THE THINGS THAT MAKE IT XMAS TO ME
- peppermint ice cream
- eggnog
- crappy plastic wreaths with candles set in the middle
- handmade red towels that adorn surfaces
- pandora's jazzy christmas station
- a crock pot full of cider or mulled wine, accompanied by corny mugs all around
- ornaments found at the dollar store
- this horrible fake garland i always put up
- the smell of the tree all throughout the house
- watching:
- white christmas
- rudolph the red-nosed reindeer (claymation)
- christmas vacation
- the nightmare before christmas
- miracle on 34th street (always watched with joel's dad)
- it's a wonderful life
to be continued...
~crm
4 comments:
I just put together a cocktail menu and decided upon appetizers for my first ever Christmas cocktail party. I am going to make my own eggnog for the first time ever (I also found a recipe that calls for aging your eggnog up to a year before consuming so I might even make next year's eggnog).
I don't get to watch claymation Rudolph because for some strange reason she believes that moving clay goes against nature and gives her motion sickness. However, she has never seen It's a Wonderful Life so I get to expose her to that.
In closing, I believe that everyone should add A Very Sunny Christmas Special to their holiday tradition.
Nightmare before Christmas, a classic around here too! I love your list of real and kitchy sights and sounds.
Some things that make it Christmas to me:
-Feeling HOT and sticky; subsequently the light cotton dresses and the dangling of legs in the pool
-seafood and tropical fruit (think prawns and mangoes)
-Lighting the fifth Advent candle, and making a fresh wreath from Christmas bush (a native flower)
-Little weaved baskets my mum fills with nuts and sweets
-Sufjan's Christmas renditions... and mum playing the piano
-Lazying on a lounge somewhere, watching dusk sprawl late into the night
"Darby O'Gill and the Little People"
Totally not a Christmas movie (at all) but for some reason it was ALWAYS aired late evening on the 22nd or 23rd of December and I would ALWAYS watch it and that was the movie that symbolized Christmas time to me. I don't think I even realized it's completely unrelated until sometime in my teens.
Plus it's young Sean Connery and Ireland. Hot.
Oooo I absolutely add "The Muppet Christmas Carol"! Finally bought it yesterday and had a fit of excitable joy!
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