I don't know if you realize it but it's 10 weeks until Christmas. Yesterday someone gave me a little grief about being so "ahead of the game" and when I pointed out that it's just a mere 10 weeks until Christmas the person's eyes seemed a little less smug.
Why is it that two and a half months seems like so much longer than 10 weeks?
So I find myself 10 weeks before Christmas making a list of Christmas Traditions that I want my daughter to have. Some of them have been passed down in my family for generations, some of them are things Jon enjoys doing with his family, some of them are new things I'm adding now.
So this week I'm have my first ever GIVEAWAY! I know... exciting HUH??
As you probably guessed from the GIANT picture I'm giving away some free Starbuck's Coffee. The winners of this contest will get a 1 LB bag of Starbuck's Coffee (or a box of tea) of the flavor of their choice.
This Monday I will pick 2 winners. Then next weekend there will be a new contest...and so on for the next 10 weeks. Try to contain your excitement long enough to keep reading.
To enter you must do two things...
1. You must leave a comment linking me to a story about one Christmas tradition your family can't live without. (If you've already made this post you can link to an old post)
2. You must link this contest on your blog so other people can come enter too!
(and yes you can do both of these things in one blog post if you like)
If you do not have a blog you can leave a comment to enter to win but you have to give me TWO family traditions... (because this post has been up for 10 minutes and someone already asked)
So get started... contest ends at 11:59 PM on Sunday October 19th, 2008 (California time)
4 comments:
My Grandma had a recipe for homemade cocoa, made from cocoa, dried milk, powdered creamer and a vanilla bean. Every year we all got our own tin. We girls made ours last through January but the boys would hog theirs up before New Years! And everyone returned their tins to Gram before the next Christmas! Anyway, with Gram gone it passed to my Mom to do...and now its my turn! A couple years ago Mom wasn't able to make it and I didn't think of it. I was fast informed that it WAS my job and another Christmas should not be missed!( I made it up and delivered it to 14 grankids before the New Year, so no year has been missed!) Thanks for the question! I can't wait to read peoples traditions!
I blogged you here:
http://dun4fun-hondaray6.blogspot.com/
Family traditions...well, for one, my dad always makes special Norwegian cookies. All us kids go and help with the baking (and the eating). There are two different kinds of cookies he makes, but I don't know how to spell them. I can barely say them. Another tradition is having the oldest child put the tree topper on the Christmas tree. Not all of us can make it home every year due to our jobs, so it isn't always the same person. It seems like everyone holds their breath as the angel is placed at the top of the tree.
Now you really have me in the mood for Christmas!! Thanks for offering the coffee!
My cousins, brothers and I would be running around my grandmother's house like headless chickens. My aunts, grandmother and mother would all be crowded around grandma's kitchen table with their butter knives in hand. Dipping into the giant masa bowl and lining the corn husks. That bowl was huge. When it wasn't the Sunday before Christmas, we could sneak it off the top of the refrigerator and sit inside it. Every year at Christmas time, there they were. The ladies of the family, crowded in the kitchen, making tamales. Grandma's television on her little rolling cart, squished among them, blaring General Hospital. Us sneaking sticky bits of the cornmeal mush, and my mom trying to make her husks look just like the ones made by people who'd been doing it since they were three. The faces around that table changed throughout the decades, and even the table has changed, but there are always love filled tamales come Christmas.
What a wonderful blog, and a great contest! I'm glad I found you today! I have posted a blog entry about one of my favorite (and definitely important) Christmas traditions on my blog and put a link to your contest! Thanks for doing the giveaway - I am a coffee junkie!! :-)
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