Christmas time has come again! This is absolutely my favorite time of the year. I've come to appreciate Christmas even more since I started college. It's a welcome break from the ridiculous schedules and attempts to stay in touch with my social circle during the semster. And as my friends will know, I don't spend much time doing anything other than studying when I'm not on campus. We need to change that.
There are three things that I always look forward to during Christmas. First, Christmas music. I LOVE singing Christmas carols. That music makes me so happy! Especially now that I'm in college, it signals that there are only a few more weeks until break.
Second, I love going caroling with my friends. The past two years, I went with the youth group that my younger siblings attend. But this year, I'm going with my community theatre friends. I'm so excited! It's going to be a different experience alltogether, I'm sure.
Third, my family's annual Christmas cookie run. The three of us kids spend about two and a half days making and decorating cookies; and then, on the day before Christmas Eve (or Christmas Adam, as a good friend of mine calls it) and Christmas Eve, we go and deliver cookies to some of our friends. It's a fun time of bonding, hanging out, and just acting silly. And believe me, you haven't seen silly until you've seen us at five o'clock in the morning. It's great fun, especially when we get to talk with our friends after we deliver the cookies.
I am enjoying this break so much. You really have no idea. I've gotten so much time to work on one of my novels and to play video games. My little brother took me to see The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for my Christmas present, and we spent the day Christmas shopping. I'm going to take my sister, who has been recovering from getting her tonsils out, shopping on Monday. The three of us have been enjoying hanging out and NOT doing school.
It's kind of strange to think that in a few years, I won't be living in this house anymore. Until I graduate, I don't plan on going far (and even after that, I won't ever be far from my mom), so I'm sure that the cookie tradition will continue. I am so thankful that I have a family to spend Christmas with; a family that doesn't bicker or uninvite people to dinner. So above all, I'm remembering this Christmas first and foremost to remember the real reason for the season, and to enjoy my friends and family.
Merry Christmas!
"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
Dale Evans Rogers
