#15: merry christmas world

this is full of christmas links

Dec 25, 2023

hello cutie presents! I hope you are all having a wonderful christmas day. whether you are with family or friends or alone, just know that I am sending you so much love. I know that the holidays can be incredibly isolating and hard, I myself have a hard time being with family during the holidays, but I hope you feel loved and appreciated. I know that I love and appreciate you all ♡

this is a cute little article that has a picture from christmas from different years from like the 1940s-2000. its so fun to see the changes in decorations and styles of christmas through the years.

movies: once again this week was jam packed with christmas movies. we watched home alone 2 and kevin mccallister is truly one of the greatest characters in cinematic history. he is iconic. I watched a smoky mountain christmas featuring dolly parton. it was honestly so silly but it was really charming. alyssa and I watched a barbie nutcracker and it is my favorite rendition of the nutcracker. I love it so much that I bought it on amazon last year so I could watch it every year. best $10 i’ve ever spent. we then watched the santa clause and because of this movie I thought for the longest time that santa claus was always spelt with an ‘e’ at the end and it really looks weird without one to me tbh. bjørn and I went and saw the holdovers, its a new movie that is truly a great christmas movie to add to the rotation. I unfortunately was a little sleepy during it so i missed 20 minutes… we watched a charlie brown christmas again. the kids CRACK. ME. UP. omg I watched a white christmas for the first time and I loved it SO MUCH. the costumes and dancing were mesmerizing and I loved this film. the sound stages were so beautiful and every aspect of the movie was perfection, well actually the plot was a little lacking butttttt the costumes and dancing and set well made up for it. and lastly I watched while you were sleeping, and it was cute!

in my stomach: lots of home cooked meals from my grandma. she is a great cook and we are all being stuffed to the brim right now.

I was having a hard time getting into the christmas spirit, a lot of it I think was contributing to the fact that I was in finals and stressed about school. and I know for sure another aspect was being stressed about going home for the holidays and having to balance visiting everyone and spending enough time with every part of the family. and lastly, everything happening in Palestine and Israel has been weighing greatly on my mind. its heartbreaking to think of all the children being displaced from their families and becoming orphans. in addition to all the children that are being innocently killed. its harrowing to think about jesus christ and his birthplace of bethlehem. this town is located in palestine and if jesus was born today he would be born under rubble. I can’t help but think of the time I walked through the streets of bethlehem and witnessed where Christ was born. it breaks my heart to imagine what it looks like now.

its weird being in america and being able to sleep in a bed at night and be with family and receive gifts from my family when people around the world are without necessities. I want to look into ways to serve more in 2024 and give back to those that need.