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Letter From The Editor- Nov/Dec
on November 21, 2010 5:09 pm


NOV/DEC 2010    






Dear OH Readers,    

Every year, until I was almost 20, mom got me the very same holiday gift. A package of colorful underwear with a day of the week written on each pair; Sunday was yellow, Monday was pink, and Tuesday a light green and so on. Of course, most years I couldn’t even fit one leg into those little underwear, but this was one of mom’s favorite holiday traditions and I looked forward to her creative ways to wrap and disguise the promised gift. Perhaps this was her way of letting me know I would always be her little girl.  

Three years ago, my family knowingly shared what was to be our last Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve with mom. She was terminally ill and was given just a few months to live. Those last holidays together were precious to us and we held on to many family traditions to comfort our grieving hearts. We spent hours cooking our traditional meals and signature dishes. Mom, who made the best homemade bread ever, talked me through her recipe knowing that it would be up to me to carry on that tradition in the years to come. And she somehow found the energy to make her traditional holiday chocolate nut roll with Dad. This year, I am finally going to try to carry on her tradition. I will make her homemade rolls and bread and hope and pray that they taste half as good as moms.  

Gone are the days of stringing popcorn for the tree and the little girl underwear gifts. Other gag gifts still live on, as do many other family holiday traditions. This year, I am thinking of starting a new tradition: drawing for chores! Prior to the holiday, I am thinking that I will make a list of the chores that need to be done after the meal, put them all in a hat and let family members draw a chore. And after the chores are done, we can all take a walk, as a family. We can walk off the calories and share memories of our holidays and of the loved ones who have passed on before us. I love family traditions!  

Happy Holidays!
Tammy J. Colter
Editor-In-Chief
OH Magazine
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