What is you favorite thing(s) to do at Christmas time?

**MANDERS** · 12-13-2002, 01:56 AM

I love them all but I love decorating the house and tree and baking the goodies.Oh and opening the presents isn't bad either.

**Sara Noel** · 11-18-2004, 03:46 PM

I really love all of it, but really enjoy driving and looking at lights and peeping in windows.

**kimmee** · 11-18-2004, 03:49 PM

I like the music , the lights , and the smells!!

I just love laying by the christmas tree and  absorbing it all!

**QuilterMom** · 11-18-2004, 03:58 PM

Seeing all the decorations, spending lots of time in the kitchen baking goodies with ds, listening to Christmas music (and of course singing along!), and watching all the Christmas movies on tv.

**DaisyLady** · 11-18-2004, 04:43 PM

Going to church on Christmas Eve and then coming home for eggnog and homemade tortierre.

**writtenonmybody** · 11-18-2004, 08:34 PM

Seeing my mothers Christmas tree.

Watching children get excited about everything... Food, the snow, lights, and presents.

Eating good food

Spending time with family

**matt&roxy** · 11-19-2004, 05:32 PM

I think going caroling is the best thing about christmas.

**Michele Annette** · 11-19-2004, 07:29 PM

I love when DH isn't working for Christmas and he isn't this year!

What I love most is sitting by the Christmas tree and listening to Christmas music. I love making gifts, but I love wrapping them more! Any time spent with family, but usually we spend time alone together for Christmas because of the travelling long distance factor.

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 11-20-2004, 05:43 AM

Baking all of those wonderful cookies and assembling baskets to take to loved ones and those less fortunate. I also love the old time Bing Crosby etc..music My favorite part of decorating is making fresh wreaths with the family. I love to get out and snip the greens and go to the garage and sip hot cider and listen to the music while we all work on the wreaths.

This is a new tradition in our family and only our second year of making them.

**sunshine** · 11-20-2004, 07:42 AM

Going caroling

delivering presents

making the family Christmas video- and rewatching previous year's videos

**Darlene** · 11-20-2004, 08:18 AM

Originally posted by smnoel
I really love all of it, but really enjoy driving and looking at lights and peeping in windows.

I'm a drive by window peeper too, lol.

One of my favorite things is to have the family over to help us trim our tree. We have the Christmas music going, good food, smiles & laughter all around. It wraps me in a warm fuzzy feeling just thinking about it.

**Hoppscotch** · 11-28-2004, 01:10 PM

One of my favorite things is my dh takes a day off, and we take the train into the city (NYC) and see the "trees" & lights, all the windows and such.
This year we have planned to go on Dec. 7th, we have tickets to see the Radio City Christmas Show, then the R'feller Center Tree, then a trip up the Empire State Bldg. (I never tire of that), then up to the museums of Natural History to see the Origami Tree & Metropolitan Museum of Art to see their tree which is a Nativity tree.
It's great - just me & him!
When the kids we younger we took them on this outting every year.
But ya know, its more fun now that its just us!

**pkellyc** · 11-28-2004, 02:35 PM

I love all of it, even the over crowded stores. I went shopping the day after Thanksgiving not for any special sale, but to be part of the hustle and bustle. Came home turned on the Christmas carols and started to dig out boxes to start decorating.