#nss2018

(4/4) @newsiessecretsanta 2018 - for @unofficialfansie Ugly Sweater + Playlist - Davey Jacobs

“Rise” - Skillet

“Holiday” - NateWantsToBattle cover

“Untraveled Road” - Thousand Foot Krutch

“Make Them Hear You” - Nine cover

“Do You Hear the People Sing?” - Les Misérables

(2/4) @newsiessecretsanta​ 2018 - for @unofficialfansie​ Ugly Sweater + Playlist - Katherine Plumber/Pulitzer

“Cinderella” - The Cheetah Girls

“We Are the Brave” - VERIDIA

“Fire N Gold” - Bea Miller

“Take on the World” - theme from Girl Meets World

“Fight Song” - Rachel Platten

(3/4) @newsiessecretsanta​ 2018 - for @unofficialfansie​ Ugly Sweater + Playlist - Jack Kelly

“Kids in the Dark” - NateWantsToBattle cover

“Some Nights” - fun.

“Take Me Away” - Scott Alan, Ramin Karimloo, Hadley Fraser

“Wake Me Up” - Avicii

“I Lived” - OneRepublic

(1/4) @newsiessecretsanta 2018 - for @unofficialfansie Ugly Sweater + Playlist - Crutchie Morris

“Pinch Me” - Barenaked Ladies

“Unbreakable” - Fireflight

“Live Long Enough to Become the Hero” - NateWantsToBattle

“God Help the Outcasts” - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Trouble” - Avicii

Hello again! Sorry for the delayed response! ❤️

Ooooh does “everything” count for my favorite part of Christmas? The importance, the cookies, the decorations, the music, the movies, the eggnog, the snow, trying to find the perfect gift for everyone. Everything.

(The true meaning of Christmas is getting a Buzzsaw Louie. (Have you watched VeggieTales? If not, then ignore this.)) Awesome! We sometimes go to a Christmas Eve service at church, but there were a few years we couldn’t.

As for traditions, I have a few favorites. Until my brother got married and moved out of the house, my parents always gave us Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve, and then we’d come downstairs in them in the morning to open presents after our grandparents got to our house. (He and his wife actually stayed overnight in the first year of their marriage, so we still all got pajamas, but now they have their own Christmas morning exchange at their house before they come here.) Then after everyone opens their presents from Santa and our parents, we have ham for lunch, and then we give presents to our parents and grandparents.

Another tradition I love is baking a crap-ton of cookies with my mom, and one of the cookie traditions is that we use the sugar cookie and icing recipe from the Holly Hobby cookbook she’s had since she was little. There’s also the tradition of watching all the Rankin and Bass specials, the animated Grinch, and A Charlie Brown Christmas at least once every year. Also, of course decorating the tree–we have an artificial tree, so every year I help my dad assemble it and help my mom decorate it.

(Also I kinda self-plagiarized those two paragraphs….)

One of my favorite things is setting up a little Precious Moments nativity set that I’ve been in charge of ever since I was old enough to handle the figurines, but my parents and I moved my grandparents in with us around Thanksgiving this year, so with the changes to the house we had to limit our decorations and they decided not to put that out this year. :’(

Hello, Santa! ❤️

No worries! That’s on me for joining that many lol.

What’s your favorite part of Christmas? And do you have any traditions? 🙂

Hello, Santa! ❤️

I have to double check though because I’m participating in three tumblr Secret Santas this year! 😬 Are you my CS Santa, KR Santa, or Newsies Santa? 😃

(I’m going to guess Newsies because I’ve heard from my other Santas before, so if you are, I’m going to tag your messages as nss2018 as well as my blanket tags anon, anonymous, and Kayla answers, so you can find them more easily. 🙂)

Either way I’m soooo excited, and I wish you a very merry Christmas too! (Or happy Hanukkah, or happy holidays, or happy December, etc, depending on which you celebrate!) Are you ready for the holidays?