Most of you have probably seen this going around this month, the 2009 Virtual Advent Tour that is. Basically a whole slew of us bloggers are talking about our favorite memories, recipes and holiday traditions! So its with great pleasure I present to you, 15 days before Christmas proper, my post!
A Traditional Lexie Christmas
Since my parents' separation and subsequent divorce when I was about thirteen years old, our Christmas activities have changed a great deal to accommodate spending the holiday with both parents equally. In some cases this has worked out wonderfully, in others not so much, so at the age of sixteen I began my own 'traditions' to celebrate the holiday season.This is a brief listing of my Holiday Cheer as according to my calendar!
Day after Thanksgiving: Bust out the Holiday CD's and choose the first CD of the year
December 1st: Bust out the Christmas Regency Anthologies, read one short story a night
December 2nd: Start compiling ingredients needed for Holiday baking
December 3rd: Scour the ABC Family, Lifetime Movies and Hallmark Channel for new holiday movies and old holiday favorites. Set to record.
December 8th: Begin deciding who gets what for Christmas
Second Saturday in December: Holiday Baking Extravaganza!
Third Saturday in December: Baking at mom's for the holidays
Christmas Eve: Spend the Holiday with Dad and Dad's side of the family
Christmas Day: Spend the Holiday with Mom, Stepdad, etc
Some of my favorite holiday films are the cheesy TV movie ones. This is a list of the ones I *have* to watch every year:
The Christmas List (1997)
Christmas in Boston (2005)
Ebbie (1995)
The Christmas Blessing (2005)
A Season For Miracles (1999)
I also re-watch Dear God (1996), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), White Christmas (1954), Toys (1992) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945).
Some of my favorite holiday songs I listen to obsessively are:
White Christmas, Christmas Wrapping, Silver Bells, Baby It's Cold Outside, Santa Baby, Greensleeves, Nutcracker Suite, and Auld Lang Syne.
I adore Doris Day and Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney and of course Frank Sinatra. I listen to their versions of christmas songs the most I'm pretty sure. Recently though I've been listening to ANY christmas songs. I picked up a punk christmas album, I have found dozens of asian christmas songs and I am embarrassed to admit that the Disney cartoon 'Phineas and Ferb: Christmas Vacation' digital songs are also rather stuck in my head.
So how about everyone else?
