Core Crew Christmas 2017

Sunday, February 25, 2018

I do a little rehash about this every year but when we got married Zach was hardcore about spending every Christmas Eve at his parent's house. It's a multigenerational tradition and it was important to him to continue it. I was 19 at the time of this discussion so of course I was like "SURE!" with all heart emoji eyes and everything haha then we got married and started having kids and the reality set in for me that I'd never have Christmas morning at my home . Yeah...kinda a tough thing to swallow for me and it created a bit of a struggle, especially once my mom stopped being part of my life. Holidays got tougher and I felt like my traditions were disappearing and everything we did was Parker. We talked it out and Zach has been AWESOME about understanding my feelings. We decided to create our own "Core Crew Christmas" tradition. So every year on the 22nd we have a mini-Christmas Eve type night and then spend the 23rd together as a family doing ALL of ...