Its amazing how important tradition can be to kids. We may celebrate Christmas in a different place every few years but some things are NOT allowed to change.
Failure to provide the following things is almost certain to stop Christmas entirely!
1. Sugar cookies - rolled out and cut. With the little girls, painting them has become part of the ritual. This year we are in danger because the paint brushes are AWOL. Hopefully they will show up or else Christmas can happen with the partial tradition credit provided by just the cookies.
2. Dinner must include ham, mashed potatoes, pretzel salad and pecan pie. Other side dishes are changeable. Swan saved us all when she went and picked up the corn syrup for the pecan pie. It was a close one!
3. Blueberry buckle/Caramel French toast for breakfast. I made blueberry buckle, one, yes just one, Christmas and my children declared it a tradition. Only problem is it has to be made that morning so I tempted fate and seem to have successfully switched us to Caramel French toast as our new tradition.
4. And the most challenging tradition of all - new ornaments for the kids, made by me, every year. We have tempted fate a few times but we have discovered thankfully that ornaments in progress do count even if they do not get onto the tree until the following Christmas. (in fact getting on the tree the actual year they are made for is almost breaking with tradition!)
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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