Ten on Tuesday

(Please excuse the crappy pictures - it was raining this morning and quite dark!)

10 on Tuesday Holiday Tradition Edition!

1.     Each year, for at least the last 15, we’ve hung a big wreath.  First it was on the side of the house, and then the garage once it was complete. It’s especially nice now since the town has shut off all of the street lights!

2.     A shopping trip.  DRD have taken a day and shopped each and every year.  The last two years were weekend events.  Now that’s a tradition I can live with!

 

3.    Baking Chocolate Crinkle cookies.  A family favorite and the only time of year I make them. 

4.    Christmas Eve at my Mother-in-law’s and all that goes with it.  Deb’s cheese ball and shrimp dip, fresh shrimp, lots of wine, delicious lasagna and Dee Dee’s pumpkin bread. Dru’s chocolate chip cookies and DRD as Santa! 

5.    Taking at least one evening to bake for gifts, or more recently make this bark.

6.    One of my personal traditions is to hang the little angel bell ornaments that came from my Grandmother to my parents and then to me.  There are three of four remaining and I always hang one of them first. 

7.    The Girls Christmas Swap.  It’s about a 5 year old tradition at this point.  We go out to eat and have a Yankee Swap.  Good times.

8.    Putting on the Christmas music.  I don’t listen to it in the car and I can’t stand to hear it in the stores but loud and clear in my kitchen – just right.  

9.    Painting my nails…red of course! (And can I tell you – this year the color is fabulous!)

10.   Go to Church as a family.