Holiday Traditions

[goosehd]

Girls are putting the lights on the tree and listening to my 9 year olds music list:

[goosehd]

…I’m sitting at the table…drinking

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd I‘d be in another room drinking if last Christmas was playing. Quickest way to get me to leave

[goosehd]

@Tago-Mago I knew I liked you

[Mizmazzle]

@Tago-Mago don’t tell anyone, but I like that song. An odd, guilty pleasure around the holidays.

**Now the accompanying music video is not anything I can condone watching.

[Mizmazzle]

We call it our gingerbread house.

[Oaktavia]

@goosehd nice tree and I like the taxidermy

[goosehd]

The girls are finished and I think they did a great job.

[Mizmazzle]

@goosehd lovely tree. Classic and warm.
I see you are an all lights no ornaments family.

[goosehd]

@Mizmazzle Ornaments come tomorrow. I do that with the girls while mom takes a rest.

[Mizmazzle]

@goosehd haha. Yup! I bet the girls have it down pat by this point!

[Mizmazzle]

I come from a Mexican family, though most would never guess based on my red hair. May dad is Mexican and I grew up very close to the Mexican side of my family. We always have tamales on Christmas Eve. My grandma would spend days preparing them before our big family party on the 24th. She passed away a couple years ago and it was devastating. But the tamale tradition lives on. Usually I start several weeks before…

[goosehd]

@Mizmazzle That’s a great tradition and I bet that it tastes as good as it looks.

Edit: Do you serve them with a salsa verde and do you make that too?

[Mizmazzle]

@goosehd many people love tamales with green chili. But I grew up eating them dry with eggs. So that’s how I prefer them.

Morgan, however, makes the best green chili!! That’s usually a fall dish for us so we’ve had it a couple times this season.

From the last batch:

[twin]

@goosehd Nice looking Christmas Tree.

[twin]

@goosehd Even better with the lights.

[twin]

@Mizmazzle I like this tree,

[twin]

Christmas Tree hunting today. Found ONE.

[Mizmazzle]

@twin dude!! The gorgeous leather on that Flat Head gets me everytime I see it. It looks like a teacore. If so, that thing is going to look so freaking sweet!

[goosehd]

…and done!

Love everyone’s contribution and wish all of you the happiest of holidays!