1.) Hanging out with family! When my older brother comes home for Christmas our whole family eats dinner and plays games and watches movies together. It's so much fun to be around them!
2.) The anticipation or waiting for months and months and then it's finally here!
3.) Yummy scents! Don't you just love the fabulous smells wafting through the house when there are pies or cookies in the oven? Isn't the smell of wood-stoves burning so comfy? and the holiday candles are amazing! :D
4.) The rush of Holiday activities . . . most of the time. :) I think I've booked my parents up until Christmas with all the things I have going on! The first couple of weeks in December were especially busy. I like to keep everybody on their toes! :)
5.) Hallmark channel's Countdown to Christmas. We don't usually watch TV during the rest of the year, but during the holidays our parents let us watch Christmas movies on Hallmark together at night. I do have some problems with their movies, though. Should I get into that now or later?? Probably later.
6.) Christmas shopping! Unfortunately, because of "thing #4" I didn't get much Christmas shopping (other than looking online) done until this week. Yesterday my mom and I went out shopping in the morning and then again later in the afternoon. It was so much fun to hang out with her and purchase some presents for the fam!
7.) Decorating the house . . . it's been somewhat later than usual in coming this year. We put up our tree last Sunday and by Wednesday half of the lights had been put on it. When we came home from our outings today, Jessica had the rest of the lights put up and the ornaments nicely arrayed on the tree. It was wonderful to come home to!
8.) The Christmas music. It's just so cozy! Need I say more? :D
9.) JESUS!! I so thankful that God in His love, compassion, and mercy sent His Son to earth to live among us for thirty-three years and then to die on the cross for us so that He could take away our sins and the sins of the world! He loves us so much that He gives us another option; instead of complete isolation from God and no purpose in life, He separated the veil between God and man and gave us Jesus as a sacrifice and payment for our sins. That has got to be the best Christmas gift ever! Isn't He wonderful!I heard this song today and I loved it!!! I'd encourage you to think of it as God saying it to you. . . instead of Josh Groban (it paints a better picture that way). :D
Well, those are the nine things I love about Christmas! Merry Christmas nine days away!!!!
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