Our Holiday Traditions

With the holiday season in full swing and Christmas coming on Sunday, we’ve decided to put together some of our favorite holiday traditions/memories. 

Mary and Gina in the kitchen preparing
their traditional spaghetti dinner.

Mary Sill, a Realtor® at Lawyer’s Realty, and her best friend, Gina, have spent Christmas Eve together since 5^th grade missing only two in the past 47 years. They enjoy a special spaghetti dinner from a family recipe.

John Andrews, an associate broker, has produced an elaborate family Christmas card and letter since about 1995.  It includes family photos and recounts major events in the family. John also comments on major trends in politics and culture and goes a bit over the top on this to serve as a standing joke for the family as well as a family history.

Andrews’ traditions continue on Christmas morning with a breakfast of eggs Benedict and a particularly rich coffee cake followed by beef tenderloin for Christmas dinner. John quips, “It’s an expensive and high calorie food day.”

Megan Duffie Flor with her 2 brothers
which includes Mark, our Broker, in the plaid.

Elizabeth Statler, one of our Realtors® says, “our most favorite family tradition is the Christmas Eve reading of The Night Before Christmas.”

It began as a way to get her young sons to willingly go to bed on Christmas Eve.  By using the last line of the poem, "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night" its then off to bed!!!  This has become a cherished tradition. As the boys learned to read, they earned their turn.  Oh, how proud they were the first time they got to read it. 

Since the boys have grown, they have read it over the phone with each other when they could not be together. They have recently welcomed a grandchild, but with her son and his young family living very far away they decided to buy a recordable version and sent it to their son to help continue the tradition with their granddaughter. The tradition carries forward with her son’s families.

Finally, myself, Lori Zimmerman, now that my children are in their 20’s I look back, and my fondest memory of Christmas is the magic of it. 

Lori's children, Ami & Zachary with Santa

Back to the years when they believed that there was a jolly man wearing a red suit driving a sleigh pulled by reindeer that cruised around the world delivering presents to good little boys and girls.  And to believe this all happened in one evening. Just the anticipation of it all as they had to wait a whole month as it counted down.

Then Christmas Eve arrives.  Oh, how long that evening was.  First there was Church service which my son couldn’t sit still for because he had to get home and get to bed or Santa would miss our house!  Then we would go to a dear friend’s open house which was always tradition for us to get lost getting too because they live in the middle of the back roads, and this was before GPS.  Then, finally home to bed.  

But with the morning came more anticipation as there was a whole pile of wrapped presents.   What was inside?  They wouldn’t know until they got their hands on each one and opened the magic inside.  

What is your favorite Christmas memory/tradition?