christmas-y

I'm feeling uber Christmas-y and i'm not exactly sure why. When I was a kid, I LOVED decorating the house, putting up the tree, playing christmas music, and all that. But in highschool, I lost that magic. This year, I found it again.

We had a bunch of people come over to the house for Christmas Decorating 2009. We used all of Kathy (our landlandy's) christmas decorations. It was a magical night: christmas songs, cookies, putting up the tree, stringing lights. But it also had its trashy side, with the 1 string of lights in the window, the star of david made out of beaded chains on the wall, the black baby angel on the top of the tree, and the fan that turned into abstract decoration art. You should come over sometime, it's great.

Bethany and Sarah were party guests of the night because they wore the most christmas-y christmas sweaters. Starkey was DJ extraordinair. And Roth's pranking made the night a hit. I loved every minute of it.

my personal top 5 chrismas-y things:
5- from age 6-12 we hung up a picture that had small candy compartments in it that you opened the days of december. i was the even numbers, my sister the odd. i loved that thing.

4- my mom on the piano and the 5 of us (dad, sister, grandma, grandpa, and me) would sing christmas songs. we sounded horrible, but i can still hear my grandma's vibrato in my head.

3- the arguments over what movie to see the day after christmas (everyone had to see the same one). feelings would get hurt, it was awesome.

2- when mom put me in charge of putting the decorations on the tree. we had a tall skinny box of decorations and one year, i was put in charge of all decorations. i was 8 or so, and LOVED it.

1- our "christmas videos" vhs. it was a compilation of charlie brown christmas, rudolph, frosty the snowman, mickey's christmas carol, and twas the night before christmas (the one with the cartoon mice). my sister and i watched it every year. then we would usually put in 'white christmas' and we'd both fall asleep around the "count your blessings instead of sheep" song.


i'm getting a heavy wiff of nostalgia, so i'd better head out. merry christmas everyone.