So, I was thinking about doing my final on Christmas traditions within my family and how they have changed through the ages, as well as how they have changed through the years and generations, also I am hoping to pin point, or at least try to find what had influenced the changes. My mother's side of the family comes from Sicily (so influenced by the Italian traditions) and my father's side of the family hails from Hamburg, Germany (so is influenced by the German traditions). I do have some snags so far, when I talked to my grandmothers (my grandfathers on both sides are deceased) about what they remember of Christmas, as well as what they do now, and then turned around and talked to my father and mother and there were discrepancies between what they remember as a kid and what my grandmothers told me about how they celebrate Christmas. I was going to do this comparison and changes all the way down through the line to me and my wife (last year being our first Christmas together). The really cool thing about doing this so far is that my grandmother on my father's side of the family gave me 4 boxes of Christmas decorations (both for the tree as well as the house in general), the bad news is that I went to unwrap some and wound up breaking a couple of them because they were so old and fragile, so I will try to incorporate as many pictures into my final as I can, but some of them may be of a lot of tissue paper with a little trinket inside for fear of breaking the items.
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