The best part about the holidays are the "traditions". If you're doing it right -- traditions change, of course -- as children arrive, grow up, move away. The key to holiday happiness is FLEXIBILITY.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is between two adults -- me and my cousin Kim and our simple little "ornament exchange". We both try to make our ornaments something significant about the year. I sneak into her house and hang my "commemorative ornament" on her Christmas tree. She manages the junior high kitchen -- and every day when she comes home from work, she searches her tree to see what I came up with...
The year her daughter Carrie was married, the bride ornament was carrying a little box that had held my "truffle favor" from the wedding reception. Last year, we went to New York City in December -- so the ornament I put on Kim's tree came from the shop next to our hotel....well, you get the idea...
This year, to change it up -- I gave Kim an actual Snow Globe from TAVERN ON THE GREEN. The beautiful restaurant where Kim and I enjoyed the best meal of our lives...and which, sadly, closed forever on December 31, 2009.
When Kim gave me my ornament, she said, "remember -- I read your blog every day"...
So -- IMAGINE MY DELIGHT -- when I saw this...
YES -- IT'S A sock monkey ornament....which I hung right next to Lillian's "Baby's First Christmas"...
Happy New Year, Kim!
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