etc.

25. Sitting on the couch in that turkey-induced drowsiness, napping, chatting, and generally basking in the glow of being surrounded by my favourite people in the whole world, feeling pretty lucky to be where I am.

24. One of my favourite Christmas memories: when we were kids, we sometimes used to go to church at midnight on the 24th. When we left the house, there would be a few presents under the tree, but when we got back, there would be many, many more. I still don’t know how my parents did it.
23. A Charlie Brown Christmas.
22. Miracle on 34th Street.
21. A Wonderful Life.
20. In the library: all the kids have gone home and the bookstacks are mine, all mine, to stroll through and select my holiday reading. It feels like summer up there.
19. Two hour department Christmas lunches.
18. Happy Christmas (War is Over), by John Lennon.
17. Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
16. Some days, you finish all your Christmas shopping in under an hour and have enough left-over paper from last year to wrap all your presents this year!
15. Christmas cards.
14. Pine cones.
13. Holly.
12. White rooftops.
11. Silver Tinsel.
10. Shortbread.
9. Spending many hours decorating my parents’ tree in between multiple glasses of hot apple cider (or mulled wine), while listening to (and singing) carols.
8. Mulled wine.
7. Marzipan.
6. Little white lights.
5. Pine needles.
4. Red mittens.
3. Snow banks.
2. Clear blue skies.
1. Bright sunshine.

Merry Christmas everyone. Be good to each other.