If I could describe the holiday season in one word, tradition would just about sum it up for me. It's all about past tradtions and the new traditions we make each year. Whether it's eating at Grandma's for Thanksgiving lunch or making that countdown chain to Christmas with the kids. I eat it all up. Someone once told me that I needed to grow out of some of my traditions and I just thought it would be the saddest thing to let go of something I hold so dear. So this year as tradition would have it we had Thanksgiving dinner at Grandmas. Besides the normal stuff to be thankful for, this year our family welcomed 3 new lives into it. Each came with thier own set of difficulties but all 3 have over came them and we are all so very thankful for that. Tradionally I make greenbean casserole for anything we have at Grandmas. I've made up my own recipe and I guess it's a hit bc I've been making it for years. This year though I was told to cook for 26 people. How on earth was I supposed to know how many cans of green beans to buy. lol! I bought 12 and inlisted the help of one eager little girl to help me cook mom's specialty.
Another tradion past on from my childhood is watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This year Emma and Emerson really got into it. I was so excited for them as they jumped up and down when they saw Dora or Mickey Mouse Balloon. Of course Santa at the end for my family tradionally marks the beginning of the Christmas holiday season.
