Christmas Meme

Prin tagged me for this one. I like it. It's brought up all kinds of good memories for me.

When people say, "Christmas" you immediately think...

Already? Wow! Yay, Christmas goodies!

Favorite Christmas memory?

There are so many...I've been very lucky that way.

Here's my two biggies though. Not long before first Christmas that Bear and I were together, I was shopping with my mother and we saw that the jewelry store in the mall was closing out, so everything was on sale. No way in this world or any other could my mother pass by a jewelry sale and not go and look. So we went in for a look around.

I ended up falling in love with a sapphire and diamond ring.

And so I went back to Bear and told him that I'd found a ring I loved, and even better, it was 70% off since the store was closing. :D I'm so practical! And he got it for me. It's not the ring he was going to get me, but since I loved it, he got it. When we came back from picking it up he even went down on one knee and formally asked me to marry him. Maybe not a surprise proposal in the grand sense but him going down on one knee surprised me. He wouldn't let me wear the ring until he'd done that.

Memory 2: Same Christmas. When we (Bear, the Kid and I) walked into my parent's place on Christmas day, Mom and Dad had stockings waiting for us. Not just any stockings, but Mom had made Bear and the Kid stockings to match the rest of my family's. I got all teary eyed about it, since I knew that meant Mom and Dad considered Bear and his daughter part of the family now. I also knew that Mom had to have made them well before she was with me and I found my ring, so in Mom's mind, it was already a done deal. He was a keeper.

I had though that Bear didn't quite get what the stocking meant but he told me a few days ago that this is his favourite Christmas memory, too; being so accepted into my family-not just him, but his daughter, too.

I'm tearing up thinking about it now.

Favorite Christmas song/carol

Hard to pick just one, but I don't feel like it's Christmas until I hear Bing Crosby/David Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy".

To sing? Odd choices for a Pagan maybe, but "We Three Kings" and "Angels We Have Heard On High."

In my grade school, they rounded us up frequently to go and sit in the gym and sing Christmas songs. The lyrics were on overheads and projected up onto the wall, and we'd sit in the dark and sing. It was fun! With "We Three Kings", I learned early on the morbid verses that don't normally get sung and that for some reason always tickled my sense of humour.

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone cold tomb.

Refrain

Glorious now behold Him arise;
King and God and sacrifice;
Alleluia, Alleluia,
Sounds through the earth and skies.

Favorite Christmas movie

"A Christmas Story". You'll put your eye out, kid!

Favorite Christmas character

Tie between the Bumble in Rudolph and The Winter Warlock from "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town". With the Grinch's dog Max right up there.

Favorite Christmas ornament/object

Personal ornament? I have a little snowman that is very precious to me. I'll blog about him and where he came from soon (I need to get a picture of it.). In general? I love the stockings and the Christmas Crackers.

Plans for this Christmas

Don't really have any. *blushes* The kid is going to her biomom's house on the 22nd. Bear and I will watch our annual Christmas Eve horror movie (long story!) and we'll have a way scaled back dinner.

My parents will be coming after Christmas for a visit, though. I can't wait!

Is Christmas your favorite holiday?

If not, it's pretty closely tied with Hallowe'en!

Who do I tag?

Bear