So normally we leave the warm humidity of Houston and go up to the frozen tundra of Chicago the day after Christmas and stay until New Years.  This year we are staying here to experience all that is the wonderful after Christmas time.  I have to admit at first all I did was complain about how the two Christmases were the the same, how the feelings were different, how the people were not the same, how the traditions were different.  But I have to accept the fact that life changes and I have to turn develop traditions with my own family.  I hate change.  But Life changes everyday and I have to accept it and go with it.  So I am going to try to keep a happy heart and look forward to starting traditions with my son and husband that hopefully will stick for the rest of our lives.