I must apologize for my break from blogging yesterday. I was sick in the bed with a sore throat all day! Fortunately, today I am feeling much better... which is good, since I'm going to have to do two tradition entries!!!
I promise this will be the last tradition that revolves around gifts (I'm almost embarrassed by the number of traditions my family has concerning gifts!). Okay, so this started a really long time ago... before I can even remember; Christmas tradition #7 is the Girl's gifts.
In case you didn't know already, my mom's parents, my grandmama and grandaddy, have ten granddaughters. Yeah, absolutely no grandsons (well there is one grandson-in-law). I'm telling ya, it can get pretty wild sometimes. Seriously though, having such a huge family of girls is really what makes Christmas and being with family so great, especially since we are all very close.
So, every year, for the three days leading up to Christmas Eve, my grandmama gives each of us girls a gift. We used to all go up to her house and have lunch everyday for three days before Christmas and open our gifts together, but as we have all gotten older, it gets harder and harder to do so. Still, Grandmama has a special tree and thirty special (little) gifts for each of us the three days before Christmas.
These gifts are not huge, they are not spectacular, but they are special. One time she made us all silk pillow cases. Sometimes she gets us all new hairbrushes, new journals, or if we're lucky, she gets us all books. Most of the time she buys these gifts right after Christmas when everything goes on sale and she saves them until the next year (now that is being a good steward of your money!).
Gifts or no gifts, it's a great way to get us girls together.
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