1.10.2008

What Makes Christmas (7)

Movies:
White Christmas
Holiday Inn
Miracle on 34th Street
TV Classics (Rudolph, Frosty, etc.)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Home Alone
Little Women





Music:

Bing Crosby
the Carpenters
Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song”
Handel’s “Messiah”
“The Nutcracker”
singing Christmas hymns







Food:

Wassail
Oranges
Lifesavers Sweet Storybook
Orange Sticks
Mixed nuts
Cinnamon/Cloves
Egg Nog


Good Memories:
  • SNOW (not Christmas without it!), snowmobiling/sledding
  • seeing Christmas Lights, especially on Temple Square
  • church Nativity Displays
  • performing Christmas music
  • gingerbread houses
  • wrapping presents
  • making goodie plates for neighbors
  • putting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving
  • caroling on a hayride (and freezing our tails off) with donuts and hot chocolate afterwards
  • white elephant gift exchange
  • playing games for hours