What's Your Favorite Holiday Tradition?
Ok, I know it's early to be asking this, but honestly, I'm asking because I'm looking for ideas!
My family and I had such a cool tradition of making Gingerbread Houses on Christmas Eve. I'm not talking simple houses. I'm talking mansions and cathedrals. My dad would literally be working on his blueprints in November. And even tho I said we did it Christmas EVE, it officially started Christmas Eve MORNING and continued for hours, and hours and hours. We had deadlines to be finished by 8pm. Then we had some friend's come over and do judging. Mom and Dad had a great place under the stairs to display not only that years houses, but past years winners! It was a big deal in our family.
Mom made the icing. The icing was the glue that held our houses together. And yes, it ends up, this was most definitely a metaphor...Mom was the glue in a whole lot of ways.
Now, making those Gingerbread Houses just doesn't seem to feel right. We haven't even talked about them. I think it's a subject we just don't approach because we know the glue is the most important thing. I just don't want to make the house with out HER glue!
But I know family traditions are important, and we've decided to try some new ones this year. So I'm trying to come up with some good ideas... Please share yours!!!
THANK YOU!
My family and I had such a cool tradition of making Gingerbread Houses on Christmas Eve. I'm not talking simple houses. I'm talking mansions and cathedrals. My dad would literally be working on his blueprints in November. And even tho I said we did it Christmas EVE, it officially started Christmas Eve MORNING and continued for hours, and hours and hours. We had deadlines to be finished by 8pm. Then we had some friend's come over and do judging. Mom and Dad had a great place under the stairs to display not only that years houses, but past years winners! It was a big deal in our family.
Mom made the icing. The icing was the glue that held our houses together. And yes, it ends up, this was most definitely a metaphor...Mom was the glue in a whole lot of ways.
Now, making those Gingerbread Houses just doesn't seem to feel right. We haven't even talked about them. I think it's a subject we just don't approach because we know the glue is the most important thing. I just don't want to make the house with out HER glue!
But I know family traditions are important, and we've decided to try some new ones this year. So I'm trying to come up with some good ideas... Please share yours!!!
THANK YOU!
posted by kerri @ 10:04 AM
4 Comments:
At 3:47 PM,
Glen K said…
LOVE the gingerbread houses! What a great tradition. I recommend a pentagon or hexagon shaped structure, which can maximize your exterior wall space on the sides, where its' most visible. And don't you think that Mom is looking down right now, saying "Come on! Get those houses designed and built!!" I'm sure she is.
Your listening and reading fanbase would love to see photos of your finished product (hint, hint). Ho Ho Ho.
:p
At 12:35 AM,
Julie said…
I think you're right about the glue...I always felt sorry to see her labor so long and sometimes not even make a house. I hope she liked making that glue. It is all different now, in many ways. Gingerbread houses may be a memory rather than a tradition.
MY suggestion for the moment is scissoring to create somethign beautiful. I'm, in fact, sharing this idea as my part of the Toastmasters XMas party. Scissoring is something any age (nearly) can join-in on...there are so many sources of "junk" mail w/ great pictures, following the line carefully gets us focused, in a meditative state--right brain living, and it's fun to create personalized cards,...like the one you'll receive from me this year.
At 6:30 AM,
Rrramone said…
Throwing old tomatoes at carolers.
At 11:15 AM,
monicathedove said…
My grandfather and I have this silly tradition of trading an old pair of fuzzy dice that you hang from a car mirror back and forth. It started about 1988, and we've gotten a lot more creative over the years. This year, I flattened them with one of those food savers, then framed them with a little note. One year, he built a cabin out of Lincoln Logs, then glued it all together with the dice inside.
Just about the time I forget about the ol' fuzzy dice, they seem to appear. It's been fun!
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