Family traditions

Apparently, through my dad's entire childhood, my grandmother decorated e v e r y t h i n g for Christmas. This was my mother's first exposure to the coordinated bathroom holiday decoration sets.

Now that they've moved into the apartment they're in now, with my gran* (and, every couple of weeks, me), the special non-tree tradition has been decorating the bathroom. She always does it when he's out of the house, and he's always delighted when he comes home to it.

Which makes my odd little annual tradition "standing on a stool carefully taking down the normal shower curtain, which has those weird locking rings that will pinch your fingers, putting the snowmen-and-judgmental-owl shower curtain up while making sure to get the liner in the right place so we don't get water everywhere and disappoint gran." This year we added the "figure out how a toilet lid cover actually works we've never used one before and the judgmental owl is critical of my struggle to do what should probably be a very basic task".




*this is my mother's mother, not my father's mother