Christmas Time!

It is officially Christmas time and I am so excited that it is!  Christmas by far my favorite holiday.  I love all of the beautiful lights and decorations.  I was able to go home over Thanksgiving break and help my family decorate our house.  In our family it is a tradition to play Harry Connick Jr. and sing as loud as we can to the songs while we decorate our tree.  Some would say that our tree isn't "beautiful" as far as all the ornaments that we put on it, but I think that our tree is the very definition of Christmas.  We don't have a single ornament on our Christmas tree that doesn't have a story or a personal meaning to someone in our family.  Each of us has certain ornaments that we put on the tree with a smile because of the happy memories that the ornament brings to our mind.  Christmas is all about family to me and our tree definitely represents family.  My favorite part of the season is that I get the chance to go home for a few weeks and just spend some much needed time with my mother, father, sister, and brother.  I miss them so much during the school year and I think that may be what brought about my great love of Christmas.