Missy

We lived in the same town with Zach's parents for most of our marriage of when our kids were young.

So we would travel 13 hours for many years with four young kids.

Yes, and we would spend a week.

And it was—some of our kids' favorite memories were those times.

But then in the recent years, it shifted because we live close now.

We're able to actually have Christmas in our home, and it's become such a special tradition.

But the tradition that we started—and I say this because I think sometimes when you— this time of year, especially, you get on Instagram or—

You tend to think that, oh, man, everybody in the world has these amazing traditions.

They've kept them up forever.

We're terrible.

We don't have it all together.

My decorations don't look like that or whatever the thing is.

I mean, you know how it is.

We're comparative.

You can start a tradition anytime.

It doesn't have to be something you've done forever.

You can start it today.

And it doesn't have to be something that lasts forever either.

I think sometimes we hold on to traditions too long and our kids have outgrown them and we need to move on.

But one of the things we started about, well, in 2019, we started doing a family sabbatical trip every year right after Christmas.