1. Sitting at Christmas Eve Mass with a beautiful sleeping baby girl in your arms, your wonderful husband sitting on one side of you and your sweet little boy on the other.
2. Watching your children experience the magic of Christmas for the first time.
3. Dressing your kids in matching Christmas pajamas.
4. The Christmas Eve party at the Basile's house.
5. Putting a silly little bow in your daughter's hair for the first time and then laughing at how adorable and goofy she looks.
6. Cooking a big old-fashioned Christmas dinner for your family and having it come off without a hitch.
7. Then sitting back and watching the sight of your family laughing and joking and enjoying one another.
8. Watching children's Christmas specials, drinking hot chocolate and eating popcorn with your husband - after the kids have gone to bed. :)
9. Tacky Christmas socks.
10. My Mother-in-law's Christmas cookies and my Mom's apple pie.
11. Red and Green M&M's.
12. Spending Christmas Eve Day cooking and baking in the kitchen with your husband.
13. Listening to Matt sing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer."
14. Tacky Christmas hats and head bands.
15. Michelle's stuffed shells.
16. Sneaking downstairs on Christmas morning, turning on the lights on the tree and the electric train and then going upstairs to wake Matt up and tell him that Santa has been here.
17. Spending a ton of money on elaborate and expensive Christmas gifts for your son and then watching him play with a $12.00 wooden train for the next two days. ;-)
18. Using your kids as an excuse to listen to the 24 hour Christmas music stations and sing carols at the top of your lungs.
19. Realizing that your husband knows you - really knows you - because he was able to go out and buy clothes for you that are the right size and you actually love.
20. Sending and receiving picture Christmas cards.
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