Blended Traditions
Blessed 10th day of Christmas!!
When two people marry, they bring holiday traditions from both families and sift them out and come up with their own brand of holiday traditions. In our home we have joined the Greek heritage to the German heritage and formed our personal Kavouras traditions. Several years ago I purchased ornaments to highlight our heritages. Here is the Greek ornament which says Kala Christougena which means Merry Christmas. On the back of the ornament is a list of some of the Greek traditions surrounding the birth of our Savior.
We also have the German ornament with the words Froehliche Weinachsten -- again Merry Christmas On the back of the ornament are German traditions. Since I am the baker in the family we do some German cookies at Christmas. We also keep the German tradition of handing a pickle ornament on the tree.
This ornament is the last one to be put on the tree(actually hidden by the Frau of the house). In the morning, the child who finds the ornament gets an extra gift. Lily has found the pickle the last two years so this year her mom encouraged her to hang back and let someone else find it. Our friend's daughter found it this year. She shared her extra gift of Cracker Jacks with the rest of us.
When two people marry, they bring holiday traditions from both families and sift them out and come up with their own brand of holiday traditions. In our home we have joined the Greek heritage to the German heritage and formed our personal Kavouras traditions. Several years ago I purchased ornaments to highlight our heritages. Here is the Greek ornament which says Kala Christougena which means Merry Christmas. On the back of the ornament is a list of some of the Greek traditions surrounding the birth of our Savior.
We also have the German ornament with the words Froehliche Weinachsten -- again Merry Christmas On the back of the ornament are German traditions. Since I am the baker in the family we do some German cookies at Christmas. We also keep the German tradition of handing a pickle ornament on the tree.
This ornament is the last one to be put on the tree(actually hidden by the Frau of the house). In the morning, the child who finds the ornament gets an extra gift. Lily has found the pickle the last two years so this year her mom encouraged her to hang back and let someone else find it. Our friend's daughter found it this year. She shared her extra gift of Cracker Jacks with the rest of us.
posted by Presbytera @ 3:07 PM
2 Comments:
At 4:31 PM,
Marie N. said…
That is a fun tradition! This year we had a small tree so we did not hang our New Orleans ornaments. Perhaps next Christmas I can introduce them to the blog world.
At 12:03 PM,
Genuine Lustre said…
Pickle ornaments have always been all the rage here in Galion - home of the Pickle Run Festival.
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