My Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Finally! My Christmas vacation begins!

Christmas Movies:
The Apartment
It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Crosby Films:Holiday Inn and White Christmas
Various Classics: The Women, The Philadelphia Story etc....
Rankin-Bass Toons, The Grinch!

Christmas Foods:
Tamales
EGGNOG and rum!
Collin Street Bakery-Fruitcake (I swear this stuff isn't nasty)
Green Bean Casserole
Ham
Turkey
Gingerbread and pralines, fudge, divinity and sugar cookies
Cheeseballs and dips


Christmas People:
You all know who you are, you lil devils ;>

Christmas Music: I have an extensive collection of Christmas CDs, jazzy, traditional, lounge, Latin, Rankin-Bass tunes, Sinatra etc...... In fact they make up half of my cd collection. I don't have Jingle Cats though. No Manheim SteamRoller either.


My childhood memories of Christmas still  bring Christmas cheer. My tree decorating habits, Christmas house decorating habits are stuck in the 70's.  Every year my mother would bake 7 different types of cookies, 3 different cakes, candies, various appetizers, dips and all sorts of yummy things. My brother and I would go over the Sears and JC Penney catalog forever. We'd mark all the Christmas specials on the calendar so suddenly the TV insert in the Sunday paper was very important.  I still remmeber commercials and scents, sounds and some Christmas cards even. Feliz Navidad!