I love the look on my daughters face when she opens her gifts, but even more so the look on her face when she watches her father open whatever she got him; I love my new bathrobe and nightgown!
I love playing Christmas music all day and having all the candles in the house lit.
I love my nativity scene & the creche my husband made for me by hand; embracing the meaning of the season and rejoicing in the birth of Christ
I love having family here; especially my grandchildren; watching our the 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter dance/skip across the room to hand her grandfather a present (then dance/skip back to her mother; holding the baby in her slippery Christmas dress; watching our daughter and son-in-law's absolute delight when they opened their present and could not contain their excitement.
I love entertaining; sharing a meal; playing games; coffee around the table; good conversation; Christmas cookies; my sister's rice pudding; my father's staunch hatred of broccoli; my mother's help with the dishes; seeing my neice, nephew and brother-in-law challenge each other at air hockey; just talking with at my all-grown-up neices and nephews and wondering how and when they became such wonderful young adults; watching my daughter play her zoo tycoon game that includes of course a DOLPHIN park!
and I love when everyone leaves ... and it's quiet.
... and now we get to do it all over again, more grandchildren!!! and more of all those things I love and special people that I love to be with.
I hope you all had just as merry a Christmas!