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Mom trying to keep family traditions alive
The holidays are always packed with family traditions. With our little one getting older, the husband and I are trying to keep our traditions going and add some new ones of our own.
My parents always gave my sister and me a new set of pajamas on Christmas Eve. Even to this day, we still get pajamas from them. My mother has already picked out pajamas for the three grandchildren to wear while they wait for Santa Claus.
My husband’s family always makes Christmas cookies so we are continuing that tradition too. Last year, when our daughter was barely five months old, we pressed her little hand down on the cookie cutter and took pictures of her first Christmas cookie. My husband already has all of the ingredients and cookie cutters ready to go for this year’s baking extravaganza.
Our new family tradition has been cutting down our own Christmas tree. We headed out this weekend with our daughter and looked for the perfect Christmas tree. We debated the fullness and height and let our daughter wander around the rows and rows of trees before we finally settled on one.
What are your holiday family traditions?
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By Kelly Cunningham
December 1, 2009 4:07 PM | Link to this
In 1963 my mother wrote the story of Jolly the Christmas Elf for my older sister. Each year since, my family’s biggest holiday tradition has been the visit from Jolly. He arrives each Thanksgiving and sits on shelves, pictures, mantles and the like until Christmas Eve; once he magically ‘flies’ into the tree, we know it’s time for bed! He then flees to the North Pole, to report to Santa on how we’ve been! I continue this tradition with my children still.
By null
November 30, 2009 12:43 PM | Link to this
We buy a new Christmas storybook each year. When the Christmas season is over and the decorations are put away, we tape the kids’ Christmas picture inside the front cover and everyone writes (or dictates to Mom) what their favorite Christmas memory was this year. We’ve accumulated about 12 books now, and the kids love reading about the memories as much as the stories themselves.