With Memorial Day coming Monday, I thought I’d take a lighter approach to my Top 5 this week. Here are my Top 5 Favorite Holidays:
5. Labor Day — To me, it’s the official start to fall. Football is here, but it’s still warm enough to enjoy a last bit of summer with a 3-day weekend.
4. Memorial Day — It’s a very special day for many people. A chance to remember loved ones and honor them with flowers at the cemetery. Also a chance to spend time with family and/or friends - maybe a cookout or boating. It’s also kind of the official start to summer.
3. Thanksgiving — Turkey for me, Turkey for you, everybody loves Turkey! Gotta love spending time with family and enjoying lots of food and football. It also has become the start to Christmas shopping season with the dreaded “Black Friday” the day after. But I’ll enjoy my full belly before any shopping!
2. Independence Day — This was a close 2nd. I love spending the day with lots of family and some friends blowing stuff up, swimming and more food than should be consumed in a day. Constant snacking and fireworks. I’ll get to enjoy it without any work this year for the first time in years. Too bad, you can’t shoot or buy fireworks in Iowa :(
1. Christmas — I mean, c’mon, how can this not be #1? Santa, presents, snow, family, holiday cheer and the Christmas songs!!! I’ve always loved Christmas as a kid and now as an adult. Yeah, I’ll be honest, it’s nice to receive presents, but it’s more fun watching others open gifts from you, especially nieces and nephews or parents. It’s a lot of family time around Christmas but I enjoy it. Plus I’m a sucker for the songs and houses decorated with lights. The movies like Rudolph, Frosty and Christmas Vacation are classics. I just love it all :)
5. Labor Day — To me, it’s the official start to fall. Football is here, but it’s still warm enough to enjoy a last bit of summer with a 3-day weekend.
4. Memorial Day — It’s a very special day for many people. A chance to remember loved ones and honor them with flowers at the cemetery. Also a chance to spend time with family and/or friends - maybe a cookout or boating. It’s also kind of the official start to summer.
3. Thanksgiving — Turkey for me, Turkey for you, everybody loves Turkey! Gotta love spending time with family and enjoying lots of food and football. It also has become the start to Christmas shopping season with the dreaded “Black Friday” the day after. But I’ll enjoy my full belly before any shopping!
2. Independence Day — This was a close 2nd. I love spending the day with lots of family and some friends blowing stuff up, swimming and more food than should be consumed in a day. Constant snacking and fireworks. I’ll get to enjoy it without any work this year for the first time in years. Too bad, you can’t shoot or buy fireworks in Iowa :(
1. Christmas — I mean, c’mon, how can this not be #1? Santa, presents, snow, family, holiday cheer and the Christmas songs!!! I’ve always loved Christmas as a kid and now as an adult. Yeah, I’ll be honest, it’s nice to receive presents, but it’s more fun watching others open gifts from you, especially nieces and nephews or parents. It’s a lot of family time around Christmas but I enjoy it. Plus I’m a sucker for the songs and houses decorated with lights. The movies like Rudolph, Frosty and Christmas Vacation are classics. I just love it all :)
1 comment:
The worst thing about this list is the memories it invokes, especially you putting the 4th next to xmas. A 4 year old Jimmy, singing xmas songs...in July, in the car...and our parents telling me I just had to be quiet and take it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Maybe THIS is why I'm a bah humbug! :)
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