Many of our winter traditions are "classic Canadian" like building snowmen, and snow princesses, and snow queens, and today a snow angel ...
...complete with a bracelet for a halo and a pendant out of mommy's jewellery box.
Of course, we also have tons of food based traditions in our family...especially around the holidays. Like hot chocolate with marshmallows to warm up from playing outside in the cold.
(For the record this was unprompted hand-holding!)
RKA and I each continue a couple of our own traditions from our childhood families as well. My family always did the advent calendar which my mom created and which we now also use in our little family. RKA's family votes every year on the ugliest Christmas card they receive (makes you think harder about which box of cards you pick, doesn't it!).
We've also started some of our own...such as the "holiday hot tub"
Yesterday we broke with tradition and put our tree up before the official start of the month. Regardless, it felt exactly like it always does. I had high expectations that the family was going to listen to carols and talk and laugh while gently hanging ornaments in a visually pleasing fashion. RKA thought that if he could just get the lights on the tree then his job would be complete. The kids thought that it would be fun to rummage through the boxes of decorations and scatter them across the living room rug leaving a mixed trail of sparkle and Styrofoam particles. The Christmas carols kept spontaneously stopping for no apparent reason. Last year's mini-lights for the tree were kaput thereby interrupting the original tradition with the implicit tradition of taking a shopping trip to pick up new lights. Same old traditions! But this year we did one thing a bit differently. We had a little Cindy Lou Who whom asked to be the one to put the star atop the tree. And who says no to Cindy Lou Who?
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