Memories of Christmas and Such
December 19, 2007
What is your favourite part of Christmas? Is it the gift receiving? The gift giving? Or the spending time with family? I personally like them all, not necessarily in that order. My absolute favourite part about Christmas is getting the opportunity to spend time with my family. I love my family, so why would this not be my favourite part? I love watching the expressions on the faces of those I care about as they open gifts too. That’s pretty awesome. And hey, who doesn’t like presents? You would be lying if you told me you didn’t like receiving presents. Unless, of course, they were far to overly expensive and made you feel cheap. Heh.
Anyways, I have sooo many fond memories that circle around the holidays. Every year on Christmas Eve, without fail, my sisters and I all hang our stockings and set out milk and cookies for Santa. Never mind the fact that we all know there is “no such thing” as Santa; we do this for the Christmas spirit though, and so my dad has something to munch on later that night while my mom does all the work of stuffing stockings. Sometimes, if he’s feeling generous my mom does get to have a cookie though!
Christmas dinner is always full of conversation and laughter, and eating of course. The food is always amazing thanks to the lovely women of the house excluding me because I can’t cook jack shit. And I absolutely love watching Papa put on the plastic jewelery that he always gets every year in those Christmas cracker thingers and make jokes about being Elton John’s lover. This is always hilarious for two reasons: 1. Papa [when not cheerful with "Christmas spirit"] would never normally make jokes like that and 2. Roomy’s little sister is best friends with the niece of Elton John’s actual lover so it’s kind of ironic and funny at the same time.
The party never stops at our house too. Drinks all around, no matter what time of day fo sho! I have hilarious memories of Nelly chasing the garage doorknob down the stairs saying “I GOT IT!” whist very “cheerful with Christmas spirit” early on Boxing day morning, having not gone to bed yet. And McPout dancing around the garage to her favourite tunes occasionally shouting to Nelly just how much she loved him. And games of pool of course, in which somebody always leaves a lot poorer then when they showed up (obviously we bet nickels and dimes, and I always have a lot of those!). And I always get to see those lovely cousins from out of town - Joel, Mel, Karen, Daren & the kids. This year will be different though because I will be going back with them.
So anyways, that’s my favourite part of Christmas and those are the reasons why I love Christmas time so much: for the food, and my family of course. However…I’m nervous about this year. I have no idea if it’s going to be as carefree and fun as all the other years have been, what with recent issues involving one of my immediate family members.
My Christmas wish this year is to have a carefree Christmas with everybody getting along and laughing and enjoying themselves.
Do you have a Christmas wish?
December 19th, 2007 at 11:14 am
< ![CDATA[I wish it was over.]]>
December 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
< ![CDATA[I wish Santa was real. It would be less work for us parents.]]>
December 20th, 2007 at 6:03 am
< ![CDATA[I love Christmas! I love everything about it! I'm slightly weird though....
I wish that I didn't have to live in California. That is my Christmas wish...think it'll happen this year? I wouldn't count on it. Give me 9 more years. NINE MORE. GAH.]]>
December 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
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Karen; I wish that Santa was real too.
Kentucky Girl; I could airmail you to Canada if you want :)]]>
December 20th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
< ![CDATA[Uhm...yeah...thanks but errr...I could move there coz Doug is Canadian but uhm...errr...I'm not a fan of "the cold."]]>
December 21st, 2007 at 12:03 am
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It’s not THAT bad, just stay inside for 5 months :D]]>
January 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
< ![CDATA[Hello my lovely sister. I am sorry that Christmas was not quite what we are used to. I am sorry that we seemed to be down one sister and mostly I am sorry to all of you that I was not able to hold myself together very well. I love you all very much and I hope that next Christmas all with be back to normal with everyone included. XO]]>
January 4th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
< ![CDATA[Shannon; don’t apologize; we are all in the same boat. We are each dealing with it in differnt ways. Christmas was different, but not in a terrible way. I love you and keep your head up!]]>