Christmas Nostalgia
The holidays are a time when I get extremely sentimental and nostalgic. My favorite childhood memories are of Christmas and the holiday season. My favorite part is getting ready for Christmas, the decorating, the baking, the Christmas songs. We start decorating the house the day after Thanksgiving and don’t stop until the week before Christmas. Each ornament on the tree has a story as does each Santa in our vast collection of Santas.
Christmas is a time of tradition for me and now that my daughter is two I want to continue my family’s traditions. One of those traditions is going to the library to check out Christmas books. I remember being excited as a kid going to the library to pick out books for my winter break from school. I admit, I read books during my time off from school while my friends were out sledding and ice skating. I have taken my daughter to the library before but there is something different about the library during December. Maybe its the Christmas tree in the lobby or the small one in the Children’s section. But I think its also the books, the ones that come out once a year. The ones about Santa and Rudolph and Frosty. My daughter loves books as much as I do.
After the library visit my mom surprised me by bringing a box over full of my childhood books. I didn’t realize she had saved them. It was wonderful watching my daughter read the same books I had read thirty years ago. It was great holding them in my hand remembering how much fun I had with them and knowing that now they can be a part of my daughter’s life. Our bedtime tradition is now reading Twas the Night Before Christmas. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday enjoying family traditions and making new ones. Looking forward to one of My New Year’s Resolutions of actually getting through my reading list.
