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It's an erie kind of quiet, the sound of snow falling. You can sleep right through a heavy snowfall unlike a heavy rain. It's magical and unsettling at the same time. Each year we wait, wondering if we will have a white Christmas. After all snow and Christmas go together, right? Only if you've grown up watching TV or going to the movies where it always snows at Christmas. But what about those folks who don't get snow at Christmas? Having spent a Christmas in warmer climate a few years ago I realized just how much snow was tied into my Christmas experience. It just didn't feel like Christmas without cold and snow.

First, Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, but it's a lot more too. It's warm sugar cookies, spice tea, bells, brightly colored lights on trees both inside and out, fudge, cream candy, warm hugs, cards/letters from family/friends, fuzzy slippers and the list goes on. Then there is that unmistakable feeling when you awake on Christmas morning and hear nothing moving outside the window. You smile, knowing that the earth outside your window is blanketed in white. Oh how I love a white Christmas. Merry Christmas from my house to yours.