What's your favorite Christmas thing?

[AHappierHour]

See the kids faces when they run down the stairs, opening up my stocking from my IL's, tamales

[looseseal]

A few years ago we started a "we stay home on actual Christmas Day" thing. It started by accident, but now I love it. People can come over and eat and watch the boys play, but we don't go anywhere. It's the best.

Also, at my mom's side of the family we make futzens, these German fried doughnuts with cardamom and raisins. Mmmm.

[meganew]

I love the lead up to Christmas way more than Christmas Day itself. Cutting down the tree, driving around looking at lights, making cards, etc. But I do love the fire at my ILs on Christmas Eve with wine and Brie and A Christmas Story playing.

Then the next morning we go to my grandparents which will be altogether different this year : /

[whitemerlot]

We get to spend time with a lot of relatives that we only see once or twice a year.

I love seeing kids open gifts and the magic of it.

Christmas lights.

Christmas treats and cookies!

[nsl]

Cinnamon in everything. Cinnamon candles, cinnamon cookies, cinnamon everything. I just love how it smells.

[circa1978]

Usually the cookies. I'm sick this year and cannot get interested. I have to pull it together tomorrow.

I think this year I'm most excited about Santa coming. Henry hasn't wavered at all about what he hopes will be there Christmas morning, so I hope he gets super excited when it really is there.

[april37]

I love listening to Christmas music.

[Deleted]

Watching my son open gifts from Santa
I'm sad that this is probably the last year he'll believe

[karenj]

Watching the girls open their gifts and listening to the squeals. And spending time with the big family. I love the noise and excitement. The drinking, playing games, the food.

[Deleted]

Sex.

[shell403b]

Christmas lights and all of my ornaments that my mom saved for/gave to me so I can put them on my own family's tree.

[Deleted]

It's a joke you two.

My favorite thing about Christmas is: hanukkah.

Lol.

[CurlyQ284]

All of it. I like the Christmas cookies, I like seeing the tree with all the gifts and then seeing the kids faces when they see it. I like how happy everyone is that morning. I love Christmas dinner. I love pie. Lol

[donnamartingraduat]

Christmas Eve at my parent's house.

I love everything about it. The food, booze, family, tradition. It's perfect.

[Deleted]

Watching my son open his gifts. Spending time with family. I'm seriously so lucky to have family I enjoy spending time with.

[trafficgirl]

I think I'm with meganew in that I like the lead up to Christmas more than Christmas itself.

I do love watching people open up gifts I bought them though, and can't wait until the boys are old enough to "get" opening presents.

[bania]

Coming home for Christmas. The first day is always an adjustment because it's so slow paced here. By day two I'm loving it.

The food

I love the whole season actually. The decorating, music, lights and again food.

[RoxMonster]

I like spending Christmas morning with just H, sleeping in, getting up and drinking coffee and having cinnamon rolls, relaxing and opening gifts, etc.

[pantsparty]

ALL THE CHRISTMAS MOVIES.

[Jermys]

Oh man...everything from Christmas eve when they open their new jaammies and we watch a Christmas movie and eat popcorn and drink hot cocoa to Christmas morning when they open gifts and jump around in excited glee, to Christmas day spent at my SIL's house with the traditional Polish food and five meat dinner. I fucking love Christmas. All of it.

[Deleted]

I'm glad I have the day off.

[mellymel]

I love everything starting from Thanksgiving Day to Black Friday to the entire lead-up to Christmas, especially:

Cutting our Christmas tree down
Buying fresh greenery to decorate the porch and mantle
Baking spritz cookies
Christmas Eve at my mom's including appetizers, booze, gift opening, and Mass
Christmas morning at our house, watching the kids open their gifts
More appetizers and booze and a fancy Christmas dinner

[2boys2danes]

I love everything about it. This year has been super tough though because my 80 year old mother fell in the middle of the night on Dec 2 and broke her thighbone above her knee replacement, had surgery, in rehab nursing home for the next 2-3 months. Every tradition we have is modified this year and I can't imagine what pain she is in and not being able to be home in her own surroundings etc. Not to be Debbie Downer here but its heavy on my mind…..

[iamgrace]

The tree and outside decorations. It's magical.

I also love singing church carols even though I'm not particularly religious.

[kayakjenn]

I really like decorating the tree and I do enjoy having everyone over for Christmas day.

We don't do gifts on either side of the family and this year we weren't rolling in money, so DH and I decided against even doing stockings. I thought I'd be bummed but I'm not!

[christy082]

Our tree. It just makes me happy to look at it. Also watching my dog open her present by sticking her entire face into the bag to get it out.

[Captain Serious]

Christmas Eve: we go to mass, then eat, and finally all gather in the living room to open presents. There's always Christmas music playing and an abundance of cookies and wine and Christmas punch to go around. Then we leave cookies and a Diet Coke out for Santa and all go to bed.

[McGavin]

My ornaments, shortbread cookies, and Christmas music.

[nonsensetomfoolery]

Driving the long way just so we can look at the lights our favorite houses

Picking out the perfect gift and wrapping it just so

Hosting friends and family

Christmas Cards

[jreeds]

The kids excitement. Their unwavering belief in Santa. DD has been arguing with a girl in her class that keeps telling her Santa isn't real, the parents do the presents etc. Even that has not budged her on the fact that Santa and all the magic that goes with it is real. I love it. I'm sure we're on borrowed time but at least for this year it's really making Christmas for me