Christmas Tradition

Every Christmas my mom makes our family do the advent wreath and the Joshua tree. With the advent wreath we light one candle the first week of advent then one more each week after. Till Christmas day when we light the middle candle, which represents Jesus's birth. Sounds fun, right? Not after doing it for eighteen years. We read the same passages and attempt to sing the same songs year after year. If that's not bad enough the Joshua tree is even worse. Each day of December is represented by a patch that symbolizes something that happened in the bible. Every day, right after dinner, we stop and have to read a passage about the patch and put the patch on the cloth tree. It was fun the first ten years, but after eighteen years it gets old. Although this "tradition" stuff gets old, it reminds me of our happy family. Everybody getting together at one time to share a special moment is what all families need and I'm glad I have that.:)