A warm side to the winter season
A warm side to the winter season
Last Monday was the first morning I had to warm up my car before leaving my house. It may seem a hassle to most people, but I ran out to my car with gloves and scraper in hand, ready to chisel away. Each morning the weather gets colder, I know winter is on its way. Fall is great with the changing colors and all, but winter is, by far, my favorite season. Winter brings some of the best activities, like sledding, drinking hot chocolate, building fires, and holiday celebrations.
Besides enjoying the plethora of fun and games snow offers, winter is also a time to enjoy the company of family and friends. The cold weather draws people together to bask in the warmth of each other's company. Nothing brings people together more than some delicious, homemade food. I am anxiously awaiting my grandmother's cherry cheesecake that she makes every year for Thanksgiving. Only seventeen more days! The arrival of winter means the holidays are drawing near.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are the happiest times of the year, because they force us to be grateful or at least acknowledge selflessness in others. I know I'm thankful for the delicious food my aunts and grandmother make for Thanksgiving. Every year, I wait up for my six siblings to come home on Christmas Eve. We enjoy spending quality time together, because we all live so far apart. We play Monopoly, eat turkey and Brussels sprout casserole, play music, and wait up untill Christmas morning.
My fondest childhood memories are from holidays and family gatherings. I remember every Christmas morning, waking up to my dad serenading me and my sisters with "Rise and Shine." One Christmas, my cousins and I rode around on our new motorcycles all day in the pouring snow. Thanksgivings with my mother's family are always filled with rollerblading, hide-and-go seek, laughter, and pumpkin pie.
I grow more excited with each day that I have to heat my car up a little more and scrape more ice off my windshield. I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of winter, my favorite season. Summer was fun while it lasted, but winter is when I feel most alive. With the snow and holiday celebrations that it brings, how could anyone not be ecstatic about winter?
Marielle McKean is the Columbia Basin Herald intern and a Moses Lake High School student.
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