christmas!
Fruitcake is quite nasty. Thanks for these giveaways!
We finally chipped in and bought my dad a snow blower for our street that doesn’t get plowed (don’t worry he’s not reading a beauty blog, I can spill the beans) and there has not been a single snowflake this year. We were practically snowed in the last two years. I’m on the fence about whether I want him to be able to test it out or not though…
Well, my parents had me in their 40s and my Dad was totally smitten with me (my parents love story was epic) so when he was able to have time off to fully decorate the tree he would and during my first year it was also his first year working a new job. The day he finally had off was Christmas eve and he decorated the tree with me sitting in a baby carrier underneath. Lights went on and I supposedly I was intrigued. Every year this was a ritual we carried out Dad and I lights and ornaments no Mom allowed! Dad passed away in 2006, and every year I put up the tree in the order we always did, talking to him along the way, no Mom allowed!
my family isn’t very festive 🙁
I like potato latkes!
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you.
It’s not snowing but it’s pouring where I am in Houston. Traditionally we do lots of cooking on Christmas eve for Christmas day so I’ve tried to start another tradition… In and Out for dinner the night before Christmas.
Not a fan of either fruitcake or eggnog, but bring on the gingerbread and peppermint lattes!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
i had egg nog this afternoon. i much prefer the spiked version tho
I’m with Stephanie on this one. It’s a wet & chilly 44 degrees here in Houston. It’s been raining all day. For the holidays my family usually starts cooking on Christmas Eve. Our traditional Mexican dishes consist of a soup called Pozole (made w/pork, hominy, garlic, onion, chili peppers, cilantro & broth). Then if we aren’t stuffed enough with that , we proceed to make fresh hot chicken tamales! We try to stay up past mid-night for Christmas Day (that’s unless we haven’t fell into a food coma). As for egg nog, I’d have to say the Southern Comfort brand they sell at the supermarket is the bomb-diggity. LOL
I’ve never tried eggnog before…
Merry Christmas everyone!
Um, does anyone really like fruitcake? Maybe…but in my family, we do the whole “pass the fruitcake on” dance, regifting to friends and family who probably do the same thing! Oh, and I’ve never had eggnog-but I’ve been curious to try it lately. Merry Christmas!
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Our family is just enjoying all the yummy food and drinks and gaining a pound every 2 hours haha,. we’ll be going to midnight mass tonight, love listening to the choir and remembering the true meaning of Christmas!! Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!
Waiting for dinner!
In Texas, a lot of people have tamales at Christmas. So today my family had chicken tamales topped with homemade chili. Yum!! Hope you have a merry Christmas, Karen!
My favorite part is seeing my family and friends during the holiday times.
Merry christmas!
Merry Xmas!
I’ve been hitting the Eggnog pretty hard this year: I only just had some a few minutes ago!
Merry Christmas!
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Living in the Northeast, we have snow sometimes for Christmas. From the time my son was 2 or 3, we started using skiis to make Santa’s sleigh tracks leading up to the house. It always looks pretty convincing. It’s also pretty comical to try and make sleigh tracks at 1 AM, after a few eggnogs, without making footprints, and wide enough apart. Hopefully this, along with many other traditions made my son’s holiday memories.
we also get to open one present
Merry Christmas! Just finished decorating the tree, and now wrapping presents. Eating peppermint bark cookies for energy!
I ve never tried eggnog before =)
I wish it would snow here!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays everyone 🙂
Eggnog, YES!!! Fruitcake, not so much.
Merry Christmas Karen! I’ve always heard about the connection between fruitcake and Christmas, but I’ve never once had fruitcake. I am a big fan of cake in general, so I’m sure I’d like fruitcake too. =)
Merry Christmas!
I’m currently on a family vacation in Orlando, but I can’t wait to go back home to Georgia because I’m looking forward to making cookies! I’ll get home on Christmas and won’t be able to bake until the days afterward, but I’ll still be poppin them gingerbread cookies out! 😛 I hope you have a merry Christmas!
To be honest, I’ve never had eggnog. The though of all that cream and raw egg makes my stomach churn. I worked at Starbucks one holiday, and I remember we could only heat the eggnog lattes to 140 degrees, or they would curdle. Eew. haha
Those earrings are just gorgeous!
I <3 Eggnog a la rum!!! *~ Yum Yum!! 😀
fruitcake + eggnog = NO
makeup + cats = HELL YES
Karen, I hope you and El Hub and Tabs have a very, very Merry Christmas! We used to open one gift on Christmas Eve, too. Now, with the kids, it’s my parents’ house and a total exchange. Then just us on Christmas day. The Hubs and his Dad are doing a little Santa work as I type! 🙂 Enjoy your day tomorrow!!! Oh, and my mom and sis got me Sephora gift cards this year. I have my eye on that clarisonic!
Love your family stories 🙂 Hope you enjoy the holidays!
It is not snowing yet where we are. Last year was the first white Christmas that I can remember. This year it’s just cold and sunny 🙂
love your blog, i read it everyday! 🙂
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, Karen!
Never had fruitcake!
I love making sugar cookies for the holidays
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Merry Christmas! One of our traditions is that we have a certain breakfast casserole for breakfast every Christmas morning before opening gifts. I’ve already made the casserole and will pop it in the oven tomorrow morning. I’ll make hashbrowns with it and have some fresh fruit on the side. Mmm.
Karen, where is your earring holder from?
It is so gorgeous!
I miss the snow, but love xmas anyway.
Merry Christmas! I hope you have a awesome holiday!
Dear Target gift card, there is a bottle of Tocca Cleopatra with your name on it, please and thanks.
BLT
We open presents at midnight on x-mas eve.
Happy Holidays, Karen! I’ve been lovin’ your blog for yet another year and hopefully for many more years to come! 😀
Merry Christmas!!
I LOVE Christmastime, and I’m so excited for tomorrow!
It’s been in the 70’s here all month, so I have been obsessively making wreaths and ornaments for weeks. For the past four days I have made about 10 dozen cookies. . . I think I have convinced myself it might actually be a winter wonderland out there LOL!!!! Happy Holidays everyone 🙂
I love fruit cake! 🙂
The last time I had eggnog was with a good friend who put rum in it! Very tasty stuff.
Merry Christmas!
I hate the candied fruit pieces in fruitcake but I like the actual spiced, liquor soaked cake, so I always take the time to pull those bright green & red pieces of fruit out of the cake before I eat it 😛
i lovee eggnog last time i had it was this past summer!!!!
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merry christmas!!! we never get snow for christmas but that’s alright. thanks for the wonderful giveaway! 🙂
Merry Christmas! I’ve already gotten an early Sephora gift card from a friend, so this is already a good Christmas. 😀
I hope Santa brings Tabs some gravy too! Merry Christmas :D!
Not only is it not snowing here, I was actually sitting outside in the back yard reading this afternoon. Love the earrings btw. 🙂
I just had egg nog frozen yogurt the other day–yum!
Merry Christmas Karen! (and Tabs, ok and El Hub) I don’t care for fruit cake or eggnog…bring me chocolate anything and I’m pretty happy.
Merry Christmas!!!!!
Spending my Christmas Eve washing makeup brushes and packing my traincase for family makeovers tomorrow!
I’ve never had fruitcake!
Have a great Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
fruitcake is gross!!!
After Christmas I’m going shopping for a clarisonic:)
I’ve actually never had fruitcake or eggnog! I usually prefer pie and hot cocoa – topped with whipped cream of course – for the holidays.
i live in iowa… there is no snow. what?!
Merry Christmas! When I was 6 or 7,I got the My Little Pony waterfall set, I was so happy and shocked I started crying (we were dirt poor, I *never* expected to get it, it was my “dream” item on my xmas list). I had it up until high school just for the happy memory, when it got lost in one of our many moves. I still get happy just thinking about it – it even came with a rubber ducky for the pony!
The last time I had eggnog was Thanksgiving weekend. Though I must say I’ve never had homemade eggnog.
I had too many glasses of mulled wine. Now it’s time to pass out before Santa gets here! Merry Christmas!
This year, I MADE all of my Christmas cards! Phew….
I LOVE SEPHORA!
Merry Christmas Karen!
So excited for Christmas! Only a few more hours.
Never liked eggnog…..love ur earrings.
Merry Christmas, Karen!
Love,
Katie and the Zeebster!
No snow here, I wish there was though!
Wish I had not had so much pie earlier. Also hope that foot traffic tomorrow isn’t too insane.
I think that my favorite present as a kid was when Santa delivered Barbies at different locations. I got a total of 8 Barbies one year. Insanity!
Merry Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas! My favorite present ever was an Easy Bake Oven – it started my love of baking!
I’m fussy about fruitcake: it can’t be too cakey, or too dry, or have too much currants. And it must have halved or whole glacé cherries. And it’s best when it’s been fed for a month with either brandy or whisky!
My favourite gift was my first make up set! Merry Christmas! Xoxo
Love these giveaways that you have. Thanks.
Merry Christmas!
I’m not a fan of eggnog…
P.S. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! I wish my hubby had the day off. Oh well, at least he has a job.
Merry Christmas and Happy new year!
I LOVE feathers! They’re a quick way to spice up your outfit!
I too remember Memorex tapes! Still have some lying around somewhere.
The last time I had eggnog was at my friend’s Christmas party on Saturday. What nobody told me was that there had been brandy added to it, and my friend’s parents drank nearly half the bowl of eggnog that had been set out for the party. Needless to say, my friend ended up being the designated driver for the night.
Merry Christmas!! I have never tried fruitcake either
I have never had fruitcake before! We always eat too much of the entree to get to dessert anyway.
Merry christmas!
Christmas hugs to you and Tabs!
I can’t remember the last time I had eggnog. I never cared for it. I do remember taping music off the radio!!!
HO HO HO,Merry Christmas!
Merry X’mas to all!!! Its the best time of the year…..
Fruitcake scares me! The fruit looks like it was exposed to radio active materials. Give me the eggnog and a pie please!
Merry Christmas! I just finished watching one of my favorite childhood christmas cartoons: christmas comes but once a year! it’s super old, from like the 30’s
For me it’s the foods of Christmas that remind me of my childhood traditions. Cookies and cakes, the house filled with all those baking aromas. There’s nothing better than a vanilla-smelling kitchen. 🙂
Hi, Karen! It’s not snowing in South Texas.
My favorite tradition is eating holiday ham with my family. Its the one time of year that I eat ham.
Hope you’re having a great Christmas!
Childhood Christmas makes me warm just thinking about it!!! My mother would cook and bake the most wonderful food…sweet potato pies, peach cobbler, turkey and dressing, and if we were lucky, daddy would make oh-so-delicious gumbo and french garlic bread to go with it…my brothers and I would listen to the Christmas carol records by Firestone Tire Co., and help my dad put up the Christmas lights…we would go to the freight yard in downtown Los Angeles and get a tree fresh off the train, have the stand put on and watch it get flocked…oh, I miss being a little girl and having such wonderful Christmases, but I have sweet, sweet memories…
Merry Christmas! And just for the record….I can’t stand eggnog. Yes, I know, it’s sacreligious. I think it’s the fact that there’s generally TWELVE eggs in it. The texture….yuck.
If you can believe it, my mom makes a wonderful fruitcake! I can’t wait to have some tonight after dinner.
Merry Christmas!!!!
My favorite tradition is going to midnight services and then having a bunch of people back to our house for a party. We’d be up until 3 or 4 AM. Then my Dad would wake us up between 6 and 7 AM- popping champagne corks- bellowing “get up Santa has been here- get up!”
Happy holidays!
we go to our friends of the family on xmas eve and to my grandmas afterwards. we open gifts on xmas morning before we go to my moms side of the family (we rotate houses). thats pretty much it.. havent made xmas cookies in years
hope you and tabs and el hub have a great christmas! 🙂
Chili for dinner on Christmas Eve (so that Mom has the kitchen free for a big dinner the next day) and midnight mass.
Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Unfortunately it doesn’t look as though we’ll have a white Christmas here in upper New York state this year!
I live in AZ which is a desert so I’ve never had a white christmas.
I was really sad that there hasn’t been any snow here in Toronto…. so my brother bought me a snow cone machine… and now I have three little snow balls and a miniature snow man in my freezer
My favorite presents as a child were always in my stocking. I have this strange pen fetish and my mother would always get me really cool pens and lip products that went in my stocking. It was always my favorite part!
I wish it was snowing! Here in San Antonio, Tx it is barely cool 🙁 I love the cold weather!
I wish it snows here in Philadelphia! I tried eggnog before but it’s not my thing..
merrry christmas!
No snow… a nice Florida high 70s
I miss the excitement I had as a child for Christmas. I still love this time of the year as an adult and that’s because I know the true meaning of Christmas, however, I do miss that feeling you got on Christmas Eve when you knew it was time to go to sleep!!!!
I don’t think I have ever actually HAD fruitcake – so no opinion! However I would love a sephora giftcard to spice up my make-up wardrobe before New Years 🙂
Come Christmas morning I realize the down side to getting your presents early. Nothing to open!
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas – I can never find 12 dollar earrings at Nordies – found some feather white ones at Anthro but my friend took them – oh well – will keep looking – Maybe tomorrow?
Favorite Christmas memory had to be when me and my little brother were younger, my dad placed a red piece of yarn in the fireplace. When we came down Christmas morning to open our presents, my dad went “Look! Santa must have ripped his pants when he was going back up! Guess Mrs. Claus is having to sew his pants back together!” We lost our minds. We were like Elf “SANTAAAAAAAA!!!!!”
Merry Christmas Karen!!!! And Tabs of course!
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Merry Christmas!
Fruit cake – NAY! Lol
I want to buy le metier de beaute goodies but they’re not available in Canada =(
Merry Christmas 🙂
Tomorrow’s my birthday!!! =D
Merry christmas, Karen!
We open our gifts at midnight so early Christmas day… We want to start new traditions as we are maturing, no longer partying it up all night lol
Merry Christmas, Karen and Tabs!
After all the Christmas stress, I am just happy to be home and unwind with the Kardashians on my TV. I can’t help it – they are my ultimate guilty pleasure!
I do not like fruitcake, nor do I like eggnog. But’s it been a great Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone!!!
I’ve actually never had fruitcake…
I love just spending time with my entire family during Christmas! We all have very busy lives so it’s very rare that we get to sit together for dinner!
merry christmas!
Hey Karen! Hope you had a merry Christmas 🙂 No snow here near the Equator 😉
Last night I was going to make eggnog cheesecake…and then I read the directions….then I bought a premade cheesecake instead.
Merry Christmas!!! I don’t think I’ve ever had eggnog, or maybe I just blocked it out.
My family sits around the Christmas tree (decked with unintentially kitschy, nostalgic baby photos) and take turns opening gifts. It’s traditional and fun–especially because about half the gifts are fun gag gifts.
Merry Xmas -need more presents for my wife
EWWWWWWWW on the fruit cake lol.
I’ve never tried fruitcake, although I’m intrigued.
My favorite present is my chi straightener!
I think fruitcake could work? It’s been so long since I’ve eaten it!
Merry Christmas!
Does a McDonald’s eggnog shake count? If so two weeks ago. I also love a good fruitcake. My aunt used to make a fantastic one.
I love fruitcake – but it seems as though nearly everyone else I know loathes it, so it’s never around for me to enjoy! Maybe I’ll see if a coffee shop in my neighborhood has some this week …
Ohmigosh! Just got homee!
Merry Christmas! I hope that Santa was very good to you! I only recently found your blog and I look forward to reading it in 2012!
We always get together to exchange gift, enjoy dinner, and make new memories on Christmas Eve :).
Oh Merry Christmas that would be lovely
From one Bay Area girl to another, Happy Holidays!
I had a wonderful Christmas with my mom’s side of the family. We had a delicious dinner then opened gifts. I got body wash (from Bath & Body Works) and a makeup palette from Nordstroms 🙂
Happy Xmas, dear!
Merry Xmas Karen!
merry christmas to everyone–had a wet and rainy one here
eat too many cookies, my belly hurts and can’t sleep but I still love Christmass!!!
I don’t like fruitcake or eggnog, although I had eggnog panna cotta and fell in love with it! Mele Kalikimaka!!!
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My grandma made the best fruitcake. No one believes me about how good it is!
weeee wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!
Slept in today after a long night of hanging out with the family. This holiday has been excellent.
i ate way too much 🙁
Last time I had eggnog was in a Starbucks drink… I think? 🙂