Winter and I have a love-hate relationship in this neck of the woods (where temps routinely plunge to the -30s, not counting wind chill). Still, I have my reasons for loving the season, just as much as I hate the bone-chilling freezes and the constant snow-mud tracked into the house, and the fact that with my night job, I never see daylight. Here’s some of them.

Thirteen Reasons I Love Winter

1. Freshly fallen snow, and a crisp, moonlit sky, where the trees sparkle with glittery frost and your breath freezes in the air with every exhale, where chimneys puff up smoke and the night is still and quiet and peaceful.
2. Scarves and hats and mittens - oh my! I /like/ bundling up. It’s cozy and warm and the materials are oh so toasty and soft!
3. Hot Cocoa. I don’t drink hot cocoa in the summer, or in any of the warmer days of spring or fall. So it’s really quite a winter treat. I do it the gourmet cheater’s way - I buy gourmet hot cocoa mix, and instead of adding water like the directions say, I use milk, Rich and creamy. Yum. My favorite is Stephenson’s brand.
4. Snow in general! I love to look at it, love to watch it, love to /eat/ it. I don’t even put any syrups on it - I just scoop up a bowl. of fresh snow into a bowl and eat it like ice cream.
5. Super fuzzy socks. I love love love them. You know, the big thick ones in the really soft material? Love those.
6. Advent calendar countdowns to Christmastime! Have always loved those. I have a cute little Chimney with a Santa figurine. Each day, you pull a ‘brick’ out of the chimney, and he slowly slides down, and on the last day falls to the bottom to spread his joy!
7. Christmas trees. I love my tree so much that I tend to keep up throughout most of January, if not into February. *cough*
8. Cider! Apple cider! Like hot cocoa, I only drink this during the cold days.
9. All the pretty things the big stores have lining their aisles for Christmas shopping! I love how they pack the stores to the brim, and all sorts of new products and holiday sets and odd cute things to buy are scattered about. Some people hate Christmastime for its materialism. Hell, that’s just one more reason I /love/ it.
10. Santa Claus. Face it, I love Santa. I love his reindeer. Santa, to me, is still as real as he was when I was a child. He /is/ the spirit of Christmas in my eyes. When I was a kid, my uncle used to call every December, pretending to be Santa Claus. I never caught on until much later - after all, this uncle lived far away, and I rarely saw him. There was Toyland type music playing on in the background, and he’d do the whole Ho ho ho! thing real well, and talk about Mrs. Claus, and ask us kids what we wanted for Christmas, and whether we’d been good or bad.
11. Cookies! Who doesn’t love cookies? I love to bake them and eat them and give them away. I don’t put in such effort often, though I think I should… Nevertheless, my favorite thing to do with them is put them out with milk for Santa. :)
12. The scents - Christmas scents. Candy cane peppermint, and fresh evergreen (not that I get much of that with my fakie tree), and gingerbread, cinnamon and apple cider, nutmeg and chocolate. Mmmmm.
13. Huddling up by the fire. Actually, I’ve never done this, but someday… someday I will have a fireplace to snuggle up in a cozy blanket by. I swear.

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9 Comments »

1. I love everything on your list, but #1,3,8,and 11 would top mine. My complaint is that here in NC, we don’t get enough winter weather lol. My TT is up also.

   Merry Christmas!

   Comment by ancsweetnsassygal — December 6, 2006 @ 8:41 pm

2. I love the winter looks…snow, frost covered trees…if only I liked to be cold. I.DO.NOT. ;-)

   Happy TT!

   Comment by Tug — December 6, 2006 @ 9:02 pm

3. I really enjoy hot tea, cinnamon toast and reading a book under the blankets. I’m not much for the cold so that’s about as good as it gets! lol

   Comment by Cheryl — December 6, 2006 @ 10:54 pm

4. Brrrr, snow is cold!

   Comment by Skittles — December 6, 2006 @ 11:54 pm

5. I like LOOKING at winter, but I don’t like being in it. Brrrr. Fortunately, winter hasn’t arrived here yet. I’m crossing my fingers that it takes its time.

   Comment by Darla — December 7, 2006 @ 1:57 am

6. I love snow, but not if I still need to go and drive, then I want it all to be gone :)
   Happy TT!

   Comment by Nathalie — December 7, 2006 @ 4:22 am

7. I love your list! :)

   Happy TT.

   Comment by Sylvia Day — December 8, 2006 @ 12:31 am

8. I recently decided I like those warm fuzzy socks too. Unfortunately, my puppy love love loves them too. ;)

   Comment by N. Mallory — December 8, 2006 @ 1:59 pm

9. What a yummy list. Everything I love.

   My TT is up.

   Comment by Norma — December 9, 2006 @ 3:08 pm

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