Holiday Favorites

This Christmas, I've been thinking a lot about holiday traditions. Maybe I'm just getting older, but I'm less focused on gifts/presents nowadays and more reflective and thinking about family and the holiday rituals I enjoy. Meg's blog got me thinking about this when she started her holiday swap. One of the requirements was to describe one of your family's traditions around the holidays and share it with your swap-mate. I really struggled to come up with anything, so I didn't sign up.

A few weeks after that, I was visiting with a friend about how I felt I didn't have any traditions and how bummed I was I didn't sign up for the swap. She reminded me that I do, in fact, have many traditions (isn't that what great friends are for?), One of them being the cookie baking marathon that she and I do together each year. So, after that conversation I became more obsersvant of my life, and realized that yes, I have some holiday traditions.

So, here are a few of my favorite holiday things:





These felt ornaments are at least 30 years old. My Grandma G. gave them to my parents when I was I child and they passed them on (I think I demanded them!!) to me when I got married. They were all handmade my a friend of my grandma's and the detail work on them is incredible. They make me smile when I hang them on my tree each year.



The only holiday show I watch each year is the Charlie Brown Christmas. I love the music and the message, and Jeff and I take time to drink our hot chocolate and watch it each year.



Speaking of hot chocolate, we enjoy it all the more thanks to my Waechtersbach Christmas tree mugs. My regulary dinnerware is plain white, so it is a lot of fun to get out these special plates and mugs.

I'm happy I took some time to pause this Christmas season and think about a few things that are really important to me. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday!!