What Says Christmas for you?

[huffjoann]

Is it the smells, the snow, the decorations, the gift wrapping, the shopping, the cooking, the eating, LOL.

What really says to you okay it is really Christmas time NOW?

[ShirleyC]

I think mostly if we have COLD weather when we start decorating. It goes from hot to cold and back to hot here.
It's been hard this year with so much illness and so many of our friends losing parents and grandparents. Some years are like that.

[Deedles]

We've never had Christmas snow and I hate shopping. For me it's the beautiful music that usually shows up first, the classics such as O Holy Night, and Little Town of Bethlehem. Please don't play the Chipmunks or Elvis and his blue-blue Christmas or I'll scream! Second would be the various nativity scenes that all the churches put up. Then getting closer to the day it's the baking smells, especially mincemeat cookies like Grandma's.

[Sew 'N Sane]

For me, it's not Christmas until I have watched all the classic Christmas movies...starting with Rudolph. That's my absolute favorite movie. A few years ago I found a Rudolph coloring book and I scanned in several of the drawings and made embroidery designs of them. :)

Now, I always wear my Rudolph shirt on the day after Thanksgiving when I start my Christmas shopping. :p

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[huffjoann]

the lucious foods get me every year and then DH and I are wacky and love the Christmas Vacation movie,, we generally watch it while we put the tree up,, once Clark Griswold says its a go,,, Chrismtas is ON, LOL

[blessedw2]

For me it is cooler weather. It is really hard to get in the spirit when it is 85 degrees!

[StitchinGrandma]

I think for me is starting to hear the music and songs of the season being played all over. I wish that it wasn't starting so early and that it would wait until at least after Thanksgiving but yea, still that's what really starts putting me inthe mood for the holidays to begin. The cold weather always reminds me of the holidays coming too. I hate the cold but think if I lived elsewhere it just wouldn't be the same having been raised where it's always cold this time of the year.

[crumbear]

It's the cold weather and the smell. That cinnamony, apple cidery smell gets me every time. Add Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' and I'm a goner. :D

[rosebud314]

I agree with Deedles. It's the music. I love Christmas music and would listen to it all year if the family would indulge me.

This will be my second Christmas in FL and for me it's so hard to get into the "Spirit" with temps in the 70's & 80's. I can't even get excited about putting up my tree this year. No one here wants to help, so may not even get done. I grew up in MD & PA and am so used to the colder weather. Last year, it was 85 and very humid here, had to turn on the air.

[Ole' Girl]

We listen to nothing but Christmas music from Thanksgiving on through December. Of course, some days it makes me sad at times missing those I love.:(

[rosebud314]

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[Crafty Connie]

Christmas to me is having another reason to celebrate Christ birth, the most important event in history! Then I love the Christmas songs and decorating the house. I'd have a cinnamon candle burning too but my husband hates that kind of thing. :santaclaus:

[rosebud314]

Christmas to me is having another reason to celebrate Christ birth, the most important event in history! Then I love the Christmas songs and decorating the house. I'd have a cinnamon candle burning too but my husband hates that kind of thing. :santaclaus:

Amen to that. Christ's birth is what it's all about.

I'm so with you about the candle thing, too. My hubby doesn't like a lot of the scents, I have to be very careful.

Let's not forget the eggnog. I love eggnog.:santaclaus:

[Sam]

Christmas is the time of year that makes people smile, the children playing in the snow and the beautiful music that goes with the season.

[just_teachin]

Well, you've made this music teacher smile with how many of you mentioned Christmas music!

For me, I start rehearsing for our Christmas program the last week of October, so there are a few weeks of November that make me crazy since I've been doing Christmas music, but it's not even December!

But then, as we close our concert with 98 K-8th graders singing and doing American Sign Language to "Silent Night", it just brings tears to my eyes.... which makes it really hard to accompany them, let me tell you!! :p

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So to answer the question... ;)

For me, it is the music, and the joyous reminders of Christ's birth.

I had Corinne in the van last night coming home from the library lap-sit, and she was SO excited about the Christmas lights. We came across a lit nativity, and she got so excited. "Baby Jesus! And Mary! And Joseph!" Then we saw a second one.... "ANOTHER Baby Jesus!!!!" Made my heart melt.