Beginning of a New Christmas Tradition

There have been many Christmas traditions that Bill and I have wanted to start with Sawyer but have just been really lazy about it in years past because we had given ourselves the excuse to slack off on the grounds of, "He's too little to remember it yet, we'll start it next year." Being as how he's FOUR this year, we thought we'd better get our behinds in gear! So, I was watching Oprah the other day (and YES, I do sometimes watch Oprah!) She had mentioned the importance of making a list at the beginning of the holiday season of all the 'Christmasy' things that you wanted to do, mark them on your calendar so that you actually set aside time to do them, and in our case, start them.

One Christmas tradition that I wanted to start doing was driving around to look at Christmas lights. So, last Sunday we piled into Nana & Papa's car and headed out in search of some beautiful lights. None of us had eaten dinner yet, so after a quick run through Burger King drive through, we were headed to Dundee. I had been looking forward to it for a while because I was sure that Sawyer was just going to have a blast. I couldn't wait for the wide eyed, "oohh's and aaahhh's and look how pretty's!!!" that were going to rise up from the red booster seat! Not one moment after the last French fry was pulled out of the Happy Meal box, a little voice rose up from the red booster seat, "Are we done yet?!?" and there were many more of those throughout the evening. (........sigh........) Well, all I can say is, I know that in years to come, he's going to really enjoy our special times in the car looking at the twinkling of lights.

Once we were done admiring the lights, snooping into people's homes and almost colliding into a mailbox, we stopped at my old haunt, Starbucks on 147th & Maple for some Christmas cheer!

After snarfing down a chocolate doughnut, Sawyer was in better spirits :)

Triple Venti Caramel Brulee and a Tall Caramel Apple Spice.

Hopefully this will be the start to many more evenings of lights in the future for the Rollins family. It was too bad Nana Jane wasn't here to join us......