Christmas Tradition or Torture

I believe in Christmas traditions. I have enjoyed 50 Christmas mornings and many were steeped in tradition. We are carrying on some of the same traditions and have added a couple. First is what I remember as a kid. No one goes into, or peeks into the room with the tree and presents. "Our living room." They can bring the stockings from Santa to our room, climb into bed and open them. Then we must all get up, cook a hardy breakfast, sit down together and eat very slow, and clean up the dishes.
Starting this year I have added what the kids at this point consider Torture. We all must slip on our winter gear, go down to the river and spread out a entire 50lb bag of whole corn for all the waterfowl on the river. Then we fill the bird feeders and water the chickens.
I personally found watching all the wild and domestic waterfowl enjoying a Christmas morning feast was a blast. I don't think the kids do yet because every time I turned around they were half way back to the house. To me, it makes the morning last a little bit longer.
When they are grown and on their own, they will look back fondly on our traditions, and the short walk to the river on Christmas morning, or they may possibly think Old Uncle Eve was a nut case.

I am exhausted from watching Jeanne work late into the night creating another perfect Christmas for the kids, I think I will put on my brand new Yellow Polka Dotted Transformer PJs and relax for the rest of the day.

Merry Christmas to all.