I can’t remember that I ever celebrated christmas and new year in the same way two times in a row. In the same breath as I write that sentence I get a bit pensive. I have never had any traditions?
When I was little, I lived in Italy and remember very vaguely how our family celebrated christmas. Apparently I hit into the tens of stones in gift wrap that I put under the christmas tree to give away more packages. It tells the mother every christmas. But it could have been, so we went to Sweden to be with his cousins. I remember in all cases to any christmas eve at my aunt. When I saw that santa was grandpa, and I got my first Discman and an accompanying Best-of album. But it never became a tradition.
we Sweden. Mom was here and dad moved back to Italy for good. One christmas, the next christmas there. So it was. Every other christmas Donald Duck every christmas pasta on christmas. But it never became a tradition.
one year I was santa at home in the country with her mother in charlotte. I snuck out to the laundry room and put a pillow inside of a red shirt. Then I put on me a bomullsskägg and a hood. ”Do you remember when you were a brownie?” Ask mom every christmas.
a few years ago I traveled between the different locations. Lunch with mum, afternoon with the family. But it was probably never really a tradition.
been the same thing, sometimes sparklers, sometimes femrättersmiddag so one goes off before the stroke of midnight. There have been dinners and parties at different places, with different people. But never exactly the same thing again.
I created my latest nyårsminne in a place I never celebrated before. In The Province Of Hälsingland. In a house, with nice people, candles and sandwiches into the wee hours. I don’t know if it will become a tradition. I don’t know what’s happening next year. But when I think about it I sit here and smile over my latest memory. For why do you need to tradition when you can create completely new things each year?
Madeleine Longo is the social media editor, which of course do not look down on those who do not discuss in their traditions.
