Home for the Holidays

The holidays are a wonderful time of the year for my family.  A time when everyone tries their best to get along and enjoys each other’s company.  My family has been having Christmas Eve with all of my dad’s cousins since as long as I can remember.  In the past 3 years, there are 7 new members to the family, and there is still one unborn one.  Now that there are all these new kids in the family, my family has decided to have each Christmas Eve at our house and start a new tradition.  Over the past few years, my mom, dad, brother, and I have come up with non-traditional meals and activities to do with the family.  We started a thing where we decorate our tree with a different theme every year.  Two years ago we decorated it like the Grinch had his head stuck in the tree, and last year we decorated it like a snowman.  Now that there are so many new little cousins in the family, we make Christmas all about them and keeping it fun for them.  When I was their age we did all sorts of fun things.  This year my mom and I started a new tradition that we hope lasts for many, many years to come.  We created a special day that all of the kids come to our house and have lunch with us and we make crafts with them for them to give to their parents.  This is special because most children love the feeling of being able to give gifts to their parents.   Also this year our themed Christmas tree is a tree decorated to look like Mickey Mouse.  Last year we had a Christmas pajama-themed party, and every adults and child wore their pajamas.  This year will be an ugly sweater party, and everyone can either make or buy an ugly sweater.  The one with the best ugly sweater will win a prize.  Two years ago we played Christmas minute- to-win-it, which was a blast.  Not only do we do non-traditional activities but we have non-traditional food at our Christmas Eve party.  We had subs last year, and this year is soup and salad bar.  Every year we hope to have new and exciting activities for our Christmas Eve party.  My family loves to have fun and do different things for Christmas Eve, the best part is it’s a time for all of us to get together and make memories. 

Christmas Crafting with the Curfmans

Our Tree last year

What our tree will be this coming year