some of our many traditions are and how they came about:
1. Every year on Christmas eve we get to open our present from my Grandma Kay. We know what it is every time as it is what we have gotten every year. She always gives us a new pair of pajamas. We also usually get some sort of fuzzy warm socks. She has been doing this for as long as I can remember. I love it because by time Christmas comes around I could use a new pair.
2. Every year my mom gets us a new ornament. They usually have to do with something that we have done that year or a vacation that we went on. I remember one of the ornaments I got one year was a John Deere riding lawn mower. I had asked my parents to get a riding lawn mower cause we had such a large yard and I hated to mow it. So that was the riding mower that I got. (They have since gotten a really size riding lawn mower, of course after I had left.)
3. A train around the Christmas tree. This tradition didn't start until my Grandma married my grandpa Reed. He always had a train around his tree every year. I would start on one side of the fire place, pass in front of it and then go around the tree. We loved that train. Once he passed away my grandma Kay bought a train.
I believe traditions are what connects families and makes the memories. I have been thinking about my Grandma Fran (5 years in November of this year) and my Grandpa Reed (12 years this December). They have both since passed on. But they are part of many memories and traditions. I am so thankful that they were a part of my life. They truly have had an impacted on my life and made me a better person.
Frances Elaine Urbanik Potter
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