Tradition!

One year later. Christmas is coming back. It's taking another 364 days, but in due time it'll arrive. And I'm glad to see it almost here.

So much of Christmas time for families seems to be centered around traditions. Stockings, presents, advent, Christmas Eve church service. Then there's all the little traditions your family comes up with. Coffee cake, oranges, sausages and coffee for breakfast. Stockings first in the morning. Presents after we eat. The sock hop--we get new socks, put them on and dance like it ain't no thang to the "Christmas Polka". Exchanging names for gifts. Wearing PJ's all day. Reading your new books and taking naps after the present wrapping is over for the morning. Going to Grandpa and Grandma's for a game night. Blowing a train whistle to wake up the house Christmas morning (that one is on the edge of getting vetoed--pretty sure the majority of the house, excluding Will, find it excessively annoying). Opening one present at a time. Listening to Christmas music from Thanksgiving until it's finally boxed and put in the barn.

Traditions are good. They're familiar. But is that why they're so good? Doesn't familiar get boring? And Christmas should most definitely not be boring... So what the heck is with traditions? You tell me.