Christmas season
I love this season of the year! I got the lights put on my christmas tree yesterday and seeing them on this morning just put me in the christmas spirit and caused me to reflect on all the things I love the most about this time of year. Besides all the christmas lights, some of my favorites are: Christmas concerts, christmas dress up piano recital, the trees all dressed in their snowy white winter frocks, christmas music on the radio and in my CD player, christmas parties, Night of Nativity where I get to see 100’s of creches and feel the spirit of the nativity story, making and seeing gingerbread houses and all the smells of gingerbread, making cookies and candies to give away to all my neighbors and friends, 12 days of secret santas leaving small gifts or services around the house for each person in the house, trying to come up with those perfect meaningful gifts for family without breaking the budget or getting too stressed out with holiday crowds, christmas cards coming in the mail and updating me on family and friends that I don’t always hear from the rest of the year, putting together puzzles, playing games, being with family, thinking of and connecting with in some way family and friends I can’t be with.
Tis my favorite season, a least until the next season comes along!
December 8th, 2006 at 8:21 am
I love this time of year too, especially when Michael and I go around and look at the lights nearer to Yule. It is hectic, as always - funny I don’t remember it being this hectic when I was little… We have most of our decorations up, no lights yet, we decided we won’t get a tree (my first year without one hehe) so I think we are going to put them on the balcony railing), I need to hem the fabric I got for the table cloth too and get over the fear of people spilling food on it!
Michael and I are looking forward to the piano recital!