My Favorite Things about Christmas
23 December 2009
This will be my last post for the week since, you know … Christmas and stuff. It’s far from original, but it’s what I’m in the mood to talk about, so here are some of my favorite things about the Christmas season. In no particular order.
1. Peanut butter balls, chocolate covered cherries, and a variety of other Christmas candies my mom and mother-in-law make.
2. In that same vein, how well we eat between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day.
3. Having my husband off work and at home with McKenna and me.
4. Dressing McKenna for the Christmas Eve service at church. I’m serious. This year she’s wearing a black ruffled sweater, a silver tu-tu style skirt, black tights, and black shoes. I’m way excited, especially because we could NOT find a Christmas dress we liked this year. Except at Baby Gap, but yeah. We didn’t really want to spend that kind of money. OH, but it’s a good thing we went in there to look because we ended up running into JOAKIM SORIA and his very pregnant wife or girlfriend. (Joakim Soria is an amazing closer for the KC Royals. I thought Ben was going to float away from happiness when we saw him entering Baby Gap. They even exchanged a smile. We might be naming baby #2 Joakim Soria Morrill in his honor.) Okay, back to Christmas.
5. The lights on the Country Club Plaza. Ben and I drove down there a couple nights ago to show McKenna. She kept telling us, “lights way up there!”
6. I’ve talked about this before, but the Christmas tree. It makes our front room so beautiful and cozy.
7. The song Silent Night. Not only is it beautiful, but I get a kick out of hearing secular artists sing about our Savior.
8. Our Christmas schedule—We spend Christmas Eve with Ben’s family, then Christmas morning just the three of us, and then go over to my parents place in the afternoon. I love the quality time with everyone. And I’m grateful for having all our family here in town, and to not be driving from house to house the way we did when we visited from Orlando.
I’m sure I could come up with some more, but these are the big ones coming to mind at the moment. What about you, oh fabulous readers of mine?
Whatever you’re doing this Christmas, wherever your holiday plans take you, I hope you enjoy this celebratory time of year. Catch you all back here next week.
Merry Christmas!
Comments
Finally… we agree on a name! :)
And are you sure you’re not thinking of “O Holy Night”? Have you secretly enjoyed the candle-raising all these years?
Posted by Ben on 23 December 2009
Ugh, I WAS thinking of “O Holy Night.” Because that’s a definite NO on the candle raising. You’ll notice it didn’t make my list :)
So, yes, strike that everybody. “O Holy Night” is my favorite Christmas song.
Posted by Stephanie on 23 December 2009
Well, sheesh. I like that one too, but the harmony in SN is fun for this alto. =)
Posted by Roseanna White on 23 December 2009
Well, THIS alto can’t sing worth anything, so I never notice that stuff.
Posted by Stephanie on 23 December 2009
Oh, you’re one of THOSE altos. (ha ha) In our music class in college (which everyone had to take), the other altos just crowded around me so they knew what to do;-) Not that I’m stellar, I can just carry a tune.
Posted by Roseanna White on 23 December 2009
Bragger. I can carry many things. A tune isn’t one of them.
Posted by Stephanie on 23 December 2009
Peter and my first date was to see the Christmas lights at the Plaza.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by Erica Vetsch on 23 December 2009
Silent Night is my FAVORITE Christmas song! And like you, I so appreciate living near family so that we can enjoy the holiday at a more relaxed pace, rather than carting ourselves back and forth. =) And this year, I’m having a blast watching both kids have a blast.
Posted by Roseanna White on 23 December 2009