Hello, and welcome back to Jenna Gets Creative! Merry Christmas, if you celebrate, and Happy
Holidays if you don't. This video is going up on Christmas Eve, so I thought I would
tell you about some of my family's Christmas traditions. Before I get started on that,
just a little reminder that my holiday upload schedule is slightly different than my normal
schedule. You're getting what would normally be Tuesday's video this week today, on Monday,
and we will be skipping the Tuesday upload entirely next week because of New Year's.
The artwork you are watching today is another Arts, Crafts, and DIYs Amino (ACDA) theme
challenge piece. This time the theme was "snow," so I decided to crack open my previously unused
black paper Pentallic sketchbook and do some gel pen art with a Uni-Ball Signo white gel
pen. What do you think? Comment down below and tell me if you've ever done gel pen art
on non-white paper. Or any other medium, for that matter!
Anyway, on to the Christmas traditions. A large percentage of my family's background
is Norwegian, and Norway is one of the many countries where people tend to open their
gifts on Christmas Eve, not Christmas day. Because of this, my Mom has always had us
open one gift on Christmas Eve, and that's always our new ornaments. Mom and I both absolutely
love horses, so my ornaments are always horses, or mythical equines. My sister prefers dogs,
so once she was old enough to express that, she started getting dogs instead, but we've
got a few years' worth of matching horses and unicorns. Mom would always put an 'N'
on mine and an 'S' on hers, because those are the first letters than differ in our names.
(My sister's name is Jessica.) Now that I have a daughter of my own, I'm continuing
the tradition of giving an ornament on Christmas Eve. Her "Baby's First Christmas" ornament
is even a rocking horse, just like mine. Another tradition my Mom had for us when we
were kids was that if we were up before all the adults in the house were ready, we were
allowed to take our stockings back upstairs and "open" those. Since she knew this would
always be the case, and she knew anything edible in the stocking would likely be our
breakfast, she always put Mandarin oranges in our stockings. I was genuinely surprised
to find out that my husband's family doesn't associate tiny oranges with Christmas!
We always had different people living with us at different times when I was a teenager,
because we were registered with the school district as a home stay family for international
students. Well, whenever we had someone living with us who didn't go home for Christmas,
we would of course get them a stocking of their own. But since all of our stockings
have teddy bears poking out the top, we couldn't just hang a plain stocking for anyone else.
If we couldn't find a teddy bear one when we needed a new stocking, we would get a plain
one and hot glue a teddy to it. One year my sister decided that if Christmas
is Jesus' birthday, then there should be birthday cake. From that point forward, for the rest
of the years I lived at home, we had cake along with our tiny oranges for Christmas
breakfast. The pastor at the church I attended in high
school would always jokingly refer to December 23rd as "Christmas Adam," because Adam came
before Eve. It became an inside joke to wish everyone a Merry Christmas Adam and pretend
the day was an actual holiday. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Newfoundland and
discovered that the 23rd actually is celebrated here. It isn't called Christmas Adam, though.
It's known as Tibb's Eve. We spend Tibb's Eve with my husband's family, since they're
local to us, and it's their family tradition. Last year my mother in law started a new tradition.
On Christmas Eve she gives everyone a small gift from the dollar store, but we're not
allowed to open it until we've guessed what it is. Last year I got a night light for my
daughter's room, but since it felt quite domed (it turned out to be shaped like a lady bug),
my first guess was an egg timer! I've been told mine isn't as easy this year. We'll see!
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Let me know what some of your favourite Christmas or holiday traditions are in the comments
down below. Merry Christmas, [French] joyeux noël, [Norwegian]
god jul, and happy New Year! This Thursday's video, December 27th, will be my last upload
of 2018. After that I'll be back on January 3rd. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you
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