List your Christmas Season traditions. (Christmas Eve and Day traditions will be covered later.) Select one to describe in more detail, and take some photos to match. Do you have to get a family photo at this time, or do you have to get a photo of your kids with Santa? Do you have any special preparations at this time of year, whether it’s a cookie exchange or giving to some needy family?
My kids are young and we aren't living near our families so we have been trying to make up our own traditions for Christmas the last couple of years that we want to do with the kids.
Some of the ones that made it this year include...
1. Visiting Santa - both kids actually sat on his lap this year with no screaming
2. Taking a Christmas picture to use for the Christmas card
3. Cleaning out the toys in the boys rooms to give away to charity. I know most people spring clean in the spring but I tend to do it right before Christmas. I go through all the clothes and toys and I make the boys each donate one toy that they like but no longer play with as much.
4. Making Christmas cookies.
5. Going to something Christmasy. This year we went to the San Antonio Transporation Museum's Christmas train ride. It was really pretty at night seeing all the lights on the trains and Evan loved seeing all the Thomas the Tank Engine displays. They had bag pipe players and a Santa Engineer.
6. Drive around looking at Christmas lights.
Hopefully we will continue to add and subtract to this list until it fits us well.
2 comments:
LOL that they both sat on Santa's lap without screaming....that takes a while, doesn't it?
Great list! We're trying to make up our own traditions, too. It's about time since our oldest is 12, isn't it? ;) We've gone to the Transportation Museum before--very cool train displays!
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