December10th
Many years ago, Hubba Bubba bought this beautifully illustrated version of “The Night Before Christmas” to give to his nieces and nephew in Philadelphia as a Christmas present. He hoped to create a tradition of reading it to them every year.
He packed it carefully in his suitcase and boarded the plane for Philadelphia.
December4th
Hubba Bubba and I both come from families where Christmas is a BIG DEAL, filled with family, feasting, and unchanging traditions. His family celebrates with the Italian Feast of the Seven Fishes, or La Vigilia. In my family it wouldn’t be Christmas without my Mama’s signature Stockings Extraordinaire and Christmas morning sausage casserole (more on that later).
December3rd
When I was growing up in the 80s, my mom occasionally came up with an almost-like-Martha-Stewart idea for a little homespun Christmas flare.
For example, one year, instead of buying Christmas wrapping paper, she bought an endless roll of white paper and a mega pack of Crayolas and set my sister and me to work. We were thrilled that we got to decorate all the wrapping paper… until we spent an entire week after school detailing reindeer, snowmen, and tiny holly berries and only covered about two gifts’ worth of paper. When Sister and I realized how much work was involved, we abandoned ship and returned to our regularly scheduled after-school Brady Bunch viewing.
