Christmas Tradition: My Traditions Between Christmas And Christmas

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Sugar cookie scented Yankee Candles burning, with a hint of the smell of pine from the Christmas tree. Lights flickering from the corner of your eyes. Christmas music traveling down the halls. In the holiday spirit, there are many traditions I do each and every year around the holiday season that I look forward to doing! Each family has different rituals they continue to do every year since they were a child. Seeing that I favor Christmas over every other holiday most of my traditions occur between Christmas and Thanksgiving. My favorite tradition is making peanut butter balls with my Uncle Corey. My tradition started the first year I met my uncle. I was around five at this time, he had married my aunt a couple months earlier that year. I did not see him that much, plus just meeting him I was not as close to him, as I was with my aunt. Also, my aunt is not technically my blood family, she is my moms best friend. But, ever since I was a kid she has treated me like a niece, as if I were blood related to her. Therefore, that is another reason why this tradition is so important to me. In general, I had been a very quiet timid kid, especially with a person I was not comfortable around or did not know. One day, I went over their …show more content…

As each kid was born I continued to go over and make these cookies with them. We have passed the tradition on to kid after kid, for the past eleven years! Each year, there would be different jobs for each of them. My littlest cousin is only four and can not do much more than hold the bowl while her older brother mixed what is in it with a whisk. Their older sister loves to take charge, so her job through all this is telling everyone what they should be doing and how. Now that Patrick and I are older and can drive, we go to the store alone while my uncle watches the kids. I know that all of my cousins feel the same was that I do about this event every year, we all love

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