I'd take her to the swings and she'd think it was brilliant, like Christmas.
"It's kind of like Christmas, " says Bethany Dinger, a 39-year-old day-care owner from Bel Air, Md.
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The spring selling season is like Christmas for home-improvement retailers, and this year, Christmas is coming early.
Mr Monks, of the European TUC, said the limit could be varied at busy times like Christmas and harvests.
Only rarely does it observe holidays like Christmas, and sometimes not even that.
Most victims are nabbed while visiting family, often around holidays like Christmas.
This becomes especially true around traditional Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter.
Little comets of white lights arcing over the city's narrow streets made Vienna feel more like Christmas than any sleigh-and-reindeer-infested lawn ever could.
When night falls, thousands of fireflies light up these river reeds like Christmas trees, making this a truly fairytale end to a very special journey.
Most people exchange gifts at year-end holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah.
Like Christmas cake, mooncakes are rarely consumed out of season.
"When I got that news, it was like Christmas times 1, 000, because anyone who knows what it's like to wait for that kind of news realizes the trauma, " she said.
But after stripping out seasonal factors like Christmas hiring, employment actually rose by 116, 000, a tad above the 113, 000 new jobs in November and way above the 78, 000 registered in October.
So when Mary did e-mail, it felt like Christmas.
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For Democrats, who are used to getting Hispanic votes without having to earn them and want to keep it that way by pointing out how bad Republicans are, it was like Christmas in springtime.
But if iPod's sales ultimately disappoint, it's because Apple's industry-leading marketing expertise makes every product launch like Christmas morning, but the presents under the tree never quite measure up to the ones in your imagination.
The researchers suggested those months were the quietest because they did not include major holidays like Christmas and Easter, and were outside the summer months when increased numbers of people tend to socialise in cities and town centres.
"Human organisms are not things you hang ornaments on like a Christmas tree, " says Thomas Murray, Hastings' director.
Some enchanted evening, in 1950, Freddie wanders past a wharf, where a fancy yacht is moored, lit like a Christmas tree.
Indeed, images of the dry, parched, arid, almost certainly lifeless surface of another planet lit up Twitter like a Christmas tree.
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"I felt like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy, " he said.
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But the document belongs to a long tradition of those who have felt compelled, like Father Christmas, to categorise those whom they consider to be "naughty" rather than "nice".
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