Christmas Spirit!
I usually dont feel very Christmas-y till my shows are done 
So...I was wondering....What is everyone here's favorite/least favorite holiday traditions? My favorites: #1 is hands down, the X-mas tree! I love the smell of a real tree, the shiny sparkling-ness of it (I am SUCH a Raven!  ), I love making and buying beautiful ornaments  One my best X-mas memories is of sneaking downstairs during the night to turn on the tree lights and sit under it.
I also love baking, wrapping gifts, making handmade gifts, and going shopping 
Least favorites: Up till THIS year...cards!  Something about adding in the sheepdog element made this fun for me this year!...Extended family gatherings (too loaded down with stress and old bad memories, for me  )...cleaning up after all that baking  |
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| what a great thread laurel!
most favorite...cooking and entertaining!! seeing friends together and enjoying themselves, laughing...listening to christmas songs while laying under the lit tree in the dark...trying to take a picture of panda in front of the tree (which she is extremely scared of) and makes me laugh every year! least favorite...decorating hands down...no one helps me so it takes forever to get the stuff up AND down...  |
| Once I get going....it's hard to stop!!!!
Real Christmas tree smell, decorating the tree...watching the Christmas lights twinkle while the Christmas music is playing.... Filling ALL the Christmas stockings with childhood candies and toys (silly putty, jumping beans, candy necklaces, shoe buttons, chocolate silver dollars etc)......We now have 17 stockings on the mantle.........oooppppsss! 18 --I have to make a very special stocking for my Heart!
I love baking Christmas cookies with my daughters and granddaughters and watching the kids decorate the cookies... I HATE---------UNdecorating......sooo sad.............................. |
| The one and ONLY thing I like about Christmas is the sheepie cards. I could do quite nicely without all the rest of it. (yes I know, I've been called a GRINCH before). |
1)Picking out the tree ( we are doing this Wedneday eve at which time we will have our "annual" Christmas tree fight  is my favorite!
2) Baking- cooking - hosting 3) Decorating- once the stuff is up from the basement. Like Darcy I have no help! 4) Christmas Carols 5) Watching the sparkle in little Skyler and Alayna's eyes when the see all the glitter and presents! 6) Getting all the Sheepie cards 7) All the other stuff that makes Christmas magical Least favorite is cleaning up after all the hosting we will do this season, and taking down all the stuff that takes me forever to get "just right" |
| I'm with Ginny..BAHHUMBUG.
I enjoy the baking and do put up a few decorations, that's about it. I hate all the media hype about the best Christmas ever crap . My ideal Christmas is a day to do nothing, take naps, and eat myself silly. I do love Silk soynog with fresh nutmeg though |
| My favorite thing about the holiday is decorating,,,I love pulling everything out and going down Memory Lane. I also like to buy something new every year. To be honest, I do the decorating for me, if others love it, that is great, but that is my favorite part. I don't even mind taking them down and putting them away in January. |
bestdogsx4 wrote: I do love Silk soynog with fresh nutmeg though
Oooooh, I LOVE that stuff!  Sadly, nowhere seems to be carrying it up here this year! |
| My favorite part are the warm feelings that are shared between people; family, friends and strangers. |
bestdogsx4 wrote: I'm with Ginny..BAHHUMBUG.
I enjoy the baking and do put up a few decorations, that's about it. I hate all the media hype about the best Christmas ever crap . My ideal Christmas is a day to do nothing, take naps, and eat myself silly. I do love Silk soynog with fresh nutmeg though Can we start our own club and maybe spend next Christmas at a SANDLES resort??????? Every year I say I'm going to do that but somehow never do!!!! |
| I like when people give me presents. I also enjoy when others cook for me.
Then again, I like those all the time.
No, seriously, I like all of it. I love shopping, I love visiting, I like watching my nieces and nephew unwrap gifts and playing with their toys with them and I love lights on houses. It's all good stuff as far as I'm concerned! |
ButtersStotch wrote: I like when people give me presents. I also enjoy when others cook for me.
Then again, I like those all the time. No, seriously, I like all of it. I love shopping, I love visiting, I like watching my nieces and nephew unwrap gifts and playing with their toys with them and I love lights on houses. It's all good stuff as far as I'm concerned! Well, you're still a kid and don't know any better
Great idea Ginny, count me in! |
| I think I've found a soul mate
The clinic I work is is having a Christmas decorating contest. Each Pod is trying to see who can out do the the other. Frankly it looks like Santa vomited all over the building. I have declared my gym a "Christmas Free" zone, an oasis of tranquility in the midst insanity. |
| I love the lights on the houses (even the ones which are over the top!!)
I love the smell of whiskey and brandy when my mam makes her fruit cakes I love how nice everyone is to each other at christmas. I love decorting the trees, putting up the decorations, (even though it will new to george this year!!) I love wrapping presents. I do mine in a theme (this year this are red with green ribbon and holly) I just love Christmas! |
| What I love most is feeling the magic of xmas through my children eyes. Sunday evening was the xmas parade in our town it was so beautifull !
I don't like xmas at my side of the family.. seems to me it's a game of who is the best dressed and who gives the most (which I suck at this game) and on my husband's side well .. I have to be carefull of what I say ..let just say that I'm the IN LAW !
I do LOVE New Year's day , we spend the whole day outside, we make a huge bond fire and we get to play and sing (it's a french canadian thing). Last year we didn't get any snow but right now (as I'm looking outside) we are making up of what we missed last time. Time to go and shovel that white stuff ! |
| My favourite has always been Christmas dinner! Brandy egg nogg, a good book and watching costume dramas on videos! Also, Christmas music and finally the tree, if I can untangle the lights! |
| I love getting really loud annoying toys for all my friends' kids. That's the BEST!!! |
IheartStella wrote: I love getting really loud annoying toys for all my friends' kids. That's the BEST!!!
OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH My kinda person!!!!!!!!!!! |
| christmas is my favourite time of year
as a child we decorated the house on christmas eve never before! my dad was in the army but was always home on christmas eve and still to this day after 30 years my paret don't decorate untill my hubby and i get there (my brother still lives at home) on christmas eve. we then eat drink and be merry (we i don't drink i get made the driver) open yup or pressents and then head back to our to spend christmas day with hubby parents. this year it will probably be just myself, hubby, our 2 year old son and einy and i'm actually looking forward to it not the lack of family but the not having to go all over just to be at home and relax and enjoy the first christmas where my son can enjoy opening and playing with his pressents. watching his face doing things for the first time is like doing them for the first time for me. the light in his eye when wakes up on christmas and santas been will just make my dayi don't need and gift but that one. zoe and einy |
| My favorite Christmas memory is sneaking down the stairs at my Grandparent's house really early in the morning and looking in the mirror at the bottom of the stairs which had a perfect view of the Christmas tree to see what Santa left. Then racing back up stairs and waiting for everyone to get up.
My favorite things now are driving around to see all the decorated houses and going to the "candles and carols" service on Christmas eve. Least favorite: when stores and radio stations have Christmas stuff up before Thanksgiving. |
IheartStella wrote: I love getting really loud annoying toys for all my friends' kids. That's the BEST!!!
Be careful! This USED to be a safe thing for those of us without (small) kids to get away with....but they now make some REALLY loud, annoying dog toys!  We got something called a "Babble Ball" as a gift for Bert, that makes LOUD animal noises.....  and he loves the damn thing! |
| Hands down, this is my favorite holiday. We always get a 10' real tree, and the smell is just heavenly. Putting on the lights is my job because I get picky with the wires showing, and it's usually an all day chore. So all in all, it's usually a 2-3 day job to completely decorate the tree.
Then I have my village. As a kid, my dad always had a village and a train under the tree, so my village custom started with him. We had these tiny little cardboard houses and metal people. The houses were marked underneath as "F. W. Woolworth, 10 cents." SO special to me. I still had some of those original houses when my son was a toddler. The first time he helped me with the village, he took a cotton ball and put it in the chimney of one of the houses. When I asked him why, he said, "That's the smoke from the fireplace, Mommy." Made my heart melt!! I always decorate the rest of the house way too much, because our usual decor is understated. Never really gave it much thought, other than I really loved it. Had hoped it made Christmas a special holiday for the kids, and when they were kids, I think it did. But as they grew, they seemed to roll their eyes as if to say, "Mom's at it again!" Kinda made me sad when they grew up because to me, the holiday was all about the kids. They didn't even want me to video them opening gifts, because "Mom! We're grown up now!" 
This will be the first Christmas that my son is bringing a girlfriend home. He's had girlfriends at Christmas before but they've always gone to their own homes. This girlfriend is special. She wrote me an email saying that Spencer is always saying - wait until you see our house at Christmas! The giant tree, all the decorations all over the house, all the baking and food - it's really very special. I cried buckets when I read that! It was the best gift she could have given me, knowing that Christmas meant as much to him as I had hoped it would.
Definitely my most unfavorite time is undecorating. Everything looks so plain again. |
| There are tons of great memories. But one thing that I have come to need for the holidays is the giant star on the mountain side above the army post. It can only be seen from the eat side of town, so I get to see it everyday. It is where there was until the ate 70s a missel site that made a star on the sitefor the post residents. The year after the site closed they did not have the star. It was sorely missed. Now the Army does it every year from mid November to the End of the Idarod race as a comunity present. The few times that it has been hit by avanches there seem to be something missing from the winter. |
liz rodes wrote: There are tons of great memories. But one thing that I have come to need for the holidays is the giant star on the mountain side above the army post. It can only be seen from the eat side of town, so I get to see it everyday. It is where there was until the ate 70s a missel site that made a star on the sitefor the post residents. The year after the site closed they did not have the star. It was sorely missed. Now the Army does it every year from mid November to the End of the Idarod race as a comunity present. The few times that it has been hit by avanches there seem to be something missing from the winter.
I love the star too! We moved out from Anchorage to our house in Eagle river during X-mas season (12 years ago) and when I see the star I always think of that very special year...on all of our many trips back and forth moving in, I always felt as if it were a beacon...guiding me to my new home.
Drezzie's Mom...I have to tell you, your story made me cry...what a wonderful "gift"! |
| I love the season as everyone is so much more friendly and warm. I also like to decorate for Christmas and solve the tree problem as New Years we take off the Xmas ornaments and hang on the mardi gras ornaments and have a Mardi Gras tree. (That way I don't have to take it down until Feb or March depending upon when Mardi Gras falls.) |
Chris your post brought happy tears to my eyes!  That's so sweet.
I am really enjoying the festivities this year, too. I have yet to put up my tree, but that's the plan for Sunday evening.  |
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