Jewel at Down in My Little Valley gave me a Christmas Spirit Award with the following tag:

“The rules are to tag someone with this award that I know loves Christmas, and has Christmas spirit. They must link back to my blog to indicate where they were tagged, and they need to add 1 to 45 reasons why they love Christmas.”

1. I love Christmas first of all because it’s the time we celebrate the birth of our Savior: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6).

2. Christmas music.

3. Christmas lights. OK, some can be a little on the gaudy side. But I love that so many people put lights outside their houses as well as in, and I love lights on the tree.

4. The Christmas tree. In itself it may seem a little strange to bring a tree inside and hang decorations on it…but I love it.

5. Christmas ornaments, little miniature decorations, often with a story of how it came to be, who gave it to whom, etc.

6. Christmas cards, the opportunity to send and receive greetings with friends and loved ones.

7. Christmas newsletters. Yes, I love them! I enjoy catching up with what’s been going on with people.

8. Christmas events. Though it does tend to make the calendar more full than usual, I love attending our kids’ plays, our Sunday School Christmas party, events in town, etc.

9. Christmas foods.

10. Time off. The kids are off from school, and my husband often takes a few vacation days.

11. Calling loved ones on Christmas Day.

12. Giving gifts.

If you love Christmas consider yourself tagged!

I’ve been tagged with a couple of other memes and was originally going to do them all together…but I think this one needs to stand alone. So I’ll do the others later on. This may be meme week as Real Life is incredibly busy!