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!
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How fun! I love the Walton Christmas traditions.
We are still getting our own going, too. It became more important to me once we had kids, but a few things we've done since our first Christmas together.
1. We set up our Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.
2. Since all but one year has been spent traveling at Christmas, we do our own family "Christmas" a day or two before we leave. We have a fancy dinner, open presents, and sit in the dark with the Christmas tree.
3. Write our years highlights on the back of our Christmas cards. :)
4. Read one of our many Christmas books before bed each night.
This year we also all watched Elf while eating syrup & french toast for dinner. I think that one will become tradition. :)
We also try to focus the kids a lot on serving others this time of year. We chose a tag off a giving tree, and have had several opportunities for the kids to give toys to needy children. And I did the 12 days of Christmas for Steve this year--it was fun and actually made me really focus on how wonderful it is to give gifts to someone else (something I didn't know I wasn't doing so great at). It was fun to see him get so excited.
We actually have a ton of traditions, and I have even more little things I want to integrate from my childhood. Christmas is my favorite time of year. :)
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