December 12, 2018
78 Things to be Grateful for this Holiday Season
- Uninterrupted family time
- turkey and stuffing
- snuggling with your family dog
- being your family dog’s favourite
- that we’re not in an ice storm
- Ugly Christmas ornaments that you made when you were 6
- sufganiyah
- people smiling at one another in the streets
- enjoying the snow
- good health
- that all three of your pets have their own stockings
- Christmas lights and decorations that make the streets glow
- The smell of pine that welcomes you home
- Sleeping from boxing day until new year’s eve
- Your mom’s famous shortbread cookies
- being gifted a book you never need you needed
- That no one got hurt during the annual boxing day football game
- Michael buble’s Christmas album
- Handwritten cards
- to be loved
- Your favourite sushi restaurant being open on Christmas day
- Hoarding all of the gelt from your siblings and then having a chocolate feast
- Going to the movies on Christmas day
- Drinking hot chocolate all day, every day
- Time out of the office
- Getting a cute photo with your significant other at the Distillery District Christmas market
- Egg nog
- winning the family snow ball fight because you're the best fort builder ever
- Showing off your dish-washing skills
- Spoiling your nieces and nephews
- Long walks in the snowy outdoors
- Chatting with your grandpa about his childhood and learning about your family history
- Playing poker with your cousins
- The movie Love Actually
- The movie Elf
- The most obvious Christmas movie... Die Hard
- Gift swapping with the silliest things you can find
- Singing Christmas carols
- Taking a moment for yourself with a long bubble bath
- chocolate covered almonds
- Sending sweet texts to your loved ones
- Going to the mall on December 23rd with your best friend and getting all of your shopping done in an afternoon
- Spending the day at the local community centre and making a big dinner for people who wouldn’t get one otherwise
- Looking through old family photos and watching home videos
- Showing your loved ones that you appreciate them
- seeing the snow on the trees
- Beating your uncle at chess… again
- Wrapping your presents so beautifully that people don’t want to open them
- Wrapping your presents in news paper in under 10 seconds
- Hearing that 3 of your friends got engaged
- Picking out the perfect Christmas tree
- Not completely ruining your Christmas tree while driving it home
- Baking Christmas cookies with your kids
- making snow angels
- when the snow is just the right amount of fluffy to be packed into a snowball, snowman, snow-fort or other type of snow-architecture
- matching themed pyjamas
- your parents
- all of your loved ones
- Reading A Christmas Carol before bed
- Dreaming about the new year
- Reflecting on everything you learned this past year
- Getting out of the city
- The start of the ski season
- Brisk winter night air and a vast, open sky filled with the brightest stars you'll see all year
- when the snow comes down in that soft, romantic, drifty way
- Scrambling to organize new year’s eve plans
- Getting all dressed up for holiday events
- outdoor skating rinks
- helping your kids build their first snowman
- moments of uncontrollable laughter
- Grandma kisses on your cheek
- when the sun peaks out on snowy days
- tobogganing so fast you can't even scream
- planes, trains and automobiles to get to you your loved ones
- starting new traditions
- dimmer switches
- fresh cut flowers
- all of the candles