# 20 Start A New Tradition

I'm a huge fan of the holidays! From Thanksgiving straight through New Years I'm in love with the energy of the season! Growing up in NY I always couldn't wait to go see the tree at Rockefeller Center and going ice skating at Prospect Park, walking up 5th to Tiffany's of watching the light show on the side of Saks. Even the hustle and bustle and awkward foreigners crowding my city doesn't bother me during the holidays lol. I didn't really grow up with any real holiday traditions and so now with my fam I've decided to do it right for everyone...

The Plans (for now):
We ALWAYS get a real tree (have to have that smell!!!) and we decorate together Thanksgiving weekend.
When Elijah gets older we'll include him in St Nick's Day (Dec. 5th) where he'll write his wish list for Santa and put it in his stocking. Santa takes it that night and if he's a good boy he'll bring him his top toys :-)

::Yes I have ordered the monogrammed tree skirt (Jones) and stockings (w/all our names)::

On Christmas Eve we all open one gift which will be Xmas PJs (corny I know lol but I love it), bake cookies for Santa and leave a carrot for Rudolph, and then it's bedtime with 'The Night Before Christmas' (Elijah better not clown me)
Christmas morning Santa puts a present in every one's stocking in "special" paper and each gift under the tree in that paper is for that person from Santa and the rest is from the family.
Then Christmas breakfast (which is a tradition I grew up with), of course a Jamaican breakfast.
Play time...then Christmas dinner, it has to be ham (Hubby's family tradition).

Hopefully this year we can start this tradition and carry it out until our kids are big and calling us corny lol. I love the Holidays!!! I'll post pics when we get it started...