25 reasons why i like Christmas
Written on 25 December 2002 | Posted in festivities | 0 Comments
- 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.
- 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.
- A Charlie Brown Christmas.
- Miracle on 34th Street.
- A Wonderful Life.
- 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.
- Two hour department Christmas lunches.
- Happy Christmas (War is Over), by John Lennon.
- Terry’s Chocolate Orange.
- 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!
- Christmas cards.
- Pine cones.
- Holly.
- White rooftops.
- Silver Tinsel.
- Shortbread.
- Spending many hours decorating my parents’ tree in between multiple glasses of hot apple cider (or mulled wine), while listening to (and singing) carols.
- Mulled wine.
- Marzipan.
- Little white lights.
- Pine needles.
- Red mittens.
- Snow banks.
- Clear blue skies.
- Bright sunshine.
Merry Christmas everyone. Be good to each other.