I’ve got a few topics that really get me fired up. We’re about to get to one of them.
So, I’m reading the news online when I see the following headline on the Drudge Report–IRONIC: Canadian Singer Alanis Morissette Becomes American Citizen. I think to myself, “well, good for her…although it seems odd for someone that’s such a proud Canadian.” Then I clicked the link for the story. What I thought would be a rather interesting article was more of an “oh, wait” story. As in, “oh, wait…that’s not all.”

I absolutely love the Christmas season. I really do. The lights. The music. The decorations. The cheesy television specials that play from Thanksgiving all the way up through Christmas. I like to spend Christmas Eve with all the Christmas lights on watching my favorite movies: White Christmas, A Christmas Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and, finally, I end the evening with It’s a Wonderful Life.
This is just one of the ways in which I carry on the traditions that I like to celebrate at Christmas time. There are still things my family does every year at Christmas time that I’m sure I’ll do with my own family someday.
I can tell you this, though. Some of the things that my family has been doing to celebrate the holidays may actually pre-date Kwanzaa.