{"id":2755,"date":"2020-12-23T06:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2023-06-26T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:34:02","slug":"hopeful-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/2020\/12\/23\/hopeful-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Hopeful holidays<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/hopeful-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4726\" height=\"2509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/hopeful-1.jpeg 4726w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/hopeful-1-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/hopeful-1-768x408.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/hopeful-1-1024x544.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4726px) 100vw, 4726px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So many of our traditional holiday activities have been cancelled. Whether it is a large family dinner, a neighborhood gathering, baking cookies with a grandparent or a large church service, these and many other things that mean the holidays to you won\u2019t be happening in this strangest of years.\u00a0 (However, Fantasy Lights is setting records for attendance!)<\/p>\n<p>I get it. We won\u2019t be enjoying our \u201cCousins\u2019 Christmas\u201d or Candle-lit Christmas Eve Service either.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean that we can\u2019t adapt or switch up how we celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>I asked a couple of employees to share how they are changing up their holiday traditions this year.<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Thomas of\u00a0Finance\u00a0is Jewish and just finished celebrating the seven nights of Hanukkah:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Typically, Hanukkah would be spent getting together with friends and enjoying the \u201cfestival of lights\u201d with loved ones. This year, it\u2019s a little different. Get togethers will be replaced with facetiming and Zoom calls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In our house, it\u2019s additionally bittersweet because it\u2019s our son\u2019s last holiday at home before he goes to college. The flip side to all of this is that we will have more time to spend together in our house baking, hanging out, and celebrating the holidays in a meaningful way. It may be different this year, but it will still be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina Kura in Human Services celebrates Christmas with traditions she brought from Poland:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Polish Christmas Traditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christmas Eve Supper<\/strong>, known as Wigilia, is one of the most longstanding and widely cherished of Polish rituals. 12 traditional meatless dishes are served during dinner which starts with the appearance of the first star. The number 12 is a symbol of wealth, the 12 Apostles and a representation of the 12 months of the year. During the meal, all of the guests should taste a bit of everything. There\u2019s an extra place at the table set symbolically for a traveler or a homeless person. As a result of COVID, this year it will be just the four of us for Christmas Eve dinner, but we will still have twelve dishes!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Christmas carols<\/strong> are serious and religious in character, yet it is customary to sing them after dinner. This year my son, Daniel, learned how to play Polish carols on the piano and he will perform an online piano recital for our family in Poland.<\/li>\n<li>Baking <strong>gingerbread cookies<\/strong> in Poland is a tradition several hundred years old. They must be made a good couple of weeks in advance to maturate and gain that special gingerbread taste. My daughter, Emily, baked and decorated gingerbread cookies on December 5<sup>th<\/sup> and will mail them to her friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2751\" style=\"width: 3723px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2751 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/Polish-gingerbread-cookies.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3723\" height=\"2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/Polish-gingerbread-cookies.jpeg 3723w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/Polish-gingerbread-cookies-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/Polish-gingerbread-cookies-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/Polish-gingerbread-cookies-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3723px) 100vw, 3723px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cookies baked by Emily Kura<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Poles open their gifts and then head out for the traditional\u00a0<em>Pasterka<\/em>, or <strong>Midnight Mass<\/strong>. This year we will watch a virtual Christmas Eve Mass. During COVID, we have actually discovered virtual Masses being live streamed from different parts of Poland as well as Rome which has never been available before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Even though this year\u2019s holiday will be much different than traditional large Polish gatherings we still feel blessed to have each other and to be able to video chat with our family in Poland. We want to keep our loved ones safe!<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Dawn and Paulina for sharing their holiday traditions with us.\u00a0 Wow &#8211; those cookies are amazing!\u00a0 Way to go Emily!<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who have visited the County-City Building in years past may remember the huge blue and silver Christmas tree we put up in the lobby of the first floor. Well, since very few people are coming in the building these days, we decided to dial it back a bit and put up a much smaller and simpler tree in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> floor lobby.<\/p>\n<p>My granddaughters, Blair and Lucy, stopped by to help light the tree.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2020 County-City Building Tree Lighting\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/490884443?h=8533f080df&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the weight of the pandemic and the temptation to dwell on what we\u2019ve lost, seeing Christmas through the eyes of children is a beautiful antidote.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2756\" style=\"width: 5733px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2756 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"5733\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8368.jpg 5733w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8368-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8368-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8368-1024x743.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5733px) 100vw, 5733px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blair and Lucy help light the CCB lobby tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2757\" style=\"width: 6240px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2757 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6240\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8380.jpg 6240w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8380-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8380-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2020\/12\/IMG_8380-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 6240px) 100vw, 6240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pushing the &#8220;special&#8221; switches to light the tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank you for the myriad of ways you have cared for our residents &#8211; and each other &#8211; in this extraordinary year. I hope in the days ahead you can safely spend time with those you love and enjoy some down time.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to put this year behind us, but I hope someday you will look back on 2020 with pride and the satisfaction of knowing we rose to the occasion when our community needed us.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-78 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2017\/01\/Bruce-blue-signature.png\" alt=\"Bruce\" width=\"108\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2017\/01\/Bruce-blue-signature.png 680w, https:\/\/blog.piercecountywa.gov\/executive\/files\/2017\/01\/Bruce-blue-signature-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 108px) 100vw, 108px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopeful holidays So many of our traditional holiday activities have been cancelled. 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