I love the Christmas season. I just read an interesting (pretty tough) article on gift giving, but that got me thinking about the joys of the season...
In no particular order (25 for the 25 days of December leading to Christmas)...
1.) Fireside cuddling, (especially while watching...)
2.) Christmas movies!
-White Christmas
-The Grinch (both Jim Carrey, and the old cartoon version)
-Muppet Christmas Carol
-A Christmas story ('you'll shoot you're eye out!')
-Family Man (with Nicholas Cage)
-While You Were Sleeping ("Ceasar Romero was tall")
3.) "Hot Drink" (Chai, Hot Chocolate, Apple Cider)
4.) Tree decorating at mom's
5.) Tree decorating at our house
6.) Cutting down the tree with family
7.) German Christmas treats (lebkuchen)
8.) Picture of our dog in reindeer antlers (with bells on)
9.) Decorating the house
10.) Yummy candles
11.) Waking my wife up before she wants to get up on Christmas morning!
12.) Christmas breakfast (mmm, French toast and hot chocolate)
13.) Christmas dinner (mmm, Smoked turkey and mashed potatos)
14.) Exchanging ornaments with my wife
15.) Christmas music!
16.) Advent calendars with chocolate in them
17.) Christmas breakfast for our beagle
18.) My mom and my wife's mom stuffing a stocking for our beagle =)
19.) Somber candle services
20.) Joyous church celebrations!
21.) Christmas carols
22.) Snow
23.) Giving gifts
24.) Christmas eve evenings (time with family, early gifts, late movies and talking)!
25.) Jesus, our savior was born!!
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That IS a tough article about gift cards, Eric. Goes along with my disinclination toward "Christmas lists," thinking that the best gifts reflect the fact that you know the gift receiver well enough to have figured out what he or she appreciates or needs. But then, something inside of me is drawn right back to the gift cards and Christmas lists (at least some of the time). I wonder what it is. Hopefully, not just taking the easy way out.
Blah!
I haven't even read the rest of your blog...I'll get to that, but I wanted to comment on the article. Clearly written by a woman. "Part of the gift is the search for the gift." Men (even considerate men) don't search for gifts. They figure out what they want and go get it...(a little tongue and cheek there). But as a serious comment, I don't like shopping for other people. (Shopping meaning wandering around looking for the "right thing"). I do, however, like shopping for myself. I would have just as much fun going to REI and buying ski poles with a Gift Card as I would having someone pick them out for me. Sure...if the end of Christmas day heralded a stack of plastic, I might feel a little slighted (unless the plastic constituted foosball table men) But I think they are quite often appropriate.
I LOVE YOUR LIST, ERIC!!!
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