Well this year I'm celebrating what seems to be a fairly new tradition...and that would be not being home for Christmas...3 out of the past 5 years I've missed it! And last year's was all askew because I had to report in for my deployment on Christmas day...and my base is over 2 hours away from where my family lives...so we were forced to celebrate Christmas on the 24th or not at all. Hopefully that is a tradition I can cast aside.
Regarding real traditions though....I always enjoyed going to...and then as I got older, singing in, the 11pm Christmas Cantata at my church where I grew up. It's been quite a few years and I think that they've moved the service to earlier in the eve....maybe next year though.
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Paine
Scottish-American Military Society Post 1921
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