As kids grow up... the routine on Christmas Eve definitely changes... on Christmas Eve me and the kids used to go see Christmas lights, read the Christmas Story, put out cookies for Santa, put out reindeer food, watch miracle on 34th St, do some wrapping etc etc!
As I get to my point, I digress for a minute....
MANY years ago I went to Education week and went to a class on traditions. I learned a VERY important point... traditions can be started and stopped whenever you want! Really?!?!? Sooooo.... one tradition MY family had was to eat pickled herring on New Year's Eve... PICKLED HERRING!!!! Have you ever tasted pickled herring?!?! I think this tradition went back for YEARS! Guess what tradition I stopped IMMEDIATELY?!?!? I am HAPPY to say we do NOT eat pickled herring on New Year's Eve and I don't think ANYONE in my family is sad about that!
So back to Christmas Eve...
As adults now... we have done a few different things on Christmas Eve to entertain ourselves... go to zoo lights, see movies.. etc...
This year I decided just to do a nice adult dinner and play games since there would be 7 of us ADULTS... yes... even Trent (my baby) is one of the adults now!
Here I am with my SandraLeeMarthaStewartWannabee pose. Since there wasn't going to be any children around I got out the MILK GLASS dishes and GOLD (plated) silverware.... ooooohhhhh aaaawwwwww....
YUM... T bones and all the fixins! BUT... I guess I should have had some social graces lessons before hand... Mike couldn't understand why I tied ribbons on the water bottles and Trent couldn't understand why we had individual jellos on top of SHREDDED LETTUCE!!! Good thing I didn't confuse them anymore by putting out multiple silverwares! Maybe next year I will give them 2 forks!
Everyone loved the nice meal on nice dishes and said this should be a new tradition! It just might be!
So for entertainment I bought a bunch of little gifts.... oh yes... the anticipation to get one of these nocostwastoogreat gifts was intense. BUT... to win one ya had to win a round of the Left Right Center game. I bought it at Walgreens and it was SO fun!
OOooohhhh... what will he roll?!?!?
A winner!
Another winner!
You can see some of the GREAT prizes!
We played clear til almost 11:00! It was gettin late and silly!
Whoa... what an event! Mom needs more Martinellis!!!!I love some of our old traditions and I love coming up with new ones too! I can't wait til next year!
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