The Christmas holidays are approaching and it always seems that it comes and goes so fast that once the new year hits you look back and wonder what happened. Our family always made it a point to take time out during the holiday and create a tradition when we put up Christmas Decorations. This included putting on “It’s a wonderful life”, having various snacks that we normally do not have, and eggnog. Our Christmas decoration tradition was stringing cranberries and popcorn to place around the tree. This is probably more of a Southern thing, but it really established memories for our family and even though we are all grown and out of the house with our own families we still talk about those times we decorated the tree and house.
There are many traditions that people follow when it comes to the holiday season and decorating depending on their religion, culture, or family. We had a chance to visit a site most suitably called celebrations.com lays out several decorating tips and tricks. They also offer some great items to help you decorate your home and can help inspire a new tradition for your family holiday parties and decorating ideas. I really like some of their ideas about the Holiday Caroling party where you get your neighbors together for drinks and appetizers then go around and sing Christmas Carols. We are actually going to be doing this within our neighborhood and I hope to have some video and pics to post on the blog as part of the follow-up.