Tradition

In my last blog I wrote about the holidays, well that got me to thinking about holidays past and present. My mom was from a family of 7 kids. She had two older brothers, two older sisters, and two younger sisters. When growing up we would have the holidays with family. We usually either had Christmas at our place or my one aunts house. It usually was the four sisters who got all their family's to go to one of the houses. So it was a pretty big get together with the sisters their spouses and all the kids! My grandmother would also be there of course, so it was really alot of fun to have most of the family together. As time went on though and all the grandkids grew up we didn't have those get togethers. It would be just each family doing their own thing with there own family. I kind of missed have everyone together. Well than the grandkids started to have kids so I really don't think we could have had everyone all in the same place.



When I had started my family we would go to my parents place for Christmas, but we would have Chirstmas Eve at my husbands family because that was their "tradition" to celebrate on Christmas Eve. That always work at perfect! When my grandmom was still alive she would take turns on who's family she would go to. I always loved when it was our turn for her to come and I really miss that. Every year since I could remember my mom would make this nut roll for Christmas and I always look forward to it and that was the only time she would make it so it made it even more speical.



When my dad past away we had a new tradition. My mom wasn't going to put the tree up because she just felt she couldn't do it, so my oldest son surprised her and put it up. We decided that year we would take all the gifts over to mom's house and spend the night on Christmas Eve so that mom wouldn't be alone on Christmas morning. We did that for three years. My mom past away this past March and it has been really hard on me not wanting to enjoy the holidays, but I went to the store today and saw all the nice Christmas decorations and although it will be hard I know it will be a great Christmas and I will just have to start some new traditions! Oh my mom never taught me how to make that nut roll, but by golly I will try to learn it on my own.