Every year, like clock work, we have a family tradition.
Some families-
-get together for traditional shows, go to the theater, or watch a favorite holiday movie.
-attend church or choir services to get them started into the holiday season.
-may share a special dinner, or even breakfast, with gifts.
-might go tree shopping at an old fashioned, ride a horse and wagon to cut down your own tree, tree farm.
-have traditional baking days with celebratory drinking to add extra spirits.
-maybe have gift wrapping parties so it doesn’t seem so drudgery or task like. Again, with extra spirits to add cheer to the occasion.
My family?
-some poor sap, me, bites the bullet and sends the dreaded holiday email.
-“so, everyone, when are we getting together for Christmas?” it will say.
-some will reply immediately.
-some will not reply at all.
-someone will be inadvertently left off of the email list and when it is discovered they will have 2,472 emails to catch up.
-some will think it’s ridiculous to try and plan three whole weeks before Christmas when all 1500 of us will gather at the same time, same place and who’s brining what to eat.
-some will think we should have started planning it six years ago.
-someone, me, will drop the proverbial cuss word during a discussion about it.
-someone will pretend to be the voice of reason (all of my siblings) while they are secretly cussing the rest of us to their spouse.
-someone will throw their hands up and give in saying they don’t care when it is just let them know.
-no one will agree on anything.
To date this year:
-the email has been sent.
-some emails have come in.
-some emails have not come in.
-it was discovered who was left off of the list.
-nothing has been agreed upon.
-the cuss word was dropped.
-the hands were thrown up.
If nothing else, the family is dependable, everything is on schedule. Let the festivities and the joy of the season commence!
🌲
I love my family.
They never let me down.
❤️
I shouldn’t laugh (cos I think we’re related reading this!) but ‘the cuss word was dropped’ got me 😉
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😉 please laugh. I do, every year. 🙂
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survival 😉 xx
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😉 it’s the best way to make it.
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We DO learn our family’s quirks, whether we realize them or not. They help, though, right?
😀 😛
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They do help. And fortunately, though I am the cusser, I am also laughing.
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😀 😀 😀
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At least they are reliable!
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Right? So.Very.Reliable. 😉
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I am chuckling! This sounds just like our family, although I have a much smaller tribe! Every year I take charge…and I relate to your inability to herd the cats! LOL! What would we do without any one of them!
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I have no idea how they think we can ignore it and it will just happen…….
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😳😂
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😀
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It seems to me like your family tradition is that of the email, the cussing and disagreements rather then getting together..lol
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That’s exactly it Huck.
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😉 Merry Christmas season.
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Ha! 😉 Merry Christmas season indeed!
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😉
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Every word true! At leasst I can say that I was the first to respond, and I haave been totally agreeable. AND yours were not the only !@#$&***!!! dropped 😉
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Good to know others appreciate the humor of this. 😉
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there are some things that you can just count on )
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Like the sun. The moon. And this tradition….
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I feel your pain. You are not alone. Families…so complicated.
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Right? ……..
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Hahahaha! That sounds like just about every family in the universe. LOL! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
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🙂 I sometimes get jealous, Priceless, when I see OTHER peoples traditions. 🙂
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LOL! Because yours is so dysfunctional?
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Hahahahaha! But no, I like other’s traditions. I think traditions (in the best sense of the word) represent comfort and dependability. (I think my comment will be one of my next blogs!) 🙂
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Sorry Colleen that I got that so wrong. I think the traditions that you and your family have are pretty wonderful! My family use to gather at my mother’s house on Christmas Eve and open gifts. It was a cherished family tradition for many years. Now, my mother is in a nursing home and the family doesn’t get together anymore.
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❤ 🙂
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❤
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All the traditions of the season are true gifts 😉🎄🎁
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I believe so!
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Ha!
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😀
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I think we have such a small family now it usually all works out. I miss the chaos, because my grown kids have grandies open gifts before I arrive.
Up at my brother Rich and wife Susan’s house, we will have Mom over and a few things planned. Taking her to see “Coco” since she taught Spanish for 30 years. 🙂 Our siblings dinner is on Sat. 23rd, since I am going back to Columbus to pick up Felicia from airport on early Christmas Eve. Then, over to Carrie’s house where all 7 grandies, parents and all plan to hang out, eat desserts and watch a movie together. 💞 Love is all that matters, Colleen.
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It is all that matters Robin. That is for sure. There are 8 of us, plus their spouses and extended families…. it is always chaos. 🙂
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