Most people have a favorite time of the year or a favorite holiday.
Opinion polls are pretty much in agreement that the favorite holiday of children in the US and Canada is Christmas. Both parents normally find Christmas to be too fatiguing and frantic to constitute a favorite. Their reason is obvious. Men, of course, disdain most holidays because of the need to remember to buy their wives flowers, a gift, or jewelry - and if they happen not to remember, dire consequences will result. I am convinced that Scrooge was correct in his original assumptions about Christmas.