2 Weeks 'Til Christmas: 21 Holiday Memes to Jingle Your Bells This Season (December 11, 2024)

Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor

Dec 11, 2024 10:00 AM EST

Christmas may be a stressful time of the year, but it's also the most wonderful!

The weather is chilling, the windows are frosting, and the twinkling lights fill the dark afternoons with magic. Despite Mariah Carrey playing on every speaker from here to Nantucket, Christmas cheer spreads far and wide as kiddos dream of the Elf on the Shelf, and cookie decoration dates remind us all why we dropped out of art school.

Perhaps it's the smaller moments of the holidays that make it so merry.

With a honey-baked ham in the freezer and our favorite holiday records on loop, our merriest moments are the ones we create with our chosen family. Right here in this kitchen, we bake away the woes of the work day ("let's circle back in 2025") and our moms call us a little more often with news from our childhood neighborhood. Nostalgia and memories stoke the flames of the coziest evenings and even though we're not totally finished with our gift list, we know that an Amazon box is on its way with some presents that'll make our loved ones smile–if just for a day.