When I posted my "Pictures From Our Christmas" post, I didn't stop and think about what kind of reaction I would get to our Christmas Eve Pinata tradition. Guess I should have, 'cause it is kind of ~ no, it's really un-traditional. This is how it got started:
Every Christmas Eve, we would go up to Bonners Ferry, which is about 60 miles north of us, where my husband grew up, and where a couple of his brothers and a sister still live. A good number of the kids and grandkids (and great-grandkids, when Grandma Evie and Grandpa Marv were still with us) would all get together up there, and have a big meal, lots of treats, sing Christmas songs, and re-tell the Christmas story. It's always a great time, and we love to go, but couldn't make it up there this year because of the bad weather and terrible roads. 
...mad dash for the candy... So, we decided to stay home and do our our own Christmas Eve. One of the fun things that always happens in Bonners Ferry is the Christmas pinata filled with candy (like they need MORE sugar, but they do have a great time!). I don't know how it got started, exactly, but I have a suspicion it had to do with lots of loud kids in one home, and an excuse to take them outside. For quite a few years in BF, it was strung up on the basketball hoop, but since the weather was so bad at our house, we opted to stay inside and find SomeThing to hang it on. Since the kids involved are still pretty small (in BF I think the age limit was 18?) Mark's back-stretching-thingy seemed to be the best bet. 
...look close - the Zebra has a Christmas bow around his neck! So he's all Christmassy, OK :P
And since it was a last-minute idea, and we already had the zebra pinata, we decided that it would work just fine for us. And it did...
And, yes, we do normal traditional, too!
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2 comments:
Fun, fun, fun!!! Thanks for the background on it!!! :)
I thought they originally did it for Todd's birthday, since it is on Christmas eve....I could be wrong though. It's fun no matter why they do it.
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