Let's hear it bloggers! Finish this sentence for me: "It just isn't Christmas until..."
I want to know what you think! What are some of your favorite traditions, music, or family festivities that get you in the yuletide spirit? Do you travel? What is your favorite seasonal CD or song? Do you have a favorite decoration or ornament? What is your favorite Christmas story? Do you have a favorite holiday movie? What do you eat for Christmas Eve dinner? Who do you spend Christmas with?
Share your thoughts, and read what others are doing...
I want to know what you think! What are some of your favorite traditions, music, or family festivities that get you in the yuletide spirit? Do you travel? What is your favorite seasonal CD or song? Do you have a favorite decoration or ornament? What is your favorite Christmas story? Do you have a favorite holiday movie? What do you eat for Christmas Eve dinner? Who do you spend Christmas with?Share your thoughts, and read what others are doing...
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Of course I have to comment on my own blog! Just a few things that mean it's Christmas to me: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert. I try not to miss it! I still think "It's A Wonderful Life" is the best Christmas movie ever made--the ending ALWAYS makes me cry. I love to collect Santa's and snow babies (my collection gets bigger each year).
One of my favorite Christmas CD's is called "Blossoms in the Snow". I love to read Dr. Suess's "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol". Getting together with family and friends. Finding the perfect gift for my husband. And of course reading about the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ in the Bible.
My favorite Christmas memories are getting together on Christmas eve with all my cousins and reading Luke 2 and performing the manger scene dressed up as shephards (complete with towel on head) and wise men and the baby Jesus was the newest baby to the family that year (boy or girl). A few years ago we decided to have our parents do it instead of the kids and let me tell you how funny it was to see my dad in a red womens bathrobe with an eyepatch!Someone said, "I didn't realize that Satan was part of the nativity!" We all were cracking up! My favorite Christmas CD is probably Amy Grant but I am also liking this lady that sang in our enrichment last year named Nancy Hansen. Her CD is a mix of country, reggae and folk. It just isn't Christmas until me and my mom have watched either It's a wonderful Life or the old Miracle on 34th street. Nobody else watches with us, it's just our little thing together we do. You have to have hot chocolate and shortbread cookies to dip while watching too! Those are just a few of my favorite Christmas things!
...I listen to the John Denver & The Muppets Christmas CD.
...I've had enough eggnog to drown a small country.
...It has snowed. (Having 100 degree Christmas days on the mission sucked!)
...I watch "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Charlie Brown Christmas". Oh yeah and "Mr. Kreuger's Christmas.
...I hear the Shane Company Christmas ad.
... I've played "Christmas with the Chipmunks" until Jason threatens to break the CD
... I watch "A Muppet Christmas Carol" with my sister Cheryl and we sing along to all the songs and quote the funny parts. Again, Jason threatens to break the DVD.
... We go out front and look at the Christmas lights on my mom's house.
... Egg nog. Yum.
... I wonder why I'm the only one who eats the candy canes.
... I recieve that first Christmas card in the mail!
... I smell a Christmas tree and remember how good it feels.
Heather you have that tradition with mom? Glad I have been left out :)
I love everything! I love the music, snow, (minus the cold) Giving gifts, being with family and friends. We sing at the hospital every year which I love. I love opening the drawn names on Christmas eve with the siblings! I love it all!
best part about christmas: dragging all of our mattresses into the family room and having a giant sleepover. being too old for santa and still thanking him for our awesome stockings ("thank you santa, wherever you are!") you start seeing egg nog in the stores. black friday (i was a part of it this year). bringin out the thick coats.. as much as i try and boycott the winter. blossoms in the snow. the nutcracker ballet at capital theater advertisements are on tv. i can't stop buying presents for john...... "which name did i draw again?". last but not least, chicken cordean bleu, stuffed mushrooms, corn-flake potatoes, martinelli's sparkling cider, and snowballs. dont forget the casserole for breakfast! :)
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