Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to everyone out there in the blogsphere... Over the past couple of days I have been reflecting on Christmas traditions - possibly sparked by my wife's post entitled Merry Christmas! on her blog (see Lisa's Blog). Lisa and I have been married for three Christmas' now (and together for many more than that) and I think that we have broght some traditions from each of our own familes and established some of our own.
Since I was a little child, I have always had a tree of my own. When we lived in Buchans (i.e., up to the age of ten) there were small three foot artificial trees in my sister's and my room. When we moved to Corner Brook, I had that small tree put up in the basement (where I eventually moved my room), even in university and in my own place while I was teaching in Bonavista, I always had these small Christmas trees. The reason I bring them up is because they were always decorated with home-made and sentimental (i.e., gift or souvenir) ornaments. The tree that Lisa and I have put up for the past three years is now decorated with home-made and sentimental ornaments. My mother would always play Elvis' Christmas record (yes, record) at Christmas and our first Christmas away from home, we had to go and buy the Elvis Christmas CD to make it seem more like the holidays.
Lisa has always opened up her stocking in bed on Christmas morning before we go o open the gifts under the tree, so now we open our stockings in bed each Christmas morning. Lisa's family always has fish on Christmas Eve and has their Christmas meal at dinner time (as opposed to supper), so this is what we have done for the past three years.
Having said that, we also have some traditions that we have created as well. With just the two of us, we both come up with creative and funny names to put in the "From" field on the tags for the Christmas gifts that we have bought each other, so that not everything under the tree is from each other. For example, this year I got Season 5 of The West Wing from the Governor and a book about football stadiums from across the United States from the university's athletic director. Lisa got a UGA SEC Championship T-shirt from the UGA mascot Hairy Dawg and a Sugar Bowl T-shirt from UGA VI. We also watch It's a Wonderful Life every year at Christmas time.
It is interesting, to see how we have taken te traditions from both of our families, combine those and even come up with some new ones of our own, as a way to make Christmas uniquely our's.
In any regard, a Merry Christmas to everyone...
Since I was a little child, I have always had a tree of my own. When we lived in Buchans (i.e., up to the age of ten) there were small three foot artificial trees in my sister's and my room. When we moved to Corner Brook, I had that small tree put up in the basement (where I eventually moved my room), even in university and in my own place while I was teaching in Bonavista, I always had these small Christmas trees. The reason I bring them up is because they were always decorated with home-made and sentimental (i.e., gift or souvenir) ornaments. The tree that Lisa and I have put up for the past three years is now decorated with home-made and sentimental ornaments. My mother would always play Elvis' Christmas record (yes, record) at Christmas and our first Christmas away from home, we had to go and buy the Elvis Christmas CD to make it seem more like the holidays.
Lisa has always opened up her stocking in bed on Christmas morning before we go o open the gifts under the tree, so now we open our stockings in bed each Christmas morning. Lisa's family always has fish on Christmas Eve and has their Christmas meal at dinner time (as opposed to supper), so this is what we have done for the past three years.
Having said that, we also have some traditions that we have created as well. With just the two of us, we both come up with creative and funny names to put in the "From" field on the tags for the Christmas gifts that we have bought each other, so that not everything under the tree is from each other. For example, this year I got Season 5 of The West Wing from the Governor and a book about football stadiums from across the United States from the university's athletic director. Lisa got a UGA SEC Championship T-shirt from the UGA mascot Hairy Dawg and a Sugar Bowl T-shirt from UGA VI. We also watch It's a Wonderful Life every year at Christmas time.
It is interesting, to see how we have taken te traditions from both of our families, combine those and even come up with some new ones of our own, as a way to make Christmas uniquely our's.
In any regard, a Merry Christmas to everyone...
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