I can hardly believe there is only 2 weeks left until Christmas!
Are you ready?
I only have 2 people left to buy for! WOOHOO!
This year, Mike and I have been thinking a lot about TRADITIONS.
What are your favorite traditions?
One that Mike and I had issues with was opening presents. See, my family always opened one gift on Christmas Eve and then the remaining Christmas morning. Mike's family hated the kids waking them up to open presents so they opened ALL gifts Christmas Eve. This seemed CRAZY to me. Mike has eventually decided he likes 2 days of presents to open.
Another tradition I love is getting together at my parents house and Joyce playing all the Christmas songs while we sing.
A tradition Mike and I have started is going to a movie on Christmas (or Christmas Eve if Christmas is a Sunday) and also going out to breakfast with his mom. We love leaving a little gift or a large tip for the waitress that is stuck working on Christmas Day.
We have been trying to decide other traditions we will want to start with our kids. We know that we want to buy our kids an ornament every year so that when they have their own place they have special ornaments to place on their tree.
I would LOVE to hear your traditions! What are your favorite memories?
Traditions are one of those things that I think should be the focus of Christmas. All too often these days, people focus on the wrong thing. Or the complain that Christmas is too materialistic (um, only if you let it be...) and so on. I think as we bring the focus off expensive gifts and such we will find that it is the small things, like singing Christmas Carols around the piano, that we remember and love the most.
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growing up we did the 1 gift on Christmas eve too. Eric doesn't like the idea So we'e settled w/ them opening 1 gift, but it's christmas pjs. They open then take a shower and put on new pjs. The kids LOVE it. We do the 1 ornament a yr thing too..usually something to do w/ what they are into that year.
A really cute idea my friend does that I'd like to start (and catch up the yrs on) is, every yr she takes a small square of fabric for a quilt for her kids and sews it together and by their 18th Christmas will finish it w/ the back. (t's a sqaure of their baby clothes or a piece of fabric showing what they are into that yr (thomas the train, barbies, etc). Her boys are 6 & 12 and theirs are really cute & the boys have a blast helping pick their fabric of the year.
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