Mel Giedroyc Quotes

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

I love Christmas. Christmas is family time.

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.

Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.

As a child, I saw my mother prepare for Christmas every year, and it never occurred to me that labor was involved. I thought it was my mother's joy and privilege to hang tinsel on the tree strand by strand, to make sure that every room in the house had a touch of Christmas, down to the Santa-themed rug and hand towels in the bathroom.

There's nothing like Christmas in New York.

People have their special room for Christmas. One year my mum left her present on the arm of the sofa and it was still there the following Christmas!

You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.

I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.

I love Christmas. I never used to. I didn't hate it, but I could take it or leave it. But, as I got to the age of 25 or 26, Christmas became quite a big deal, and I love it now. I love the food, and I love sharing time with people.

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.