GET IN THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

• Listening to Christmas music
• Watching Xmas movies: Home Alone | Love Actually | The Grinch | Tom and Jerry - "Christmas Eve/ Night before X-mas | The Flintstones | A Charlie Brown Christmas | A Christmas Story | Jingle All The Way | Shop Around The Corner | You’ve Got Mail | The Holiday | Elf | Just Friends
• Baking Cookies (holiday cookie line-up)
• Baking with the family
• Hot chocolate with marshmallows on top
• Driving by a neighborhood with homes decorated with Christmas lights
• Going to listen to a Christmas choir singing hymns
• Putting up Christmas decorations
  • Putting up the tree, decorating
  • Decorating the house
  • Garland on the fireplace mantle
  • Garland on the staircase
  • Wreath on the front door
  • Stockings on the mantle
  • Christmas lights
• Mail Christmas cards
• Buy Christmas treat containers from Michaels and give cookies to friends
• Wrapping presents
• Snuggled under a blanket in front of the fireplace
• Fireplace and hot cocoa w/ marshmallow
• Crate & Barrel Peppermint Browne Mix
• Peppermint hot chocolate (in Irish coffee mugs)
• Hot Apple Cider with cinnamon
• Family Christmas photo card - Flannel pajamas
• CHRISTMAS TREE MUSTS
  • short and fat/puffy tree
  • Red, gold, silver
  • glitter ornaments (they sparkle when they move)
  • big glitter ornaments and small plain ones
  • linear hanging things
  • gold star tree topper
  • faceted glass ornaments
• DECOR
  • Christmas tree w/ red and gold
  • Presents under the tree
  • Wreath on front door
  • Staircase garland
  • Icicle lights on the window sill
  • Flameless candles
  • Poinsettia
  • Dancing Santa figurine
  • Christmas toy layouts (miniature winter wonderland town portrayed with bakery and ppl on the streets and train going around)
  • mini village scene
  • 1 Christmassy pillow - plaid throw
  • Gold Dining tablecloth and plaid runner
  • dinner table centerpiece
  • Kitchen towels
  • cute apron
  • Snowflake Candle votives
  • House smells like cinnamon
  • Gingerbread theme in kitchen
  • Plaid everywhere else
  • Pottery barn red velvet monogrammed stockings for fireplace
  • mistletoe
  • Dr. Seuss quote - "Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps, means a little bit more. -- The Grinch" Buy from Etsy
• Hot cider
• Presents
• Red everywhere
• Flickering candles (Flameless or real)
• Poinsettias
• House smelling like cinnamon (Yankee Candles Autumn Celebration scent)
• Christmas morning in robes and plaid flannel pajamas opening presents
• Snowing
• White Christmas party

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• Having a Christmas in a lodge with friends/family in Colorado (Giada)
  • Skiing/dog sledding/snowboarding
  • Baking
  • Cooking
  • Presents under the tree
  • Robes and hot chocolate in the morning

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Christmas Gift Basket (for friends + family)

• Cellophane cover at Michaels
• Baskets
• DRINK MIX
  • A quality Hot Chocolate Mix - put in in mason jars (with marshmellows on top)
  • Tin of Illy Coffee
  • Pack of flavored tea
  • Big Train Chai Mix
  • A Christmas Cup
• CHOCOLATES
  • Lindt Dark Chocolate Truffles
  • Lindt LINDOR Truffles 60% Extra Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Ferraro Rocher
  • homemade truffles
  • Aldi Butter Cookies coated with Dark Chocolate
  • Trader Joe's Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti
  • Chocolate Covered Almonds
  • Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans (Trader Joe's)
• FRUITS
  • Pears
  • Apples
  • Oranges
• BREADS
  • Aldi Whole Rye Bread
  • Aldi Marzipan Stollen
  • date nut spice bread
• SPREADS
  • Nutella
  • Bonne Maman Fruit Preserves (favorite)
• GOURMET ITEMS
  • Crate & Barrel Gourmet foods
  • Stonewall Kitchen products (Now sold in Kohls)
  • Aldi bakery items
  • World Market
  • Gingerbread cookies
  • Marzipan (log or santas)
• PERSONALIZED GIFTS
  • Block of Favorite Cheese
  • Wine Bottle
  • Favorite Candy (Orange Tootsie Rolls)
  • A cookbook for a specific item (like macaroons, or brunch, or sandwiches)
  • L'occitane Hand Cream
  • DVD