1. Do you have any holiday traditions?

Well with my family one gift we can all expect is socks! It's something my grandma used to do for all of us. So it's stuck with us even after she passed away.
Other is one I do for my older sister. I always double box and double wrap her gift because she hates opening presents.

2. What's your favorite thing about the Christmas season?

I just love Christmas in general. I love surprising my family with gifts. I love looking at Christmas lights on all the houses. And Christmas cookies are good too! Though not for my waistline! Lol.

3. Do you have any book recommendations that are great for the holiday season?

Hmm...that's a bit harder as I rarely read holiday themed reads at the right time! One anthology that I read some years ago was Holidays are Hell. It had some novellas by Kim Harrison, Marjorie M. Liu, Lynsay Sands, & Vicki Pettersson! Another anthology was Wolfsbane & Mistletoe. Those were a bit shorter stories as there were a lot of authors in that one!

4. What is your favorite Christmas treat?

Favorite Christmas treat is definitely cookies! Some of them we only make at Christmas time. Like frosted sugar cookies, gooey butter cookies, peanut blossoms! Yum!

5. Do you prefer the cold weather or the warm weather?

Definitely the cold! I'm a winter baby. Sorta. So I prefer colder weather. Though St. Louis has crazy weather. Right now it's raining & on Christmas we'll be in the 50s which isn't normal for us.

6. What's your new year's resolution?

I think one of them will definitely be to figure out some self-publishing for my book. Right now I submitted it to a publisher & am still waiting for a response. After that I will figure out what to do!

7. Share a picture of your go to outfit this season.



8. Have you decorated for Christmas? If so, please attach a picture. If you haven't, is there any design that you find attractive?





9. Movie recommendations?

As some of my blog followers might know my favorite Christmas movies are A Christmas Story and then a more recent favorite Elf! And omg that movie is already over 10 years old! Where has the time gone!

10. Share your social media links, etc. (Blog, Twitter, Instagram, etc)

Blog: Jessica-agreatread.blogspot.com
Twitter: Twitter.com/agreatreader
Instagram: Instagram.com/agreatreader

Thank you so much for taking the time to be up on our blog! We're glad to have you for our first Holiday Blogger Highlight. If you guys still haven't, check out Jessica at the links above.

Stay tuned for our next HBH 2015! :)

A new Sunday, a new featured blogger!  It's already Week 4 of our little feature, and we are loving how this is turning out. Why don't we get to know this week's featured blogger? MEET:



She's a teacher, a wife and a mom of two. Loves reading, reviewing and recommending books. Blogger and contributor to SheReads.org. I actually think she's an awesome mom! =) Comment down below what you think!

1. Share your favorite joke or chat-up line.
Be there or be square.

2. Most embarrassing moment? 
I have many, most of which occur when I am tripping over my own feet.  I'd say the worst was when I ran into a fence on a small dirt-bike after bragging about what a good rider I was.

3. Zodiac sign?
Leo

4. Most daring thing you've ever done?
White water rafting
Zip lining

5. If you were about to be dropped in a pit of lava, what would you choose as your last words?
Oh shit!  Or the clean version, ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

6. Who is your favorite cartoon character?
Marvin the Martian 

7. When you were a kid, what was the thing that was understood by everyone but misinterpreted by you? (Example: ______ used to wonder why people said that there was 0% interest. She means why would anyone buy it if it wasn't even the slightest bit interesting?)
I miss a lot of things, it is in my nature.  When I was young, my mother used to ask me if I thought money grew on trees.  Well, I didn't think it actually grew there but I did think there was an unlimited supply coming from some magical place.

8. Who is your favorite blogger?
I like a lot of blogs but I would say Shouldbereading is a favorite and of course SheReads because I review for them.

9. Future plans?
Less work, more sleep and time with family.

10. Animal that you would own as a pet? (Birds, cats, dogs, fishes, bunnies, and guinea pigs not allowed)
 Cats and dogs are my favorite but I have had all of the above in the past. I don't recommend the guinea pig, they poop too much. 

11. Do you believe ants are nutritious?
 Hmmm... Maybe if they were covered in dark chocolate.  Wouldn't that add some vitamins to them?

12. Star Wars or Star Trek? 
Totally Star Wars.  No contest.

13. Favorite superhero?
Iron Man and Captain America are in a tie for first right now in my fantasies. 

14. Favorite super villain?
 Loki rocks!

15. Name one thing you love about yourself.
 I think I am a good mom and my eye color is a cool shade of blue.

16. TBH...
There needs to be more than 24 hours in my day.  Oh... And I think mean people suck.

17. What is your favorite shirt/dress/pants/jacket/hoodie/any piece of clothing? Attach a picture.
Any oversize hoodie.  I just find them to be extremely comfortable and warm.

Our last challenge is to pick blogs that we will nominate for the Love-a-thon Awards. This is a great opportunity to introduce to others some blogs that are nice yet not very popular. We will choose some categories and decide who we nominate for it.

In this post, we decided to make a letter to our future selves. We thought that this would become motivation for us to do better in the future. We will set goals for our future selves. We will also give our future selves encouragement in case they feel like giving up. This is one of the mini challenges that we were looking forward to. We are very excited to do this challenge and we hope that it will be a success.

Dear Geeky Chiquitas of the Future:

We love you. You guys are amazing in every single way. We want to be you in the future. We command you to be successful and better than us. You guys have to be better than we are now. Don't ever give up and if you even think about giving up, you have to remember the day when you wrote this letter and vowed to be somebody. You should remember that you had so much hope before, you haven't lost that hope. You've just misplaced it. If you are better than we are now by the time you read this letter, remember the person you were when you wrote this letter. Don't become too prideful. Remember where you started and never lose sight of who you are.

Love,
The Geeky Chiquitas of the Past (for you, present for us)