Christmas is not just ONE day… Our family’s traditions, both past and present!

For us, Christmastide starts at Thanksgiving, but NOT because of "Black Friday" sales and such... The real kick-off in our family, I suppose, was (and still IS) the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, which Mom and I still watch together every year. We might not always be side-by-side watching it, sometimes we lived in different states, but we …