- Advent (I love all kinds of getting ready for the big holiday, and the waiting is good when you're really looking forward to something)
- Advent calendars
- Christmas countdown shows
- The advent stars
- All the lights everywhere, both outside and inside
- Candles
- Christmas movies
- Clementines
- Christmas cookies
- Baking the cookies
- Buying presents for all my friends and family
- Wrapping presents in beautiful wrapping paper
- Creating Christmas decorations
- Christmas arts & crafts
- Christmas decorations
- Silver and gold/glitter
- Presents (both giving and receiving)
- Christmas trees
- "Sylte og lefse" (it's a traditional Norwegian Christmas dish)
- Other Christmas food
- Christmas parties at work with free food and booze
- Christmas parties with friends
- Waking up bright and early to open the Advent calendars
- Waking up bright and early to watch Christmas movies on Christmas Eve
- Being surrounded by family and friends
- Meeting old classmates and friends who's home for Christmas
- Traditions
- Watching the same movies every year
- Watching "Dinner for One" (short movie) with the entire family
- Cartoons
- Disney short films
- Lady and the Tramp on the Italian restaurant
- Old Norwegian and foreign movies I never would've watched if it weren't for the traditions
- Stars
- Snow (Christmas is the only time of year I actually like snow)
- Dressing up
- Dressing down (PJs or other comfy clothes)
- Slippers
- Watching movies in bed or on the couch with blankets
- Love and peace and all that
- Happy children
- Christmas work shops (getting together to make Christmas decorations, chatting, eating ginger bread and drinking "gløgg")
- The entire house decorated for Christmas with all kinds of decorations, ranging from home made by kids to more expensive decorations gathered through the years)
- Christmas music
- Christmas cards
- Children going carolling from house to house to get candy (much like trick or treat only a whole lot nicer!). They are often dressed as "nisser" or as children from several decades back <-- This usually happens between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve
- Watching our dog play with boxes and wrapping paper after we've opened our presents
- Decorate the house (doing the decoration)
- The smell of Christmas (the tree, the food and the cookies)
- Twist (chocolates)
- Candy in general
- Angels
- Hearts
- Laughter and joy
nov 30 2010 ∞
dec 1 2010 +