The pinnacle of our home’s 2024 Christmas diorama, which is something Anne does every year with our various pop culture Christmas ornaments and figurines.

Hey, kids! It’s that beloved holiday tradition where we just post a few recent Christmas-themed photos with some short yet sincere seasons’ greetings, and we give readers a break from my usual self-indulgent verbosity. It’s the most wonderful time of the MCC year! Click, scroll, ooh, ahh, and keep on frolicking down the internet superhighway!

Here in Indianapolis, all the Lowes Home Improvement stores are among the earliest businesses to bring out the holiday merch in October.

An outtake from my third annual visit to the Indiana Historical Society’s Festival of Trees.

We finally replaced our 20-year-old tree with a 7½-footer that’s easier to assemble and holds many more ornaments.

Among our new ornaments this year: the Enterprise-B from Star Trek: Generations.

If you’re doomscrolling while taking a break from your family and you’ve included us in your distractions, then welcome to this brief respite! We wish a Merry Christmas to you ‘n’ yours, High-Spirited Holidays, Vivacious Vacation, Divine December, and/or congratulations on reaching the light at the end of the 2024 tunnel despite the obstacles and heartbreaks. May your days be merrier and brighter, your celebrations invigorating, your downtime rewarding, and your internet circles calm and peaceful and filled with joyous content, even if it means using some of your precious doomscrolling time to find brighter circles!

Speaking of brighter circles: our Christmas diorama’s Nativity scene, with the cast of A Christmas Story in attendance. ‘Tis a celebration of gold, frankincense, myrrh, and Ovaltine.