THINGS I LOVE ABOUT CHRISTMAS
Christmas music (I would listen in August if that’s when the
radio stations started playing them)
Ornaments with my kids’ baby pictures
Fun mail interspersed with the bills
People who really get into their lighting displays
Watching my kids watch Elf
Happy, singing bell-ringers outside Walmart
My mother-in-law’s cranberry cake
My Carpenters’ Christmas album
Caroling
The peppermint shake at Chic-fil-a
Live nativity scenes
Luke 2
Kevin off of work
Christmas trees in windows
Nester the Long-Eared Donkey
Little girls in Christmas dresses
Cars with antlers
Candlelight services on Christmas Eve
Christmas break with the kids: going to bed late, sleeping
in, no lunch-packing, playing games, watching movies, wearing our PJs until
noon, teaching Braden where we keep the silverware and the syrup a mere four
months after we moved
Anticipation
THINGS I DON'T LOVE QUITE SO MUCH
12 Days of Christmas workouts, complete with 144 push-ups
Stocking stuffers
Never having enough tape
Overspending
Gluttony
December 26
