Monday, December 22, 2008

It's the MOST WONDERFUL time of the YEAR!


So, I love Christmas! I've been thinking a lot lately about all of the Christmases that I had growing up, and how the simplest things would make me so happy. I sometimes miss the "good 'ole days" where we got nice, long Christmas vacations from school and had a couple of weeks to just spend with each other. Now it seems like Christmas sneeks up on us so fast and I'm lucky to get a few days off! For work we had to write down some of our Christmas memories and I said that something I will always remember (no matter how much my parents hated it) was when my brothers and I would wake up at 3:00 in the morning and we would each take a turn to go and see all of the presents around the tree and take a quick "peek" inside our stockings. We weren't really allowed to "wake up" until 7:00, so we would play card games until it was time. I also remembered one year that I was looking through my stocking and noticed that I had butter rum Life Savers (not my favorite), so I switched them with Nathan's fruity Life Savers (he hated butter rum more than me) and then when he saw that Santa gave him Butter Rum, he would give them to me...so I ended up with 2! I'm surprised that I didn't get more coal for Christmas with how naughty I was...ask my mom, she'll tell you stories! Anyway, no matter how hectic Christmas has become, there is no mistaking the magic of that day...when the whole world stops to celebrate! I took a few pictures of my Chrismas decorations...I've done the snowman theme on my tree the last couple of years, and I love it! I wish the apartment was a little bigger though, we had to totally rearrange to get our big tree to fit!(mostly because of the LoveSac and our huge couch), but we finally made it work! Take a look!


2 comments:

Ashley said...

Cute decorations and I love your tree!

Jennifer Rae said...

I totally know what you mean! But this year all my decorations are in storage!

I used to get up early to peek too..so you aren't alone on the naughty list