List #3: 25 things I love about Christmas

Image: Joseph West Photography, on Flickr

1. eggnog
2. christmas lights
3. people really are slightly friendlier on average
4. giving gifts
5. making gifts
6. decorating the house
7. eating all the baking
8. really good chocolate
9. mandarin oranges
10. caroling
11. red & green
12. gaudy Christmas socks
13. knowing all the words to the songs
14. cheesy classic Christmas movies
15. having a real tree in my house
16. the smell of evergreens--pine, fir, spruce are all good
17. visiting family
18. eating turkey & cranberry sauce
19. dorky santa photos
20. more parties
21. dressing up
22. wearing the paper crowns that come inside the Christmas crackers for the entire dinner
23. remembering how exciting it was as a child
24. Stuffing stockings
25. White Christmases (how rare they are on the coast, sadly)

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Why Monday lists? Reading the lovely Chloe's blog, Tea Swamp Park, I found an idea I had to 'steal': a list of all her Halloween costumes, with quite a few photos. She got the idea from Hula Seventy's List Project. I've decided to do the weekly lists for a year that Hula Seventy is doing.