I love Christmas, I love the feeling of Gods Gift to us wrapped up in a little blanket, so new, so innocent, so pure. Christmas is a great feeling, it always draws me back to the real meaning of why Jesus was sent to earth. A BABY, how precious.
Growing up, my Mom would decorate our fake tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, we loved it, and it would stay up until about the first week into January. My mom would pack the tree so much you couldn't see one branch (it was a sad charlie brown tree but when she got done, it was beautiful).
Christmas music was bing crosby, jim reeves, nat king cole, burl ives, you get the picture. It was making cookies, lots and lots. My dad (who passed away in 1984 of cancer) was a big old kid, he couldn't wait until christmas morning for us to open our gifts so we had a tradition of opening them on christmas eve
heck us kids didn't mind lol.
Christmas eve we would all go to midnight mass, it was beautiful, I remember a few of them when it was snowing, how picture perfect is that.
Now that we are all grown, we all go back to my mom's for Christmas eve and I used to go to DH's parents for christmas day, but now that I have DD, I stay home both days, and I love it, no running and I actully get to enjoy making memories w/my DD and DH.
DH hates opening gifts on Christmas eve so what we do is we will open one and save the rest for the next day.
Christmas and Easter are my favorite holidays ...... Joy To The World The Lord Has Come, Let Earth Receive Her KING