A Family’s Way to Celebrate the Holidays

A Family’s Way to Celebrate the Holidays

When the holiday season rolls around my family gets prepared for all the activity that takes place when kids are out of school and on break.  As soon as the school busses are parked in the lots and the doors locked for the winter break we begin getting ready to get all the supplies and food prepared for the steady crowd of guests that will be coming by to share evenings with their friends.  Our youngsters usually have friends visiting every day and evening; at least on those days when they haven’t gone off to visit some friends or family themselves.  They often spend hours playing games on the large monitor we have down in the family room; it was originally installed to watch movies, then it was commandeered for watching football and basketball games; and now it’s become the center for the young folks to indulge in online games and contests.  They will be down there wearing their latest outfits obtained from Hot Topic, swigging down their favorite sodas and juice, and munching on popcorn like they were in a movie theater.  Sometimes you can hear them over the sound of us upstairs playing cards or watching our favorite ball games.

When the kids finally come up for air from the game room we usually will take off to enjoy some good food from a favorite restaurant.  Or one of us might have prepared a special holiday snack or meal to serve to everyone.  Of course, we usually have a lot of eggnog and cider available, as well as some home baked goods to nibble on.  And naturally there is music playing almost constantly.  I’ve heard different people say our home is one of the most popular places for youth and for adults to visit during the holiday season.  We certainly enjoy having everyone over, and we look forward to the youth fashion show that takes place nearly every other day when the kids show off the latest items they got with their Groupon coupons from Hot Topics.  Once they really get comfortable it is usually time to put on some music or to take out the family games that all enjoy.  There are some new and entertaining activities on nearly every evening during the break.  By the time schools reopens for the new year everyone has enjoyed a celebrating the onset of the new season.

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