Happy Holidays Upper East Siders. It’s that time of year again! Time to dig deep for desperate gift ideas and search high and low to find them in stores or online! It’s the time for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, spending too much money and too much time on wrapping gifts that end up looking … well … like this

On other news, today I’ll tell you the highs and lows of every Christmas season between families, friends and secret admirers. Are you going to be celebrating your fabulous gift or devastating in defeat over your unfortunate bag of coal? Well, we all know that a Waldorf Christmas is like no other to have its glorious celebrations and disastrous defeats so here it is, a Christmas Season told by the one and only me, Gossip Girl.

Hear those silver bells? It’s Christmas time in the city. Some families actually do make the yuletide gay, managing to leave their troubles far away.

Other families have a merry little Christmas, even when their troubles aren’t so far away.

Some presents might end up getting returned.

But some gifts are for keeps.

Other presents come when you least expect them.

And everyone knows the biggest present comes in the smallest box.

Then there are those boxes you wish you had never opened.

Have a holly jolly Christmas. XOXO.—Gossip Girl.