1. The smells of Christmas! Peppermint, cinnamon, bayberry, gingerbread!! Yummy!
2. The beautiful lights that make this time of year seem magical!
3. The decorations that make the trees look so pretty!
4. I love the music of the holidays! I can’t wait to start playing my Christmas cd’s every year!
5. Ok I’ll admit it, the presents!!! The giving and the getting!! 
6. The movies on tv that you see every year, but never grow tired of! We always watch “It’s A Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve night before going to bed, no matter how late it is! It’s tradition!
7. Candles, I love tons of candles at Christmas!!
8. Getting Christmas cards from friends and family from across the miles. There’s a special feeling you get when you open a Christmas card!
9. Christmas parties! I happen to love them! We have two big ones this year and one is in Texas, the company is flying us there to stay at the Gaylord Texan for the weekend for the big shindig! I have yet to find two formal dresses though…..but, you know me, I will prevail!
10. Stockings….they hold such wonderful surprises!!
11. Acting like a kid, and letting the your imagination go wild. Letting that little bit of yourself believe that Santa does exist.
12. Ok, this one is an addiction, but it’s still one I wait for, Starbucks Peppermint Mocha and their Christmas Blend coffee, I buy it by the pound every year!! So good, so addicting!
13. And best of all….the Reason for the Season…..the birth of our Savior, Jesus. No matter what we do this time of year, never forget why we do it!
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