1. Despite all the work I love to decorate the house. I love seeing it transformed from the house I see all year round to the Christmasfied home it is now.
2. I love having two trees. One real one fake. They each have their pros and cons. Like the fake tree we paid for at a reputible tree dealer before we got married and paid about $85 for. By now, the 11th Christmas we got our money's worth. Real trees smell nice and have their amazing charm. I never had one growing up and this will be our fourth year with one. The cons are the clean up and the upfront cost EVERY year. I don't water the tree, that's hubby's job.
3. I love baking. But that's a given if you've read anything about me. I love to plan out and bake Christmas cookies and have my kids help decorate the sugar ones.
4. I love to shop for other people. I love picking them out and showing hubby when he gets home. I love shopping for my kids especially. I went today and got most of what I needed to get them. Some items are out so later today I'll be online shopping. We're lucky because hubby gets a pretty comfy holiday bonus every year so that's our holiday spending money. I still would like to start a Christmas club account to add to it. Hubby wants a music studio by Yamaha or something and I'd love to get it for him, but it's too expensive. *sigh*
5. Wrapping. I love to wrap. It's a good thing because I do 99.9 % of it (the .1% would be what hubby buys me and I hear him say how much better I am at it than he, to which I roll my eyes like Lioux.)
6. I absolutely LOVE, did you read that? LOVE those Christmas movies. Not just the adult ones but the kid ones. I love Rudolph and Frosty. I love Santa Claus is coming to town with The Berger Meister (please forgive my spelling) and whatever one has the Heat Miser and Cold Miser (I have yet to find that one DVD.) I love the Grinch movie and the Muppets Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas Carol is with George C. Scott. I become a kid at Christmas. I love it.
7. I love Christmas music. I listen to it all day every chance I get.
8. I love seeing my kids on Santa's lap, even the years my daughter has cried.
9. I love seeing my kids on Christmas morning when they see that Santa came despite us telling them they better shape up. LOL.
10. I love how the church is decorated for Christmas mass and teaching my kids the real reason for Christmas.
11. I love seeing all the people I love. Yep.
So you can see, I love all the aspects of Christmas. I do dislike the twisty ties they put on all kids toys to make them theft proof and I'm sure they will cause me to have claw-like hands once again this year. LOL. I do dislike trying to recycle all that Christmas paper over a few weeks and I do dislike taking the decorations down. But I don't do that until after the new year. We leave it up for the whole season long.
Now I ask you? What do you love about Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanza?)
2. I love having two trees. One real one fake. They each have their pros and cons. Like the fake tree we paid for at a reputible tree dealer before we got married and paid about $85 for. By now, the 11th Christmas we got our money's worth. Real trees smell nice and have their amazing charm. I never had one growing up and this will be our fourth year with one. The cons are the clean up and the upfront cost EVERY year. I don't water the tree, that's hubby's job.
3. I love baking. But that's a given if you've read anything about me. I love to plan out and bake Christmas cookies and have my kids help decorate the sugar ones.
4. I love to shop for other people. I love picking them out and showing hubby when he gets home. I love shopping for my kids especially. I went today and got most of what I needed to get them. Some items are out so later today I'll be online shopping. We're lucky because hubby gets a pretty comfy holiday bonus every year so that's our holiday spending money. I still would like to start a Christmas club account to add to it. Hubby wants a music studio by Yamaha or something and I'd love to get it for him, but it's too expensive. *sigh*
5. Wrapping. I love to wrap. It's a good thing because I do 99.9 % of it (the .1% would be what hubby buys me and I hear him say how much better I am at it than he, to which I roll my eyes like Lioux.)
6. I absolutely LOVE, did you read that? LOVE those Christmas movies. Not just the adult ones but the kid ones. I love Rudolph and Frosty. I love Santa Claus is coming to town with The Berger Meister (please forgive my spelling) and whatever one has the Heat Miser and Cold Miser (I have yet to find that one DVD.) I love the Grinch movie and the Muppets Christmas Carol. My favorite Christmas Carol is with George C. Scott. I become a kid at Christmas. I love it.
7. I love Christmas music. I listen to it all day every chance I get.
8. I love seeing my kids on Santa's lap, even the years my daughter has cried.
9. I love seeing my kids on Christmas morning when they see that Santa came despite us telling them they better shape up. LOL.
10. I love how the church is decorated for Christmas mass and teaching my kids the real reason for Christmas.
11. I love seeing all the people I love. Yep.
So you can see, I love all the aspects of Christmas. I do dislike the twisty ties they put on all kids toys to make them theft proof and I'm sure they will cause me to have claw-like hands once again this year. LOL. I do dislike trying to recycle all that Christmas paper over a few weeks and I do dislike taking the decorations down. But I don't do that until after the new year. We leave it up for the whole season long.
Now I ask you? What do you love about Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanza?)
2 Comments:
Eggnog
I should have seen that one coming Lioux. LOL.
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