What I Love About The Christmas Season
1. The First Snow – I know its crazy but I do love shoveling the driveway! Now, I do hate it when it’s so deep that you can barely lift your shovel out of the snow. But there is just something I love about looking back on a freshly shoveled driveway when you are done.
2. Christmas Shopping – Not just any type of Christmas shopping… most of it I’m indifferent about. However, there is one gift I really get excited about buying. Every year I can’t wait to figure out what will be the perfect gift for my wife. I love the look on her face when I get it right. I love Shelli so much and she is worth more than I could ever buy.
3. New York City – I haven’t been there for Christmas in a while but there is nothing else like it. The window displays, the lights, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. I can’t wait until my boys are old enough for me to take them.
4. Charlie Brown – By far the best Christmas cartoon of all time. I love it!
5. White Elephant – This classic gift exchange activity was designed for people like me. I love the challenge of figuring out who wants what, so that I get what I want out of the pile of crappy stuff people bring to these things. I often end up laughing so hard that I go home sore!
6. Reflection – At the end of every year my Dad and I often have a conversation about the past 11-12 moths and identify a theme in our lives for that year. It is an important conversation for me and I look forward to having it with him every year. I’m sure I will post about it when we have the talk. Stay tuned.
7. Wine – Not just any wine. My favorite wine. Since holidays are some of the few times my family all gather together so we will share a bottle of wine from Maganini Winery. It is a favorite place for us to go in the Hudson Valley. They serve excellent food and make great wine.
8. Spiritual Openness – For whatever reason, people tend to be more open to spiritual things at this time of year. It could be a psychological thing because of our culture, or maybe it is related to the weather due to the change of seasons. It really doesn’t matter why but I notice I tend to have more spiritual conversations with people far from God around Christmas.
9. The Christmas Tree – I will never forget the childhood memories I have of putting up our Christmas tree. My dad would put on some Christmas music and my mom would pull out the ornaments and hand us each one that was special. Mine was a Mickey Mouse ornament and I could’nt wait to put it on our tree every year.
What would you add to the list?
