tuesday ☃️
Added 2024-12-24 12:25:13 +0000 UTChi everyone, i hope you're all doing ok. some photos from our annual southbank walk, as promised! this year we accidentally walked 13 miles 🥲 and we're definitely feeling it today.
the last few days i've been thinking a lot about traditions and seasonal routines- if you don't mind sharing, what do these look like for you? just for the curiosity and sharing nature of it! 🕯️💭 for us it’s the southbank walk, lighting candles in church, playing board games, and watching old christmas music videos from the 70s/80s/90s.
wishing those who celebrate a very merry christmas, and a peaceful rest of the week for everyone else.
take care and speak soon, friends x
p.s. still on track with the video, so should hopefully be back for the 26th ☃️🕸️
Comments
Merry Christmas!
Pixie Unger
2024-12-25 12:54:37 +0000 UTCI’m still getting over being sick from last month’s holiday shenanigans, so this year is lowkey. I only put the tree up with lights on Sunday 🤭 no ornaments this year, which has kind of become a tradition for my husband and me*. The lights are my favorite part, and he’s not big on decorating for any holiday (both our mothers = maximalists inside and/or outside all year), so when I run out of steam, that’s what we get. A couple of years I’ve decked the house out with what we have, some years nothing at all, but most years I do the lighted tree. We also (sporadically) light a menorah each year in honor of his grandparents and mother during Hanukkah. (I found seven boxes of candles when organizing this year 🤦🏻♀️)* Growing up, we used to open one present or our stocking on Christmas Eve, and then go to town on the rest once everyone was awake the next day (sometimes we’d wake each other up eeeearly, but there were definitely some late mornings). After, there’d be breakfast and cocoa and some themed movies or playing with our new things. As we’ve gotten older and the family has expanded (steps, significant others, kiddos), the time together is much more limited and way more stressful lol
Courtney
2024-12-24 23:20:17 +0000 UTCI make a potato salad every year for my mum and I (which was a tradition kind of passed down from her family) and sometimes we bake something too if we feel like it! We tend to stay home since it gets really hot in Australia on Christmas, and sometimes we watch Christmas movies too. Personally, my weird tradition is that I love playing Ace Attorney around this time of year. Part of the first game is set around Christmas, so Christmastime always reminds me of it now, even if the case I'm playing isn't the Christmas one haha I'd love to experience a snowy Christmas someday! ❄️🎄☃️
Jasmin
2024-12-24 22:55:04 +0000 UTCI don’t really have any traditions. Presents, a big roast dinner and relax? We always go for a walk with the dogs and wish people we see a Merry Christmas
Hayley Burlinson
2024-12-24 19:15:17 +0000 UTCthese are beautiful photos. thanks for sharing 🤍 also, 13 miles?! i have the ‘usual’ christmas traditions - my family + extended family get together for christmas and stay at my aunt and uncle’s house for three days over christmas (overstimulating as hell, but still fun!). we exchange presents, have a christmas meal, play cards and video games, chat, etc.. i love it. however, i also have my own little traditions which i enjoy around this time of year: i play animal crossing and rewatch my favourite christmas sitcom episodes. i wear my pyjamas for most of the day. i journal about past christmases that i hold close to my heart. i enjoy my favourite desserts. most importantly, i try to take things slow and live simply. i’m excited for the new video and hope you’re not sick this time of year again! have a great and relaxing christmas!
Heather
2024-12-24 18:53:16 +0000 UTCThat's a great day! Things are a bit in flux for my fam this year with Christmas moving from the "old" to "new" calendars (we are of Ukrainian heritage) - but we will be eating our traditional 12-course meal, waiting til we see the first star to eat, putting out an empty place setting for those who cannot be with us, and doing a bunch of chaotic things like flinging porridge onto the ceiling (a form of divination) and trying not to get borshch (beet soup) onto our embroidered blouses 😅 my brother and I will usually go for a cemetery stroll after dinner to visit our +dad+ (today was his birthday) and other family too. I am glad we have a decent amount of snow this year for proper vibes ❄️ This looks like such an excellent day and wishing you and your people a wonderful celebration ✨!
kooknhakn
2024-12-24 18:22:55 +0000 UTCI used to bake cookies and give them to neighbors and friends...now I make them little festive simmer pot jars (dried orange and lemon slices with whole cloves, cinnamon sticks, a couple of star anise, 1 or 2 bay leaves and maybe dried rosemary). I have the ingredients for this from November to about February going on my stove in the evenings while I wind down from the days or during gatherings at my home. the past couple of years we've had dinner and then gone to my church's candlelight service 🕯 Merry Christmas and rest well
Makayla Martinez-Ray
2024-12-24 16:30:03 +0000 UTCWe just moved to a new city this summer (Portland, OR) so I'm figuring out what our holiday traditions will be here. This year we saw the Christmas Ships parade (all the ships on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers get decorated with lights and holiday decor and do a "parade" up to Cathedral Park) and we spent a day walking around downtown to see all of the holiday shop displays and visit Powell's (the world's largest independent bookstore). At home we always watch A Christmas Carol (the version with George C. Scott) on Christmas eve. Wishing you all a cozy and joyous holiday week!
Jen Bravo
2024-12-24 16:22:51 +0000 UTCEat, mostly!
Katie
2024-12-24 16:18:16 +0000 UTCmy biggest seasonal traditional actually happens in November when my mom decorates her house — my childhood home — for Christmas. When I lived at home I would of course be a part of the festivities, but now, we usually decorate our homes on the same day. The best part is that we listen to the same music while we decorate. Not traditional Christmas tunes, but instead, the discography of Shania Twain! Her “greatest hits” album came out one Christmas when I was young and it’s become our soundtrack to decorate every year since!
Kristen
2024-12-24 16:14:34 +0000 UTCTHIRTEEN MILES?!?! how do you accidentally walk thirteen miles my feet would yell at me so bad in those boots 😂 i hope you got to see lots and lots of stuff. unfortunately with my grandma passing away 2 years ago, and her having passed only 3 days after christmas, all of my traditions have been quite uprooted or just feel hazy and wrong. having or decorating christmas cookies just didnt happen this year, we cant go to her house in the afternoon, christmas eve is now spent with my partner. ive recently felt like my christmas is just going along with whatever my family wants, and floating in the backround. i have had some serious issues with holidays these past few years (esp with autism diagnosis and unsupportive family). i hope more of yall comment traditions too and maybe i can be inspired because id love to feel more of that warm holiday spirit on the actual day or up to it. alas christmas lights in my room will always be a pleasant welcome around this time of year that i look forward too. playing in the snow whenever we have any. my moms a bit of a christmas maximalist so enjoying her decor and lights outside of my bedroom. im still in school so trying to play lots of video games during this winter break (i have put over 20 hours in stardew this week) those are the main things i can unfortunately think of, but i seriously long to have my own curated traditions, on my own, more into my adulthood once i finish uni. (also sorry for the long comment i had no idea how long this had gone on 😅)
Macey Mitchell
2024-12-24 14:16:57 +0000 UTChi megan! about seasonality, i think i didn't realize i have seasonal routines before i started properly journaling, but nowadays i'm seeing how rhythmic i actually am - i like cycles and the repeated beginnings and ends! and i think it reflects how i see myself as a never starting and never ending cycle, in some sort of mythical form (myths are often about repeating actions). maybe it's a bit grand for a little guy but it helps me give sense to my life. routine wise, it mainly consists of questioning myself repeatedly though, which also means getting in touch regularly, as i dissociate and forget all the time. writing helps a lot :) i don't know if this was too long but well. happy holidays and merry christmas, enjoy time with your loved ones❤️🩹
elio!!
2024-12-24 13:56:51 +0000 UTCa long riverside walk sounds like a fantastic tradition -- it would be way too hot to do here in australia around christmastime but that would be such a nice time over there !! for my loved ones, christmas is pretty much the only day of the year that we have the aircon cranked from when we get up until we go to sleep and it's always a really pleasant stay inside day helping each other set up gifts/watching each other play games we were gifted/etc and more often than not we rewatch love actually haha. it's usually the only time of year we have a full lamb roast with yorkshire pudding, purple kūmara, and some ambrosia for dessert (aotearoa version, not USA. highly recommend making it with your own preferences for filling, my family does raspberry, red grapes, pineapple, turkish delight, marshmallows, and shaved dark chocolate !!) it's been a bit weird adjusting to spending christmas away from my immediate family (i moved to the city for university) but my partner and i have had a couple of really nice christmases together, and my brother will be spending it with us this year ^_^ i hope you all have a lovely christmas if you celebrate, and that everyone else is simply enjoying the weather or perhaps escaping from it !! ^_^
jester
2024-12-24 13:51:26 +0000 UTCSeems like I am making it an unfortunate Christmas tradition to get pneumonia every year just before the Holidays 😔. Love your photos and can't wait for the video as it will be my only way of enjoying a sliver of Christmas this year ❤️
Maria
2024-12-24 13:47:49 +0000 UTC
