QotD: My Favorite Holiday Traditions
What are some of your favorite holiday traditions?
Submitted by sami711.
My favorite tradition is picking out a Christmas tree. Since I was a little kid, my family made it a big adventure. We rotated whose turn it was to pick out the tree. When I went away to college, they hauled a tree home from a highway lot in West Virginia. Then one year my dad had a broken foot and got a pulmonary embolism. He couldn't get the tree, so he passed the reins to my brother. Mike had been driving by a lot at a local Fire Department and he told my sister not to worry - they'd find The Perfect Tree.
They did. And for 11 years our family has been going to that Fire Department for the tree. First we pick out a tree for my parent's lot. Then we look for tree's for brother and myself. Along the way we look for what we call "Flex Trees", named after my grandfather who could never afford a tree until Christmas Eve and always brought home a tree that had less than stellar qualifications.
Here's an example of a Flex Tree:
This year I just kept laughing and smiling, which I really needed to do.
And here's my tree:
