A Tree Decorating Party - Creating Our Own Tradition

Since our kids have grown up , working and living on their own, I really miss having them around before they come home for the Christmas holiday. There are so many happy memories when they were young around this time of the year:

We used to put up the Christmas tree and decorate it together in early December; the church celebrations, the huge family gatherings, and yes, our skiing holidays - We piled the whole family into the family vehicle and went on skiing holidays with Christmas music playing on the radio while driving through beautiful snow scenery to our skiing destinations - Collingwood, Mt. St. Anne, Lake Placid, Mont Tremblant etc.

I have really missed these fun times!

Therefore, I decided to create a Christmas tradition for our family and have a tree decorating party every year.  I invited our best friends to come, have dinner with us and decorate the tree together.

People are busy with their own lives. It was really fun having our friends over, enjoying a relaxing homemade dinner, lingering over desserts, catching up with each other and decorating the tree together.

Our friends also enjoyed the time together as they thanked us profusely for the great time together.
They would like to come back again and also make it a tradition for themselves spending time with their best friends each Christmas.

I am glad that we started this tree decorating party tradition. We will certainly continue it year after year if God allows us the health to do it.

R.T.
Toronto