What would you want your Christmas to be like?

Question

Once I have my own family(husband and four children)
I want my Christmas to be beautiful.A beautiful,freshly cut tree which we decorated.Stockings across a warm fireplace and presents under the tree.The sound of holiday music playing and a lot of presents under the tree.Homemade Christmas dinner with baked cookies I make with my children.Lastly on Christmas Eve my family volunteers at a homeless shelter.

Answer 1

Well, Chassidy. I would like my Christmas to be with my family, my mother and my grandmother and my aunt, my father and my uncle. I think I would like it to be out at the farm by the Yorkville Y. My grandmother named it "Hunky Dory Acres". There's a huge, wooden kitchen table there and a massive stove. You can smell the big old oak trees, just like you can smell the three different kinds of meats cooking and more trimmings than anyone can eat, and so many different kinds of pie, all homemade. Home baked bread, too. And 7 or 8 women working in tandem to bring the food to the table, the windows steamed up, the men sitting in the big living room around the wood stove, drinking beers and talking football.

I would like to take a little piece of nice tender-moist meat off the breast of the turkey and mince it up with some nice juice from the pan and a bit of rice, and put it down in the bedroom for my little cat Spike, who loves the warm bedroom and wants to stay away from all those bustling feet. And give him a good squeeze before I give him his meal.

I would love to have gone the night before to midnight mass, all of us, hushed, not quite so awake as for morning service, so the fragrances and the colors and the music have a memory quality to them, like you are experiencing them through a mist. And then to come back to the little cottage by the railroad tracks with the windows steamed from all the cooking going on inside, and go to bed.

I would love my Christmas to be like that. But it can never, ever be. Because all those people are dead. The little cat is gone. The cottage is demolished. The oaks cut down. The train no longer runs those tracks. And the only memorial of Hunky Dory Acres is my memory of the people and the meals, the laughter and the conflicts

Dream, my dear, of a Christmas you are going to have and that you will make. But in fact, you have a Christmas right now, and this is the one you are living. This one right now. It is a thing to cherish, because nothing, absolutely nothing of this right now is forever. Be sure to live it completely and be sure to say I love you to everyone you do love. Because when they are all memories, you do not want to have regrets. And if you dream of children you don't have yet and a house you don't have yet and a husband you don't have yet, you may overlook the love you do have right now.

So have a beautiful Christmas. And when you are in bed, turn on your dreamer light and make plans.

Answer 2

Merry Christmas!

Answer 3

Let me put you into the Christmas mood. Since I live in a dorm room with a bunch of other college students, I look forward to spending plenty of time with my family; chatting by the fireplace and sipping hot cocoa with marshmallows floating on top. Maybe there'd even be a peppermint candy cane hanging inside the steaming chocolate. Cuddling up in my favorite blanket and fuzzy slippers, admiring the eight foot tall Christmas tree standing right in front of my face, it's colorful lights shining in my eyes. I can faintly hear Carol of the Bells playing from the radio and I can see the light, fluffly snowflakes falling from the clouds and finding a place to settle down on the ground, accumulating ever so serenely. I can smell the scent of my mom's freshly baked gingerbread cookies coming out of the oven. I'm looking forward to the relaxation, peace, friends and family. I could care less about the bright and shiny packages tied up with ribbons and bows. Always at Christmas, it's about family and everything else that is important to me. Here I sit at my desk in my tiny dorm room counting down the days...

Answer 4

I'd like to have some friends and family around, but it will be just me and my ex-husband as usual (we live together). But I will be having some house guests right after Christmas, so it won't be quite as lonely that way.

Answer 5

Well I just want this Christmas to be with my mom. As long as my mommy is with me, my Christmas will be pretty good. I'd like to get her a few gifts though. I honestly think she doesn't have enough, and she deserves it she works so hard and is just such a good person.

However I would like to have Christmas with my other family in Hamburg, Germany I think it would be fun, my mother tells me we have a lot of family in our hometown so I would think it would be so fun.

~blondie~

Answer 6

that sounds like a PERFECT xmas, it sounds very nice. Like always i want my xmas to be fun, enjoyable and just BEAUTIFUL!

my fam. will be fun and loud telling funny stories, sum cousins of mine will start sum drama, and we'll make up

thats how it usually is on xmas, its always fun.

OH! AND AND AND on xmas eve we go to midnight mass, then i come home and im always super hyper


LOL

I hope you enjoy your Christmas, Happy Holidays ;-)

Answer 7

I want my family to be together. I want my daughter to appreciate the time and effort I put into her presents. I want my husband to be happy, and relaxed. My parents to be happy and healthy.

Answer 8

I would want it to happy and joy-full and i want 2 open lots of presents that i didnt see

Answer 9

with my family eating yummy food, being merry, giving gifts, listening to Christmas tunes, and the atmoshpere is full of luv & joy :)

Answer 10

with the whole family but theyre all in scotland so here in australia we will be with our great friends here. its hot here but if i was in scotland for xmas it would be warm inside with cold steamed up windows , hot steamy kitchen

all my family turning up one by one giving me preeies etc yeh its so warm and cosey