Our little family is still fairly new, but we started one tradition last year. The Monday after Thanksgiving, all fall decor comes down, and tree and all Christmas decor goes up. I thought of waiting until after Tye's birthday (8th), but Michael loves Christmas and would probably keep decorations up all year. After working retail for so many Christmases, I am just now starting to like the season again, another reason for the early decorating (hopes that it will put me in the spirit).
What are some of your family traditions for the holidays? Also, feel free to post holiday pics of your kids if you would like!
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Holiday traditions...
Posted by Alisa at 8:42 PM
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We have several traditions. We put our Christmas decor up the day after Thanksgiving (as soon as I recoup from Black Friday shopping). Shortly thereafter, we also make the trek out to visit Santa Claus.
On Christmas Eve, we open one present, which is always new pajamas. And, I make some sort of breakfast casserole the night before. We pop it in the oven as soon as everyone starts to wake up Christmas morning, and then by the time we're done opening presnets... voila! Breakfast is already ready.
We have several other mini-traditions... we always make cookies together (usually the FHE before Christmas), we go shopping together, and we always do some sort of service together (secret Santa sort of thing).
Well, you already know our extended family traditions. When Coult and I were first married, we didn't have very many tree ornaments or much money to buy any, so we bought those really yummy candy canes (cherry, strawberry, etc) and used them to decorate our tree. Over the years we have collected enough ornaments that we know longer need the candy canes, but Natalie and Lily still insist that we buy them every year and put them on the tree. We also enjoy baking cookies together and then secretly leaving them on the door-step of some of our friends. It's so much fun trying to get away without being seen! A couple of years ago we started a new tradition. We were trying to help our family to remember the true meaning of Christmas. Mom had given us a little manger and some straw that she got from somewhere and an activity that went with it. Basically, you put out the manger and a bag of straw and as each person in the family does a good deed for someone else in the family, they add a piece of straw to the manger to make it soft for baby Jesus. I was surprised at how much even Lily got into this. Everyone in the family was constantly looking for nice things they could do for others so that we could get the manger as soft as we could before Christmas. It really helped us remember the true meaning of Christmas.
We go and buy a family ornament every year, slowly our tree is fulling up. We have done this since Jess and I were engaged.
Last year was the first real year we bought everyone PJs and I want to continue doing that.
I'd like to start a tradition more centered around Jesus but have not been successful in doing so yet. With both families from each side taking our christmas eve and day we don't get that much christmas time alone.
I like yours, Amy I may need to do that.
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