Traditions look like waiting until Black Friday to put up the tree.

Tradition looks like the Christmas lights twinkling, they look like hot cocoa mugs and wearing pjs while you drive around to see the lights on Christmas Eve.

Tradition is waiting til December 20^th to do the last bits of shopping. It’s always buying yourself things and then not knowing what to ask for when anyone asks.

Tradition is ugly sweaters and gaudy tinsel decorations and weird reindeer ears.

Holiday parties with people you typically only work with.

It’s Dominic the Donkey and Little Drummer Boy.

And chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

It’s eggnog and fruitcake that is going to break your tooth.

Tradition looks like copious amounts of Christmas cookies.

Tradition looks like hanging up the lights and signing 80 Christmas cards and spending an actual fortune on stamps to send them.

It looks like new traditions being built with new people.

Tradition is the blending of the new and the old.

Tradition smells like snow and crackling fires.

And tradition is praying for snow on Christmas.