I've booked a few holiday parties for the winter, but I'm really looking forward to having my weekends all to myself. I love Minnesota for the change of seasons, as much as I hate winter come March, I'm always excited for the first snow, the changing of the leaves, and the idea that my birthday and Christmas are just around the corner. I love Christmas because it's the time I get to see my whole family. I love how we all have our own traditions that we can pass down to each generation and each generation can start their own.
On my mom's side for Christmas we always get together and have our Lefsa and Cod meal or some good old Chili always made by my grandma. There's always little goodies sitting on the coffee table in one of her Christmas tins (chex mix, yummy carmel chex mix, nut goodies, etc.) We always go to the midnight Christmas Eve service at their small church in Story City (even though I'm the only one usually wanting to go, I use my influence (actually I just get very pushy) and we all go). I love candle lit services.
On my dad's side, we would always go to my Grandma and Grandpa's house and have another great spread of food (I swear I gain 20 lbs over Christmas). We always have ham, potatoes, pie, it's great! In that family it's all about the games. We always play a mean game of marbles, sometimes we even have tournaments, then usually end the night with a good movie. If we are there on Christmas Eve we will always go the Christmas Eve service at my Uncles Church where he is the pastor, where we hear the Christmas story to the tune of some of my cousins singing some beautiful christmas songs.
Then with just my mom, dad, brother and sister we have our own Christmas when we get home. We've made a tradition to always make appetizers (some of our favorites) on that day. Open all the gifts from each other and spend the day playing with all the goodies we got :) Of course it wouldn't be our Christmas without my Dad whipping out the video camera and forcefully nudging us to sing a christmas carol in front of the christmas tree. As the years have gone by you can see my brother sister and I's enthusiasm to sing those songs dwindle by the tone and expression of our voices on the video....maybe we can talk him out of it this year!
I'm not sure what got me on the tangent of Christmas for this post, but I think what it all comes down to is just the great time spent with the people you love the most and the awesome memories and traditions each year brings. It's in those times that we know every person we've loved will live forver in the traditions we all passed down :)
Have a great weekend!
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