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.