Why I Love Christmas

 I am so busy, mainly with the children and their very active social lives, that I hardly have time to breathe, let alone blog!  This is definitely my absolute best time of year, because of:

• Making the Christmas cake in October and starting to get excited...
• The Christmas Story
• My Christmas hat 
• The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge 
• Making Paper-Chains
• Wrapping presents 
• Getting the decorations out and adding the new ones to the pile
• Tins of Quality Street  
• It’s A Wonderful Life
• Wishing really hard for snow 
• Collecting holly, ivy, pine-cones and herbs to decorate the house
• Satsumas and Chocolate Coins 
• Reading magazines and making lists, fantasy and reality
• Cuddles in front of a roaring, crackling log fire
• Singing Christmas songs, like, all the time
• Groaning at cracker jokes
• The smell of giblet stock on Christmas Eve
• My children being so excited that they don’t know what to do with themselves
• Drinking to absent friends
• Leaving sherry and a mince pie for Father Christmas.  Don’t forget a carrot for Rudolph!
• That very first bite of Christmas lunch
• The Doctor Who Christmas Special
• My ‘Ultimate’ Turkey Sandwiches and a bowl of Christmas Soup

And that's just for starters!  Hope the season is going well for you, too. 

Cath xx