As a child, Christmas was my favorite holiday for obvious reasons. Christmas still occupies a favored place in my mind, and raising two kids brings back the magic every year. But speaking purely as an adult Christmas takes third place in American holidays in my book. In first place is the Fourth of July. I prefer the Fourth over any other holiday because it gives me the opportunity to make things blow up without having my neighbors give me odd looks.
My second favorite holiday, if you want to call it a holiday, is Halloween. What is it that I like about Halloween? For one thing, I get to take my kids trick-or-treating which reminds me fondly of when I was a kid and would go door-to-door to get candy from total strangers.
But one of the things I like the most these days is that Halloween gives me a chance to go out and buy a lot of candy without feeling guilty about it. I always make sure to buy more candy than what I expect to have given out at my house so that I have some to munch on for the next, oh, 6 months or so. What's better than to have loads of Milky Ways, Butterfingers, Snickers, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (lots of RPBC's), and Nestle Crunch Bars on hand. I have enough to feed me and my family in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Plus we'll have enough of a sugar high to allow us to rebuild all of society in this unfortunate event.