Time for New Traditions

I have a confession to make. I have started watching Christmas movies and you can blame it on Netflix!

2020 by all counts has been a year of doing and being differently and I am ok with that.

I have learnt this year not to kick and scream for the past but to instead embrace the newness of what this pandemic has created. 

One of these new things is an opportunity to create new traditions. I figured that all traditions were new to begin with, so no harm in starting another new one, right?

That is what we pondered as a family.

In 2020 we acknowledged the one-year anniversary of the sudden passing of my mother-in-law, a year since we relocated back home from living overseas almost six years, finding new jobs, starting my own business and my young adult sons finding their way in this ‘next normal’. What a year!

So yes, we need to shake things up a bit this Christmas and start new traditions. Fresh memories but same food. So we are all heading to the U.K for Christmas to do the holidays differently.

We don’t have a script and except for the menu—which our middle son insists we do not change— everything else is up for grabs. Truth be told, we are all looking forward to it. 

It feels good to know we can always begin again to create new memories and new ways of being that will in no time become our tradition.

If in some way life as you know it has changed, allow yourself the latitude to change with it.

You see, as long as we are together—safely bubbled or not—this year of the pandemic has taught us we can thrive and emerge with the resilience and hope to find fresh new ways to create joy and hope again. 

P.S. I will be packing Christmas stockings to hang for my three boys. That is one tradition, along with our favorite Christmas dishes, that we will just not mess with. 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays…Be Well & Stay Safe!