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The one tradition we've done every year is leave cookies out for Santa
and we make gingerbread houses. It's fun but I'm needing some inspiration!
I'm interested to know what some of your favorite holiday traditions are?
Golden Gate Park
10 years ago
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We like to do the 12 days of Christmas chain. I usually can't get my life in order until about 12 days before Christmas anyway...and that's if I'm lucky. We're using the ideas from this month's New ERA this year. Basically, each chain link has something "good" for you to do that day (read a scripture, make a gift for a friend, write a note, visit someone, etc.). It's fun coming up with what to do each year. We also do the Santa cookies and gingerbread houses...those are great!! We also act out the Nativity on Christmas Eve...can't go without that. Although, sometimes I wonder if it is a mockery since we do it so terribly! :) Have fun!!
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One of my fave holiday traditions is our "after Christmas Extraveganza!" We book a hotel room in Denver and shop, eat and check out the Christmas lights via horse drawn carraige. It's the best!
Glad that you are back...
My mom every year since forever always made a "Christmas Ball". She got red and green streamers and would start with a piece of candy. She would wrap the candy with the streamer (creating the ball effect). Then every so often she would put in more candy or little toys, hair elastics, gift certificates, bracelets, just little things. When it was time for the Christmas Ball we would sit in a cirlce and unwrap the ball. Once you got your little present you would pass the ball to the next person and it would go around and around until it was done. Then you can trade your goods! Sounds kinda dorky but it was really fun. Let me know if you need me to explain it better. We hope you guys have a very merry Christmas. We miss you!
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We always got new pajamas every Christmas eve- I do that now! We do the 12 days of Christmas for someone or give $100 gift card to the Bishop to give to a needy family in the ward:) Have a Christmas Eve party, and go up to the snow on Christmas Day:)
Merry Christmas!!!!
I think Christmas Eve is as much a holiday as Christmas, and it is mostly spent getting ready for Christmas and scrambling to get everything done... (for Paul, it marks the day to start thinking about buying Christmas presents) So about 4 years ago, I decided to make a scavenger hunt around the house and the when the kids wake up on the 24th, they get clues that lead them all around the house, and they know that at the end of the hunt is a new Nutcracker just for each of them. I have written their name and the year with a Sharpie on the bottom of their nutcrackers so when we pull out all our decorations, we can remember each year who got which one. It's fun - and a lot of storage, but they will each have a collection of nutcrackers, which they love!
Hey Bridgie! We hide the christmas pickle in the tree on christmas eve (it's an ornament in the shape of a pickle. Whoever finds it wins the prize.
We also take clementines and poke cloves into them. You literally cover every bit of the clementine. It smells so good when you are done and it keeps kids busy. Ours from last year still has it smell.
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We seem to start as new tradition each year. When we had a piano player at home (Jeff or Robynn ) we would go to the assisted living place and do a Christmas Eve program for the residence. The last couple of years we have gone to a church Christmas program somewhere in the Salt Lake valley.. Catholic or Presbyterian or such. It's fun holding lit candles on Christmas Eve. Legally.
The best is hiding the christmas pickle outside.
We have a few nativity sets, so we love having one under the tree and in family rooms or bedrooms. A friend of ours had soft-fabric nativity sets her very young children could handle and play with. Love that!
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