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@jessiejo17: LOVE LOVE LOVE. I love the pj's idea, and the yummy breakfast tradition!!
@anonysquire: Oh yes! We read the bible story too!!
Ooh another one I thought of. We did this while we were growing up but certain people who entered the family later on didn't like this tradition so it was let go... which I was super sad about... but on Christmas, before opening a present we had to answer a bible trivia question. My dad tailored each one to our age. It was SO SO fun. Then my siblings and I would always try to come up with crazy hard q's to stump my dad. It was impossible lol!!
@anonysquire: I love the charity part too. I think I'll have to wait til all LO's are older tho.
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@Coco Bee: Ya I totally want to do more charity this Christmas season with my husband. Growing up in my religion it is second nature to do charity work weekly and my husband didn't ever grow up like that. So ya, maybe I will start knitting some hats for the homeless. Would that be wierd handing hats out?
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@anonysquire: haha I love it. what is your religion?
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@Coco Bee: I am a Mormon. We always had weekly activities that usually centered around service from age 12-18, and then when we are adult age we have several humanitarian oppurtunities. I feel like my religion plays a huge part on why I love to help people. And my DH has only been a Mormon for a year and I am sad that he hasn't been given the same oppurtunities to serve. He will not know what hits him this year lol.
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Mine is a Hannukkah tradition but when we were little kids, we were never allowed to have sugar cereals in the house but for Hannukah, my mom would buy an 8-pack of the mini boxes with all the good kinds (Frosted Flakes, Fruit Loops, etc) and that was always our present on the first night! Sounds crazy but I loooooooved it!!
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I have a lot of ideas, but I am not sure exactly what we'll do. A few things are for certain, such as an advent calendar that my MIL made for my son (she made hand knitted mittens and hats that I'll string on a clothesline) and a small nativity scene. I also would like to incorporate Hannukah, as I think it's important to expose my son to all religions.
I also do a yearly ornament, snowflakes for my son, since he was born in December.
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I love this thread and am stealing all of your ideas!
Decorating the tree while listening to Boney M and Raffi will be a must in our house!!
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I would like to do pajamas or one present on Christmas Eve, plus stockings. We did that growing up. We tried to implement a new tradition last year of watching traditional Christmas shows on Christmas eve—charlie brown, the Grinch, etc, but my parents were staying with us and they hemmed and hawed about watching “stupid cartoons”, that we had to change the channel to a Jackie O documentary. That really pissed me off, actually. This year, they can STFU. Last year we did breakfast with my MIL, which was new—I made pumpkin monkey bread…but I’d like to do breakfast, just us, with our family. I’m not sure that we’ll ever have “just us” at Christmas because my parents will likely always come up. But I’d like to bust out some cinnamon rolls and a fruit platter. Yum. Maybe reading Christmas stories in bed to our little ones before they go to sleep? I think that's sweet.
I also buy one nice ornament/year, based on what’s going on!
My mom has this tradition of buying me crystal every year. Unfortunately, most of it’s old lady, and she doesn’t take no for an answer.
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This is a hard question for me because I live in a different culture. Here, pretty much all the celebrating takes place on Christmas Eve -- the eating, the presents, the church (if there is church), the whole nine yards. I personally miss Christmas Day action! So I am thinking that we should celebrate just with our immediate family on Christmas Day, with church, presents, etc. And I miss stockings. I want to do stockings this year!
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I have been thinking a lot about Christmas traditions this year because baby #2, DS, will be born right around the holiday!
Some Christmas traditions we will do every year:
-New Ornament for everyone each year
-Advent Calendar & advent wreath
-Mass
-One gift Christmas eve
-The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve
-Something yummy for breakfast
-Stockings FIRST!
-Special Santa paper & gift tags
-Watch a Christmas movie the day of or day before
-Christmas pjs
-Leaving cookies, milk, carrots & water out
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Every Christmas eve, my DH's family did this big traditional Polish dinner. It has all these specific dishes or types of dishes. They also have Oplatki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_wafer), which are Christmas wafers. We'd definitely like to keep doing that with our in laws, or on our own if we won't see them that year (we alternate between his family and mine yearly).
We also always go to Mass, and have an Advent wreath.
One present on Christmas eve, picked by the parents (usually pajamas).
Stockings done first thing in the morning, and they're the only thing it's okay to break into if you get up before everyone else does.
Baking Christmas cookies! We also leave them out for Santa with milk and carrots for the reindeer.
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We have so any traditions I just love Christmas
On Christmas eve Santa and mrs Claus come for a visit. (my grandparents did this for me as a child and my parents have taken over the job)
On Christmas eve my dad would give my sister and I a piece of jeweler for wearing to church that evening. I continued with my kids only I had to change it up a bit since I had three sons. So I bought one special present for my sons and my husband is in charge of my daughter. Last year they got little pocket watches and a bracelet.
We do new pajamas for Christmas eve
On Christmas morning we do stockings and presents
After presents I make breakfast which is the breakfast my grandma made for my dad as a kid
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