So I was in the middle of another blogger's post when I got inspired to talk a little about my holiday traditions. In my family we only have a few traditions. The biggest holiday tradition we have is Thanksgiving. Usually the party is at my parents house, and it has been as far back as I can remember, and it normally lasts for 2 days. It starts of course on Thanksgiving and continues on to the day after. My aunts are huge Black Friday shoppers and will usually stay at our house until around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. This is because our house is so close to the shopping centers that they can leave straight from our house and head to the malls lol. And we don't usually see them until around noon the next day. They all come in from shopping and eat the enormous amount of food we still have left and then pass out on our comfy couches until its time to leave lol... Black Friday is usually more of the party day for my family, we normally sit around the dining room playing euchre and drinking wine/beer what ever is around lol.
Then there is Christmas in my family.. For my immediate family we usually celebrate the night before Christmas. We have a huge meal in the dining room with the fancy china lol, and then afterwards we open up presents. It is my favorite holiday because of the family dinner. My family is on such crazy schedules these days that a family dinner at a reasonable time is almost always out of the question. This is year is going to be terrible, my younger brother has moved to Tennessee with his girlfriend and won't be able to make it home for Christmas this year because he is coming home for Thanksgiving.
As much as it saddens me to know that he won't be home for Christmas, he is coming home for 10 days in November for Thanksgiving. So I've came up with a little idea. Instead of him missing out on our Christmas Eve plans, we'll have a mock Christmas for him and his girlfriend when he comes home. I don't think its too unreasonable to ask that we move Christmas up for them at least. I was thinking about having presents for them and then a big dinner on the fancy china lol.
I do miss my little brother. He has been down there since March. We visited them this past July on our way to Florida. It was so nice to see him. I'm only three years older than him. Growing up we weren't that close, hell I wouldn't even say we were nice to each other lol. But in the past 3 years or so we've gotten really close. It sucked so bad when he moved. I've missed him so much, I mean I used to take for granted the stupid talks we'd have sitting in the living room, or the late nights hanging out or running around together. He was always my go to guy. When I didn't have anything to do, which was often since I'm broke, he was there. We would leave the house around midnight and drive around just bs-ing. It will be hard come Christmas when he's not around but I know that he's making a life for himself, which makes me feel incredibly proud of him.
Your thinking of your brother, that's nice. I'm sure he'll appreciate the fact that you're thinking of him to move up Christmas for him and his girlfriend. No one nowadays thinks of family, it's all about me is what's going through most minds. I think that is a nice thing to do for your bro. And as for me, last year was a nightmare for shopping. On Thanksgiving, me and my dad and sis got up at 6:00 am to go shopping. My dad wanted to get my sis this game called The Sims Pets, where you create Sims and pets for them. There was an enormous line at Meijers in Alexandria, right out the door and I fond out why-- there was a new James Bond video game, From Russia with Love and every greedy little miserbale monster wanted it! We waited in line for 30 minutes just to get in. But Christmas shopping is a nightmare for anyone in my family, sometimes my sis will joke around and say she wants Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day for Christmas, she's like that, I know. But Black Friday, I stay in unless I need to do shopping and this year is the first year in probably 2 or 3 years I've done it. In past years, I couldn't because of lack of funds, but since I babysit, I go shopping! YAY! This year, I have to pick up Green Day's American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums for my sis, The Exorcist movie for my dad and for my aunt, I'm not sure what to get her so I'm thinking do what she usually does for me, get her a Visa giftcard, these things are amazing! All you do is call a number or access the internet to activate them. That way she can buy herself something she wants! OMG! I sound like a parent! What's wrong with me?
ReplyDeleteWhose blog was talking about traditions? Because I think I mentioned something about traditions. If it was me, sorry. I have the poorest memory ever!
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