What’s your favorite part of the holiday season? Share it here!!
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My favorite part is when it's over.
I HATE Christmas and go shopping for extra food and always have done. It's so expensive. Having to spend hundreds on presents which is no fun when because I'm on welfare and having to buy extra food and fuel for the fires in for people coming just so's they have plenty to eat and need to keep warm. And it's only one day really. It's such an expensive anti climax. I only celebrate it because family politics dictates to me that I should. I really wouldn't otherwise.
My favorite part would be family gatherings. Every year (at least before Corona) my family and I would sit down by the table, eat delish food and chat about simple things.
It's the part where nobody wants anything from anybody, and you can just be left in peace, watching your favorite show for the 100th time.
I love coming outside from the cold and the snow and being able to then flop around on a couch with hot chocolate.
ICE CREAM, I HAVE THIS THING WHERE I LIKE TO EAT ICE CREAM WHEN ITS COLD AND ITS AMAZING. THEN AGAIN I JUST LIKE ICE CREAM
I think decorating my tree, i always make quirky random decorations this year i have a black tree with neon lobsters, squids and shrimp i made from felt and a rainbow shrimp on the top 😂 i like helping my mum decorate her tree too with traditional decorations that have been handed down in the family
I want to start a tradition of making a tree with a random theme each year. I also want the tree to be a branch fallen around my mum's new property each year, since so many tree branches come off in storms. I could paint them to match the theme and make homemade decorations too.
i don't know if anybody gets this, but the smell of warm AC. It's like so much mustier and I don't know, comforting i guess. I also love being able to drink hot cocoa withou being judged.
Going giving tree shopping with my grandma! It's a charity event at her church that gives gifts to those in need. I love the tradition of going shopping with her to help others. I hope to be able to carry it on in some form until I'm old and grey. Then I hope to have someone else to pass it on to.
Every year, around the holidays, my kids and I pay it forward to a waiting staff member. We go for out for a meal and leave a $100 tip. The beautiful part of this is God/the Universe always brings forward the perfect person. We also like to go to a coffee shop and pay for the people in line behind us. Or leave a random gift at the neighbors' door. Get a holiday meal, some fluffy blankets and socks and donate them to someone homeless.
Just a small reminder that we can all be "Santa" to someone.
When it's over..... not that I hate it or anything, we just have a lot going on. On top of the holidays in Nov and Dec we have 6 birthdays to take care of.
I really love the carols. Not only are the lyrics fantastic, but I love singing and making music with other people. Man, it's fun!
The snow!! I love to walk in the snow. It’s almost magical. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten any yet and it’s my last winter in a cold climate before I go to school away from home, but I’m hoping I’ll get at least one good snowfall.
Where I'm living now we get a good snowfall about once in a lifetime. To my daughter's extreme good fortune we got just such a snow- and on Christmas Eve!!
Besides the eggnog and gingerbread, I really, really like giving gifts. I like the feeling I get when I do for others. It’s very satisfying. 🙂
the afternoon of the last working day before my holiday start. the anticipation ... and in normal years the moment to go drink at the christmas market with colleagues
Carving pumpkins, putting the skeletons out in the yard :) good stuff
Christmas Eve, when finally you can sit and relax watch some xmas movies and the kids have their xmas eve boxes to open and we all drink hot chocolate and watch the snow from the window.
EXTRA SLEEP AND NO SCHOOOL
And us teachers are even more excited about this than the kids are!!
Sweaters! And the smell of wood smoke on the air on a frosty morning.
Getting out the Christmas ornaments that have been in my family for more than 30 years. They bring so many precious memories of being a small kid, all the magic of Christmas through my 5 y.o.’s eyes every time I look at each of them. The human brain is a very interesting thing, it can transport you back in time via smell, touch, an item from your past. I look at these decorations and I am again 5 y.o. at my parent’s home with my kid’s perceptions.
Sneaking downstairs to eat a cookie meant for Santa. I know he’s not real and can’t watch me like a hawk, and nobody counts the cookies.
My favorite thing for the holiday is a bit petty, but I very much enjoy everyone running around frantic looking for toys/gifts that no one is going to care about a week later. It’s just funny to me when people are snapping at each other in a retail store because god forbid someone doesn’t get that toy or cheap clothing item or electronic.
Celebrating Santa's birthday.
