The Smell oF Christmas In December

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People throw the phrase, ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’ around a lot. I think the phrase, “It beginning to smell a lot like Christmas’ could do just as well. In fact I think it would be more universal. Have people ever really paid attention to how great Christmas Smells? All those wonderful cookies being baked, the gingerbread men, the peanut crunch and the hot chocolate. To me the smell of Christmas is more appealing than the look. The whole house smells edible.

I shared this thought with my brother and he says he too can smell Christmas. He can smell Christmas gifts and Christmas wrap. He predicts when mom is about to buy a new Christmas ornament or a very special Christmas gift basket. That isn’t really smelling Christmas, as much as it is smelling Christmas gifts but he’s lying. In all our attempts to find our Christmas holiday gifts, hidden by our mother, he has never really been successful at finding anything. Maybe it’s the tape brand we use. But all jokes aside, I do love the look of Christmas but I like the smell too. It could have a lot to do with my mom being a really great cook.

One of my other favorite Christmas smells is the scent of gourmet chocolate. We have a lot of gourmet chocolate around the house at Christmas time, but what I really like is the fruit covered in gourmet chocolate that my great grandma sends us. It’s like taking two of the greatest things on earth, i.e. fruit and chocolate, and making them into one. It beats all the Christmas holiday gifts that we get by a long shot.

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