C h r i s t m a s 2 0 1 4
My mom keeping me hydrated and letting me sleep for hours in order to fight off the flu
Music that can only reveal its magic and meaning during this much anticipated season
Reading an unforgettable book (Left to Tell)
Sleepovers with my sisters
Staff parties
A woman offering a man a ride because he was walking in the painfully cold wind
Snow resting ever so l i g h t l y upon the dust of the desert
Hot chocolate
Watching the sun set on the ride back to California
Sharing my train snacks with a hungry friend
Conversations of reminiscing and conversations of pondering
Card games
Seeing joy spread across the faces of my nephew and niece as they opened their Christmas gifts
Searching for that perfect woolly sweater
Lights strung up and decorations glistening throughout homes and neighborhoods
Family - lots and lots of family
Discovering classic Christmas songs done by the PENTATONIX
Workers smiling and joking around at the Salvation Army thrift store
The Nutcracker
Baking cookies
Watching Sister Genevieve refuse to place the infant Jesus in our manger scene for Mass because she loved him so much she didn't want to let him go
