12 Days of Christmas || Day 2 || 20 Little Christmas Lovelies

Because this year has been a continual lesson in learning to find the good among the bad, savor the moments while you have them, and remember what's truly important in life, I thought I would share 20 things that I've found a fuller appreciation for during Christmas 2020. 

• christmas lights everywhere on my drive home •

• peppermint everything •

• a lighted and decorated tree gracing the living room • 

(even if it took us nearly three days to get around to getting it finished)

• discovering new books <3 • 

• the fact that I had many more ideas for this post before I actually sat down to write it •

• the two light snows we've already had + a chance of snow later this week • 

(winter weather is my JIVE)

• christmas movie nights with special people • 

• speciality coffees + drinks •

• the need for coats and scarves and leggings and sweaters and boots and the like • 

(warm comfy clothes make me happy)

• christmas-y church services + hymns • 

• those people who go all out and even attach christmas decor to their vehicles • 

(saw an adorable decorated jeep last night and I'm kinda diggin' it)

• planning + picking out gifts for my people •

• christmas music on every. single. station. • 

(is it just me or does it seem like even the country stations started playing Christmas music earlier this year?)

• looping christmas lights through my bookshelf and giving my space a sweet glow •

• sales. sales. sales. • 

(this totally counts)

• Zach William's version of Go Tell It on the Mountain • 

• hugging people •

(do not yell at me. I miss the days when no one frowned at hugging people randomly and fully and without judgement)

• the fact that there's not actually twenty things on this list, but you wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't told you • 

• this blog party and all it means to me <3 • 

|| 12 Days of Christmas

11 Favourite Indie Christmas Books @ Little Blossoms for Jesus

12 Days of Christmas: Day 2 @ Soldier Girl Stories

12 Days of Christmas: Day 2 @ Read Review Rejoice

“As In Olden Days” by Jesseca Wheaton @ Old-Fashioned Book Love

Bing Crosby Christmas Songs @ Life of Heritage

Book Review: A Storybook for Advent Series @ Farm Life: Autumn's Adventures

Christmas Books @ Faith on the Farm

Christmas Movies @ RebekahAshleigh

Spell the Month in (Christmas!) Books // December 2020 @ Reviews from the Stacks

Wake Up @ Kaitlyn Krispense, Author

what's making the Christmas season special for you this year? <3

(please say a prayer for some friends of ours today—they got the worst kind of news.)