Merry Christmas!

this is my first christmas tree that was all mine! i got to decorate it just like i wanted to and didn't have to fight with other peoples inferior taste! lol! it was one of those trees that was all matchy matchy and makes me laugh to think about... the colors matched my apartment it was funny because gone are the days of the much beloved 2 foot blow up christmas tree that doubled as the bat for christmas tree beachball baseball... nope this took hours to decorate not the 30 seconds and 6 puffs of air to blow up... i loved those days and miss the fun of winding up and swinging with all your might the tree and trying to bounce the ball off the wall into the corner between the couch and the window or into the kitchen so you could safely make it around the bases back to home before you got tagged out! Hard to do in a small small living room, but the laughs were endless! As i sat there thinking about my favorite christmas stories this was definitely on the top of the list, but my other favorite part of christmas was growing up and delivering to a family the 12 days of christmas. the picking of the family, figuring out what to give for each day, writing out the message in a way that nobody could figure out who wrote it, making the small gifts, the stratagy of how to park and where to run from and to, figuring out how to outsmart the family that was also stratagizing on how to catch whoever was dropping off the gifts, laughing as we peeled off and replaying the action in each of our roles, piling into the car with my whole family and enduring joel's gift of gas trapped in the back of the car with him, singing carols and bringing the final gift and laughing with the family about how close they came to catching us, leaving with a sense of making someone else's christmas a little better because they knew that they were thought of and very loved by someone else and knowing that they basically became grafted into the morris family tree whether they liked it or not! I LOVED this part of christmas! what are some of your favorite christmas stories?