my best christmas essay

members to spend more time together. Which is why some of our family traditions that we spend together would be Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New year’s.             On Thanksgiving Day, our family friends would always invite us to their house. Since we we’re always invited my mom and I would start days before preparing the ham. We would slow cook the ham and prepare it. My mom and I would also make sweet potato with marshmallows on the top (not sure what’s It called). Then later at night we would

Operation Christmas Child has been a part of more than half of my life. I started volunteering when I was eight at a family friend’s church. However, the only reason I volunteered was because I needed community service hours for school. I always secretly wished to be put in the packing group since it had the least leadership role because I never wanted to be a leader. What I did not know at that time, was those years before high school were preparing me for what God had in store for me. When I

Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory Truman Capote’s story A Christmas Memory, is about Capote’s childhood memory of a particular holiday season and how he enjoyed that moment in time with a special friend. Capote is illustrated by the main character, Buddy. Buddy and his distant cousin have a bonding friendship and tell of their exploits during that Christmas. They pick out a very special Christmas tree, make each other presents, and make fruitcakes. Capote was born in New Orleans

Now that I’m older and more mature, I believe that I now understand the meaning of Christmas better but I am not as excited for the holiday than I was as a child. Last Christmas Eve, I was excited for my brothers and grandparents coming down from the city. I would have to wake up really early in the morning to clean the whole house, such as, sweeping the halls and cleaning the dinner tables. While I was cleaning, my mother started cooking and taking out the turkey out of the fridge, that has been

had one of the best Christmas of all times. I have never told my parents what I want for Christmas, they just give me something that I wanted but that I never thought about. (For example, they gave me the Beats headphones last year, and even though I did not ask for them I really wanted them.) My parents always surprise me with awesome gifts, but that Christmas, they completely exceeded my expectations. I should start explaining the Colombian way to celebrate Christmas. Christmas in Colombia is

The ghosts in A Christmas Carol are by turns comic, grotesque and allegorical. Professor John Mullan reflects on their essential role in developing the novel’s meaning and structure. There had been ghosts in literature before the Victorians, but the ghost story as a distinct and popular genre was the invention of the Victorians. Dickens was hugely influential in establishing the genre’s popularity – not only as a writer but also as an editor: his journals Household Words and All the Year Round specialised

The Nightmare Before Christmas originated in a poem written by Tim Burton in 1982 that was later published October 13, 1993 as a film with his original hopes of  making “The Nightmare Before Christmas” a short film turned out to be a smashing hit out of his many films. Tim Burton's films often show mysterious worlds filled with wonder and horror that bring us to see the world in new ways that we never knew. In this film just like many other of Burton’s films the character is searching to find a new

The Christmas pack up our stuff really quick and get on our way. I had just gotten my bags packed and so I took them out into the living room so my dad could take them out to the car. I walked back into my Christmas has always been my favorite holiday! I’ve never known why it is my favorite, but it just always has been. There's a lot of different family traditions when it comes to Christmas. Some can get pretty extreme, like covering your house with flashy lights from top to bottom. Anyway, my family

holiday break such as take a break from School!!! During the holidays I spent a lot of time with my family. The holidays are a great opportunity to get together and have fun. What I also did during the holidays was go shopping, play with my dog (jacob), and go on vacation to see my family members. Since the majority of people think that Christmas is about giving and receiving gifts there was a lot of Christmas shopping going around. I went to Riverchase Galleria and it was packed in there! There was a

Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas! Hey, so today is Christmas and it is the day that the Valkano became a thing. I am Katie, Katie Valk”ano” to be exact. It all started on December 24th 2014. Yes, I know, I said that it was christmas but hold on. Every year we have Christmas a day early so we can go to my grandpa’s house for Christmas morning. So it is Christmas for us. Anyway, every year I always somehow wake up at, at least 5:30 in the morning. But remember this is when I was little so I really didn’t