Hey Everyone! Happy New Years and Merry Christmas! I know this is a late post but read a little more and you will find out why. Before you start reading just look at how cute my dog is on Christmas morning.

My family celebrates Christmas on December 25 every year. One of our most important holiday traditions is that the day we get on to winter break we don’t have any electronics. We do this so that we can spend more quality time together while everyone is off of work and school. I thought that I would post my Holiday blog post late to represent that. One more tradition that my family does every year on christmas is have as much family over to our house as we can. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic we were not able to have as much family over as we usually do. My grandpa lives with us so we have to stay extra safe. If you want to learn some more cool facts about Christmas go HERE.

Now that I have talked a little bit about some of my family’s traditions over Christmas let me talk about some of the facts about christmas. You probably know the song “Jingle Bells”. That song was actually written for Thanksgiving and not Christmas. My dog that I got for christmas in 2016 is actually named Jingle Bell. One more cool fact about christmas is that the first artificial or fake christmas tree was not even an actual tree. It was made of goose feathers that were dyed green to look like a real tree.

Since christmas has passed and we have recently gone into the New Year let’s talk a little bit about what that means to me. As you all know it is now 2021. 2020 was not a normal year, it had many ups and downs and a lot of new changes. This year I am seeing 2021 as a year where I am really going to have to try hard to grow and make positive changes. A lot of families have New Year resolutions, including mine. Each year about 30 minutes before New Years, we all share our resolutions with each other and ask each other to try and help us keep them as long as we can. A resolution is a goal that you take into the new year, this is something you try to uphold for as long as you can. One of our last traditions for New Years is that we go bowling every year and party for new years. We could not do that this year because we want to stay safe but we still managed to have fun at home playing board games and spending time together.

Thank you so much for reading this and I hope you guys had a great New Years and were able to celebrate safely. Feel free to leave a comment telling me what holiday you celebrate and leave a link to your blog so that I can stop by. -Bella