December
24 Dec
Things I love about December, in no particular order:
- Christmas lights on people’s houses and lawn ornaments that turn the entire neighbourhood into an enchanted fairyland.
- Taking advantage of holiday sales to buy presents for others and myself.
- Wearing boots. Every day.
- Gourmet chocolates. Every holiday, I can count on some distant colleagues to give me boxes of gourmet chocolates. By the end of the holidays, I’m sick of them, but after the holidays are over, I find myself looking forward to the next round of gourmet chocolates in gift-wrapped boxes.
- Hot chocolate, Starbucks’ peppermint mocha, and other winter-themed drinks.
- Christmas trees and tree ornaments. Putting the Christmas tree up is an annual event that involves the entire family.
- Wrapping presents. I always spend one night wrapping all my presents and it makes me feel so satisfied to look at the pile of wrapping paper, tissue paper, bows, and ribbons under the tree when I’m done.
- Presents, of course. Although my family hasn’t done a proper “Christmas morning present-opening” ceremony in five consecutive years. I wonder if it will ever make a come-back now that I am moving away from home.
- Ample excuse to drink a different bottle of wine every night, which includes champagne and ice wine.
- Curling beside the fireplace with a good book, a rug on my lap, and my dog sleeping soundly beside me. This sort of picturesque postcard moment only seems to happen in December.
Happy December, everyone!
All those reasons you mentioned plus others (like waking up to a fresh blanket of snow outside on Christmas morning, though I haven’t seen that since my Toronto days…LONG time ago) are why Christmas is my favorite holiday of the year. Merry Christmas!
Starbucks is delicious! mmmm
I just got myself ANOTHER pair of boots. I had them last winter but they ripped when I wore them to a concert in Fall. Love them! (: I’ve been wearing boots every day too.
LOL Drinking again?! Girl, you alcoholic!
Merry Christmas, dear!
I love the cozy feeling this post left me with. I love all those as well.<3
I’d love to have a cozy night by the fire place with a good book.
*sigh*