So, dash through our slideshow of dreamy destination options and find yourself a merry little Christmas.
Leo, our Dutch friend, went out to the woods to cut down little Christmas trees for the wards.
The song that touches my heart the most is "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" and try to put something on there.
It was a wonderful and strange little Christmas party, with us speaking no Dutch and the nuns speaking no English, except for the tiny bit Mother Superior knew.
For those who want a little more Christmas in their vacation, the wintry, candlelit markets of Scandinavia and Western Europe are appealing if somewhat expensive given the strength of the Euro and other currencies against the U.S. dollar.
"Everyone goes to bed excited like little kids before Christmas, " says John Caid, the tribe's director of wildlife.
They miss birthdays and Christmas, Little League games, graduations, school plays, first teeth, first steps, first words.
This Christmas, her little ornament will replace the angel at the top of our tree.
All I want for Christmas is a little rationality.
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It is likely the current hostages will be given little if any recognition of Christmas Day as many of their pirate captors are Somalian -- a predominantly Muslim country where Christmas is not celebrated the way it is in countries with a stronger Christian presence.
As she told my sons about Christmas when she was a little girl, her eyes lit up when she talked of the joy of finding an orange in her Christmas stocking.
Pachter points out that this Christmas EA will have little competition for its popular Madden NFLgame.
Target, Kmart, Toy R Us, Best Buy and many other prominent outlets sought to take advantage of the Christmas shopping season a little earlier than usual.
Let the neighbors rig up their 40-foot, live-candle Christmas tree or present little pots of caviar so precious that each egg is like the last stand of an endangered species.
Looking to Christmas, Kevin bought little presents for Chinese patients on the ward and had his mate, Sherry, bring him a Santa Claus outfit from the U.S. for the festive day.
Neither Congress nor the Senate are likely to do any real business now until after Christmas, meaning there is little chance of getting anything more than a very short-term stop-gap into the statute books by 1 January.
There were so many stores decorated with tinsel and streamers and balloons, selling little artificial fir trees, displaying gross Christmas cards hawkers had even set up on the sidewalks peddling these nauseous things (usually with pictures of a snowy scene in Vermont and some saccharin verse inside about ol' Jack Frost).
If online buzz is any indication, there will be little to celebrate at the box office this Christmas.
It always brings me back to those happy days as a little boy soprano, getting so excited about Christmas.
Even so, Canadians have little idea who might be governing them after Christmas.
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And somehow despite everything that's going on in your lives, military families still find the time to serve others -- coaching Little League, running the PTA, making Christmas special for kids with Toys for Tots, volunteering at churches and hospitals, mentoring young people, being role models in your own right.
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"You have to make a definitive statement by Christmas at the latest, probably a little sooner, " said one top adviser.
Suppose you got a little kid, suppose you're worried about your Christmas bonus, suppose you've got to save your job.
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The program opens with his version of "The Little Drummer Boy, " performed on A Jazz Piano Christmas XIII in 2002.
And so it is that if you are a good little Dutch girl or boy, you can expect two Christmas visits from a kindly, old man.
It it doesn't, there's equally little doubt that the cost of the turkey he bought for Christmas 2012 will be thrown at him for years to come.
"The reason I dared to suggest to pupils that he would be on my Christmas dinner list was that he suddenly became a little aggressive towards my black shoes, " he said.
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