Christmas is one of my favorite things. For though winter in itself is wonderful, with all its snowflakes and its ice-skating, the winter season gets something special from the Christmas spirit. It's a sort of Christmassy law: winter is not just winter in December. It's Christmas.
A snowflake at Christmas is not merely a snowflake; it's the first little crystals of joy confirming your dreams of a white Christmas, it's jingle bells ringing in a snow-filled landscape that exists only in your mind, it's skating on a frozen lake, it's snowball fights and hot cocoa by the fireplace and watching the snow fall glittering to the ground.
Christmas is just one long season of justifying things you don't normally get to do. The Christmas law creates excuses for many of life's trying times. Getting out of bed when your comforter is oh so warm, trying to eat healthy while eying Christmas cookie upon Christmas cookie, wanting nothing but to snuggle up in front of the fire, watching the snow fall all afternoon.
This is exactly why I like to cuddle up each Christmas with my favorite Christmas movie of all time: "The Holiday". I feel like there's practically a law saying that I can't watch "The Holiday" until the actual holiday season starts. A law called Jude.
I can watch this movie over and over again every Christmas. And I will watch it this December. A lot.
xo Caroline Mathilde
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