Starting a holiday tradition...
It is never too late.
Time flies.
Before you know it, decades have passed and that little thing you started doing 20-30-40 years ago is now a treasured tradition that will be passed down for generations.
Even if you didn’t realize it at the time…it was just something you did every year.
I’ve shared this story before…when my oldest (now 42) was a baby, my mother started giving her a few precious ornaments every Christmars. She did the same for the boys when they were babies (now 34 and 35) and again with my baby (now 26). After 40+ years of giving my 4 children a couple of special ornaments every year, my tree is bursting with heirloom treasures.
There are the wooden ornaments she gave them from her and my dad’s trip to Yellowstone…
The ornament from the year Katie and I went to New York…
College graduation….
Our trip to Georgetown, Colorado….
A Lenox moose representing the year Katie shot her first deer….
Every single ornament on my tree has a special meaning….ornaments representing every milestone in our lives and souvenirs from our travels and my parent’s travels.
Even after giving Sarah all her ornaments, I still have a tree full. And now that my children are growing and creating their own homes with their own trees, they have begun the “tradition” of gifting me with ornaments with special meaning. Once all my kids have their own trees to decorate, mine will still have special ornaments from my travels and my children.
My mom is no longer here but I have carried on this little tradition she started 42 years ago. Every year I give each of my kids and grandkids an ornament from our travels or one representing something special in their lives. Baby’s first year, college graduation, a cruise to Alaska…..anything and everything special and memorable is represented on our Christmas trees.
It is never too late to start a “tradition.” We do PJs and ornaments.
What tradition will you start this year? Remember, every “tradition” starts somewhere with someone…give your children, grandchildren and great grandchildren a tradition to charish!
