What type of new traditions did you start with the kids?
Well, my kids are older and fully aware of who Santa really is so we decided that they could open all gifts Christmas Eve and we would only do stockings Christmas morning. The normal as a family in the past was to open gifts xmas eve and also to have Santa for their big gifts. Being that mom wasn't here with us it kind of lost it's luster this year.
I of course load their stockings up pretty good so some of the big gifts are in there as well. With teenagers the important gifts seem to be the gift cards to their favorite stores and such.
After they went through their stockings I cooked them a pancake and Latkas (jewish potato cakes) breakfast. We have always intertwined the fact that they are half Jewish and half Baptist. We spent the rest of the morning playing Rockband. I scored a 97% on the vocals for the song Roxanne by the Police....yay me...
It was difficult, it IMO will always be difficult to not continue a family tradition as a family. Oh well, another unnecessary piece of collateral damage from the bomb. I can tell you that I was extremely grateful for all of the texts from my friends on this board, that really helped hold things together.
