Christmas Eve 2010: TheWigilia

A Wigilia is a traditional Polish Christmas Eve Dinner. It literally means "vigil". I remember as a small child going to my Busia and Gramps' house to celebrate Christmas Eve. It is one of my most fond childhood memories and although my Busia and Gramps have passed away, my Mom and Dad have continued the tradition. I look forward to this day all year long! The meal consists of mushroom soup, which is a blend of many imported mushrooms and is unlike any soup I have ever had. Then we move onto a lot of shrimp cocktail and perogies (potato, sausage and sauerkraut)! In the past I have helped my Mom make them and I know how labor intensive it is. That on top of all the other delicious food made for a fantastic festive meal!




This year was very special as well because Chris's parents joined us at my parent's house and it was just wonderful to all be together and enjoy the girls. The girls also were able to partake in the meal this year which was so much fun. We had them at the table with us and they had their first taste of potato perogies, they each seemed to really like them. What a change from last year when they were so tiny and spent most of their time sleeping!


I loved being at my parent's house with the beautiful decorations and the cozy feeling their house always gives me. I would be crazy not to share the special trees that Busia created for each girl this year. It was actually Papa's idea and Busia made it happen in a BIG way! She decorated one tree for each girl in their theme colors. Sydney, purple, Brooke, turquoise and Taylor, pink they are exquisite!!! The girls enjoyed looking at the trees with hundreds of ornaments and pretty lights.


The girls were not really into opening presents this year, but they did love shredding the paper and playing endlessly with the bows and ribbons. What a great day it was!