Christmas Season Has Arrived!

Yes, now it's official. It's Christmastime in the Miami Valley! As of a few minutes ago, LITE 99.9 is officially playing only Christmas music. They kicked it off with Jingle Bell Rock from the Christmas Cottage at the Mall at Fairfield Commons. This is their tenth year playing the Christmas music already, and let me tell you, these people are pretty much in the business of generating Christmas spirit! If you're like me and live too far away to listen to LITE 99.9 on the radio, don't worry! You can stream their station live to your computer at their website. Also on their website, starting today you can register daily for the $10,000 shopping spree to the Mall at Fairfield Commons! You can also register at the Christmas Cottage daily, so that's loads of chances to win! I'm really thinking this could be my year...

In other news, the Dayton Ballet's Nutcracker is back at the Schuster Center again this year. With a Daytonian twist on a Christmas classic, the show portrays Virginia Kettering as the young girl dreaming about the nutcracker she recieves from her uncle.
I think this pretty much seals Mrs. Kettering's status as Christmas icon, as it was also she who started the Dayton Holiday Festival so everyone in Dayton could enjoy the season. You can buy your tickets ranging from $27.00- $70.00 here for any of the following show times (which have also been added to the Christmas events calendar):
December 12, 7:30 PM
December 13, 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM
December 14, 1 PM and 4:30 PM
December 19, 7:30 PM
December 20, 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM
December 21, 2:30 PM

I'd also like to mention quickly that Clifton Mill will be starting it's holiday light display aptly named Legendary Lights at Clifton Mill on November 28th.
It'll be open every day through January 4th from 5 PM to 9 PM, though it closes an hour earlier on Christmas Eve, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. Kids 6 and under get in free and everyone else pays $8. They put up approximately 3.5 million lights and the result is spectacular. You can find full information about the light display and other attractions they'll offer this year here.

Finally, I'd like to leave you with something that I'll call Christmas Quote Friday:

"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." -Ralph Sockman, senior pastor of Christ Church in New York City, born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio in 1889 and graduated from OWU