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As families go, we all have Christmas Eve traditions - what is your's?? Do you go to a friend's house or one of your relatives. Do you find time to go to church and sing your heart out?? What is your Christmas Eve tradition??
For me when I lived in California, every Christmas Eve we went to church with our kids - Kimber, Josh and maybe Danny sometimes, and then go to my ex's boss house where we made Christmas tamales and then ate them. His boss was from Texas and Mexican and for them, making tamales for Chirstmas was a must. We would roll them, stuff them, put them in their corn shuck and then steam them until they were done. It was GREAT and alot of fun since all the neighbors and some of the employees would come.
Nothing beats homemade tamales. And then, after we were stuffed, we would go home and put together Santa's toys and get up at the crack of dawn with the kids.
For many, many years, I was never home here in Florida for Christmas since I lived in Ohio and California for about 16 years. Missing my folks terribly always and longing to be home for Christmas. But I was lucky, I lived not too far from my only brother in California and we always had Christmas together at either his house or mine and our kids were close in age and they had a ball. That was the one good thing about being so close until I moved back to Florida, that his son and my daughter and son were best of friends and grew up like I did, with my cousins close by. That was a blessing for both Rick and me, to see our children so close for so long.
Even though Santa has long since left my house with no small children, today we will make Christmas cookies and bake pies and cornbread for the stuffing and cut up celery and onions to cook tomorrow. We will go to a candlelight service and take mom out Christmas riding since dad can no longer really drive and she loves the lights. We will have oyster stew and just be together and thankful that we can still be together since mom is 78 and dad 81. But what do you do on Christmas Eve??
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve with your family and friends and build memories for your children so when they grow up, they have traditions of their own because of you, their family. That they see that giving your time and love means everything at Christmas, much more than buying gifts. Time is the gift that we all can give easily for our families.
Happy Christmas Eve!!!!!!!!!!!!
For me when I lived in California, every Christmas Eve we went to church with our kids - Kimber, Josh and maybe Danny sometimes, and then go to my ex's boss house where we made Christmas tamales and then ate them. His boss was from Texas and Mexican and for them, making tamales for Chirstmas was a must. We would roll them, stuff them, put them in their corn shuck and then steam them until they were done. It was GREAT and alot of fun since all the neighbors and some of the employees would come.
Nothing beats homemade tamales. And then, after we were stuffed, we would go home and put together Santa's toys and get up at the crack of dawn with the kids.
For many, many years, I was never home here in Florida for Christmas since I lived in Ohio and California for about 16 years. Missing my folks terribly always and longing to be home for Christmas. But I was lucky, I lived not too far from my only brother in California and we always had Christmas together at either his house or mine and our kids were close in age and they had a ball. That was the one good thing about being so close until I moved back to Florida, that his son and my daughter and son were best of friends and grew up like I did, with my cousins close by. That was a blessing for both Rick and me, to see our children so close for so long.
Even though Santa has long since left my house with no small children, today we will make Christmas cookies and bake pies and cornbread for the stuffing and cut up celery and onions to cook tomorrow. We will go to a candlelight service and take mom out Christmas riding since dad can no longer really drive and she loves the lights. We will have oyster stew and just be together and thankful that we can still be together since mom is 78 and dad 81. But what do you do on Christmas Eve??
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas Eve with your family and friends and build memories for your children so when they grow up, they have traditions of their own because of you, their family. That they see that giving your time and love means everything at Christmas, much more than buying gifts. Time is the gift that we all can give easily for our families.
Happy Christmas Eve!!!!!!!!!!!!
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