Christmas Jello

In my family we have a tradition of having Nana’s Christmas Jello as the “salad” (life’s short eat dessert first) to celebrate our holiday. The jello takes 3 days to make. The first layer is lime jello with crushed pineapple. The second layer is whipped lemon jello with cream cheese and whipped cream. And the top layer (unless there is an unfortunate floating incident*) is strawberry jello with real strawberries in it. All together it is amazing!

Each of us have different ways of eating it. Mom likes to get a little from each layer, I like it for breakfast and crazy Aunt Susan doesn’t eat the green. Too always goes on about it, picking on the littlest things because he knows it goats mom. And my bet is Aunt J hasn’t made it in years. It is a family tradition. The holidays are full of them. Like Mom squinting at the tree saying it is the “best ever.” Like the cats waiting for the Washington Wirt’s gift of extra potent 'nip. And the sad goodbye each year as they drop me off at the airport. I am sure as we keep going there will be new traditions (I may take a while to adjust) but as long as we don’t get rid of the old ones I should be ok. No matter what: we won’t get rid of Nana’s Christmas Jello.

(*Note this photos was of the 2005 jello. 2006 jello experienced an unfortunate floating incident and will remain only a memory...as it doesn't photograph quite as nice, mind you it tastes just fine.)