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Every family has traditions that are practiced every holiday season.  Things like baking, spending time with family, the food that is eaten, the decorations that are up – all of these things are time honored traditions.

One of the traditions that I have is getting sick.

That’s right.  You read that right.  Every single Christmas from the time I was 2 until I was about 8 was spent with me being sick.  Since then, I’ve traded off, sometimes being sick during Christmas and sometimes I am sick the week before or after.  But it just wouldn’t be Christmas if I didn’t get sick.

So I leave you with this photo of myself taken on Christmas morning of 1992 – taken shortly after I woke up to find Santa had visited and left me lots of presents.  My parents tried desperately to get me excited, but all I wanted to do was curl up with my blanket on the couch with my new doll and go to sleep.  In fact, I only opened this one present and left the rest until that evening.

Elyse Doerflinger, Christmas 1991, with doll

Elyse Doerflinger, Christmas 1991, with doll.

Copyright: Elyse Doerflinger

As the year comes to an end and many of us celebrate various holidays, I wish you all a wonderful season full of love, good company, and good food.  Happy Ancestor hunting!

 

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