It was a tradition I definitely was not accustomed to. As
soon as the clock struck 12:01am, on Christmas Eve, my husband’s grandmother
would begin calling family members and simply saying “Christmas Eve Gift” which
would be followed by a giggle and a thought of “Gotcha” before hanging up the
phone. After her passing, my husband
felt it necessary to continue the tradition.
Each year, he begins the lengthy task of preparing his list
of numbers to make his annual “Christmas Eve Gift” calls then he sets his
biological clock to get up way too early for me. I now understand why some received calls at
4am…it takes that long to go down the list.
Well guess what? This
year my husband got a new smart phone and the first thing our youngest daughter
said was, “do you think we could just get a text this year”? LOL!
I then said, “why do you think he does it”?, too which she replied, “It is just something that has stuck around. Some traditions
are just that. No reason but it is there”.
WOW!
As I began to set goals for the New Year the thought struck
me, “Am I doing things that have NO
reason, can I do things differently, can I make sure what I do is
effective? The answer is simply YES!
So, on Christmas Eve, I took the time to help my “technologically
challenged” husband set up a group message to go out at a
certain time and... ALL OUR FAMILY WILL THANK ME LATER!
Happy New Year!
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