Christmas Plans

The kids and I made a long list of all the Christmas/Holiday activities that we want to do this year. Here is a partial list:

• Make and frost Christmas cutout cookies.
• Make fudge, divinity, popcorn balls, toffee, peanut brittle, and chocolate nut clusters.
• Make gingerbread houses.
• Put up and decorate a tree.
• Make food gifts for our friends and deliver them.
• Sleep under the Christmas tree.
• Go ice skating.
• Read "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever".
• Drive around and look at Christmas lights.
• Watch "It's a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street", "A Christmas Story", "A White Christmas", "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and all the old TV specials like Rudolf and Frosty.
• Read "The Gift of the Magi".
• Go to the Christmas Eve service at Church.
• Go to the mall and watch people shop while drinking coffee or hot chocolate.
• Make Christmas ornaments.
• Make paper chains to stream throughout our entire house.
• Hang lights from the boys bunk beds.
  
• Invite our friends over whenever there is a free moment.
  
• Play all of our Christmas CDs over and over until we are sick of them.
• Go to the Nutcracker. (Actually, I am the only one who wants to go to the Nutcracker. I did find a Jazz group who is performing the music from the Nutcracker. I might get them to go to that.)
• Go to a Sing-Along version of Handel's Messiah (Actually, I am the only one who wants to do this too BUT fortunately, I am the only person who gets to decide. "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, haaalleeeluuujaaahhh!" I am already warming up my vocal chords. The kids won't forget this.)
• Address and mail Christmas cards. It is kinds of a joke around here. I have several batches of Christmas cards I have addressed in past years but never mailed. I wanted to write personal notes in each one and by the time I actually could have got around to the personal notes, it was Valentine's Day and much too embarrassing to mail them. Natalie told me I can just mail those out this year. Hmmmm. No one would know the difference, would they?

Does anyone have any more ideas for us? We love this time of year.