While I'm never one to turn away a present, I think we all agree that the real gift of this time of year is that we gather around the people we love and we're drawn to do the same things time and time again. Tradition. I live for it. We all do. It makes us feel like family. Like we're cherished. It helps us stay connected to the past and teach our little ones what to do in their futures.
This week, we asked all the SOL Girls what their favorite holiday traditions were. Not surprisingly, a lot had to do with food...but all of them had to do with family.
My personal tradition? Every Christmas, we have special SOL Christmas PJs made for all of us. My sister Nancy always gives my daughter and Jeanie's daughter matching PJs. So cute.
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| My sweet Bella on Christmas morning. She designed her silk top herself! |
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| Adorable cousins in their matching PJs. They grow up so fast! |
Now...for some of the SOL Girls' faves...
Tracie - "We have a Christmas Eve tradition. Every year we let our daughter Kendall open one gift. It's always something cozy and fun from SOL. After that, the whole family sits in front of the "electronic hearth" and watches A Christmas Story together."
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| "It's thuck!" |
Krista - My family gets together on Christmas Eve for tamales and green chili! La Casita (a North Denver institution) makes more than 200,000 tamales for the holidays and you have to place your order almost a month in advance! For the last four Christmases, I have brought tamales in for the SOL family to enjoy as we work Christmas Eve helping people finish their shopping. I guess you could say my Christmas tradition is eating tamales at all three meals on Christmas Eve. iFeliz Navidad!
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| Yum. |
Janelle: I'm 37 and while I've lived in Colorado for fifteen years, I've never missed a Christmas with my family in Long Island, NY. I even book the same United flight every year. Being together is the tradition.
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| "My lovely Mom a few years ago after opening her yellow box. She loved gifts from SOL." |
Jordy: Growing up in Texas, my family would always go to church together on Christmas Eve. There would be a beautiful candlelight service and then we'd venture out for some delicious TexMex food! At home that evening, we would each open one gift from a family member (not Santa, of course). My sister and I would watch a Christmas movie and wait patiently for Santa to eat our cookies and milk and leave everything on our list. The next morning, we'd eat Sara Lee coffee cake and then take off for Waco to celebrate with relatives...and eat even more! Merry Christmas, y'all!
Amelie: My favorite holiday tradition, which I'm sure my mother completely made up on her own is "Bayfana - the New Year's Witch." She always left a little gift on New Year's Day. She wasn't as extravagant as Santa, but it was always something beautiful and sweet! Also, after we opened our presents on Christmas Day, we had to go outside and yell as loud as we could, "THANK YOU SANTA!" That was so much fun!
Merry Christmas from all of us at SOL. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with the people you care about and making traditions. We'll be doing the same - so we'll close the store at 4pm on Christmas Eve and reopen in the New Year, on January 2nd.
Happy Holidays!
xoxo,
Cindy
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