Late question today because I had a whirlwind weekend with both my family and my boyfriend's - their Christmas celebration was yesterday since it was the only day everyone could attend.
Does your family have any specific holiday traditions? Doesn't have to be strictly Christmas related!
My family doesn't have any real traditions, but it's agreed upon that my dad's generation doesn't gift to each other, but they all gift to each others' kids. My boyfriend's family draws names for Christmas so it's easier on those who have had rough years in the past or who are in between jobs and such, but then about a decade ago, they decided to start writing poems to each other. They're usually facetious and in one way or another, they expose the gifter. His mom is crazy about it - she demands poems and says if there are no poems, they're not having a Christmas.
My boyfriend wrote a poem for me, since he drew my name, about me being a crazy cat lady in training too weak to bend or turn anything more than a twist tie, and I needed all these things to make my birds' toys and assemble cat accessories - I asked for a wrench, screwdriver, needlenosed pliers, and a collapsible crate, and he delivered!
My boyfriend received a poem from his poem-crazy mother and it was the worst poem he'd ever read. For someone so gung-ho about this tradition, her submission was terribly disappointing. Said something along the lines of "he has a cat, no wait, two.. and he lives with Michelle. They have so many animals and he's a lazy slob so their place must be filthy, here's something Michelle will like" and he got a little vacuum. Not in those words, but that was the gist. She did use the word "pizazz".
Does your family have any specific holiday traditions? Doesn't have to be strictly Christmas related!
My family doesn't have any real traditions, but it's agreed upon that my dad's generation doesn't gift to each other, but they all gift to each others' kids. My boyfriend's family draws names for Christmas so it's easier on those who have had rough years in the past or who are in between jobs and such, but then about a decade ago, they decided to start writing poems to each other. They're usually facetious and in one way or another, they expose the gifter. His mom is crazy about it - she demands poems and says if there are no poems, they're not having a Christmas.
My boyfriend wrote a poem for me, since he drew my name, about me being a crazy cat lady in training too weak to bend or turn anything more than a twist tie, and I needed all these things to make my birds' toys and assemble cat accessories - I asked for a wrench, screwdriver, needlenosed pliers, and a collapsible crate, and he delivered!
My boyfriend received a poem from his poem-crazy mother and it was the worst poem he'd ever read. For someone so gung-ho about this tradition, her submission was terribly disappointing. Said something along the lines of "he has a cat, no wait, two.. and he lives with Michelle. They have so many animals and he's a lazy slob so their place must be filthy, here's something Michelle will like" and he got a little vacuum. Not in those words, but that was the gist. She did use the word "pizazz".
