JFF....What Is Your Favorite Holiday?

I love Halloween. I love getting dressed up, and all the scary decorations. I just love everything about it. minus the candy. I'm not to into that. But then again I love the month of October!!!!

Thanksgiving! We get to see a good majority of the family, eat all the delicious food (very similar to the Christmas spread in my families) but not have any of the stress of trying to find the perfect present or the drama that Christmas get-togethers seem ripe with.

As much as I feel like I'm suppose to say thanksgiving or Christmas, I gotta say my fave is Halloween!

I love seeing my family on Christmas and all the decorations and such,..but it's SO much work. I often feed 15 people at Christmas, so I'm busy from morning to night.

Halloween...LOVE the fall, love my cornstalks/mums/pumpkins out on the porch. LOVE scooping the pumpkins, roasting the seeds and making jack-o-lanterns with my girls. LOVE home-making their costumes and walking with our friends from door to door. I feel like a little kid again when my girls make piles of each candy and count it all....maybe do some swapping. I lay on the living room floor with them and breathe all the chocolate scents in!

Happy Halloween everyone!!!

My favorite holiday is whatever is next. I love any excuse to celebrate. As soon as one holiday is over I start looking forward to the next one.
But Christmas is the grand daddy of them all. I love the twinkling lights. I love that it's a whole season, not just one day. I love the reverant aspect, as well as the fun aspect. I love shopping, wrapping, planning, and watching people open gifts. I love Christmas plays at school and church. I love Christmas music.
I HEART CHRISTMAS!

I like Thanksgiving. You don't have all the stress of buying gifts like Christmas. The family all gets together and eats great food that you normally don't have and its a good time for everyone. =)

Christmas...IF we have money for presents. That hasn't been the case since I stopped working since our son was born. I LOVE SHOPPING FOR OTHER PEOPLE!

Just baked cut-out cookies for our "surprise" Christmas we're having Sunday for one of my friends visiting from Phoenix. She's coming back to spread her husband's ashes here.

I'm trying to lure her back to the midwest. :)

Halloween!
I love the season, it's almost a no stress holiday, and you can get creative.
I love using the left over candy to bake, I love fall, The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, old tv show reruns like the Munsters usually come on, and it takes me right back to being a kid. I get to play dress up.
I like the other holidays, but there is just something about Halloween thats easy, low stress, and fun.

Halloween. I love the crafts, the whole dress up ideas, planning what you're going to do, the colors of orange and purple, black and yellow...I just love Halloween.

Halloween is my favorite with Thanksgiving a close second.

I love decorating for Halloween and the kid in me loves to dress up along with my kids.

Christmas is my least favorite. I can't stand all the crappy moods everyone seems to be in. Seems like everyone has forgot the true meaning and is acting the oppisite of how they should be.

My daughter's birthday :) I'm a total BAH-HUMBUG when it comes to Thanksgiving (I'm weird, I know!).

Mine is the 4th of July.

I come from a very military-based holiday, so we are all fairly patriotic...

Also, on the 4th every year my dad hosts a HUGE barbecue at his ranch. Everyone shows up from his side of the family, along with quite a few of my mom's side (even though they are divorced... and no, my mom doesn't come. lol) It's in a very small town, so there are usually a few locals there too. We have the big potluck barbecue, while shooting off 'daytime' (parachute, tanks, trains, etc.) kid's fireworks. My dad also has a black-powder cannon that he shoots logs out of, which is a big hit. We have horses, a creek, barns for exploring, etc. so there is LOTS to do. Then when night falls, he puts on a huge fireworks show that puts the city's show to shame. Several years, we have actually had people leave the city show to come watch ours instead. lol.

In my family, the traditional 'family' holidays are usually pretty drama-filled and annoying... so the 4th is a great time with the family, without the drama of presents, or 'they went to HER house instead of MINE' drama. :)

Christmas, it is so magical! Then halloween, i loved to be spooked!

I love Thanksgiving. I love having all of the family together, enjoying dinner, playing games, getting ready for Christmas shopping. Christmas is a close second!

I love Thanksgiving because we all go around the table and the room and tell eachother what we are thankful for. Its a whole day focused on God and our gratitude for all of the many blessings we have in our life. Its also my favorite because I LOVE green bean casserole. :)

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EASTER-Always has been my favorite

Christmas hands down. I love decorating with my family and listening to music and just enjoying each other company.

I can't choose between Thanksgiving and Christmas for I love them both!

I love Thanksgiving and Christmas so much, I really do like to roll them up into one big month long holiday. I love stopping and giving thanks, both privately and with family/friends for what God has done in our lives and for His love, provision, and faithfulness, for the people in our lives, for our blessings, for life in general. I love cooking a wonderful meal (though it's not the same meal every year necessarily, just something special and delicious), I love having friends over for a visit. Not sure what our new tradition is going to be......in TX we'd go to the Botanical Gardens and take a nice long stroll and play, enjoy the day, then come home for the football game and finish up dinner while that was on, then dinner afterwards. Hanging out and having a leisurely day. Bringing down the Christmas "stuff" and getting it ready for the next day. Making a family decision on which charity or missionary we'll be supporting this Christmas season and writing them a letter and brainstorming ideas for their care package. Then an early night in bed so I can get a little sleep in before going out to the Black Friday shopping. Last year I only "wanted" 2 things (Xbox 360 for husband, and a DVD player for my mom since hers had gone out and she'd cancelled cable for $ reasons). I slept early, got up at 3:20 and was sitting at the store chatting to others at 4am. That was pretty enjoyable, socializing with those around me. I got what I wanted quickly and then roamed around and watched others. It was just kinda fun/funny. Then the family eats a special breakfast my husband makes to "open" the Christmas season, and I take a nap while he and my older son put the tree together and start hanging outside lights. We decorate the tree and inside as a family with movies, treats, warm spiced drinks, music. That evening we used to go to the big Christmas parade downtown (now, not sure what we'll do, but we'll do something). And then it's the weekend to hang out and do whatever we want, but it includes checking out the community, church, club, family, and social events, plotting what we'll be doing for fun as well as charity, and putting it on the calendar with plenty to look forward to. How can we not love both holidays?

Christmas.
I love the tree, the traditions, watching the kids wake up to "surprise"
gifts under the tree, the magical part of it, getting things for my family as
gifts that they need.
I love, love, love seeing the lights on the houses.
Family fun.
Breakfast at my sisters complete w/a mimosa toast for the year. Fun!
I like the smell of real trees (even though we have a fake one), pulling out
all the different ornaments I've collected over the years.
My girlfriend & I have our own tradition of dressing up & going out for a
chocolate martini complete w/candy cane hanging from the rim w/appetizers. Yummy AND fun.
Gingerbread houses
Watching those old cartoon shows, like Rudolph, from when I was a kid.