Christmas is my favorite time of the year! I love all the lights and decorations. I love the cold weather and all the warm clothing we get to snuggle into. I love the holiday movies that are filled with joy and love. The ones that the orphans get to spend Christmas in a real home or Santa Claus saves Christmas just in the nick of time. I love hearing about all the stories of those less fortunate receiving a Christmas blessing. I especially love coming home to a tree full of angels and lights with stockings hung and red and green everywhere!



Christmas is a season in which we take extra time to be with family and enjoy each others company. The little ones run around, too anxious to go to bed, in hopes to catch a glimpse of the man in red. Many remember Christmases past, the traditions that never seemed to be carried on and the loved ones that are only here in spirit.



Churches put on grand production to retell the story of Christ's birth. There are carols, readings, candles, live nativities and children's plays.

Christmas songs play in the stores, at restaurants, on the radio, and through the heads of children. Kitchens are filled with the smells of gingerbread and spice cake. Families are busy making tins of cookies for friends and family.

There are parties to attend and family to see. Before you know it, it is time to put away everything for the next year. But for a time, there is a feeling of happiness and joy that can't be described. For a time, people forget their worries and pain. For a time, the world is all lollipops and gumdrops. For a time, the only thing you need is your family, Christmas carols playing in the background and some cookies on your plate!

Christmas is all of this to me.