My Top Five Favorite Holiday Traditions with Wacky Kid 1 & 2
Hockey God is a good sport about the holidays. Well, not so much, but he tries. He’ll eat Thanksgiving dinner, and has even cooked it upon occasion. He’ll get a tree sometime before Dec. 25. Usually around Dec. 23. He’ll drink hot toddys, purchase and open gifts. As far as lights? Tinsel? Mayhem? The kids and I are on our own.
Our top five destinations, every year:
5) The Grotto’s Festival of Lights (Twenty years this year!)
4) Oregon Zoo Zoolights (Just remember, “Not all of the zoo is open. Only a few animals will be visible.” Yeah, most of them two-legged creatures, bitching because there’s no eggnog, and when is their kid’s band going to play, anyway? Heh heh.)
3) My mom’s house or sister’s house for appetizers, gifts and stockings
2) Winter Wonderland at PIR (Tacky, but fun.) (It’s kinda lame, but I love it.)
1) Peacock Lane (How I adore thee, Peacock Lane. I knew a girl in college whose family owned a home there. She used to throw birthday parties for her dog, wherein we would feed the dog cake, sing to her, and all get drunk. What a life. I have never taken the kids there yet. To Peacock Lane, not the dog party. Swear to God, it’s been raining every time we’ve attempted to go, eight years running now. Wish us luck…)
This year, I promised the kids we’d load up on extra Christmas outings because we’re not decorating the house. That’s right. I’m not packing/unpacking/repacking, etc. Christmas Ship Parade, here we come.
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Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! You know I’m recording all of these local tidbits! I’m gonna’ know just where to go my first December! Peacock Lane looks cute.
November 17th, 2007 | #