Every year since my husband and I have beenmarried we have hosted both holidays. Few days before Thanksgiving weput our tree up but the lights stay off. We do the Christmas Spiritinitiation on Thanksgiving day after we do the Thanksgiving Christmastree. Everyone gets a peice of paper and pen to write down 10 thingsthey are thankful for. After dinner one person at a time would readwhat they are thankful for and hang the paper on the Thanksgiving treewe have for that. Then the person who initiated the Christmas spiritlast year picks a person to do it this year. Once that person has beenpicked they tell us what they want to see happen to initiate theChristmas Spirit then they turn the lights on.The lights comeon when we wake up and turn it off when we go to bed.
Christmas Morning mom and dad comes over early. We would have homemadepumpkin, banana breads, coffee or tea, or milk. My husband, dad, mom,grandma, and I gather around in the livingroom. Dad opens his bible tothe Christmas story and reads it. Once he is done reading we giveeveryone gifts and open them one at a time.
But this year will be different. We will still have our tradiction butwithout Mom and Grandma. Mom passed away on Sept 27th and grandmapassed away on Oct 14th. So it will be just my husband, dad and I doingthe moring tratiction. I will be making the homemade breads since momwill not be here to make them. I made all of the homemade Thanksgivingdinner without mom too so I had to remember everything that mom usesfor the pink apple sauce. And for Christmas I have to remember how shedid the pretzle salad, homemade breads, and few other things.
Mom and grandma are my husbands family. Grandma is mom's mother too. So you know.
Usually we go over my parents on Christmas Eve but since my hubby adn Ihave been married my sister hates my hubby's guts so ever since that weeither go before my sis comes over or we don't go at all. I told my momcouple weeks ago that she can come over to visit us if she wants us tohave gifts. My parents still has my birthday gift since October 23rdand for the last few years I have been getting them for Christmas toocause they refuse to drive 15 mins to visit me but we can drive 15 minsin a bad transmision truck to see them.
Need to vent. Sorry