Things to love about December

You get more cards than bills in your mailbox.

It is legitimate to spend an entire afternoon mixing combinations of sugar, flour, eggs and butter into concoctions to spread among your friends and neighbors. Likewise it is acceptable to go to the store and purchase only these ingredients. Plus chocolate.

Chocolate holds its own as a food group this month.

The winter just doesn't seem so oppressive in December.

December = Christmas music. Need I say more?

People hold the doors, let you go in front, smile and extend a hand during December.

It's really dark but there are lots of lights.

Hello? We have a tree in our living room.

I don't know, everything just seems more fun at Christmastime...