https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:36:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2792063 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 09:04:15 +0000 bubblegum 2792063@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wrkbrk: aww thank you! I like your style! Boozes to get you through! That's my motto lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791946 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:51:03 +0000 wrkbrk 2791946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: Love yours!</p> <p>Every year we walk through the botanical gardens light display with manhattans (well, none for DS ;) ), and go take pictures with Santa. This year we added the Polar Express ride and a breakfast with Santa with all four grandparents (funded by the out-of-town set, haha). Otherwise, we go get and decorate a real tree, play Christmas music every morning and evening at home, make homemade cookies and bailey's to hand out, and adopt a family for whom to buy toys! I hope to add more traditions as DS grows up! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791921 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 15:17:18 +0000 bubblegum 2791921@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cake2017: That's a great start! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791880 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:38:10 +0000 cake2017 2791880@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I just talked about this! It’s LOs 1st Christmas and I want to start the traditions even though he doesn’t really get it. </p> <p>We read to LO each night so we will definitely read the Christmas Story from the Bible, baking and maybe a gingerbread house! I’d like to play christmas music the entire month too!!!! We decorated the tree together and we will open presents together (as a nuclear family) Christmas morning. I am sure some new things will come! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791868 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:07:29 +0000 bubblegum 2791868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Hey traditions are traditions! Easing her in, I get it lol! Happy Hanukkah! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791867 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:06:33 +0000 bubblegum 2791867@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gingerbebe: That all sounds great! I'm huge on cooking as family so that's really a nice tradition to start. I think that's an awesome idea to show them the art of giving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791866 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 13:01:50 +0000 bubblegum 2791866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@WinterBee: Christmas pickle!! That's original!! I like that </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791861 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:52:39 +0000 nana87 2791861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This feels like the first year lo1 really “gets” Hanukkah (she’s 3.5) or is able to remember things long-term and it’s so exciting! We’re focusing on the traditional stuff— candles and prayers each night, a menorah, latkes on the first night, a few songs, gifts— so nothing too out there (or creative haha) but it’s exciting to see how into it she’s getting! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791851 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 12:33:17 +0000 gingerbebe 2791851@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I are starting our Christmas traditions from scratch and this is the first year we are staying home and not traveling for Christmas, so we don't have a whole lot yet, but we implemented an Advent calendar this year. We got Ann Voskamp's The Greatest Gift and while our 18 month old is a little too young for it, our 3 year is into it. We will likely keep that as a tradition going forward. Right now we're giving them a small gummy candy afterwards, but eventually I imagine we'll also include their own chocolate calendars.</p> <p>Someone posted about making a birthday cake for Jesus with their kids and I loved that idea, so I think we'll do that as an activity on Christmas Day to have as dessert after dinner. We are planning on dinner being something the kids can help me make, like a salad and pizza or a ravioli lasagna they can help me layer ingredients on. The hope is that the tradition turns into us all cooking dinner together.</p> <p>I don't know that we'll do this on Christmas Day, but I think we'll take the boys with us to drop off Christmas goodies to our neighbors so they can start learning the joy of giving. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791836 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:32:52 +0000 bubblegum 2791836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snarkybiochemist: that's so sweet!</p> <p>@littlebug: I can imagine! It's super cute </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791835 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:31:30 +0000 WinterBee 2791835@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love Christmas! This year is going to be especially fun because it’s our LO’s first. Our traditions include:<br /> - ‘Santa day’ in a neighbouring town, the whole town becomes festive and there’s an evening parade with fireworks!<br /> - writing Santa a letter and giving it to him at our local parade/kid party.<br /> - we cut down our own Christmas tree from our property.<br /> - Christmas movies, the musts are Charlie Brown, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th Street... plus any other ones we can. 😊<br /> - We get overpriced hot chocolate and look at the Christmas lights.<br /> - Day (or more because of baby) of Christmas baking.<br /> - Hiding the Christmas pickle in the tree.<br /> - Christmas Eve box + reading the night before Christmas.<br /> - Christmas Eve mass.<br /> - Polish Christmas Eve with inlaws.<br /> - Christmas evening with my extended family (obscene amount of traditional food and presents).<br /> - Boxing Day with my parents.<br /> - We’ll be doing cookies and hot chocolate for Santa this year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791822 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:47:37 +0000 littlebug 2791822@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: It's my favorite Christmas tradition! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791820 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:40:44 +0000 snarkybiochemist 2791820@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bubblegum: It is awesome and for babies first christmas he holds them in his lap to paint the ornament, I am so excited for my daughter to do that </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791819 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:39:08 +0000 bubblegum 2791819@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mommy Finger: Aww that's so sweet, shopping with your dad. Sounds like you have a lot of great traditions! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791817 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:36:02 +0000 bubblegum 2791817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: How did I not know about this Polar Express out in Hersey!! That's pretty freaking cool. Deff something to do when my kids get older! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791816 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:34:48 +0000 Mommy Finger 2791816@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We celebrate St Nicholas day on Dec 6th so the kids get their stocking filled by me then and again by my husband on Christmas morning. :)</p> <p>I go shopping with my dad for my mom one night and then we do dinner. (one of my favorite traditions!)</p> <p>Make cookies with the boys the weekend before</p> <p>Watch any Christmas movie we can get our hands on.</p> <p>Drive down the weekend before Christmas to spend time with DH's family.</p> <p>Christmas eve mass and then dinner with my parents that always ends with sipping Baileys over ice. :)</p> <p>Lazy Christmas morning with monkey bread and some sort of egg casserole for breakfast. Dinner at my Grandma's</p> <p>Celebrate Christmas with my brothers and their family a few weeks later. We do the white elephant game instead of exchanging gifts and it's hilarious. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791815 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:33:36 +0000 bubblegum 2791815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@snarkybiochemist: Omg! Your grandfather is adorable! I think that's so so special!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791814 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:29:39 +0000 littlebug 2791814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have several traditions that kind of spread out over the course of the month of December, basically.<br /> -going to see the Polar Express at the Antique Auto Museum (everyone wears pjs and they serve food and a conductor punches a golden ticket for each kid and then Santa comes and every kid gets a bell)<br /> -breakfast with Santa at my parents' country club, then a big party at their house<br /> -Christmas lunch/dinner with my ILs<br /> -a visit to Christmas Candylane at HersheyPark to see the lights<br /> -baking/decorating cookies<br /> -Christmas Eve we go to church then drive to this house that has a huge lights display. Once we get home we lay out cookies and milk and carrots and spread "reindeer food" outside<br /> -Christmas Day is opening presents, overnight baked nutella french toast, and then we lounge around in our pjs and watch Harry Potter movies </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791810 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:21:39 +0000 snarkybiochemist 2791810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My family has a lot of christmas traditions but my favorites include:<br /> My grandfather carves wooden ornaments for us grandkids (and now great grandkids) to paint and every year they are different. I have ornaments dating back to when I was 2<br /> He also decorates cookie sheet size cookies with us, and the rule always was no one can tell you to put less sugar on your cookies (my grandma was actually kicked out of the kitchen when we were little to make sure this was enforced)<br /> a new ornament (other then the hand painted one) each year I now do this for my husband and will be doing it for my daughter<br /> new christmas pjs </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791809 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:19:16 +0000 bubblegum 2791809@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@yoursilverlining: Ohhhh I love the idea of the 12 books of Christmas!! We are BIG book readers and the kids get two new books every year (those big ones with tons of stories) but I like this idea much more!! How has it been going? Do your babes like it?</p> <p>Whiskey!! Okay Santa, I like your style! lol Awwww how sweet is that. Santa for sure needs coffee. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791808 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:12:58 +0000 yoursilverlining 2791808@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>New PJ’s on Xmas eve (this was my family’s tradition growing up too)</p> <p>This year we are starting a new tradition “the 1 2books of Christmas”: 12 days leading up to Xmas LO gets to upwrap a new book every day. </p> <p>Make cookies on xmas eve (or day before, depending on schedules) and set out cookies, carrots and whiskey (thanks, DH) for Santa. LO determined last year we should set out the cookies/carrots next to the Kuerig so Santa can make himself a cup of coffee while he’s there too, so that’s a new tradition lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791804 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 10:01:22 +0000 bubblegum 2791804@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@aprild: That sounds really nice!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791796 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:47:47 +0000 cat620 2791796@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We drive to see Christmas lights and go to the botanical garden's Christmas light display the weekend before Christmas. Our other traditions are all pretty standard with presents Christmas morning and seeing family over the holidays. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/christmas-or-holiday-traditions#post-2791788 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:38:49 +0000 bubblegum 2791788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>11 days away from Christmas and I'm getting excited to get all our traditional Christmas outings going. What do you do to get ready for the holidays? What are your traditions or any traditions you want to start now? </p> <p>We always watch Christmas movies, the clay animations are a must!!</p> <p>We go the Christmas light shows in our city.</p> <p>We watch the Polar Express every Christmas Eve (until the kids can request other wise) </p> <p>And this year we are trying to start a new tradition of PJ cookie party! Fingers crossed we'll be able to add this to our list of traditions. </p> <p>What do you and your family do? </p>