It’s December 1st – time to start thinking about the Holidays. This holiday will be different than all the others. I live in the Midwest. We are currently a COVID hot spot. Many of my usual holiday activities will not happen this year – get-togethers with extended family, the Holidazzle festivities with friends and the advent service at church. It’s time to get creative.
My holidays had already been changing the past couple of years. We have moved from the excitement of seeing what Santa has left under the tree Christmas morning to links that my kids send me to order their preferred Christmas gifts. My nieces and nephews are older and are having families of their own. So, we have started celebrating Christmas with all of them the weekend before the actual day.
Christmas is now just the four of us. To ensure that we didn’t spend Christmas Day in front of the TV I started the Wolt Family Cup. Each family member chooses a game to play. We came up with a scoring system that worked for all of us and bought a fun coffee cup. The big winner of the day keeps the cup. The first year my daughter insisted that we help her as she would never win. So- of course – she won. My husband chose a game that required knowledge about the government while she was studying Civics. The next year I was the big winner and last year my son took home the cup. I’ll be cheering for my husband this year. We have had this tradition for 3 years and it has been a lot of fun. Funny things that were said and done that day get brought up all year.
Please try your own Christmas Cup Tradition this year. Try baking some different types of cookies and spend some time outside working off the calories. Be willing to try new things and don’t be concerned if they aren’t perfect. Let go of your expectations for how things should be and enjoy what is.
