What's your favorite part of holiday season?

[charlietheowl]

I love seeing how excited everybody gets over the holiday season. There is a different mood around when it gets really close to the holidays; the decorations, the trees, the lights, the snow (hopefully). I just love sitting in my living room at night on christmas eve with the tree lit up and all the lights off, just gazing out the window. It's beautiful.

 

[Dominicboo1]

Watching Christmas specials and listening to Christmas music is always fun!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Christmas music & movies are LOVE. My favorite thing ever.

And thank goodness for youtube, otherwise a whole lot of us wouldn't have access to all the Muppet Xmas specials!

Watching Christmas specials and listening to Christmas music is always fun!

You know since a lot of us mentioned Christmas specials as big parts of our holiday memories, I just wanted to shamelessly plug my new Blog entry about a Christmas special I remember that doesn't get a lot of attention nowadays. Hope you enjoy, lol.

http://herald7.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/lost-treasure-5-the-stingiest-man-in-town/

 

[Speed Tracer]

I just love it all. There's a couple of traditions that have developed in the last few years since I left for college that have become really dear to me...

-On Christmas Eve, my dad and I always go to Southpoint Mall - the last mall built in North Carolina, around eight years ago - about 8 in the morning. We always get coffee at this one little place, always wander around even if we don't buy anything at a particular store, and most of the time we see a movie before we leave (last year's was True Grit - a wonderful movie for Christmastime, I feel). And we always stop at the big pet store to get stuff to spoil all the animals in our lives with.

-I listen to John Henry Faulk's Christmas story, which you can hear right here (suitable for work and little ears):

It's just one of the most amazing things I've ever heard. Faulk was true blue.

-My mom has gotten up there in age, and my sister generally wraps presents to get into the holiday spirit. So - I do the tree. The whole thing, by myself. We buy it, put it up - and then I like to surprise them by doing it at night so when they wake up in the morning, it's there. I get so much joy out of seeing the tree lit up at nighttime when all the other lights are off.

There's so many more where that came from. I love this whole beautiful season.

 

[beatnikchick300]

The music, the sounds of children laughing, and the challenge of making myself a vegan Christmas dinner. Oh, yeah, and trying to convince my mom to let our family celebrate Kwanzaa every year.

 

[Puckrox]

I'm currently curled up in bed listening to Christmas music. I was pretty sure I was going to go out and have an adventure today, but the weather's so dreary and I'm careless. I think I'll just stay in bed and enjoy Christmas music instead. I love Christmas music.

 

[newsmanfan]

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Having small children in my life to spoil while they're at the age they'll love it...even though I've never met them. (My nieces, who live across the country, and I haven't been able to afford a trip home since they were born...) But putting together a box of fun things and stuffing stocking for them (bath paint! picture books! stuffies!) was a blast.
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[Puckrox]

I'm currently wrapped up in a blanket next to my college town's Christmas tree, wearing a Santa hat and my Muppet footie pjs, drinking a mug of wine, eating doughnuts, and watching Muppets Letter's To Santa.
I love Christmas. <3

 

[Dominicboo1]

I'm currently wrapped up in a blanket next to my college town's Christmas tree, wearing a Santa hat and my Muppet footie pjs, drinking a mug of wine, eating doughnuts, and watching Muppets Letter's To Santa.
I love Christmas. <3

So do I!

 

[bazooka_beak]

I'm currently wrapped up in a blanket next to my college town's Christmas tree, wearing a Santa hat and my Muppet footie pjs, drinking a mug of wine, eating doughnuts, and watching Muppets Letter's To Santa.
I love Christmas. <3

Sounds cozy I love cuddling up with a good blanket and reading or watching something Christmas-y.