my REAL favorite season

So as much as I hate winter and the frigid cold, I am looking forward to my REAL favorite season:  Christmas.

Things I'm looking forward to:

• Thanksgiving first, of course. Deep-fried marinated turkey. Sweet potato pie (baking and eating!). Macaroni. Casseroles. Yeast rolls. Green beans. Mashed potatoes and burned-brown gravy (Father's ONLY). Broccoli casserole. Deviled eggs. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• Black Friday shopping with Laken.
• NOT working retail this season.
• Our first snowfall!
• Baking zillions of batches of cookies with Mom and Dani.
• Seeing family.
• Driving around Brentwood at night to see all the mansions with their Christmas lights. (Believe it or not, I STILL haven't done this with Drew after 4 years and 2 months of dating him!)
• Christmas movies!!! It's a Wonderful Life. Claymation Rudolph. Frosty the Snowman. A Christmas Story (I never actually pay attention to it, but I like for it to be on in the background). A Charlie Brown Christmas. 
• Christmas shopping!!! Ahhhh, love love love.
• Christmas music! Play me some "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Holly Jolly Christmas," all the Christmas church hymns (love love love)... so much. 
• Christmas caroling!
• Christmas parades!
• Christmas pageants at church!!!!
• Christmas dinner!
• Christmas decorating!
• Wearing red and green!
• Our annual "Crew Christmas Party!!!!"
• Christmas parties in general!
• Peppermint punch!
• New Year's Eve breakfast! The best of all breakfasts, ever. Granny's grits are all I need in life.
• Working a New Year's Eve wedding!
• Decorating my kitty and puppy for Christmas! (Hello red bows!! SOOOO PRECIOUS!)
• Going to Target and looking at Christmas things!
• Wrapping Christmas presents!
• Opening Christmas presents!
• Stuffing Christmas stockings!
• Having a lover at Christmas. It makes a lot of difference.
• Our big Dyce family Christmas party!
• Going to KMart to look at Martha Stewart's Christmas decorations!
• Decorating the Christmas tree!
• Making Christmas crafts!
• Making Christmas cards!
• Clementines!
• Decorating all the fences and balustrades with lush greenery!
• Mistletoe Ball, even though I'm too old for it!
• Planning the Snow Ball, a philanthropic event!
• Going to a Christmas tree farm and cutting down a Christmas tree with friends!
• THE NUTCRACKER. My favorite performance in the history of forever.
• The Music City Rockettes Christmas SPECTACULAR!
• Christmas concerts.
• Elf
• Hot chocolate made on the stove
• Mama's fruit salad
• Walking around Opryland Hotel!

So much more.