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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

What Makes Christmas? (6)

I couldn't access this before so now I'm telling you what makes Christmas to me:

1. Changing my ringtone to the Dance of the Sugar Plums Fairies and the Nutcracker.



2. The smell of pine cones with sugar cookies.



3. Watching "While You Were Sleeping" with my sisters.


4. The arrival of Christmas flavors and cups to Starbucks.



5. Receiving Christmas catalogues and pretending like i'm gonna wrap my own presents.

What Makes Christmas? (5)

Ok, so I am a little late, but I love Christmas and wanted to put in my 2 bits. Here are 5 of my Christmas favorites.

1. Steve Lawrence & Edie Gorme singing "That Holiday Feeling" It is a family favorite and I have even made my hubbie do the duet with me.
2. Little Smokies and other yummy appetizers on Christmas Eve.
3. Putting up Christmas Decorations right after Thanksgiving while listening to my old family Christmas Records. I just love it!
4. Drinking hot, citrisy, delicious Wassail. Hot Chocolate is good, but Wassail is my favorite to slowly sip on a chilly day!5. Best of all being with family - the whole Christmas Eve program from reenacting the Nativity to our little Talent Show to the white elephant exchange. I love it all!

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Some of my favorite things at Christmas:

Burning the yule log.
I especially love watching the sparklers as they burn in the fire place.

Reading Christmas stories.

It's tradition to watch Eight Crazy Nights at least once each Christmas season.

The cookie exchange party!

Amy Grant, Home For Christmas album. Favorite song on it: Breath of Heaven

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Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without...

Christmas lights at night, especially at the Plaza in Kansas City.

The endless snowmen statues my mom has been collecting for years.

Decorating the Christmas tree and trying decide whether

I want to use white or multi-colored lights.

Dipping Ritz peanut butter sandwiches in chocolate.

Drummer Boy... my favorite Christmas Song since I was little

(I don't really know why)

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Here are five things that make Christmas for me, in no particular order of course.

The Nativity Story read from Luke 2

Christmas lights on Temple Square

Christmas Eve fondue, a family tradition

"A Christmas Story"

Hot drinks, especially hot chocolate

what makes christmas?

here's a challenge for my fellow elves: post five things that are essential to your christmas celebration. here are mine, just to get your noggins going:

christmas carolling

"It's a Wonderful Life"

new christmas jammies

bing crosby

gingerbread houses