🎄Share your favourite Christmas memories, traditions + stories here✨
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I am starting to plan some gorgeous wintery episodes for you and like last year I would love to include some of YOUR favourite traditions, stories and memories. I would be so grateful if you could share any of the following in the comments of this post in the Substack app, where I am gathering them all up:
(1) Favourite Christmas traditions (from your childhood and/or new ones you have created with your family which have particular meaning for you)
(2) Specific memories of Christmas food
(3) Any other particular winter tradition you adore (especially if it might be unusual)
If you leave a comment:
✨Please put whether you are responding to (1) (2) or (3) above. If you want to respond to more than one please put each one in a different comment so it is easier for me to collate the stories as possible.
✨Please make a note of where you live, or grew up, or anything related to your heritage if that is relevant to the memory – I would love to share as wide a variety of stories as possible.
Thank you so much friends!
Beth Xx
PS I can't share all of the comments, but I will read all of them and you never know, yours might get read out on the podcast. By leaving a comment here you are giving me permission to include your story as shared here on The Calm Christmas Podcast.
PPS Please restack this note to encourage as wide a range of Christmas memories, traditions and stories as possible. Thank you!
(1) Every year I write a letter to myself when I take the Christmas decorations down and tuck it in the box. I write down the main events and feelings from the past year. When I take out the decorations the following Christmas, the first thing I do is read my letter to myself. I have done this every year since 2009, when I was packing my decorations away living on my own, knowing that I was going to be moving to a new town with my boyfriend (now husband) in a couple of months. My 11-year old has been writing her own letter to herself for the past few years too. It’s such a lovely way to mark the passage of time and remember what was important in our lives at particular points in the past. Jen, in the north east of Scotland.
(3) I would not call this a tradition, but it´s a strong memory that I have, connected with Christmas and Winter. I was at college, having a difficult time due to multitude of reasons, so a friend of mine asked me to join him in a pub one evening. I did not want to go that much, but I knew it will be good to have a company. This took place some time in December, we went in, had a couple of drinks and when we left, whole city was covered with snow and it was still snowing. As we were entering the pub, it was normal, grey winter afternoon, but once we left, it had turned into this magical wonderland. At that moment I really felt that there is more to the world than my problems. This happened some 13 years ago, in Bratislava, Slovakia. I would like to recreate this as a sort of tradition, but the beauty of it was, that it happened once and when it needed to happen - for me.