This is part of my Christmas Memory Challenge, a goal I set for
myself to recall 25 things I love about Christmas. You can also check
out Shannon's memories here.
When I was young and split the holidays between my mom's and my dad's houses, Christmas Eve and morning was spent at my mom's. After we opened our gifts on Christmas morning, my mom would get out the waffle maker and we'd all set about getting ready for Christmas breakfast. Big bro and I would set the table, while my mom made the waffles and my stepdad fried up eggs, bacon and tomato. Just before we all sat down to eat, out would come the champagne and orange juice for some breakfast mimosas. (When I was young, you'd be hard-pressed to actually find a discernible amount of champagne in my 'mimosa'. It was exciting when I was actually old enough to have a 50/50 ratio in my drink... exciting and enough to get a 14 year old buzzed for the day!)
When I got older, and I had three households I had to fit in* the order changed around and I found myself usually at my stepmom's house on Christmas morning. Waffles got replaced with pancakes but the rest of the tradition pretty much remained the same (except that recent years have seen the mimosas replaced with prosecco). It is such a wonderful way to start Christmas Day.
*I know I've mentioned this on here before, but my stepmom is technically no longer my stepmom. As I say to people when I have to explain why my dad lives in Victoria and my stepmom in Nanaimo: she's not actually my stepmom, but I find 'my dad's most recent ex-wife of 22 years who helped raise me since the age of four' a bit of a mouthful so I'm sticking with the term stepmom.
2 comments:
Labels are silly...I referred to my uncle as my uncle to an acquaintance who happens to know my family and was scolded because he and my aunt have separated. Ummm...he was my uncle for 21 years or something like that before they split up...he can still be my uncle. My aunt is still one of my favourite people in the world...that hasn't changed. The same person was then appalled to hear that he still refers to his nieces and nephews as nieces and nephews because we "belong" to my aunt.
It's amazing what some people choose to get uppity about!
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