- Sitting in a warm dark room, watching snow falling outside, with a hot chocolate in one hand and a good comic book (Calvin & Hobbes, Sherman's Lagoon, Dilbert, Herman, Get Fuzzy, Zits, etc ...) in the other ... oh, and a purring cat on my lap.
- Macaroons, snowballs, shortbread, stuffing and gravy, truffles, and especially Mom's second-to-none chocolate chip cheesecake. Actually, Christmas food as a whole is something to look forward to all year ...
- Reflecting on the birth of Jesus - that the Son would put aside His rights as Creator and take on the nature of His created. On His humble coming.
- Getting to see everyone from each side of the family again!
- Having the excuse to sit and watch Charlie Brown and his "sad jazz" Christmas.
- Chinese food and "2001: Space Odyssey" at New Years (ok, not technically, Christmas ... but close!). This NYs, though, I'm thinking a back-to-back Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Any takers?
- Christmas charols, which generally tend to be my favorite hymns.
- Walking from the cold into a warm house that smells like apple cider
- Giving gifts
- Ok, fine, getting gifts, too ...
- Eggnog!
- Christmas lights and Christmas trees in a dark room at night ...
- The oh-so-welcome four week Christmas vacation (thank you, thank you, thank you, Dr. Haykin!!) ... oh the bliss of having nothing* to do! (*nothing being a relative term, of course)
[more to come!]
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That's happy..
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