Christmas Traditions

As I sit, back here at my weekend job, I'm thinking of some of the Christmas traditions that we have in my family...Things I want to share with Booger...things that I shared with my mom and dad...things that I would like to share with Boog and his dad...and by dad, I mean the male father figure in my/his life...

My step dad is, for all intents and purposes, my DAD. He was there on a daily basis, when I was sick and needed a ride home from school...When I fucked up and needed to be called out on it, he did it...I wasn't HAPPY that he did it, but it needed to be done...Whether Booger's biological father is the dad in his life or not, that's up to him.

I LOVED going to pick out the Christmas tree, it was colder than the North Pole outside, but dammit, that tree had to be perfect. No bare spots, nothing too small since we had huge ceilings, and nothing too big that it wouldn't fit on the car lol. More than once I had to be reminded of that...Fake trees were NOT allowed, and my mom pretty much waited till I left before she got one...

We would decorate the tree with the eleventy billion ornaments that had been collected over the years. I have an ornament for each year since I was born, my mom gives me a new one each year. Then there are the ornaments that I made in school when I was younger...and each of my sisters gets an ornament each year as well...and there are the German ornaments my dad has...and just some random ornaments in general...

Each Christmas eve, my dad and the kids would go Christmas shopping. We'd shop some, do lunch and then a sundae...We ALWAYS got mom something from Bombay & Co. and she wasn't allowed to go shopping with us...I've only missed shopping twice, and once was last year when I was in the hospital...

This year I will make the shopping trip with my dad, my youngest sister, Booger and hopefully my other sister...Time to add a newbie to the tradition, and let dad have another guy in on the trip with him...