Holiday warm up

Our Christmas tradition was for the kids and now that we're all grown up, at least most of us, the traditions are changing as well. I think by staying in DC last Christmas, I was trying to keep the Christmas's I remember special and forever unchanged. I wanted to be with all my cousins and my sister. I wanted to stay up late and begin opening presents at midnight on Christmas eve. I wanted snow and to try on the present my mom got me - always a sweater, each and every year.

Maybe it was the same way this past thanksgiving. I love the holiday, but we were celebrating it at my Aunt's new house in Newton, I was no longer coming back from college or pleasurably sore and tired from a cold football game. I guess by trying to hold onto things of the past, we miss opportunities to create traditions for the future.

 

Just a thought now that the holidays are around the corner. I'm going to NYC for my company's holiday party this weekend. Should be fun and interesting. I have a post brewing in my head on How My Family Grew into The Christmas Tradition. just picture a four year old singing about a snow cone in the shap of a man who smokes a pipe to his immigrant parents.