christmas eve

christmas eve is my absolute favorite holiday. i know i'm strange. lots of people like christmas or halloween, but yeah i like christmas eve. i think it's the whole anticipation of the holiday part that i like so much. anticipating all the fun of christmas day, the giving of gifts, the eating of lots of food, the sneaking away from doing the dishes. all fun things. :P then there is the anticipation of the birth of christ. now seriously what could be better.

i love the traditions my family has for christmas eve. a huge dinner of ham and then lots of pies. my mom is the queen of desserts. this year we are only have five pies and cookies and cheesecake. one year she did five or six pies along with cookies, and then made cream puffs for christmas day because my uncle didn't believe that she really made them as big as softballs. that was an interesting year. anyway so after dinner then we all goof around a bit till it's time to leave for church. we usually go to the church that i grew up in. it's a gorgeous church, built in the late 1890s. personally i'm not fond of the current pastors but that's for a lot of different reasons.

but christmas eve service is i think for me the most religious of the year. easter is pretty special too, but i think it's all the hope that the world felt about the saviour being born and how wonderful things would be from then on.

i would write more but if i don't go i'll miss my spot in the shower line up.

merry christmas everyone!!