My Holiday Traditions

During my holidays, I always try to (besides recently) sit on the couch with my family watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Before 2021, when my parents divorced, I used to help my mom make hot chocolate, and we would all sit on the couch and put our DVD of Rudulph into our DVD player, and we would watch it, all four of us. It was me, my mom, my sister, and my dad. I would sit with my dad, and my sister would sit with my mom. I remember how Rudolph was bullied in the movie, and I remember how I would fall asleep towards the end of the movie. I used to think Santa was real, and the movie was based on him fully. Of course now, it’s complicated. For the past couple of years, I’ve done two christmases. This year, it’s my dad’s year, so I’m celebrating every holiday with him, and then I do it with my mom the next day. I don’t like it, but it doesnt really matter.I remember, when me and my sister were younger, and we believed that Santa was real, we would try to go to sleep early. My mom had a “Santa Tracker” on her phone, and she would show us it, and how santa isn’t going to show up if we don’t go to sleep. One Christmas, I had decided to go to sleep early, but everyone else stayed up to make cookies. I layed in bed for 30 minutes before I started to cry really hard because I was jealous that everyone else was making cookies without me, and no one came to convince me not to sleep. I got up, and stormed to my mom who was with my younger sister. She found it funny but I’m still sad about it. That night I went to sleep, and then I woke up extremely early, like at 3 am automatically, and I got out of bed and immediately rushed to the living room, to see a huge amount of presents under the tree. 

When we moved for the 6th time, we lived in a small house in odenton, and those two christmases that I was there, I woke up and would wake up my younger sister who was now old enough to know what christmas is, and we would race each other down the stairs, and see the tree filled with christmas presents. We would sort them, then go back upstairs to sleep, or we would stay awake because everyone else was asleep because it would be like, 5 am. The second Christmas, we unboxed these brier horses. That’s another tradition. 

Each christmas, my mom would take out these HUGE boxes, that were filled with her childhood brier horses. Me and my sister would play with them in the living room on the carpeted floor while they watched. We stopped this tradition after we moved to Virginia, where we just had them regularly out of the box on the third floor in the playroom before my parents divorced. 

Well, even though I don’t expeirence those things anymore, I think I enjoy remembering them. Each christmas was special, atleast the ones I remember, and im glad I was able to share these with you all!

(you can find breyer horses on ebay, amazon, and any official breyer horse website. Rudulph can be found on prime)