My favorite childhood Christmas memory is one I can pull up from my mind as easily as a photo stored on my phone. I don’t even have to try, actually, because it’s the first image that pops into my mind when I think about the Christmas season. I remember a teenage me, complete with braces, braided pigtails, and flannel pajamas, baking Christmas cookies in the kitchen with my mom late into the night on Christmas Eve. After everyone else had already gone to bed, the two of us st