Julia’s blog

Christmas Tradition

Christmas is my favorite time of year not because of the presents but being with my family. I have two well three traditions that I have for Christmas. On Christmas Eve we always go to my grandma’s house for Christmas with the family. It’s my moms side of the family. So all five children (my aunts and uncle) and their kids and their kids. There’s about 50 or more that come. We eat and then we all sit in the living room and we have a program type thing that we do. We start from the youngest and they do something that they did during the year than we just keep going up in order. When we get to the oldest of the five we sing the “12 Days of Christmas.” Then it gets really interesting all the older guys teenage and up sing “We Three Kings” sometimes you never know when it will end its so much fun. Then things quiet down a little and my grandpa reads the Christmas Story and we all bow our heads and he prays. Then we get in our gifts but you know I could do without the presents just doing our program would be good enough for me. Those memories are the best type of gift because its with you all the time. We normally do our Christmas at our house that morning because we normally leave for Kansas that night or next morning. We go up their to see my dads side of the family we stay there for a couple of days we have our Christmas and spend time with everyone we don’t have a program but all us cousins always go outside and play hide and go seek in the dark and kick ball its a lot of fun. Then we go home. Christmas is so much fun because you get to be with your family. Thats my tradition that I do at Christmas.