Happy, joyous December 1st to everyone!
Christmastime is here. I cannot believe it. FOUR MORE classes this semester.
Christmas is my favorite time of year. My family has so many traditions that I truly treasure. Here are a few:
- We get our tree from the lot in front of Home Depot. We spend a lot of time picking the very best one. Then we tie it to the roof of the car and take it home. Jerry sets it up in its stand on the tiled corner of the family room, puts water in it, and covers the stand with a nice red tree skirt. A Christmas CD plays on the computer. First, Mom and Jerry string colored lights through the branches, distributing them evenly, carefully. Then, each of us plunges into the four boxes of ornaments and begins placing them strategically on the tree's limbs. Brooke, Madelyn, and I put what we consider the "ugly" ones on the back of the tree, where they can't be seen. This is one of my favorite nights.
- We go see the Holiday of Lights display at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Enormous structures of lights surround the racetrack, and the cars drive around the track, experiencing them all. Back when Jerry had his old Chevy truck, he would bring it home the day we were going to Holiday of Lights. First, we would go to the Starbucks in Del Mar, always the same one, and get hot chocolates. Then we would drive to the fairgrounds and wait in the long line of cars to get in. Once we made it to the front and paid, we would enter the Holiday of Lights. Quickly, Jerry would put the truck in park and all of us kids would jump out of the cab and climb into the pickup bed, where we had laid out blankets to sit on. Jerry would start driving again, as we sat in the bed—sipping hot chocolate, feeling the cool breeze, watching the incredible light displays, laughing together. (Nowadays we do everything the same, except for the truck which we no longer have. We have to enjoy our hot cocoa and the lights from inside our SUV). This is one of my favorite nights.
More traditions to come. . .
<3 Mel
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