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capri0mniThese are the "Holiday Family Traditions" I would pass down (Since I don't have a family, I'll pass them down to you):
The Blessing Chain: A fancier paper chain, with high quality strips of paper, backed by beautiful ribbon--364 of them.. These strips of paper would be kept in a fine box. Starting on the day after the solstice, at the end of the day, we'd write down one good thing that happened each day. At the end of the year, when it comes time to link the rings together, and decorate the tree with the chain, we will have a tangilble reminder of all the joyful things we'd been through together.
Nicholas's 13 Reindeer: Let's face it: the tradition of 8 reindeer was an invention of Moore (or whoever it was who actually wrote "A Visit From Saint Nicholas," there's a rumor out there that he was a blantant plagiarist). So if I put a Nicholas decoration on my lawn, I'd give him 13 -- one for each of the days between Christmas Eve and Epiphany.
Besides, I've seen so many prefab plastic Santas with 4, 6, and, of course, 9 reindeer. (though the beasts often look more like American white tail deer than carribou, but you know...). And it would be fun to mess with my neighbors's minds...
If asked for an explaination (if they even notice), I could always that Santa has more toys in his sleigh than he did in 1864, so he's needed to expand this team.
These next traditions I got from my mother, but I'd like to keep it going:
Breakfast Around the Tree: Rich egg bread or coffee cake, hot chocolate, and oranges, nibbled on during the Grand Unwrapping (With lots of moist towellettes, natch)
Give Tickets to Something: Not necessarily a play, but maybe movie tickets, or music concert. or to a special museum exhibition--to an event in late January or February, to give a little break to the midwinter doldrums, and make Yule last longer.
The Blessing Chain: A fancier paper chain, with high quality strips of paper, backed by beautiful ribbon--364 of them.. These strips of paper would be kept in a fine box. Starting on the day after the solstice, at the end of the day, we'd write down one good thing that happened each day. At the end of the year, when it comes time to link the rings together, and decorate the tree with the chain, we will have a tangilble reminder of all the joyful things we'd been through together.
Nicholas's 13 Reindeer: Let's face it: the tradition of 8 reindeer was an invention of Moore (or whoever it was who actually wrote "A Visit From Saint Nicholas," there's a rumor out there that he was a blantant plagiarist). So if I put a Nicholas decoration on my lawn, I'd give him 13 -- one for each of the days between Christmas Eve and Epiphany.
Besides, I've seen so many prefab plastic Santas with 4, 6, and, of course, 9 reindeer. (though the beasts often look more like American white tail deer than carribou, but you know...). And it would be fun to mess with my neighbors's minds...
If asked for an explaination (if they even notice), I could always that Santa has more toys in his sleigh than he did in 1864, so he's needed to expand this team.
These next traditions I got from my mother, but I'd like to keep it going:
Breakfast Around the Tree: Rich egg bread or coffee cake, hot chocolate, and oranges, nibbled on during the Grand Unwrapping (With lots of moist towellettes, natch)
Give Tickets to Something: Not necessarily a play, but maybe movie tickets, or music concert. or to a special museum exhibition--to an event in late January or February, to give a little break to the midwinter doldrums, and make Yule last longer.
