Tradition Tuesday

Family Traditions -- something we look forward to every year and something we pass on to our children. We sit around tables laughing with relatives or around the piano singing songs. We all have one thing we look forward to every year and do whether we are home with mom or home with our kids.

Growing up, the tradition in my house was us kids got to open one present on Christmas Eve. We always knew what it was, but that didn’t take away the fun of opening a present early. We would get a new pair of pajamas, a new robe, and new slippers to wear the next morning. Once me and my siblings were changed, we would watch ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ (my personal favorite Christmas movie) before we were sent to bed so Santa would come.

All this family love was of course shattered at dawn’s early light because with three kids the chance of sleeping past midnight on Christmas morning is slim, but we were nice enough to go back to bed under the threat of telling Santa we moved. Being ‘Army Brats’, that wasn’t out of the realm of possibility.

Family traditions are as old as time. Every family has one thing they do every year for the same reason... it’s tradition. What is something your family does every year?

~Santa’s Helper Speklez