100 Little Christmas Things to Make You Smile

Published by The Odyssey

1. Impromptu snowball fights
2. The fur of your parka tickling your face
3. Slightly melted marshmallows in hot cocoa
4. Slipping fuzzy socks on when your toes are cold
5. Proudly wearing an ugly sweater
6. Christmas light shows
7. Wrapping a gift with your favorite wrapping paper
8. The satisfying rip of wrapping paper when you open a gift
9. Christmas music playing like background music in a movie
10. Watching your friend open the gift you know they'll love
11. Singing Silent Night
12. Wearing mittens

13. Reading The Polar Express
14. Baking cookies
15. Decorating cookies with frosting and candies
16. Making snowballs without wearing gloves
17. Wearing earmuffs
18. Shortbread cookies
19. Singing The First Noel
20. When the Christmas lights are the only lights in the room
21. Really tacky ornaments
22. Falling off your sled into a pile of snow
23. Driving by a snowman made by kids
24. Watching A Charlie Brown Christmas
25. Fresh, untouched snow
26. When the snow looks like glitter
27. Snow angels
28. Singing Joy to the World
29. Stepping on an ice puddle so it crunches
30. ABC Family's Harry Potter marathon
31. Peppermint crumbles on cookies
32. Glass ball ornaments
33. Singing O Come, All Ye Faithful
34. Cinnamon sticks
35. Reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas
36. Sending Christmas cards
37. Singing O Holy Night
38. Flannel pajamas
39. Red velvet ribbons
40. Cheesy Christmas novels
41. Red and green M&M's
42. A child's handmade ornaments
43. Lighting candles on an advent wreath
44. Handmade stockings hanging from the mantel
45. Reindeer with jingle bells
46. Reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
47. Chocolate fudge
48. Lighting candles
49. Advent calendars
50. Horse-drawn carriages
51. Hanging ornaments
52. Singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas
53. Watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
54. Toy trains with metal tracks
55. Golden bells chiming
56. Silver tinsel garlands
57. Peanut butter blossoms
58. Reading Luke Chapter 2, Verses 1-20
59. Watching White Christmas
60. Pretzels with a Hershey's kiss and an M&M in the middle
61. Wreaths on door fronts
62. The smell of gingerbread
63. Singing Away in a Manger
64. Snow that lights up when it floats in front of a street light
65. Carolers wandering the streets
66. Evergreen garlands
67. Shaking a snow globe as hard as you can
68. Watching Home Alone
69. Snowflakes shining under a lamp post
70. Playing Christmas songs on the piano
71. Inflatable Christmas decorations
72. Rolling out cookie dough
73. Bows on everything
74. Singing The Twelve Days of Christmas all the way through
75. The shout-outs children add when singing Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
76. Ice skating
77. The sound of jingle bells
78. Singing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
79. Icicles
80. Driving around and looking at the Christmas lights
81. Snow on evergreens
82. Covering yourself in blankets
83. Sitting by a fireplace
84. Flannel pajamas
85. The anticipation of Christmas Eve
86. Drawing on frosted windows
87. Chocolate-covered pretzels
88. Shortbread cookies
89. Christmas Eve candle light services
90. Singing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
91. Tacky Santa wrapping paper
92. Silver jingle bells
93. Pine needles stuck to your coat
94. Pillsbury cookies with Christmas shapes in the middle
95. Writing "To" and "From" on a gift tag
96. Listening to Bing Crosby Christmas music
97. Frosted pinecones
98. Choosing your cookie cutters
99. Watching A Christmas Story
100 . Spending time with friends and family