OPINIONS
We asked our Facebook and TSCRA friends to tell us their favorite holiday tradition.
Favorite Holiday Traditions
Alise Goudarzi Nolan: Christmas on my Granddaddy Young’s Ranch in Gilmer with all 30 of us eating too much, laughing, and most of all just being together. Misty Martin: We stay up late Christmas Eve and play dominoes at the Martin Ranch in Mason. There is, of course, lots of good food, drink and music to accompany a little family competitiveness. Cory Goswick: Ribeye steaks, cold beverage and a camp fi re! Mackenzie Moore: When I was a kid, our tradition was to leave Santa Fe, Texas, before daylight, drive straight through (with the traditional pit stop at the Stuckey’s on I-40 for a pecan log roll) and then on into Borger for family Christmas every year. Gary Morgan: For sure gathering at the ranch! Lorie Woodward Cantu: Candlelight service on Christmas Eve. Feasting with family on favorites like my mother-in-law’s fresh- from-the-steamer tamales and my mother’s cornbread dressing. Christmas caroling with our kids’ music teacher and her cadre of 20-plus fi ddle players. Shawn McCoy: Christmas Eve my family gets together for food, fun, games, movies and opening of presents. I look forward to it every year. Sharla Ishmael: One of my favorite things is hanging up the stockings that my grandmother made for us. Some of ours are pretty old now and pieces of the decorations have fallen off, but we wouldn’t think of buying something new to replace them. Every time someone new joined the family, Granny made them a stocking. It’s even more special to me now that she has passed because it reminds me of all the Christmases of my childhood spent with her and Christmas dinner gathered around her table after chores. Michele Woodham: My favorite holiday tradition is purchasing a real Christmas tree and decorating it for my family and friends to enjoy during the holiday season.
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98 The Cattleman December 2013
Mike Barr: My favorite holiday tradition is time with family, and celebrat- ing the birth of Christ, but I enjoy when we get together as a group. We do a gag gift exchange after our traditional holiday gifts. It is always fun to see how others react to the gift given, or in some cases taken away. Seems like everyone leaves with a smile on their faces. Marjorie Parker: Our kids and their cousins always acted out the Christmas story on Christmas Eve. Now it’s the grandkids and their cousins doing it with some help from the adults. The newest family baby gets to be baby Jesus, and sometimes Jesus won’t stay put! We love extended family gathering to eat together, and we always eat tenderloin! No Christmas turkey here!
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