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We recently moved to San Antonio and I'm so looking forward to kicking off the holidays by attending the night time Christmas parade of lights on the Riverwalk the day after Thanksgiving. I'm also looking forward to decorating my new home.

I'm looking forward to refocusing. Slowing down and enjoying the time with family. Not worrying about the economy, not focusing on the expensive gift giving. Just making good meals and relaxing with loved ones.

I love hanging out with family.

I love that day of getting out the Christmas tree decorations and the kids are SO hyper and excited by every single one that comes out of the box - they just giggle and yell and want to help. It's crazy, and messy. . . and so awesome.

I have been giddy with excitement over this year's Christmas Season...you see, I have an 8th month old sweet baby girl and a new home. We moved back into the city and I can't wait to have people over, decorate my new home, enjoy Garner's first Christmas...
And, thanks to you, I will continue my Christmas Journal this year. You inspire! Thank you for what you do.

I'm most looking forward to decorating the tree, doing holiday baking, and spending time with family and friends.

Hi, Ali. So glad you're doing this again this year. I followed along and created a book last year...our whole family loves it.
I think I'm most looking forward to just slowing down and being in the moment. Taking in every thing I can and cherishing it even as it becomes a memory.

This year we get to stay home all day on Christmas! We only did this one other time and it was the best Christmas ever!

This year I want to try to be less rushed and more focussed on celebrating Jesus' birth. I also love the anticipation on Christmas Eve. :)

I love decorating for the holidays, that is my favorite time of year! I love it so much that I usually have multiple trees decorated in my home as well as garland all through out the house. Can't wait to start decorating!!

This holiday season is going to be totally different and overly sensitive because i just came to US last year for my education and this season will be my first holiday season without my family and friends.
Holiday means share, love, give thanks to my friends and my family and eat my mom's delicous foods. Also it means a cup of hot chocolate which i drink with my best friend and talk hours and hours..
Ohh.. God, i missed them.
So for this holiday season i will be here without my family and friend but i will learn and share lots of things from this new country's (for me:)) lovely people.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas. My favorite, is being able on November 1st to start listening to Christmas music because nothing gets me more in the spirit of Christmas than driving along and listening(and singing along) to The 12 Days of Christmas with John Denver & the Muppets. Then it's to start the decorating and taking out all of our favorite ornaments and putting them up. And than I start all the wonderful baking. I absolutely love to bake cookies, and I love this time of the year because then I can experiment and try out new recipes that I normally wouldn't. I love absolutely everything about this time of the year!!!

I'm looking forward to decorating, relaxing with my family, doing projects with my kids.

I am most looking forward to the joy that I see on my children's faces at Christmas!

There seems to be a real sense of a back-to-basics Christmas here. Even though most of our peers are doing *fine* in that we have jobs and homes and health, everyone is planning the gifts they will make instead of buy, the charities they'll offer time instead of a twenty dollar bill, and the ways they will be more present in the goings-on of the holiday. So, I look forward to all of that, and to my baby niece who arrives 12/5.

There is soooo much I love about the holidays - the colors, the decorating, the warmth of home, togetherness of family and friends, snuggle-cozy days, lights, music, baking, etc. I love it all. :)
Thanks for the chance at these giveaways!

I'm looking forward to Taking it slow.
I want to savor each moment.
I don't want to get caught up in a mad rushing of time.
I want to relax into this season.
Viki

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This Christmas I am looking forward to a holiday focused on family and friends and not so much on gifts. I would rather spend time with the people I love instead of running around like a crazy woman trying to buy gifts that they probably don't want/need.

What I love about the holidays is decorating. I love, love, love it.
But what I'm looking forward to the very most is spending time with my husband. He's been working out of town for most of the week for the last eight weeks. Since he is an electrician and working for a utility he gets two whole weeks off at Christmas. I can't wait to sit around drinking cider, curled up in a blanket, listening to him playing his new Mandolin. Sigh.

I am most looking forward to doing this book actually. I want to start recording our 'traditions' and how we make them.