As adult i attribute this to never living in the same place as a child, and Christmas being the one time we were all together and anything seemed possible. My parents and siblings. I was lucky to never have a Christmas without my military father. So here a few reasons I love Christmas, in no particular order.
Movies - with no cable or TV growing up, we had traditions of watching certain movies; Claymation Christmas, A Muppet's Christmas Carol, Home Alone, when we got older Scroodged.
Snow - I love snow. All of it. Every Christmas should be a white one.
Lights - are soooooo pretty. I say "oooooo, ahhhhh" like all the time. Havent found a good place to go see houses here yet....
Music - Hooray for Santa Clause, Kenny G, Straigh No Chaser, Michel Bubblely, She and Him (if you like New Girl get this album right MEOW!), Vince Guaraldi (peanuts xmas movie guy), Glee, Alabama Christmas, Statler Brothers, Frank Sinatra, and more than i can think of right now. All the billboard ones!
Decorations - THANK YOU Pinterest. Not that any of these are ever put into practice.
Family - yeah its cheesy. My parents always made us kids feel like the unbelievable could happen on Christmas Eve. Not to say that we were spoiled, because all 3 of us kids grew up thinking we were poor (ends up we werent my folks are just frugal). but it made Christmas all that much more special.
My brother is much older, he went off to college while we lived over seas. Christmas was so sad (for 9 year old me). I remember wishing and praying that he could come home. Welp, on Christmas Eve my big brother walked through the door of our apartment. Anything can happen on Christmas.
L-R: me, t-dubs, schsister
This is our awkward family photo from 3 years ago. T-Dubs and schsister often don't sleep on Christmas Eve and start demanding getting up around 4 am, I usually insist on waiting until 5. This is after hours of movie watching.
And those are a few reasons i love the holidays! Why do you love the holidays? What traditions do you have?
This post just gave me a little Christmas cheer! I've been so lazy (didn't decorate AT ALL for fall), so I was even considering not putting up a tree this year. I know I will, but I have no motivation. I need to come back and look at this post when I'm all "bah-humbug" haha
ReplyDeleteI love the holidays too! I love to decorate the whole house! I don't like to be able to stand in any specific spot and not see a decoration.
ReplyDeleteWe are always at family's houses on Christmas and never our own so traveling is a bit of our tradition. It's funny to think of all the things I want to be traditions, but then the girls make me realize other things have become a tradition. They'll say, "Aren't we going to ___? We always ____?" This is how I realized we always go get a tree, come home to drink hot chocolate, decorate the tree while listening to Christmas music and then set up the train set under the tree.
I'll have to ask them what they think our other traditions are. :)