A year ago today, I wrote the following in my blog:

If I had a family to pass things down to...
These are the "Holiday Family Traditions" I would pass down (Since I don't have a family, I'll pass them down to you):

The Blessing Chain: A fancier paper chain, with high quality strips of paper, backed by beautiful ribbon--364 of them.. These strips of paper would be kept in a fine box. Starting on the day after the solstice, at the end of the day, we'd write down one good thing that happened each day. At the end of the year, when it comes time to link the rings together, and decorate the tree with the chain, we will have a tangilble reminder of all the joyful things we'd been through together.

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Well, I don't have a family, and I probably will go without a tree, next year. But I've decided to make a blessing chain anyway. I'll start tomorrow, and come Yule, I can find someplace to hang it, and add some color and cheer to my house, even if it's only for myself.