Christmas Traditions

Throughout the world, many families get together and create traditions for Christmas. Each family I know goes about the same traditions, but they add their own spin to them to make it their own. As the year progress and gets closer to Christmas, my family gets anxious waiting for the perfect time to begin our annual traditions. When the time finally arrives, my family and I do the same thing every year. For our family traditions, we decorate the tree together, we make holiday cookies, and we decorate the house outside.
As soon as Thanksgiving comes to an end, my family and I haul the Christmas decorations out of the garage. Carrying them into the living room, we carefully set them down and begin opening the boxes. Red and green decorations of all sorts soon start to consume the floor and leave it in a chaotic mess. Too excited to start decorating, we always forget to set the tree up. It ends in a fit of laughter as we begin setting up the huge eight-foot tree. After fluffing out the tree, my dad grabs his ladder so we can wrap the white lights all the way to the top. My little brother and I are …show more content…
My dad takes me with him to the store every year to let me pick out the decorations for it. Each year, I pick a different blow up to place in the yard. After I pick the blow up for the year, we head home to decorate the house. My dad always begins by hanging the icicle lights all around the outside of the house. He leaves me in charge of decorating the mailbox. I wrap the mailbox with red and white tinsel to make it look like a candy cane. My little brother is a big help when I wrap the mailbox. He stands on one side of the mailbox so I do not have to move around it. Lastly, we set up the inflatable and turn it on. After everything is finished, we step back and admire our work. Decorating the outside of my house has been a tradition with my family ever since I can