After some time away, I have decided to renew the site with a Christmas Top Ten. These are my ten favorite things about the Christmas Season in no real particular order…
- Egg Nog – I can’t lay off the stuff some years!
- Day-After-Thanksgiving Shopping: What says, “Merry Christmas” more than sleeping out on Best Buy’s cold concrete in 20 degree weather… simply the best way to start the Christmas Season
- Cutting Down A Christmas Tree: Seriously if you don’t have the tradition of hunting for and cutting down your own family tree then you need to start this year if you don’t have one, and if you do maybe you should take down that fake monstrosity of imitation Christmas and go cut yourself a real tree!
- Starbuck’s Chai Latte’s: They taste like Christmas
- Singing/Humming Christmas Carol’s: Fa-la-la-la-laaaaa-la-la-la-la!
- Decorating The Tree: I really enjoy the moment of nostalgia that hits when you first pull your old ornaments out of that stuffy old box.
- Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer: It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest running Christmas TV special. And as long as you don’t get freaked out by puppets who move like The Terminator then everything is cool.
- I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas: Hearing Gail Peevey’s shrill voice begging Santa for a hippo is all a part of the perfect Christmas season.
- Christmas Eve: The anticipation, the church service, the quiet…
- Watching Ralphie Shoot His Eye Out: Simply my favorite moment of the Christmas Season
So there it is. What are your favorite Christmas traditions/moments?
I don’t know when this tradition got started but every Christmas Eve my mom makes two gigantic, homemade pizzas. It is enough to easily feed all 14 og us, that is how big they are. Every year when she is baking the pizzas, the cheese and the sauce overflow the edge of the pan and inevitability ( i had to look this one up in Webster) sets off the smoke alarm. Everyone rushes to pull out the battery and open the doors and windows. Then there is thie eerie smog that lingers through dinner. It happens Every year. While this may sound like a strange thing to call a “favorite” Christmas moment, it is one that we will all look back on and remember and get a good laugh out of someday when mom is no longer making pizza.
“Hey, do you remember when Grandma would set off the fire alarm every year when she was making the pizzas on Christmas Eve?”