1. What is your favourite Christmas movie/s?
Love Actually. Every single time, once this movie is on, I will not move, I absolutely adore it. (The Grinch comes in at a close second)
2. Do you open presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?
Christmas morning with the fam. Lately that hasn't happened considering I order my own presents now and everyone pretty much asks for what they want so it's no longer fun, or a surprise.
3. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?
Several, many of which revolve around my belief in Santa Claus till I was around 7. My parents seamlessly fulfilled all "Santa" duties and not once did I question how the presents got under the tree even after "I fell asleep after 12!" or the fact that living in the Caribbean means we don't have a chimney. I think those memories of waking up on Christmas morning and opening presents and just believing in the magic of it all is what will forever stand as my favourite Christmas memory.
4. Favourite festive food?
Turkey. I love turkey. (For those who know me "I like chicken" but at Christmas, "I like turkey.") Oh, and my mom's freshly baked bread.
5. Favourite Christmas gift?
This is of course not an easy one to answer, I've had 21 years of pretty great Christmas presents but I still think the giant dollhouse I got when I was around 5-6 wins out of all the presents I've received over the years.
6. Favourite Christmas scent?
Cinnamon apple pie. Cinnamon on the whole really, it's my favourite spice and it's so comforting and very Christmas-y.
7. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?
Does waking until 12 to see Santa count? Pretty sure it does, anyway, since I don't do that anymore, I bake my turkey on Christmas Eve night into Christmas morning so one hassle is done, also, a lot of last minute baking with my mom.
8. What tops your tree?
I've had like 3 different Christmas trees in my entire lifetime, not big ones unfortunately and it's usually either a star or a red bow because anything bigger will probably cause the poor tree to bend. I patiently await the day I can have a tree angel.
9. As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for and never received?
Honestly, my Christmas list always consisted of Barbies as a child, all different types of them, so most of the time those wishes were fulfilled. I think the crazy, wild, extravagant gift thing kicked in when I was way older, and that would be a Hermes Birkin :'(
Meet my dream Birkin.
10. What's the best part of Christmas for you?
Would it be horrible if I said the food? Either way, it's the food. It used to be the presents but as mentioned before, that doesn't stand anymore. It's the whole season really, the festiveness of it, something about it just brings happiness everywhere, the lights, the colour, the overspending... The Magic.
I much rather a foreign Christmas in a land where it actually snows and feels like Christmas but I must admit, our very own Trini Christmas has a charm of it's own with it's parang music, black cake. pastelles, and ponche de creme. A Trini Christmas is definitely something special.
I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas!
xoxo, Shantilly.
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