What’s Your Family Traditions For Christmas?

The number one most family tradition involves food. My favorite was the ham that had been basted many times with brown sugar and pineapple juice. To accompany the ham was sweet, sweet, sweet potatoes covered in pineapple slices and marshmallows. My mother made a coconut cake with thick vanilla icing. My father made a fruit cake filled with candied fruit and pecans and soaked in rum, soaked. What was your Christmas dinner memory?

Over the years I have added more memories. For many years I looked forward to watching Darlene Love sing “Baby, please come home for Christmas” on Late Night with David Letterman. In fact she sang that song on that show for over 25 years. It just wasn’t Christmas without this show. One year I got to see and hear her sing at a show at Graceland in Memphis.

Writing of Graceland in Memphis, our family loaded in the Ford station wagon each Christmas and drove to Graceland on the southside of Memphis to see Elvis’ Graceland lit with blue lights on the long driveways leading to the house on the hill. To get the spirit hear Monticello’s own Trisha Yearwood sing “Blue Christmas”. Go to You Tube and request Trisha Yearwood sing “Blue Christmas.”

Merriest Christmas, Monticello.