It’s Week 8 of the Student Blogging Challenge, and the task I chose this week is to find a photo that represents a part of the holidays to you! I chose this photo, which is of a pickle tree ornament. This ornament  happens to be one I own, which is why I chose it to represent my holiday season. That’s not the only reason, though.

Every Christmas, our family hangs ornaments on our Christmas tree. That’s just tradition . We have a lot of Christmas traditions (and others) in our household, and one of them is something called ‘hide the pickle.’ Every day, the pickle is put in a new location, and whoever finds it first wins. When we were little, my dad would hide it, and always on the tree. Now, it’s an absolute free-for-all, with the pickle being hidden in places like clocks, lights, and flowers for days without anyone noticing.

We didn’t know why we did this for a long time, then one day, I looked it up. Apparently, the company that sold these pickle ornaments put a fake story on the packaging about a German tradition of hiding it around the house. I think this is really interesting, because it has become a very popular tradition.

This picture best sums up the holiday season for me, because the excitement of finding and hiding it is something that I’ve had in the holiday season throughout my life, unlike a lot of other things.

Thanks for reading my blog post!