Cedarfield News
A Christmas Eve Tradition
November 29, 2019

Barbara Fischi, Resident
Excitement stirs in the air all the days before Christmas Day. When the young children begged for their gifts from Grandma, we started a new tradition of the four children opening their gifts from Grandma Babs on Christmas Eve. Usually we dine together with special foods, including large wafers and honey, with a blessing from Grandma. After holiday pastries for dessert, we adjourn to the living room decorated with the Christmas tree and lights. Then we try to decide who may open the first present.

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
–Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years