Things I Love About Christmas...

in no particular order...

• big colored lights and tiny twinkly white lights
• all the great Advent and Christmas music at Mass
• driving around, looking at Christmas lights
• decorating the Christmas tree
• taking a walk down memory lane with each ornament that has meaning
• my mom's Christmas morning brunch - yum!
• baking cookies
• seeing family, especially my cousins
• sending out Christmas cards
• Christmas parties and brunches with my friends
• going to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert with Michael and friends
• replacing my everyday dishes with the snowman dishes
• the little trees that go in the kids rooms - I love how they decorate them!
• putting out my Nativity
• going shopping at the Mall with Maddie's special needs class
• decorating gingerbread houses at the Fuller's annual gingerbread party
• wrapping gifts
• making the Reis family calendar
• I love that Lucy wears a Christmas shirt almost every day in December!
• hanging up the photo cards we receive on the banister garland
• listening to Christmas music
• the giant walk-through wreath on the front of my parent's house
• trying (unsuccessfully most of the time!) to find the pickle ornament before my sisters do
• watching the kids unwrap their gifts
• wine slush
• Christmas Eve Mass
• playing games and hanging out on Christmas Day
• meeting Pam and her kids for our annual Christmas Skyline Chili lunch
• St. Nicholas Day