12 Things I Love About Christmas

1. Celebrating the birth of the most special boy ever born . . . Jesus, of course! 2. Seeing my kids faces when they open presents on Christmas morning. Of course, this was the best when they were little, but now is good too. 3. Family gathering together. 4. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas". These are staples from my childhood that my own kids also love. They take me back. 5. The Christmas Parade in our town. 6. "It's a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Story" (we watch this over and over and over when TNT/TBS shows it back to back for 24 hours at Christmas, a family tradition!) and "Christmas Vacation" and "The Santa Clause". 7. Our ginormous "Griswold Family" Christmas tree. Live, of course. 9. Lights in my yard and everybody else's yards. I love seeing lights on houses in the distance in the country. Beautiful! 10. Christmas vacation from work. This probably should rank higher then 10. :) 11. Christmas music. I really enjoy the Holiday Traditions channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. Old classic Christmas music from the 40's, 50's and 60's. And, Christmas Eve, and maybe a few days before, they play old radio broadcasts of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's Christmas shows. I know this is before my time, but I absolutely love it. 12. Saying "Merry Christmas" to people and them saying it to me. Merry Christmas, Y'all!!!