 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW blue plan. Happy Christmas Eve, my friends. It is officially Christmas Eve. I am so excited for Christmas this year. It's going to be just an intimate relaxing Christmas, which is just what I like. I thought that it makes sense for me to share a Christmas tag video with you today. Answer some questions that are Christmas related, something that you can listen to while you're preparing for your family's holiday. So if you're excited for today's video, please give it a big thumbs up. It means a lot to me and kind of lets me know that these are the types of videos I should do next year for Vlogmas because Vlogmas is almost over, 2020 is almost over and I am so excited to move into the new year. If you're not yet subscribed, please take a moment and subscribe. I'd love to have you join my community. We are 30,000 subscribers just about strong and it's a very, very supportive place to be. So definitely make sure you're subscribed and your bell is turned on. Down in the description box, you will find my nutrition coaching website, where I offer 30 and 60 minute coaching sessions and personalized macros and calories. Also on that website, you can order the 2021 custom calendar that I shared with you on Tuesday. That's the first product of my small business. So thank you in advance for supporting me there as well. That link is down in the description box as well as all the links and discount codes to my favorite things and my Facebook group. We'd love to have you join us over there as well. So I have some questions to answer to share with you about Christmas. So let's jump in. Question number one is do you open your presence on Christmas Eve or Christmas day? So growing up, we always opened our gifts on Christmas Eve and then we would open our stockings on Christmas day. But as I became an adult, moved into my own home, we actually open our gifts and stockings on Christmas morning. But Christmas Eve is when the family gathers. We usually have appetizers. We play games. It's just a really fun time. Christmas Eve is my favorite day of the holiday season. Next question is what holiday traditions are you looking most forward to this year? I would say it being just that intimate, small Christmas. It's just going to be myself, my husband, my mom and her boyfriend. Generally, we have a few other people come over but with 2020, that's not happening. But that's okay because we had a very small Thanksgiving and it was honestly one of my favorites so far. So I'm looking forward to just spending quality time with my mom, my husband and her boyfriend. What is your favorite Christmas movie? Hands Down Christmas Vacation. Hands Down, my very favorite movie. I love it. We watch it at least once, if not twice every single year. Is your Christmas tree real or fake? It is fake. My husband is not a fan of real Christmas trees. He thinks there's spiders in them which there's not. But he's just not a fan of having a real tree so we always have an artificial tree. This year, we actually got the tree right behind me here, brand new. I've always wanted a flocked tree and I finally convinced my husband to let me have one and I'm in love. I'm obsessed with it and I love it. So we just have an artificial tree. For us, it's a little bit easier. We just store it, pop it out of the box, fluff it up and we have a beautiful tree year after year. The next question is where do you spend your Christmas holiday? So since we moved into our current house, my mom decided to sell off all of her Christmas decorations and I am now the Christmas home of choice. So we all gather here for every holiday, whether it be Thanksgiving or Christmas, which is fine with me because I like to actually be home on the holidays. I want to be with Diesel and Lola. So it makes sense because we do have the largest home for everybody to gather here. So since we moved here three years ago, we are now the hotspot for the holidays. The next question is what is your favorite Christmas song? This is a hard one because I love Christmas music. As soon as it's on the radio full-time, I'm here for it and I always have it playing in my car. So I don't know if I can pick just one. I'm very much a traditional Christmas song person. I really like Jingle Bells. We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Those are kind of those old school songs are my very favorite. What is your all-time favorite holiday sweet treat that only comes around at Christmas? Well, of course it's my sugar cookies. I just posted this video on Sunday where I shared with you guys my famous or famous in my family and friends sugar cookies and I'll tell you that I gave my contractor one just yesterday when he was here working on my bathroom and he came out to tell me he's not at all surprised that these are famous cookies because they were the best he's ever had. If you haven't checked out that video, I'll link it down below for you. I'm telling you family, favorite, friend, favorite, contractor, favorite are my sugar cookies. Be honest. Do you like giving gifts or getting gifts better? 100 million percent giving. I honestly don't care if I get a single gift. To be honest, I buy what I want during the year anyways and I find so much joy in seeing other people open the gifts that I've picked out for them because they're all thoughtful to me. They're all important to me. I put time and energy and thought into the gifts so my favorite part is seeing my friends and family opening up what I got them for the holidays. The next question is what is your favorite thing about the holidays? 100% gathering with family. I love seeing my family during the holidays. I like to see their joy and their excitement when they see the holiday spreader. They get the gifts that I picked out for them and just spending that one-on-one quality time with friends and family over the holidays is hands down my favorite thing. The next question is when do you start getting excited for Christmas? Honestly, right around November 1st, I don't decorate that early but that's when I start to get the Christmas spirit and I want to start prepping and preparing for the holiday season. I start shopping for new Christmas decor, seeing what's out in the stores, but I don't actually put up my Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving because I decorate for Thanksgiving as well and we do have that dinner at my house. I want to make sure that my fall decor is still up for Thanksgiving but as soon as it's over, my house is Christmas-fied. The next question is do you make New Year's resolutions and do you stick with them? So honestly, I don't really make a New Year's resolution. I create what's called a vision board and I have several goals that I want to achieve throughout the whole entire year. Some of them are short-term goals. Some of them are long-term goals. I prefer to have a vision board of goals so that I have a lot to look forward to in the new year. I find for me if I have a New Year's resolution, I generally don't stick with it. It lasts just a couple of months and then it's to the wayside but if I create a vision board, those are several goals that I look forward to throughout the entire year. Next question is have you ever made a snowman? Yeah, of course. As a kid, my dad, my mom, and I would make snowmen in our front yard. Now, I haven't made one since I was a kid. Am I? If we get enough snow but making a snowman is so much fun and I love that it stays out in your yard for a while so that you can enjoy it day after day. And the last question is if you could be granted one Christmas wish, what would it be? Honestly, my one wish would be for everyone to be healthy and happy. Whatever that means to us individually, I want everyone I know and even people I don't know to just be healthy and happy. So thank you so much for joining me on this Christmas tag. I hope that it gave you a little bit more insight into me during the holiday season and it was just a great way to kick off your Christmas eve. If you enjoyed today's video, please give it a big thumbs up. And of course, if you haven't yet subscribed, subscribe. I'd love to have you join my channel. I have so much fun stuff moving into the new year, my friends. Make sure you're checking out that description box to get your hands on my calendar, as well as my nutrition coaching, my Facebook group, and links and discounts to all of my favorite things. Thank you guys so, so much for watching Merry Christmas Eve. I hope you have the best Christmas ever and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.