Traditions

 

 

I heard that Martha, over at Beyond the Literary Horizon, was going to do a Christmas themed blog party and, since I love Christmas, I quickly agreed to join. There are just 4 of us bloggers so you should have time to visit us all each day. And there is a giveaway. I hope you'll join us every-other-day for more Christmas fun! Let's get started!

Traditions 

We don't have a whole lot of Christmas traditions, but we do have some. 

1. Christmas breakfast – Every Christmas morning we eat Cinnamon bread and Nut bread for breakfast. This started when my dad's mom would send us Christmas boxes (we lived half way across the country from her) that had presents, homemade cookies, fudge, and the special bread. When my sister got older and fell in love with cooking and baking, she got the recipes and started making the bread herself. When my grandma passed away suddenly several summers ago, the bread became even more special to me. You can find the recipe here.
2. Family Gatherings – For the first 30 years of my life my mom's parents would reserve a place at a camp near them and all my aunts and uncles and cousins would come for several days at Christmas time. Not everyone could come every year as the cousins got older, but those are memories I cherish.
3. Christmas books – If you've been reading this blog or my Read Another Page blog for long, you already know that Christmas books are important to my Christmas time. That all started when my siblings and I were young and my mom would read Christmas stories to us. Back then there weren't very many Christmas books so we read the same ones each Christmas. Maybe that's why my favorite Christmas book is 24 Days Before Christmas.
   

 

Don't forget to check out the other blogs who are participating in this fun Christmas party! And enter the giveaway!

Beyond the Literary Horizon

Little Blossoms for Jesus

Culinary Scribbles

Do you have a Christmas story you grew up with?
Have you read this book?
What Christmas tradition(s) do you have?