Starting with Halloween. I love it. When I was little Halloween was my favorite holiday and I used to say "happy halloween" to everyone all year long. Seriously. I've watched home movies of myself when I'm like 3 and whenever my dad would tell me to say "bye bye" I would say "happy halloween" instead....didn't matter if it was the middle June.
My addiction to Halloween extended to naming stuffed animals too. When I was in pre-school I won a coloring contest at Long's Drugs (yes, I was an artsy child), my prize was a stuffed animal, it was a dog and I named him "Spooky" in honor of my favorite holiday.
Soon after Halloween is my birthday, November 17th, and I know this sounds really weird, but for some reason I love the way November 17th looks when it's written. I just think the month of November has the prettiest name....but I might be biased because it is my birthday month. I also share that birthday with Rachel McAdams who I think is absolutely adorable, so that's definitely a plus!
...and finally my last two favorite holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving for obvious reasons, including food and family, and Christmas because I love our special family traditions that we do on Christmas eve. I know a lot of people probably do this first tradition, but I'm going to tell you anyways....every year both of my sisters and I get a personalized ornament. We each have our own box of ornaments starting from the year we were born. I love opening the box every year and putting them up on the tree because certain ornaments bring back special memories of each Christmas. I also love the fact that our Christmas tree is a complete mish-mash of different ornaments, the only problem is that with every year we've had to get a bigger tree because of the increase in ornaments....I think we're going on 10'. The other special tradition that we do is have the elves come on Christmas eve. Yes, you read that right, elves come to our house every Christmas. My mom started this tradition when we were very little, what happens is on Christmas eve my parents would tell us that Santa's elves came and left gifts on our beds. All three of us would run upstairs to find 3 gifts that were wrapped exactly the same. Each gift had a personalized ornament attached to it for each of us, and each present had a new set a pajamas in it, usually all three of us would get matching matching pajamas. After we open the presents we always change into our new pajamas and put our new ornaments on the tree. The best part of this tradition is that we still do it!, and yes I am 22 years old. What can I say? I like to relive my childhood.
Can I also just say that every single year I like to start October off right by watching Hocus Pocus? Is that weird, because I don't think I will ever let this personal tradition stop...
Just because it's September 1st and October is only 30 days away, here are some pictures of Halloween decor in San Francisco...I believe my roommate took these for my project freshman year in college, yes my project.
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