Thanksgiving Tradition

Most years the celebration of Thanksgiving takes place at my house with my spouse, his family, my family members, and our three children. There is about twelve to fourteen people at Thanksgiving in total. Towards the end of the evening, after everyone has eaten, and things are winding down, my mother, sister, and I pass out holiday ornaments to all of our guests. The holiday ornament is picked out specific to each person, so everyone gets a different holiday ornament that represents them. The ornaments are wrapped in holiday bags with tissue paper. All at once, we kind of gather around as a group and hand out the packages. Next, we kind of open the gifts all at once together as a group. Everyone is usually pretty excited at this point. They …show more content…
And this tradition has already been through a few changes since I was a child. The back story is that my sister, mom, and I made ornaments by hand. And we started doing this because we found some old hand made ornaments from my great-grandmother. We started making ornaments on Thanksgiving break, because my grandmother liked to put up the Christmas tree and decorations the weekend after Thanksgiving. But making ornaments by hand requires a lot of devoted and money, and we eventually out grew the tradition. When we got too busy to make the ornaments, (because we were getting older and doing different things), we started the tradition of buying special ones for gift giving at Thanksgiving, because we still wanted to do something nice for our …show more content…
We focus on what we are “grateful” for at Thanksgiving, but those blessings can get lost when we look towards everything that needs to be ready for Christmas. The ornament is a placeholder to remember back to Thanksgiving and what was important to us in that moment. For me, if the tradition would cease to occur the value of Christmas that represents civility and love over material items would be lost. I find that there is an intrinsic value of being genuine towards others that I experience during the Christmas season. It is one of the best feelings that I ever get to feel, and I do not have to go out and spend money in order to feel that