30 Days of Thanks – 25

I love family traditions. We only have a couple. The one I look forward to is Movie Day (or Night.) I think it started on vacation 20 years ago. It rained one day while we were at the beach, so we took our little ones to a movie. That started something, so that during every vacation, we always save one afternoon to see a movie. The kids have always humored me; sometimes it was difficult during the teen years, but we did it despite the protests. Most often we have seen the family blockbusters that were playing during the summer. It could have been Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Pirates of the Caribbean. We next added a movie over the Thanksgiving holidays and right around Christmas – often Christmas Eve afternoon before church. After my daughter started college we added movie days whenever she came back home.

So this holiday weekend we are going to see “The Blindside.” I always give my son fair warning so he doesn’t go off with his friends to see it first. He understands that he might end up seeing something twice otherwise.

Hope you have some neat holiday traditions, too.