It has been a goal of mine to have really special traditions around each holiday. Each year we have been slowly adding these little memories. This year we started 4 new Christmas ones.
*Each night in December we unwrap a book about Christmas. For one thing it keeps the kids from unwrapping "Santa Gifts" too early and it is a great way to remind us about the Spirit of Christmas. I will just keep my Christmas books in my Cmas decoration box so next year they will right there and ready for wrapping. It will take a couple years to collect enough books but I am so excited for this tradition to continue threw out the years.
*In England they sell these little fireworks around Cmas time. They are little tubes that pop open to reveal, a prize, a crown, and confetti. They are all priced differantly depending on the prize inside. Well Justin found them at the store this year and he had to get them and teach the kids about this fun little tidbit. They loved them! The paper crowns were the kids' fav. Macie insisted on wearing hers all night!
*This one was not done this year because of our sicknesses BUT I would like to start having a formal dinner on Christmas Eve. With the TV of and I want us to all dress up in our nicest clothes. I got this one from my SIL Amy and I thought it would be so fun to take one night and make special and classy. I am hoping this one works next year!
*Another inspiration I got from a SIL (Elisa) was our gift to Jesus. We took old checkbook boxes (or any small box) wrapped them up. On Christma eve before we opened our one present we sat down and wrote out something we were going to work on this year. Mine was my relaionship with my kids...Patience and to stop yelling. Each of us did this and then we places our papers inside our boxes as our gift to Jesus. Next year we do it all over agian. I really liked this idea and although Macie is too small this year to understand I am hoping it is something they will all look forward to doing!
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