- first snowfall
- first snowball fight
- the cold reality when a cold snowball hits your face!
- hot chocolate
- winter break
- snowflakes
- icicles
- baking gingerbread
- hanging stockings
- putting up a christmas tree or menorah... take your pick
- the pure magic of a winter night
- that perfect moment when the snow lights up at night because of the stars
- the school wide snowball fight!! (had the first one today!!)
- having the ability to put on a really puffy coat that might make you look fat, but everyone does so its ok!!
- being able to wear an absurd hat all day long (even when im inside!! SOCK MONKEY HATS RULE!)
- frost that makes pretty patterns on my window in the morning
- the spicy smell of pumpkin pie (NOMNOM)
- peace day
- galloping on a horse through a snow covered field
- making snow angels
- getting REALLY cold and coming inside for hot chocolate with marshmallows
- snowboarding
- colorado
- putting on my dogs little jackets (they are SO cute)
- santa claus
- christmas carols (i have been singing them for about a month already-guilty pleasure)
- that warm and fuzzy feeling of giving
- new years resoloutions
- staying up until 12 to watch the ball drop!!
- setting off those streamer things in the new year
- last day of school
- dogs in the snow
- white-ness of everything
- spending nearly an entire lunch period outside
- wearing layers
- SNOW DAYS
- the night before a (hoped) snow day and all of its rituals: spoon under pillow and PJ's inside out.
- preparing for a snow day and getting it
- first mitten day of the year
- first hat day of the year
- travel
- gifts
- holiday spirit
- ripping of paper on the 25th
- stocking stuffers
- casserole for breakfast on X-mas morning!
- harry and david pears
- baking
- the night before X-mas
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