I think this mood has come on by the fact that I'm currently freezing cold and that we have a mulled wine air freshener. But it feels like christmas so badly. I love Christmas, it's my favourite holiday. :)
I remember last christmas so clearly, I remember present shopping with Ryan. We went into Town and I spent £20 in poundland on presents. I can remember going up an escalator and he said "Don't you feel cheap buying all your presents at poundland?" and I told him that at least this way everyone would get a present, and that's all that mattered. I didn't care that most of them never got me a present in return, because I loved the look on their faces when they wasn't expecting anything.
Another thing that I love about Christmas is the snow, it's like a magic blanket that can make even the uglist places look beautiful. Some of my fondest memories are at Christmas. Like the year we came down and we all had a bike each, waiting under the tree for us. Or the last year when Mom lured me into town, saying that she was given these vouchers for this Italian place in town and that we were going to go have a meal there. It turned out there were no vouchers, but she felt bad that Billie had gone to America and Italy that year and I had nothing. I remember the German market was in town, we were walking up towards it and I saw all the lights and the smiling faces and the big lit up sign declaring "Merry Christmas Birmingham" and I smiled so much. It was beautiful. And there was the big singing Moose there, that sings Christmas songs in different languages. We got to the Italian, but it was packed, then she let slip that there were no vouchers, so we went to Pizza Hut instead, it was so much better. Then, there was more, she had got us tickets to see New Moon. It was a perfect day.
Primary school was the best when I think of Christmas. I loved the little postbox where everyone would put there cards in and they would be sent to the people during that day, and singing christmas songs in assembly and the christmas dinner where we would have to sing "We wish you a merry christmas" to the dinnerladies before we could eat. And the nativity, and the Christmas party, I used to love that. I loved the group singing of the 12 days of christmas that we did every year aswell.
I also remember having the TV on the music channel when they would play nothing but Christmas songs and me, my mom and my sister would dance around the living room, singing along. And I remember when I came home one day from school to find that the whole of the house was decorated festivly, and I remember taking my nan around in the car so that she could see all the lights on people's houses.
Going back to my original point, I do think that it's important that everybody gets something. Before I had money, I would give away my own possesions as christmas presents as a last resort. I just love the way Christmas makes me feel, full of hope and new possibilities, it brings people closer together.
