Personal Facts
This team member has attended Karate classes in High School and was also given an award for typing 90 WPM
Carmen
This Team Member always goes to a local tree farm to cut their own tree down- over the years this has evolved into somewhat of a game to find the most inexpensive tree...... the way it looks is not important!
Debbie
The year when this team member's uncle announced he was divorcing their aunt and had a new girlfriend younger than his kids….but still hosted Christmas together ….with their children very unhappy and the soon to be ex wife sitting at the kids table next to him…..all the while he was bragging about what a great job his new girlfriend did redecorating the new house! Today the ex and the kids are really good friends with the girlfriend and like her better than him!
Rachel
As a child would spend Christmas ever at a family restaurant with over 200 extended family members
Christine
This team member will be celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary this month
Alicia
On Christmas Eve they have a nice dinner with family, watch a Christmas movie and stay up until midnight to open gifts!
Alicia
Stopped putting the names of their kids on the packages because they would figure out what gifts they received- it became somewhat a game - but one year they forgot what gift was for who and the wrong child ended up opening the presents!
Alicia
Best Christmas was one I spent in the Dominican Republic with family in 1994
Carmen
This team member was born at Cape Fear hospital and delivered by a Dr. Payne
Brian
This team member enjoys cooking with family during the holidays
Paulinda
This past Christmas this team member's father in law decide to share a story from his childhood (which they had heard before) about how his older siblings would trick him into thinking Santa was on their roof at night (making sounds) in order to keep him believing that Santa was real. The kicker is that he was sharing this story with the entire family- including his grandkids.....some of which still believed! Disaster was averted (they think) as the kids were removed from the room partway through the story
Melissa
Consuming festive drinks that prolong the present opening process to 3-4 hours on Christmas day!
David
This Team Member Has never in their life had a cup of coffee
Debbie
This team member's family gets matching christmas pjs and wearing them on christmas eve. Then on christmas eve- they open the more "personal" presents that night so more time is taken (kids exchange between kids)
Melissa
This team member's father loved their live Christmas tree so much that they decided to try to preserve the tree for the following year (this is possible apparently) but this was in Florida- so by July- there was a skeleton of a tree on the front driveway for all the world to see!
Brian
This Team Member drove an hour away and forgot all of the gifts for the grandkids and was so distraught that their child drove all the way to her house (without her knowing) to get them….just to make her feel better! Funny thing is that she didn't notice he was gone!
Theresa
This team member loves Disco Music
Christine
On Christmas Eve after dinner- the adults in this team member's family become elves wrapping gifts and then early in the morning while eating Christmas breakfast they are unwrapped
Lourdes
When this team member was 5 they and their siblings tried to climb their Christmas tree on Christmas eve….which toppled over- they had to wear the Christmas ornaments on our clothes on Christmas day as punishment
Donna
As a child would watch their grandfather make homemade pasta- hanging the noodles to dry from a clothesline.
Debbie