Every family has their own special Christmas traditions, and every family does things a little differently around Christmastime.
For us, we’re pretty traditional. We spend Christmas Eve with my family and then my wife’s family always comes to our house on Christmas Day. My wife and I usually open our presents from each other on Christmas Eve night, after we get home from my family’s get-together. We’ll be waiting for Christmas morning, of course, for Babito to open his.
We’ve told him all about Santa Claus, and how he’s watching him to see if he’s being a good boy. Yes, we’re using the Santa Claus threat when he’s acting up, and he seems to understand the ramifications. We’ve “called” Santa Claus several times to let him know Billy’s being bad. I think we’ll need to limit that because it won’t be very effective come December 26th. We’ll be leaving milk and cookies out for Santa Claus, and maybe some vegetables or something for his reindeer. I’ll eat the cookies and Mommy can eat the vegetables before we go to bed.
We decorate the house by December 1st, and the decorations stay up until after New Year’s Day. We make a special effort to make sure The Babito is aware of the reason for Christmas, the birth of Jesus. I look forward to building many special traditions as The Babito gets old enough to understand. He’s starting to this year. He loves the decorated houses, and candy canes, and decorating the tree. Unfortunately, he’s scared to death of Santa Claus.
What I’m always interested in hearing about is the traditions of other families. What special annual traditions do you have? Anything unusual or unique?
Please share them in the comments!
Tags: Babito, Christmas, Family, Santa Claus, Traditions
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#1 by Crystal on December 17th, 2008
Now that we are grow my mom, sister and I can celebrate Christmas the right way: for about the last 8 years my sister and I go over to my mom’s on Christmas Eve for a sleep-over and the 3 of us drink cheep champagne and then do some drunk baking. Cookie decorating takes on a whole new meaning after a few bottles of Andres! The pictures are always hilarious and the cookies… classic.
In the morning when we are hung over and excited for gifts my mom wakes us up way too early with her horrible coffee and we pop those sticky cinnamon buns in the oven and open presents, just the 3 of us, while they plump up. It’s my favorite day of the year.
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#2 by WeaselMomma on December 18th, 2008
I really like the new design. Clean, yet decorative. Easy to read layout. The only flaw that I can find is that I didn’t make the blogroll, lol.
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#3 by Allison on December 18th, 2008
I am actually at a strange point in my life I think. I’m transitioning from sharing Christmas with my mom and dad to sharing it with Andrew, my family and his. We haven’t exactly had and “traditions” yet, but I’m so excited to see what we do come up with. We didn’t decorate our house this year, which I hope to change in the future. This is basically because we are leaving for Montana tomorrow and we won’t be in our home on Christmas day and we don’t have kids. That would make things a bit different in the decorating department. I definitely like the idea of decorating right after Thanksgiving and leaving them up until New Years.
While living with my parents when I was younger they would always let me open one present on Christmas eve and the rest Christmas morning. It was always my job to distribute all the presents and once they were all handed out we all started to open our gifts. I was always the only child in the house, so I guess you could say I had quite a few gifts to open each year.
I can’t wait to see what the future brings in the tradition department.
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