Thursday, December 24, 2009
What is one of your family traditions?
I know everyone is busy, but I just wondered if anyone has time to share a treasured family tradition. Something your kids know will be done year after year. One of ours is going to get the Christmas tree, then we decorate it, then watch It's a Wonderful Life. The girls are lots of fun and we always have a great time. It's become a competition of who picks out the tree that gets chosen. Wish I had a photo handy to share of this year. Anyway, Merry Christmas everyone!
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We had this little stuffed elf that I would hide every Christmas and the one to find it first got to open their Christmas present first. The girls named him Kous Kous - I have no idea how they came up with that name. Anyway, one year we pulled our Christmas decorations out of the attic, opened a box and, lo and behold, Kous Kous had been shredded to pieces by a mouse! It was very sad - there were tears shed. A few days later, we were at a Good Will store looking for props for a Christmas play, and inside the glass case where we were paying, wouldn't you know, there was another little Kous Kous just waiting for us to buy him. We were so excited! We still have Kous Kous and I'm going to hide him tonight. Isn't that a silly tradition?!
Cathy
No, it's not silly; I think it's really nice!
I'm making shrimp creole right now - we have it every year on Christmas Eve. Other than that our "traditions" change every year depending on Mike's work schedule. That's one of the huge downsides of his job.
Andrew just watched Giada on the Food Network and has decided he's going to make mini frittatas and hazelnut sweet rolls for breakfast tomorrow morning. (Minus the hazelnuts.) Who knows - that might be a new tradition!
When the Christensens have their Christmas, it follows a regular routine. We have a huge family dinner where everryone helps in the preparation. Then we retreat to the living room where someone reads Luke 2 from the family Bible. Following the reading, the reader's name is listed in the back along with the date. The earlist entry is 1988 with Angela. The grandchildren took over in 1996 with Heather. Genrally we follow the line from oldest to youngest. This year, Miles is scheduled to read, but it should be noted that last year he recited the whole thing from memory. This is followed by the opening of presents where we do it one-at-time from youngest to oldest.
What is realy neat is that some of out family traditions have been adopted by our children and followed in their homes. It warms our heart to see all the childrena and grandchildren sharing love with one another..
My Christmas tradition is pretty much delayed planes and lost luggage, and yes I've kept the tradition this year.
I realize this doesn't fit the spirit of the question, but it does seem to happen most years to some degree.
I'm planning to start a new tradition this year. As our family has grown (25 of us now) it's too hard to open presents one at a time, and the last couple of years it has been a free-for-all opening bonanza. Fun for the kids, but frustrating for me as I can't see everyone opening what I gave them. This year I'm going to try having everyone's name in a can, drawing out 4 or 5 names at random and having them open a gift. That way we can all enjoy the gift opening a little longer, see what is given, and make a little game out of it. We'll see how it works. Hopefully there's no tears from the little ones! May have to make a couple of exceptions for the youngest ones. By the way, it used to be so funny when the RDK family still did gifts, that as we tried to take turns and open in an orderly fashion, Dad would be in his chair, quietly opening his gifts out of turn. He could never wait!
Mom and others of us like to see what everyone gets as well. For a couple of years all of the kids would open one gift and then everyone got to show it, then an adult would open a gift. That system seemed to work well for us.
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