What a wonderful time of year! Spending weeks getting ready for Christmas, decorating the tree, finding those perfect gifts for your family and friends, baking fun goodies, gazing at Christmas lights all over town. I love thinking on those special Christmas memories when we were little, too! How about you?

Here are a few of mine . . .

1.) My parents had given each of us three kids a tiny fake tree, and the little colored bulbs would light up with a switch. I’d put it by my bed on Christmas Eve with the lights on all night, and it was just so special to me. I’d love waking up in the middle of the night, looking at it, too.

2.) My mom would bake tons of yummy cookies and candy all month, and I’d sneak a few every time I walked by. Her English toffee was the best!

3.) Probably like you, we couldn’t wait to get up and get the ‘ok’ to see what Santa had left. Besides lots of fun stuff in our stockings, there’d always be an orange, penny, and ribbon candy in it, too.

4.) I loved the candlelight Christmas Eve service at church, hearing the Christmas story and singing favorite Christmas songs, celebrating Christ’s birth. It was so beautiful and joyful to me.

5.) I also loved all the colorful, different sized and shaped, fancy wrapped presents under the tree, but especially loved Jesus being the greatest gift of all!

So what are your faves?

Merry Christmas to you!