My Top 10 Favorite Things About Christmas

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October 15, 2007

My Top 10 Favorite Things About Christmas

I decided since Christmas is my favorite holiday, I needed to document my particular favorites things about the holiday. TFL! :)

Journaling: 10) Christmas Eve mass - I always go to church on Christmas Eve because it's the children?s mass. I love watching the children act out the Christmas story and listening to the Children's choir sing all the traditional Christmas carols. 9) Finding the pickle - My Mom is a stickler for this German Christmas tradition. Every Christmas morning, she hides the glass-blown pickle-shaped ornament on the Christmas tree and my brothers and I frantically search to be the first to find it and win $20. 8) Wrapping gifts - So many people see this task as a chore, but I truly enjoy it. I'm sure it's just the "inner scrapbooker" speaking out, because I love making my packages look as pretty as my pages and I love picking out gift wrap almost as much as scrapbooking supplies: yards of pretty patterned wrapping paper, spools of glittery ribbon, cute little gift tags - I love it all! 7) Twenty-four hours of a Christmas Story on TBS - I can't get enough of Ralphie. I could sit for hours and watch this movie again and again. This movie also holds a special place in my heart because it was filmed in Cleveland. Actually, the house used in the filming of the movie has been restored and opened for tours along with a accompanying museum. 6) I Believe In Father Christmas - I love listening to Christmas music and have a playlist containing 500+ songs that lives on my MP3 Player all season long. But, my absolute favorite Christmas tune is this one by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. I must listen to it at least one hundred times each season. 5) A white Christmas - I love the snow. I could never live somewhere where I couldn't experience snow on Christmas. There's nothing better than curling up next to the Christmas tree or a roaring fire with a good book while the snow falls outside. 4) Chocolate crinkles - Every Christmas I make several different kinds of cookies, but these are a tradition in the Schlegel family. No Christmas is complete without these small morsels of chocolate goodness! 3) Decorating the Christmas tree - This is where my anal-retentiveness really shines. I prefer to decorate the tree all by myself because I am so particular about where each and every ornament goes. But, I truly enjoy this solitary experience - it is special time just for me! 2) A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott - This version of the Dickens classic is the only one I will watch. It is a tradition on my mom's side of the family to watch this movie every Christmas Eve after we are finished opening presents. 1) Christmas Eve at my parents' house - Ever since I was little, my mom & dad host Christmas Eve for my mom's side of the family. Everyone goes to Christmas Eve Mass beforehand and arrive to my parents around 6 o'clock in the evening. We have beef tenderloin for dinner and then have the gift exchange. We do a Kris Kringle exchange rather than buy gifts for everyone. Then we have Christmas cookies and peppermint ice cream for dessert and watch A Christmas Carol. This has been our traditional Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember.