Books were our big bonding thing growing up, and that definitely influenced our family traditions haha. Even though we all have the book basically memorized now it’s one of those things that’s stuck!

My mom reads the book “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” to my sister and I (23 and 27) every Christmas Eve - it is an awesome children’s Christmas book that is both hysterical and heart warming. But at one point (spoilers?) the “Wise Men” in the church pageant decide gold, frankincense and myrrh are completely…

I basically bawl my way through the holidays, it is glorious and ridiculous and mortifying for the stoics in my life 😂

I cry over the toys for tots commercial they play at Christmas each year when the little boy gives the marine honor guard guy his Christmas list. EVERY YEAR. Christmas cries.

Three things about me are relevant to this story. 1) I am a stage 17 crier - if I am happy, sad, excited, surprised, angry, tired, scared, or any other emotion available to your standard human being, I cry. 2) my dad is the sweetest, gentlest, kindest person I know and I adore that man. 3) I (as a child, pre-teen, and…