My Interracial Marriage: Creating Traditions

What will be our holiday traditions?

I don’t know.

Part of me knows I don’t need to know NOW…but I feel a lot of pressure. The holiday season here in the states is pretty much where 98% of my family traditions come from. The weeks between Thanksgivings and Christmas are JAM packed with [meals/treat/parties/planning/wrapping/shopping] and all other things “Festive”.

I LOVE the holiday season.

My Husband, could care less.

& it TOTALLY makes me sad.

I know it’s not his fault or Even a FAULT that he could care less about Christmas. In Ethiopia they celebrate with a nice meal.

There is No Santa- he doesn’t visit Ethiopia.

There are no Christmas trees.

No lights.

No ornaments.

No hot cocoa and cookies.

No claymation movies that resonate with me as part of the Holiday build up.

It was devastating enough when Adam asked if we could have Thanksgiving Ribs next year….

Now NO GRINCH?*

There are good things about Adam not wanting all the big US Christmas Hoopla-we will focus as a family more on the REAL reason for Christmas. Also it will save us a TON of money over the years...maybe. I am willing to scale down my idea of Christmas; I just want him to scale his up a bit too.

Season Wants: picture with Santa, watch my stupid claymation movies, build a ginger bread house.

In Ethiopia New Year is huge…it happens to fall on our September 11th…that could be a TRICKY one to Celebrate.

So as we about finish THE holiday season, I am left wondering- How do we merge this part of our lives…or DO we.

I did convenience Adam to help me decorate our little house with some snow flakes & he helped my mom put her tree up, We went to see the CRAZY Christmas house,  but I'm not so sure how sold he is on any of these ideas. He likes hot cocoa and laughed through Elf, but he is convinced he is the Grinch* we actually watched the 20 minute original version. Adam loved the theme song. 

Next year would be "his families year" in the rotation, Ethiopia is pretty far so he suggested a weekend in Vegas. I don't hate that idea.

We went to Caitlyn's to make graham cracker ginger bread houses. Adam watched Christmas Vacation while I made a tribute to the Provo Tabernacle. 

I thought he was getting the hang of it all when he opened his presents a few days back. In his defense they had just come from amazon and weren't wrapped yet. 

He didn't see the point in waiting when they were his presents...

which I felt that way too many years ago. 

So I snuck out and found a last minute hail marry gift. I sent it home with Morgan so he [couldn't/wouldn't] find it. 

So who knows what the future holds. How we will meld & what we will give up.

& Maybe we can just agree to wear crowns on Christmas Eve. They do THAT in England.

[Merry/Happy] Christmaskha!

♥ the MRS.

Any FAVORITE holiday traditions you couldn't live with out?

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