Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays! Today is our family Christmas, and I need to get busy in the kitchen. But first, I wanted to announce the winner of the latest Tawdry Treats! According to Random.org, the lucky winner was comment #33, Robb eeie. CONGRATULATIONS!! This was her post:
Our Family Tradition began over 150 years ago, as this has been done on my Mother’s side of the family for at least that long. But not to worry, I won’t take you that far back; approximately 70 years ago, when my Mom was a young girl, every year my Nanny (aka Grandmother) would pick a special ornament from her tree, and explained the story behind it (ie. where it came from, how old it was, what it meant to her and her Mom, etc.) ….. Nanny would then pass it on to my Mom, who would then carefully wrap it and place it in her Hope Chest for her future life.
When I turned 12 yrs. old my Mother started the same tradition with me; passing forward the ornaments that she had obtained from my Nanny MANY years before. Some of the precious, delicate ornaments on my tree are well over 90-100 years old ~ I often fear that if even the slightest breeze were to go by my tree, my frail family ornaments would just turn into crystals and float away into the wind. *smile*
Now that I’m 43 yrs. old and my husband and I don’t have the blessing of children (unless you count furbabies), I couldn’t just allow this wonderful tradition to end with me. So next year our Godson will be turning 12 yrs. old, and we’re incredibly fortunate to have an extremely close and loving relationship with him. In honour of my Nanny who has passed, and my Mother who is now 80 yrs. old, I am going to carry on our Family Tradition. I will select one of my special family ornaments annually, that are priceless and exquisite, and begin the process of giving our Godson the history of each, for his future life and hopefully to pass onward to his children.
It’s such a simple thing to do or start, but holds such warm and loving memories for me. I’m sure this Tradition will continue for another lifetime, even when I am no longer here to witness :0)
As Martha would say, “It’s a Good Thing” *smile*
Happy Holidays Sherry.
Robb eeie, if you will email me with all your deets, I’ll get your package of Tawdry Treats out to you after the Holiday!!!
Thank you all for playing along with me and so many of your traditions are ones that we used to do when my girls were smaller — thanks for the reminders! My mother reminded me of one the other day too. There was one year when my nephew was on the fence about believing in Santa. My dad found a 45 record of a telephone call with Santa. It came with a book that had the script for the call, with pauses for you to talk to Santa. My dad called my nephew on the phone and played the record in the background so my nephew would think that Santa was as granddad’s house. It bought us another year or two with my nephew. After that, he played the record for each grandchild the year they started to question if Santa was real!
Of course, I still believe — it’s the magic of the Season!
