My family is woefully short on Christmas traditions. This is largely due to our being a small unit consisting of zero children or Christians, the two things that seem to make this particular holiday go 'round. But we like kids and Christs just fine, and everybody likes days off in the middle of the week, so we're trying to be as festive as possible. So I paid $25 for 18 inches' worth of tree-shaped pine bough at Whole Foods last week, my wife ordered a DVD of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and we've been hitting the yule-log channel pretty hard. The lights that hang on our bar all year have been rebranded "Christmas lights" for the month of December. We're getting there.
One thing we're still missing, though, is a family-tradition holiday…