holiday traditions
Do any of you do something just a little special as a tradition for Christmas? Roast a turkey, favorite pair of pants, certain decorations, share hopes for the coming year around the fire....
Just following from other christmas posts, what do you do that makes Christmas special to your family, or are there traditions you'd like to have with your lo that you want to establish?
We have the roast dinner, and christmas stockings, we dress a tree (normally real), the decorations were given each year to me by my great grandmother, and each year I buy a new one that means something special about the year that has just past so each decoration means something, we light a big fire in the evenng and give thanks for the year passing and discuss our hopes for the year that follows, usually with a few good drinks and roast a bit of food over the fire, we save a piece of the log we burn to use to light the fire next year so technically all our christmas fires are connected together, ect I could go on and on... but I'd love to hear about everyone else's
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Just following from other christmas posts, what do you do that makes Christmas special to your family, or are there traditions you'd like to have with your lo that you want to establish?
We have the roast dinner, and christmas stockings, we dress a tree (normally real), the decorations were given each year to me by my great grandmother, and each year I buy a new one that means something special about the year that has just past so each decoration means something, we light a big fire in the evenng and give thanks for the year passing and discuss our hopes for the year that follows, usually with a few good drinks and roast a bit of food over the fire, we save a piece of the log we burn to use to light the fire next year so technically all our christmas fires are connected together, ect I could go on and on... but I'd love to hear about everyone else's
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I have no idea but this carried over from when I was little - we went to bed Xmas Eve in new pyjamas (maybe so the piccys from the morning had us in matching pjs lol)! Anyway - now I make sure that the boys all go to bed in their new ones!
Also last year we went on a lovely walk on boxing day around Jumbles Country Park and decided that would be our new tradition!
One from my husbands family that we would like to carry on is that him and his siblings had to wait at the top of the stairs while their dad checked that father christmas had been, then they could go down.
oooo i cant wait to bring Grace down on christmas day!!!!
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Always have stockings up, even me and dave had stockings before the lo's were born, went from our 2, to 3, now its gonna be 4 this year!!
Always leave a mince pie and carrot out!!
Kelsie last year wrote a letter to santa and got one back from him, theres a webiste you can get them from, cant remeber the name but its really nice, so thats in her special box for when shes older!
I love xmas so much!!
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We don't have much in the way of tradition. My mum and dad don't see a huge amount of point in it
Planning to start some traditions though. Might go with the PJ's one. Are we thinking xmas pjs or just gorgeous pjs?
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I always have a new pair of p.js for christmas eve and read the night before christmas, i've also started watching the polar express on christmas eve. I'm such a big kid.
Alex & Evie xxx
On christmas eve we would bake cookies and yummy christmassy things, watch a film, have a bath and put on our new pj's and then read a christmas story. it was great. i cant wait to do all of those things with Tegan xx
My grandparents always have the whole family over on boxing day (it is also thier wedding anniverary!). I've miseed a few as i've got older but we will be taking louise this year as my grandad really wants us to go.
Me and dh still have stockings and i'm really looking forward to making Louise's first one!
A fairly new tradition is that dh and I make the christmas crackers. We did this for the last 2 years for his family (and us) on xmas day, this year we're making them for xmas day and our 2nd xmas day with his family. The first year we had odd different things in them, last year we put in alcohol minatures (except I was pregnant so had choccies). Today, we bought wind up toys from hawkins bazare for our 2nd xmas day!! We'll prob spend ages racing them!
[Modified by: Loopy Loo on November 17, 2008 09:24 PM]
It's so exciting i'm really looking forward to it!