Preparation and anticipation! Those are two words that go hand in hand in describing the Christmas Season. Last evening we got our tree platform out. As you can see, it contains the trains. One loop of O gauge on the outside and an inner loop of HO. Well, it goes without saying that there was much joy in the Rohlin household as we got all the boxes of trains out. Because we don't see the trains for nearly 11 months it is extremely exciting when they make their annual visit to the living room. For our boys, the trains are a definitive statement that Christmas is here. In fact, as we were playing with them Zachary stopped and looked up and proudly announced, "Now, it's Christmas!!"
I often encourage families to embrace the traditions that they have and if they don't have any or don't like any of them, begin some new ones. It only takes one time to begin a tradition and if you do it twice, in a kid's eyes, it is a long standing, non-negotiable event that must happen every year. So, make sure you are building great traditions that fit your season of life.
An by the way, when we go and get our tree this weekend, the boys will be a little upset because we put it in the middle of the train track.
This blog just makes me happy. I get aggravated when they start Christmas the day after Halloween. But now that Thanksgiving is done, I'm realizing just how much I love everything about Christmas. I turn the radio up when the Christmas songs come on now instead of just flipping the station. :-)
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