{25 Days of Christmas} - Day 23 - Christmas Favorites

I saw this idea over on Oak & Oats and loved it. Here are my Christmas Favorites

Movie: This is a hard one for me. If you read my posts about Christmas Movies you know I love most of them...but if I have to pick, I pick the Family Stone...it has family, humor, it makes me cry and it has romance...while I love Hallmark movies, this doesn't offer the happily ever after. 

Drink: I love me some peppermint...so just a good old candy cane coffee with peppermint mocha creamer. 

Album: I'll have to go with Chris Tomlin's - Glory in the Highest.

Baking: My favorite is Gingersnap cookies.

Tradition: My dad hiding our stockings. 

Ornament: I bought several from the apparent project...they are my favorite. The Apparent Project uses recycled goods and is in Haiti and employees about 200 Haitians. 

Food: Our tradition is Chicken Dumpling soup with appetizers. I love it. 

Smell: My favorite candle is from Bath & Body - Winter

What are your favorites?

{25 Days of Christmas} - Day 4 - Favorite Christmas Traditions

Now that we have Lia, I have thought more about Christmas Traditions and making memories as a family. She is a little young yet, so we won't be starting this year. 

I saw this adorable idea on Pinterest today. A Christmas Eve Box. I love the idea. Christmas PJ's Popcorn, Hot Cocoa, and a Christmas movie, what a fun way to spend Christmas Eve. 

Growing up, we had one Christmas tradition that always stuck out to me. We went over to my grandparents house on Christmas Eve, then that night, us three kids would sleep on the hide-a-bed downstairs, by the tree, and watch a movie. Then Christmas morning, we would search for our stockings. My parents always hid our stockings (I'm sure so they could get more sleep)...I vividly remember it taking like an hour to find, or at least it felt that way (they are hidden good). They still have kept that tradition. It's not always Christmas morning, but the morning that we celebrate Christmas, kids and grandkids get up and find their stockings. I wonder if they will do it this year? 

What is your favorite traditions?