Red and green.
Green and red.
The colors that say “The end is ahead!”
Break is a-coming with jingles and tunes.
Just after these finals you’ll feel brand new.
A new winter sweater, a new winter love.
And with winter comes that joy from above.
The scarfs, and hot chocolate, the fire ablaze, each of these to warm your everyday.
Freedom from finals, conclusion with grades, the refreshing thought of a month of free days.
The elves wrap the presents, the grandmothers bake, the smell of waffles bring you awake.
It all seems a dream so strange and anew.
What happened to college? The dorm smell of mildew?
No time to dabble, no time to delay, with Christmas break comes a new bliss each day.
Coffee on Monday, lunch for today, tomorrow a date just to say “Hey!”
The outings with friends, the “innings” with family, winter break is sweeter than candy.
Yet some are alone, are shivering and cold.
No money for shelter, no parents at home,
Feeling so lonely feeling so low, this time of the year just yearning for love.
Take time from the hustle, from the bustle, and fun,
To give back to others to make them number one.
A toy for a child, a song for the old, a jacket for the homeless asleep in the cold.
Gather your friends for a new kind of fun,
For giving, and sharing,
For laughter for tears,
To make someone’s solitude a merry story for years.
It takes one single smile, a laughter, a joke, to remind each other of the season of old.
So think of Saint Nick go out and be bold!
Bake cookies for neighbors,
Make chocolates for friends,
Enjoy every minute up to the end.
The end of the season,
The end of the cold,
Don’t blink,
Don’t sneeze
Ready set go!
So here’s a list, check it twice, and find any way to do something nice. This season make it your choice to add a little Christmas spice.
- Christmas stocking drive for Soldiers
- Letter Drive for Veterans
- Stuffed Animal Drive for Underprivileged Children
- Carols at the Retirement Home
- Coat and Mitten Drive for the Homeless
- Book Drive for Impoverished Schools
- Secret Santa for Day Care Kids
- Story Reading at the Library
- Care Packages for the Homeless
- Volunteering at the Local Soup Kitchen
- Babysitting for family or neighbors while they shop for Christmas presents
- Hold a potluck for neighborhood families
- Bake cookies for children in foster care
- Wrap Christmas presents for older neighbors
- Shovel snow/ rake leaves for a neighbor
- Take hot chocolate and candy canes to the local bus stop or metro rail stop
- Set up Christmas decorations for a neighbor who doesn’t have time, or who is getting old
- Find a foster child or elderly to become your Christmas mission. Bake them cookies, spend time with them, and buy them small $5 presents.
- Create fleece-tie blankets for the homeless.
- Do something for your family! Wash the dishes, or do the laundry. Make breakfast, or walk the dog.
So this Christmas skip the Starbucks, skip the mall
Save a few dollars, save on some time.
This is the season to change it all.
Change the cold that they battle
The loneliness inside
Warm them with love,
With Christmas pride!
Now grab some friends,
Throw a party
Because with giving to be done no one will be tardy!
