Christmas Traditions

I have maintained for years that we don't celebrate Christmas, and this is of course true. Some of us are Jewish, and some of us are... not...thing. However, Amity has recently pointed out that I'm wrong, and as it turns out, she's right. We do have Christmas traditions, and even celebrate Christmas... just not in the way most people tend to think of it. My reflexive "no" is based on a certain kind of socio-culturally dominant Christmas (trees, decorations, family gatherings, presents, etc) but we have a pretty robust tradition of our own. Pictured here is the end of the Christmas run, which we started back in the early aughts b/c gyms were closed and also we had the streets to ourselves - it was originally the run down Main street in Ann Arbor run but as since morphed a bit. Other traditions include movie(s) (virtual this year, typically in the theatre though), Chinese food, and some combo of board games/puzzles/video games. Usually a big post-run breakfast, too. So yeah, I guess I'll work on that one for next year.