Merry (Early!) Ukrainian Christmas

As per tradition, my family bought stocking stuffers after Christmas. The tradition that we started is that we each spend $20 on the other members of the family, wrap whatever we buy up in unmarked presents, and put them in each others' stockings. We then have a fun night of opening presents where we guess who gave us what. Normally this tradition falls on Ukrainian Christmas Eve, but this year my brother will be out of town so we opened everything earlier this evening.


This tradition is so much fun! It's always such a surprise to see what everyone gets! And this year was especially surprising: I got not one but multiple saws!!!!!


A lot of people probably don't know this about me, but last year, I was extremely sad that my brother would not let me saw the end of our Christmas tree off. This year again, my dad did the sawing and didn't even tell me he was going to bring the Christmas tree into the house! (My bro joked that I was off pouting when he came home and I wasn't around that night). There was also Christmas Eve, when we were watching Home Improvement and a guy carved a tree out of a block of ice, after which I declared that I wanted a chainsaw.


So for Ukrainian Christmas, my brother got me not one but MULTIPLE saws!!!!! On top of that, I also got a hammer and some nails. So if you need anything sawed, (or hammered) you know who to come to!