This year I have been feeling quite down about the holidays. With everything going on in our lives it just doesn't seem like a time to celebrate. We weren't able to get the kids as much as usual this year and I don't even plan on cooking a big meal for the holiday because of both money and just the Bah Humbug feeling that I have.
When my mom was still with us things were so different, even when we couldn't afford it there would be packages to the rafters and it became a contest to get the most creative and fun gifts for each other but now...well Christmas if just another day.
Despite all of this there is one tradition that we hold tight to. Movie night. When I was a little girl we would do these movie nights where we went down to Pepperidge Farms and picked out cheeses, sausages and sparkling ciders and came home ate on moms good china, using wine glasses (I had one with my name from my mom and step-dads wedding) and we would eat on the floor in front of the television. It is something that we have carried on in our home doing it once a week as part of our Christmas celebrations. So with Brandons work schedule we found tonight was a perfect night for our Movie Night...so I spent my morning making, sausages, cutting gourmet cheese, making pizza rolls, shrimp and chicken skewers, spicy chicken wings, chinese spare ribs, toquitos, mini tacos and fajitas, pigs in a blanket, an array of shrimps, crackers, chips and dip etc and a desert platter to make you faint! We watched "The Christmas Box" and "Frosty the Snowman" and ate on the living room floor...TRADITION...
When my mom was still with us things were so different, even when we couldn't afford it there would be packages to the rafters and it became a contest to get the most creative and fun gifts for each other but now...well Christmas if just another day.
Despite all of this there is one tradition that we hold tight to. Movie night. When I was a little girl we would do these movie nights where we went down to Pepperidge Farms and picked out cheeses, sausages and sparkling ciders and came home ate on moms good china, using wine glasses (I had one with my name from my mom and step-dads wedding) and we would eat on the floor in front of the television. It is something that we have carried on in our home doing it once a week as part of our Christmas celebrations. So with Brandons work schedule we found tonight was a perfect night for our Movie Night...so I spent my morning making, sausages, cutting gourmet cheese, making pizza rolls, shrimp and chicken skewers, spicy chicken wings, chinese spare ribs, toquitos, mini tacos and fajitas, pigs in a blanket, an array of shrimps, crackers, chips and dip etc and a desert platter to make you faint! We watched "The Christmas Box" and "Frosty the Snowman" and ate on the living room floor...TRADITION...
I can't say it was a good movie night but we enjoyed the food and the movie touched me as it always does. And it is good to have at least one tradition in tact.
2 comments:
I have the Bah Humbugs too. I just can't get into the holiday mood. :(
I understand the humbug feeling too! It is never the same without mom here. I had completly forgotten we used to do that. I am going to pull out my china and do the same thing on Christmas eve. What is the christmas box? Will my kids watch that?
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