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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Traditions
So as the Holiday season is upon us, Mark and I have been talking about our favorite traditions. We have decide that we want to start some of our own traditions. The only problem is neither one of us can come up with anything that sounds really fun that everyone would enjoy. So I am asking all of you who read my blog (even if I have no idea who you are) to share some of you favorite traditions so that maybe we can come up with some fun ones. Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!
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You probably have already started some traditions without even realizing it like going around to see all the Christmas lights, fixing your favorite foods, and favorite holiday movie watching. I've always wanted to go to breakfast on Christmas morning and tip the watress $100 or something. Wouldn't you love to see her face? Sleeping under the Christmas tree was a favorite tradition of Marks.
We used to drive around & look at homes that were decked out with lights & then go for hot chocolate & scones somewhere. Then there is the usual decorating sugar cookies, building gingerbread houses, caroling etc. One of Trae's traditions we've kept up is having the kids paint a tree ornament every year. Ugly sweater parties. I have a friend who buys a game for every Sunday in December & so every Sunday they unwrap & then play a new game. Just a few ideas :)
I'm starting a new tradition, well I started it two years ago, but last year I forgot! I want to wrap up a toy or something that my kids already have but still love and enjoy and then on Christmas morning they'll open it and enjoy it again. As they get older I hope it turns into a Christmas Eve Treasure Hunt - what did mom take and wrap under the tree?
We open pajamas on Christmas Eve...it makes going to bed more fun and a lot easier when they have new Christmas jammies.
Also we do the Christmas pickle with our extended family and are starting it this year just at home (they have the pickle ornaments at Pier 1 if you want to buy one). The pickle is hidden in the tree and whoever finds the pickle gets a prize (we don't do the prize...instead they get to open the first present). Kids love looking for the pickle! It surprisingly blends in really well and is kinda hard to find.
I think having the same thing for breakfast every year is a great tradition. The breakfasts are my husbands favorite memories of Christmas...and the only thing he remembers. We do homemade Italian sausage, eggs, potatoes....it could be anything as long as it was the same every year. A lot of people do cinnamon rolls.
I'll stop now.
I just went to our Relief Society Christmas dinner the other night and we were asked to share some of our favorite traditions. There was one I really liked and might start doing myself. Someone bought a white stocking and put it up with their family stockings. It represents Jesus' stocking. Each year on Christmas Eve everyone writes down what their Christmas Gift to Jesus is going to be and put it in his stocking. Then the next year they pull out their old ones, see how they did, and then write new ones. She said that she also writes down these gifts in a notebook and every once in a while throughout the year will pull them out at family home evening to remind everyone what their gift was.
Someone also said that they have a frame ornament with Jesus' picture in it that they place in the center of their tree to remind them what Christmas is all about.
And then lastly, someone said that they do the 12 days of Christmas for someone that is in need. But they usually pick someone that isn't necessarily going through a hard time financially, they pick someone that is having a hard time with other trials (deaths, depression/sadness, infertility, stress, etc.). Then instead of giving them gifts, each day they give inspirational stories, quotes, thoughts, letters of encouragement, notes of love and concern, etc. I thought this was a great idea because having gone through a hard trial myself, I'd rather receive something like that rather than a gift. So there's some ideas a little more on the spiritual side.
We like to go see the Luminaries at the mortuary on 36th (Leavitt's). The Monday before Christmas a group from the neighborhood I grew up in goes Christmas caroling (we even sound decent... most years.) I love going to the Messiah Sing-in at the Ogden Tabernacle. We celebrate Christmas day with a Lobster dinner :)
Traditions I loved when I was young... Christmas Eve pajamas, picking out presents for the Angel Tree, Reading Luke 2 and The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve, Picking out our ornament for the year (each year our parents bought us each an ornament so we would have some memories to decorate our tree when we each get married.), Watching The Christmas Story.
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