Christmas is right around the corner and I, like my children (and my 'I work in retail and I am exhausted with all of these Christmas shopping lunatics' husband), can't wait! So for today’s post, I am giving you my
Top Ten Things I Love About Christmas Time
In no particular order…
1.
Shopping for others. I shop better for others than I do for myself!
2.
Driving and Looking at Christmas lights. We’ve already started taking
the long way home from wherever we go, just so we can look at the
Christmas lights.
3.
Wrapping presents. I
love to wrap
presents and I
love to make my own wrapping paper! Brown mailing paper, finger paint and some toddler creativity make the perfect present wrapping paper!
4.
Our Christmas Eve tradition. Christmas eve is
always crazy for us… many years we have four stops to make on that
single day! But I wouldn't trade it for anything!
5.
Christmas Programs. At school and at church, I
love them all!
6.
Christmas Cards. It’s the one time of the year we’re actually excited to get the mail! I
love mailed cards!!
7.
Christmas Music. The Carpenters Christmas album!! Karen is my vocal idol!
8.
Preparing for Santa. The exhausting, hard, time consuming labor of getting everything "ready"!
9.
Christmas Day Morning. I
love to watch my children's face on Christmas morning! Our kids are at the
perfect ages for Christmas, and I can’t wait to watch them this year.
It’s something I want to remember forever!
10.
The Christmas Story. Is there anything
better than teaching your children that the true meaning of Christmas
doesn't sit under the tree or magically plop down the chimney. It was
born under a star in Bethlehem many years ago and died so that we may
live!
Don't you just LOVE Christmas!