Listening to Christmas Music

I love Christmas! All year long I look forward to when I can finally turn on Bing Crosby and spend all day making sugar cookies. I don't know what first sparked my intense love for this holiday. Maybe it's the fact that all the "crafty" ( crafty in the Hobby Lobby sense not the negative connotation) ideas I get all year long suddenly seem completely called for. There are cookies to bake for the next door neighbors, holiday cards to make, not to mention those hand made Christmas gifts that I'm sure no one can live without. Oh and a house, or in our case two houses and a car to decorate. This week my list includes making hot cocoa mix, two brand new quilted stockings, a knitted scarf, and cookies for a party at the elementary school.