Christmas has always been my preferred holiday.
The entire family gathers for a friends and family Christmas celebration the weekend before Christmas.
The family gets together and spend from Christmas Eve eve until New Year’s Day, at our cottage in the mountains. The cottage sleeps twenty and is less than an hour from the ski slopes. The two of us have plenty of room for sledding and snowball fights, and there is a fireplace that has enough room for pretty much everyone to gather round and drink boiling chocolate after a long day in the snow. My brothers and I make cookies, and it becomes a festive week for pretty much everyone. The only thing that kept Christmas from being fun this year, was when the Heating, Ventilation & A/C plan went out. It was strenuous getting an Heating, Ventilation & A/C company to come to the cottage. Everyone was enjoying their holiday and didn’t want to travel multiple hours to a cottage that could be snowed in. If it hadn’t been for the fireplace, the two of us all would have frozen, but some of the dining rooms had ductless Heating, Ventilation & A/C systems, which made it better for the adults, however the bunk rooms didn’t. The youngsters threw their mattresses on the floor in the wonderful room and slept in front of the fireplace. The two of us didn’t let a little thing appreciate a broken oil furnace to keep us from enjoying Christmas. Two mornings after Christmas, the Heating, Ventilation & A/C company arrived and repaired the oil furnace. The two of us thanked him and sent him new home with cookies for the youngsters. Our own youngsters, refused to leave the wonderful room. They were having their own Christmas celebration; sleeping in front of the fireplace and telling ghost stories.