I love Christmas traditions! Some of my favorites are definitely chopping down a tree the day after Christmas, making sugar cookies and delivering them to neighbors, chocolate advent calendars, driving around to look at lit-up homes, sneaking through Christmas-in-the-park in LG and going up to San Francisco to ride the trolly with friends and family. Those are the classics that I grew up doing. I am also trying to think of new traditions for my own family, the only two new ones I've thought of are an advent calendar with toys inside for my kids and I'm going to attempt to sew our pajamas this year for the Christmas eve pajama box.... if it goes well it might become a permanent thing :)
Last night we enjoyed a night in SF with friends and family. We rode the trolly, lost and retrieved Maverick's shoe (Way to go Rick! Glad you weren't decapitated by that ambulance), sang Christmas carols, and ate too much ice cream at Ghirardeli's. Thanks Mom and Dad for watching our kids pretty much the whole time... it almost felt like Rick and I were on a date :)
I made a 25 square boxes out of scrapbook paper (Thanks Mom for teaching me this skill when I was like five years old) and filled them with goodies for my kids to open each day until Christmas. Adelaide and Maverick love it.
My mom, Adelaide and I made Christmas cookies over the weekend. They were delicious and so fun decorate, even if we did go a little overboard on the amount of frosting :) Adelaide was napping (a small Christmas miracle) when we finally broke out the camera, but she is represented by the handprint on my mom's shirt. Adelaide noticed some leftover sprinkles when she woke up from her nap and kept asking if she could have some of the "cupcake salt." She also refers to coconut milk lately as "polka-dot" milk. Kids are too funny.
Do you have any awesome Christmas traditions that I should be aware of while I'm brainstorming our family's? Please share!
