Postby Kyle » Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:35 pm
Now that I'm getting older and out on my own it's hard to say I really have traditions now. Growing up we had a pretty set order of things:
-Visiting the relatives in another state on the weekend nearest Christmas. When I was younger it was usually on the weekend before Christmas, but as I got older, and now, it's usually the weekend after. This is one tradition my family still holds, and I'll take the trip there with my parents the same as I always have.
-I used to have this Bible picture story thing where you had 24 ornaments, one for each day of December up to Christmas Eve. They had little short snippets about the story of the events leading to and including the birth of Jesus. You read it on the day and then hang it on the tree, basically. My parents probably still have it somewhere.
-We usually put the tree up sometime between Thanksgiving and the Sunday after.
-We opened some presents on Christmas Eve. For the years we did the Santa thing the bigger presents for me usually came on Christmas Day. I think we did Santa all the way into college.
The only thing I've really done so far is help my dad put the lights up on my parents' house and put up a tree of my own, with pretty plain ornaments. The cool ones are still with my parents.
I've sometimes gone to the church's Christmas Eve service, but not always, especially if Christmas falls around the weekend which typically is when I'm out of town. That will be a problem this year and I probably won't be going to the Christmas Eve service. Now that I think about it I don't think I've been in 2 or 3 years.
Christmas isn't as big an event as it used to be for me. I've treated it more like the celebration of Jesus it started out as more than the commercial holiday it's become. I like getting and giving presents as much as anyone, still, but it can be a hassle and I don't like it to become a big production.