With the holidays quickly approaching, I have been thinking a lot about how we do things and our traditions. While my kids are still young, I feel like it's still easy to change or add to the way we do things. I am just wondering if anyone has any fun traditions or things they do? Also, I was talking with a friend about Christmas and what Santa brings. Does Santa bring all your Christmas presents or just one big one and parents do the rest? This is a shout out to my "peeps". I am wanting to hear from you! I would love to know how you do Christmas and what fun traditions you have.
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Shoot... I am right there with you! Let me know if you hear of any fun ideas. Also, I think I am going to do all the gifts from Santa, for now anyway.
We usually have the kids ask for the main present from Santa and then the rest are from us. we also have our kids pick each others names and then tyler takes them to the dollar store and lets them pick out what they want to buy for each other. My sister Darci lets her boys ask for three presents from Santa because of the story of Jesus and the three wisemen each bearing gifts. So the three gifts represent the three wisemen and the three gifts Jesus received from them. I actually like this one because it does tie in Jesus's birthday but you can still have the magic of Santa.
One thing we did every year was that we each got to pick a name from one of the angel trees they have in the mall and pick presents for the child we picked.
Also, once we got older instead of our parents spending money on clothes we might not like they'd get us one outfit or a nice coat and then give us cash to spend on ourselves after Christmas - that way we could choose what we wanted and were able to take advantage of the sales going on.
Cory and I do 'santa' for a family each year. We enjoy shopping for toys for kids that are less fortunate (ya we love pickin out stuff-kids stuff is so entertaining!). Anyways I hope in the future, we can excite our children into shopping with us to pick out toys for other children less fortunate. (I just hope it works, iveseen my little nieces and nephews down the toy isle..how can they even think of someone else during such a sensory overload!!! :) Love the question though...it's making me think!
bty...Happy Thanksgiving! :)
Hey Steph can you send me that pic thats on your header...i love it its so cute i want to print it! How is everything?
One thing we do it take a picture of the kids each year and make a Christmas ornament for the tree for next year. I'm getting help from these comments too. Thanks for asking the question.
Love the Peekaboo picture! It turned out great.
Okay, so I know its already past Thanksgiving, but a cute tradition I heard was to make sticky buns and sit and watch the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade with your kids, but before the parade, tell them Santa only makes one public appearance a year and that its the Macy's day parade because he is so busy. Then the kids get excited each year for the parade and you also explain to them that Santa at the mall is a helper to the real Santa and when you tell mall Santa what you want, he takes your list directly to Santa that night.
Christmas eve we open 3 gifts PJ's, an ornament, and a christmas movie to watch before we go to bed. Santa brings 1 big gift and a few small gifts for the stocking. We do the rest.
I'm always looking for something new . . . we always do fondue for Christmas Eve dinner. Also, we buy a new Christmas book every year. Then I wrap them all and put them under the tree and then every night as we build up to Christmas they pick a book to unwrap and read. Silly, but my girls love it.
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