The Reason for the Season and the 50 other reasons why I really love Christmas!

The main reason I love Christmas is

the Reason for the Season.

Others are:

1) Christmas lights

2) Christmas cookies

3) Getting together with family and friends

4) Opening Presents

5) Receiving Christmas cards in the mail

6) Writing our family newsletter

7) Christmas trees

8) Christmas stockings

9) Midnight Mass

10) Christmas Carols

11) Christmas clothes

12) In this part of the country, snow, and usually lots of it

13) Enjoying the quiet of the season

14) Christmas Candles

15) The smell of pine trees

16) Birds feeding off of their feeders

17) Sunshine glistening on freshly fallen snow

18) The footprints of deer and rabbits in the snow

19) Rose hips contrasting their red with the white of snow

20) Bagging up the torn wrapping paper and ribbons

21) Christmas movies

22) Santa Claus

23) Playing games with the family

24) Phone calls to the family that lives out of town

25) Christmas dishes and glasses

26) Candles burning in the night

27) Christmas socks

28) Christmas clothes

29) Christmas jewelry

30) Christmas food

31) Remembering past Christmases

32) Looking at old photos

33) Taking new photos

34) Reading Christmas letters

35) Taking a late evening walk in the snow

36) Lighting luminarios

37) Leaving the Christmas lights on all night

38) Taking the Christmas tree down

39) Christmas cookies

40) Christmas candy

41) Lighting the last candle on the Advent wreath

42) Putting away the Christmas dishes

43) Dropping coins in the Salvation Army kettles

44) Driving out to see the Christmas lights around the city

45) Reading the Christmas story

46) Giving thanks for all we have

47) Packing the kids up to go home

48) Checking the Weather Channel to make sure the roads are still good.

49) Sending the kids home.

50) Sitting down and remembering this Christmas!