Very very glad for you. It's one of my favourite times of year as well. :)
Holidays are odd things — people talk about a /feeling/ they get for specific times, a mood, one that may not even be connected to anything, just a free-floating idea. Almost like a genre of day.
Abstractly, I've only looked at them as an opportunity to spend time with your loved ones — nothing only about it, but it is specific — but I feel the 'genre of day' /too,/ which is... a bit odd. Like the /idea/ of, say, Christmas is /alive/ and influences people independently of anyone considering it. But maybe that's just all ideas