'Every holiday season there's one source of tension between my husband and me.'
Our Christmas Day was: wake up and open presents and then go about the day. We didn’t have a special tradition per se. Some years we celebrated with other Sri Lankan families, gathering for dinner, all the kids singing Christmas carols. Some years it was just the four of us at home. Christmas dinner would be the usual rice and curry combination as any other day.
Fast forward to the two of us trying to blend these two sets of traditions. I love all the customs my husband’s family had, and I wanted to incorporate those into our lives. We try our best to watchafter the kids are asleep, and when they are old enough, they will join us. We order Chinese food for Christmas Eve dinner.. Every year we go to the Hallmark Store, each picking out a new ornament for our tree. I make homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast every year.
My dear husband feels that the bottom few layers of the tree should be covered in beautifully glistening packages by Christmas morning. I admit, there is excitement walking into the room in the wee hours of the morning with eager and excited children seeing a mountain of gifts that weren’t there the night before. The joy of the children rifling through the packages searching for their names is palpable. The laughter as they rip open the paper is contagious.
I can’t complain about his shopping though. He does most of the gift buying for the children. He loves doing it, and the burden isn’t on me. But I still can’t help but wrestle internally with what is more important — to give my children the joy of the holidays that I barely had or to prevent them from putting too much value on material things?
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