was had by all around here! It was a very relaxing and enjoyable day.
KM and I got a lot of baking done, finished up some Christmas presents for relatives, and finished up the laundry and cleaning that we had started during Saturdays never ending snow storm.
CJ was still out plowing a good part of the day, but when he finally got home, it was just in time to have a cozy dinner, just the three of us.
We had lit all the candles and sconces in the house and only had the tree and fairy lights going - oh and spongebob of course. It was very simple and peaceful.
After dinner we open a few yule gifts and then all snuggled up to watch a movie and eat some yummy cookies we had made earlier in the day!
KM's favorite present was a Wizardology Code Writing Kit and we all got a kick out of our Feety Pajamas!
After the movie we were all sitting together and it was like a light went off for all of us at once - this is what we are suppose to be doing. THIS is our family.
CJ and I have been drawn more and more away from traditions that we were raised with and more towards creating our own types of traditions that fit our family. Since CJ's parents and my father moved South and Noni passed away it has felt like we are really the leaders in our family and we need to make the holidays what we want our family to remember them as. So we are thinking next year we are going to focus less on Christmas and more on the Winter Solistice and Earth Based/Natural Holidays. After doing the Holidays Around the World, I think that KM has also come to realize that NOT everyone celebrates Christmas and that in other parts of the world it is the minority of people who actually do celebrate it. We will of course still respect our friends and families members who celebrate it, but for our family - the three who live under this roof - we are going to go our own route and enjoy the wonderful welcoming of winter!
Happy Holidays!
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6 comments:
It sounds like you had a marvelous time!
I would love to make the same move as you, but living in the Bible belt it is kinda hard.
Hi, sorry to post in your comments but couldn't find your email in your blog.
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Happy Holidays!
CJ Robinson
CJ - (NOT MY CJ BY THE WAY) Not a problem and thank you so much for letting me know about that!!!
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Merry Christmas!
Good to hear your Yule celebration was a happy one.
We follow the traditions we were raised with because we live so close to our parents, but we celebrate Solstice with our friends and so do our kids. Every year we have a winter Solstice party for the Adults, which includes dancing and food and gifts..and then during the day we have a sledding party for the kids which includes a Solstice story, hot cocoa, food and gifts. They love it..and so do we :-) We were married on Solstice so we kinda think of the party as our anniversary celebration as well :-) If our parents weren't so close to us though we'd forego the Christmas festivities and just do Solstice as well.
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