I love the Christmas season. After I clean up the house today and go to the gym, I think Matt and I are going to start our Christmas shopping. Some of my favorite things about this time of the year are:
- Listening to Christmas music
- Driving up to Scranton and having a few hours to just talk about life while we listen to my favorite Christmas CD
- Thanksgiving!
- Seeing extended family members
- Baking, baking and more baking...Christmas cookies, truffles, cakes, tortes, pies...
- Watching some of my favorite Christmas movies...It's a Wonderful Life, the Nativity, Polar Express, Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, and the list goes on
- Christmas shopping and wrapping gifts while watching one of my Christmas movies
- The scent of cinnamon and evergreen
- Christmas morning!
- First Friday downtown and Tuba Christmas
- Spending weekends with friends
- Hearing Dominic the Donkey on the radio and laughing like crazy!
- Christmas parties
- Matt's Christmas concerts...especially his school concert...the kids are adorable!
- Picking out a Christmas tree
- Decorating our Christmas tree with pappy
- Getting dressed up and going to the Christmas Eve service
- Seeing the little kids at church in their Christmas dresses and suits...so cute!
- Spending lots of time with family
- Sipping on hot chocolate and enjoying a Christmas cookie or two
- Apple Cider, Spiced Rum, a little dab of butter and cinamon to finish it off
- Celebrating many many birthdays within a month...Dad P, Mom C, Matt, myself, Eric R, Kent, and a few others that I can't think of right now
- New Year's Eve!
- Snow...hopefully we get some this year. I'm not a huge fan of it, but I'd rather have snow than dreary rainy days like this one! And, if we get snow, let's get lots of it so we can go out and play!
- Seeing my Messiah girls (miss you this weekend!)
- Lewis & Associates Christmas Party
- Christmas caroling (which, by the way, I'm going to arrange to go to a retirement community and go Christmas caroling)
- Decorating the house with lights, candles, and my nativity set
- and so much more...
2 comments:
Call me crazy but I have already started my Christmas shopping and listening to Christmas music. The rule was always no Christmas music until after Thanksgiving growing up. I've held off on my Christmas decorations, but listening to Christmas music puts me in such a great mood!
Chingy da ching, Hee Haw, Hee Haw, it's Dominic the Donkey!!
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