things i LOVE about winter

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

and finally

50. the fact that it is the season of light...