One of my favorite things about having little ones is how it gives me the chance to see the world through their eyes. This time of year, seeing their excitement for the Christmas season has a way of bringing the magic back into the holidays. It reminds me of all the great memories from my own childhood. Every year my brothers and I would get so excited when it was time to get the Christmas decorations out of storage. My mom was always coming up with creative ways to make our own decorations for the tree, including homemade garland, and ornaments made out of tin foil, among other things. We loved helping my parents transform our home and I was always so glad they included us in the process.
Now that we have four kids and our family is complete, my husband and I have been doing a lot of talking about what traditions we want to implement to make Christmas special year after year. When Macy’s asked me if I’d share some of these traditions with you with the help of their adorable holiday kids clothing line, I was so excited! There were many adorable outfits to choose from, including some conversational pieces from Frozen, which my girls would have LOVED. I may still go back and get the Anna and Elsa shirts for stocking stuffers. I ended up choosing the outfits I did because I love that they are more special than their everyday play clothes, but that they aren’t limited to holiday reds and golds. I like that my kids will be able to wear these bright colors and patterns even after the holiday season is over. Plus, how fun is it to dress up kids like “little adults?!” I mean, I can totally see Jake wearing an adult version of Baylen’s sweater.
Now, for the traditions! Jake and I agreed that including the kids in the decorating even at their young ages was something we wanted to prioritize. We want their anticipation to keep building as we approach Christmas and all it means to us. Since they’re a bit too young to successfully hang ornaments, we decided to make a tree just their size out of felt. This way they were still able to participate in the tree decorating, but we didn’t have to worry about them getting poked by branches or dropping ornaments on the floor. 
Case was happy to watch from the couch. 
Another tradition we started last year was Elf On The Shelf! Our Elf’s name is Red, and I’m pretty excited for the girls to get in on the action this year too! 
And finally, the last tradition I documented is how we decorate our house with miniature houses! Jake and I started collecting the St. Nicholas Square houses when we were first married, and this year we put some at the kids’ level. They LOVE looking at them! 
Now that the decorating is finished, we can move on to more traditions, like making Christmas cookies! I can hardly wait! But before I get to that, I want to give you a chance to get in on the fabulous Macy’s line too! One lucky Mommy’s Me Time winner will receive a $100 Macy’s gift card! To enter for a chance to win, simply leave a blog comment telling me about one of your family’s Christmas traditions!
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My husband and I decided to watch Elf the Friday after Thanksgiving to get in the Christmas spirit and to also spend time either on Christmas Eve morning or Christmas morning just as our lil’ family of 3 (4 including dog) to open gifts from each other before the traveling begins to see family.
When I was little, my brother and I were allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve and it was always a new pair of pajamas! It was so fun to get to open a present early and go to bed wearing a new, special pair of PJs 🙂 My mom still gives us new pajamas every Christmas!
Every Sunday during advent, we allow one of our sons to move the three wise men figures around our family room, getting closer to our nativity each week. The last Sunday of advent, we move them up to the nativity to await Jesus’ birth!
Growing up we would go cut down a live tree with my family and we now are starting that with our own family. My 3 year old daughter loved it this year! In fact when we found “the one” she ran up to it and gave it a big hug and kiss. Love seeing her excitement for Christmas!!
We love holiday baking and always do Christmas cut outs!
Our favorite family Christmas tradition is baking Christmas cookies and decorating them together.
Our family would come home from the late Christmas Eve mass and make a fresh warm batch of cookies for Santa. Then as we got older and have our own families we have incorporated this into our family traditions too.
Fun and cute! One of our favorite Christmas traditions for the littles is getting the Little People Nativity set down to play with and talk about the true meaning of Christmas. 🙂
Decorating the tree is our favorite tradition.
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One of my favorite traditions is to drive around looking at Christmas lights- not that exciting, but always a favorite 🙂
We always sleep in on Christmas morning, and then make omelets for breakfast before presents!
I love having 2 little boys and creating Christmas traditions with them that we can have for life. My oldest is 2 1/2 and so far we have enjoyed decorating the tree while it’s snowing outside and listening to Christmas music. All the ornaments are on the bottom of the tree and will remain there through the Christmas season 🙂
We love to make Christmas crafts as a tradition, like every year we make a new ornament for each family member and date it.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is making a gingerbread house from scratch and decorating it as a family!
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Every year the weekend after Thanksgiving we get our tree and decorate while listening to Christmas music then watch the Polar Express. My favorite tradition though is cuddling up on the couch with my husband to watch Love Actually. Love that movie!
My husband and I always go shopping for a live Christmas tree, the day after thanksgiving. We watch Elf and eat cookies and drink hot cider or cocoa. I’m hoping to start a few new traditions with our son for next year since we won’t be home for Christmas this year.
One of our traditions is watching White Christmas with Bing Crosby while we decorate the tree. It’s our favorite Christmas movie!
My family enjoys making cinnamon and felt ornaments for Christmas. Not to mention the gingerbread house competitions, good time!
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We have a 2 yr old and one on the way and we can’t wait to start new traditions with them.
The Christmas Parade! Love taking our little guy to go enjoy the Christmas lights and music.
We bake Christmas cookies and share them with friends and family
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My favorite tradition is one we started 3 years ago, when our first son was born still born, the day after thanksgiving. Now every year after thanksgiving we out and my husband cuts down a fresh tree, we decorate it as a family with our two little ones and then have birthday cake for our son’s birthday in heaven.
a favorite growing up was that our whole family would come to my mom and dads to eat breakfast Christmas morning! Last year we moved it to our house because we have the babies so now I get to host Christmas breakfast!
One of my favorite traditions was always going for a drive to look at all of the Christmas lights and decorations. Now my girls are already enjoying this. We also decorate sugar cookies and do elf on the shelf.
On christmas eve we always go out to look at Christmas lights, decorate cookies for Santa and watch A Christmas Story
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We bake cookies, use the Christmas cookie cutters, and then decorate. My oldest loves this!
We always go to A Christmas Carol, watch A Christmas Story, and bake Italian cookies. We do Christmas at one family’s house in Christmas Eve and the the other family’s house on Christmas Day. This year, with a new addition, we decorated the tree and she loved looking at the lights. Next year, when she’s just over 1, I want to steal you felt idea! Love it!
we love to bake cookies
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We read a Christmas book a day as a countdown to Christmas as well as have a little advent house filled with candy. My son’s favorite thing to do is unpack the nativity. The pieces are bears dressed up as Mary, Joseph ( we have a traditional one as well). I put this nativity at his level and I find him staring at it everyday. So adorable!
we always decorate the tree while listening to Bing Crosby on the record player. We can’t wait until our daughter can help us.
Growing up, my Mom always did an advent calendar with us. My oldest turned 3 this year, and I’m so excited to start the tradition with her!! Each day we pull a card that tells us something fun to do for the day. It’s perfect because I can put in some of the “usual” things like go get a Christmas tree, go see Santa, etc. But, I can also do some things that teach about giving like “choose 3 toys to give away”, or “make some cookies to deliver to the neighbors”, etc. Our whole family has been having a lot of fun with it!
We have started the tradition of making sure Christmas morning is only our little family (we have 2 girls now, ages 4 & 8 months). After we open presents, then we head out to the side of family who’s year it is. My husband & I are trying to develop a new tradition in which there are minimal purchased presents; instead, family gives some of their time & has a play date – with our older daughter for now. Love your felt tree!
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One of our family traditions is that the kids get to open their stockings after the church Christmas program. We also enjoy doing Christmas cutout cookies and decorating them during the school Christmas break.
Our tradition is me sleeping under the lit tree with the kids on Christmas Eve!
Every year, we venture out and cut down our own Christmas tree. Sometimes it’s with family, sometimes it’s with friends, and always, it’s with each other.
Love the felt tree idea! I may have saved myself a lot of hassle (and explosions of tinsel) with something like this. 🙂
My oldest is two, so we are just starting to think through traditions we’d like to continue. One thing we love is to give our boys special Christmas pjs to wear on Christmas Eve. This year we got them matching pjs. 🙂
Every year the kids and I make a special ornament and we make multiples as a gift for the grandparents. We make homemade treats together and the kids LOVE the Christmas lights, too!
We love going to look at Christmas lights every year. We’re excited make new traditions now that we have a daughter.
We always make sugar cookie cutouts and decorate them!
We always wrap up our Christmas books and each night the kids get to unwrap a book to read during the month of December. The anticipation of wondering which book it will be is always exciting and we aren’t reading the same books every single night 🙂
Each year my husband and I get one ornament representing the year. I do this now with our kids.
Our oldest just turned 3 and we are still trying to figure out our traditions. So far we decorate the tree together and use an advent calendar to count down the days to Christmas. Cute felt tree BTW.
We do an advent countdown with the kids filled with fun ideas of decorating cookies, gingerbread houses, reading the Christmas scripture together, looking at lights just to make a few.
One of our special holiday traditions is to go see the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train. My children love trains! The train rolls in a lit up in holiday lights. They open the rail car and a band plays Christmas music. We’ve traveled to see the train in multiple locations and have had a blast each time. This year we’re hoping for warm weather to truly enjoy the holiday spirit. It’s wonderful to watch the lights and people enjoying the event. What’s really special is that that the Canadian Pacific Railway donates food and money to the local food shelves in the citys the train stops in. If you have a chance, Google the Holiday Train and take check it out, you won’t regret it!
My favorite tradition is setting out the nativity scene and retelling the story to our boys. This year we’re starting with matching pajamas and a 9 day sorry leading up to Christmas day with the story of Christ’s birth. y
My favorite Holiday Tradition is to go get our Christmas Tree at a tree farm. We make it a day by getting in the Car and listening to Christmas Music on the way and spending the whole day decorating the tree together as a family. It is so much fun.
Favorite traditions: watching home family videos on Christmas Eve, baking cookies with my family, and the excitement of adding an ornament to our countdown to Christmas tree.
Growing up we always listened to Alvin and the Chipmunks record while decorating the tree. I can’t wait to start this tradition with the girls!
We love to drive around on Christmas Eve looking at Christmas lights.
the day after Thanksgiving we start putting our Christmas tree/decorations up. My husband and I started Elf on the shelf this year for the first time (St Nicholas brought him on Dec6)
One very very important tradition that started (by accident) when I was a little girl, we go to Christmas Eve mass at 5:30 and rush home for a formal dinner in our dinning room. Everyone opens one gift before bed.
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2 traditions we having during the holidays are:
1. Putting the tree up on Thanksgiving after dinner and decorating it!
2. Driving around looking at the various Christmas lights! So much fun!
We drive around and look at lights while drinking cocoa!
My kids are similar in age to your kids, so this year we just started to have them help with the decorating process! My traditions have always been making crafts and having music on daily. As I grew up we always made paper chains in anticipation for the big day! The kids get to take turns taking a piece of the ring off before going to bed! I am hoping as the years go on that we will build more traditions 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is making Christmas goodies, especially decorating cut-out cookies! Love it! We still make time for this even though my sisters and I are all out of the house.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is going to see the Nutcracker. We also put out an advent calendar that I’ve had since I was a little girl and now my kids enjoying using it each day to count down to Christmas.
With an almost two year-old, we are just getting started on creating our own family traditions! I’m with you on the baking cookies tradition – can’t wait for that! Another thing we have loved so far are Christmas jammies. She loves the novelty of it and looks way too cute!
We do a felt Jesse tree for our kids, and started a new tradition this year with Ann Voskamp’s book Unwrapping the Greatest Gift. So fun to find new things to do with the kids:)
I love my family’s Christmas baking day. We make some killer fudge and it is such a fun time together.
We are just starting our family and it has been fun thinking about what her future will be like and what traditions we can start with her!
Every Thanksgiving weekend we go with my mom and pick out our trees. We get hot cocoa(Josie’s favorite part!) and then bring it home and decorate it sometime over the weekend. Josie received her own Nativity set last year that she loves to have out to play with! Luckily it’s plastic!! We also bake Christmas cookies with Grandma and open a ‘number’ on the Advent calendar each day.
We always open presents right when we wake up on Christmas morning. Like all the presents are opened by 8 am. My daughter hardly sleeps with so much anticipation 🙂
We enjoy decorating the Christmas tree together every year. We just did this today since my kids had a snow day.
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my sister and I have an annual cookie baking day to prepare for the Christmas season! It’s great bonding time and reminds us of baking with our mom when we were younger. Our go-to cookies are sugar cookie cut-outs, peanut butter kiss’ and krumkake. This year we experimented with rosettes for the first time!
We do advent/countdown to Christmas magnetic board that they love to take turns moving closer and closer to Christmas Day. We also gift pjs on Christmas Eve to wear. And listen to lots of Christmas music, and do Christmas stories and movies as soon as Thanksgiving is over!
We watch The Charlie Brown Christmas movie every Christmas Eve. This year we also started getting my son Christmas pajamas and a Christmas book to open on Christmas Eve 🙂
One of our favorite traditions is making Christmas cookies! My mom always comes over and my 3 yr old loves to decorate and eat!!
The felt tree is such a great idea! So much fun for little ones.
Following the tradition of my mom with an all-edible decorated tree! String popcorn and cranberries and make decorated sugar cookies esp gingerbread men & ladies, popcorn balls, candy canes, satchels of gold chocolate coins, the list goes on and on. It is fun to get edible treats for the tree, then it isn’t so bad taking the tree down after Christmas, as we get to eat it all (well, whatever we haven’t snitched)!!
One Christmas tradition that I have and love is to get the boys bundled up make a thermos of hot chocolate and go out and look for the perfect tree!
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we have a tradition of stringing popcorn garlands to decorate our tree while we watch Christmas movies together pryfamily5@gmail.com
Last year I saved all of our Christmas cards and laminated them. Each day in December we take turns picking out a family to pray for. The kids love getting to pick and hearing us tell them about each family. I’m looking forward to doing this every year!
We love to ride around at night and look at the beautiful holiday decorations and lights on the houses/front yards.
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We read Scripture and open our presents on Christmas eve night.
Opening gifts on Christmas morning. Then playing games.
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One of my family’s Christmas traditions is baking sugar cookies together.
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Taking gift cards to the firefighters to thank them for their service.
I love creating Christmas traditions for my growing family…it is SO FUN to think about how our little ones will remember fondly the traditions we are establishing right now. I love finding cute clothes to dress my littles in…especially around the holidays. Go Macy’s! One of my favorite traditions is going to a Botanical Gardens in our community and seeing all the beautiful lights and having cookies…followed by dinner at Olive Garden! 🙂 Hopefully the kids will continue to enjoy it as they grow!
we purchase same pajamas every Christmas and take a silly photo.
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We love our tradition of putting gingerbread houses together as a family!
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My favorite memory is my daddy getting me cowboy boots against momma’s better judgement. She wanted to make me a little lady and daddy let me be a tomboy.
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going to the Christmas parade
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One of my family’s traditions is to get together a couple of days after Christmas and we all have to wear an ugly Christmas Sweater!
I don’t have traditions right now, no kids, just my husband and i. we do have a nice christmas dinner for two 🙂
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Our favorite holiday tradition is to make Christmas cookies together while listening to Christmas music.
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On Christmas Eve we bake a cake together, while it cools we eat popcorn. Then we decorate the cake and put a single candle on it. On Christmas Day we blow out the candle together and say “We are no blowing out the light of the world we are taking him into our hearts. Then we sing Happy Birthday to Jesus. We eat cake after our Christmas meal.
Sorry meant to type: “We are not blowing out the light of the world. I omitted the t at the end of the word not.
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We decorate the house and put up the tree a few days after Thanksgiving.
We like to bake Christmas cookies for our neighbors.
We bake yummy iced spice cookies and watch all the classic holiday movies
We open one gift on Christmas Eve!
WE ALWAYS HOLD A VERY LARGE FAMILY DINNER!
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We like driving around to look at Christmas lights, baking cookies, and watching old movies by the glow of the Christmas tree. 🙂
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We all love baking cookies for the holidays, and pies! And we enjoy buying a present each year to donate to Toys for Tots.
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Our tradition is to drive around in our Christmas pajamas looking at Christmas lights while sipping hot cocoa and eating snacks on Christmas Eve! There are just so many things to be thankful for when you are with family!
Our favorite tradition is baking together as a family!
Thanks for the chance to win!
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we love trimming the tree
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Family getting together to decorate the christmas tree
Only Holiday tradition we have is a big dinner get together. Love it!
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Getting gag gifts! It’s hilarious to see family’s expressions when they pull something ridiculous out of their stocking!
At the beginning of December we used to make a paper chain for all the days leading to Christmas and would remove one everyday to count down.
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Make traditional dishes for our holiday meals and include foods we ate growing up. Ask for recipes from relatives to keep our family food traditions alive.
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celebrate with extended family on Christmas eve and each child picks out an ornament for the tree each year
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One of my favorite traditions is that my kids, husband and I decorate a couple of Gingerbread houses. We buy the premade type and then we decorate. We make a mess, but it’s really fun and we all look forward to it each year.
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Our family trims the tree with popcorn on Christmas Eve.
One of our holiday traditions is making different kinds of cookies on Christmas Eve.
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We like to bake for Santa on Christmas Eve. My girls usually choose something different to make each year. They have picked out cupcakes to make this year. Thank you!
Each year on Christmas eve we all get in the car and view all of the great lighting display.
Some are just fantastic!
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Every year we hang the cloth Advent calendar that my grandma made when my son was very small. Now the grands get to move the marker.
We set up the tree on Thanksgiving and bake cookies throughout the season.
Our family is still trying to figure out our traditions. But Christmas Eve we always go to my parent’s Christmas Eve church service and have a nice meal before opening presents. Hopefully as our boys get older we will develop our own family traditions.
Birthday cake and singing “Happy Birthday” on Christmas
we like to drive around our town and see all the Christmas decorations than come home and have hot chocolate and cookies!
Our best tradition is taking a family photo in front of the tree every year!
We always read a book together called Santa Mouse…then we decorate the tree with a yellow light at the top just like in the book….so Santa Mouse can find his way to our house through the storm!
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My favorite is a Denny’s dinner with the family after Christmas Eve mass.
Our only real tradition is to get everyone bundled up in the car and to drive around town and look at all the lights and holiday decorations 🙂 We love to admire all the beauty and hard work that people put int to their holiday decorating 🙂
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We always get matching pajamas, then open them, read Twas the Night Before Christmas, and the story of Jesus’ birth from the Bible, then we get the cookies and milk ready, before going outside to throw reindeer food on the lawn.
We share oplatek ( a Polish wafer ) by breaking off a piece from each person’s wafer at the Christmas feast!
We drive around looking at holiday lights.
another tradition is going to the cemetery and placing poinsettias for our loved ones! we miss
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My favorite Christmas tradition is visiting family. Thank you for the giveaway!
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our tradition is baking cookies on Christmas eve
Our tradition is to open gifts on Christmas eve which are always pajamas! kimstclair39@yahoo.com
We always spend Christmas Day in bed watching all the old Christmas movies and eating breakfast food all day! It is just me and my hubby, as we don’t celebrate the holiday with anyone else.
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We usually open one present on Christmas eve 🙂
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We always go to church Christmas Eve and come home after mass and open our gifts.
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our holiday tradition is to have a big dinner with family
We get to open a gift Christmas eve…the Traditional Christmas PJ’s.
We watch a christmas story, bake cookies for santa and build a gingerbread house
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Baking and decorating sugar cookies with the kids! I remember doing it with my mom, and we’ve started doing it with my 5 year old. Next year, our newest addition will be able to help out, too!
My favorite tradition is going to mass on Christmas Eve.
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My favorite holiday tradition is making Christmas lollipops.
We always bake cookies together as a family.
Going to Christmas Eve service, coming home to hot chocolate and opening one present.
Love your felt tree that the little ones can decorate.
Thanks for the contest.
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We always open one gift on Christmas Eve (usually new pajamas). And enough cookies are baked to feed the entire neighborhood. Although I bake very little now, my daughter and granddaughter carry on the tradition well.
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On Christmas morning we put a lit candle in a cupcake and put it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
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My favorite tradition is getting together on Christmas Eve to watch A Christmas Story and opening gifts.
We love to get in our pajamas and look at Christmas decorations!
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We can’t go through a Christmas without making Cinnamon Sugar Cookies. My sister would have a fit. Which means lately that I’ve had to get very inventive, because finding cinnamon sprinkles has become very difficult. LOL.
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we have a yankee swap on Christmas Eve!
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Every year my family decorates the tree together.
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We bake cookies
We make christmas ornaments every year
Riding around looking at Christmas lights together.
One of my favorite traditions is donating to those in need.
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Everyone gets to choose an ornament to purchase and it’s theirs for life. My parents started that tradition.
we always picked one present to open on Christmas Eve!
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Every Christmas Eve, my husband reads The Night Before Christmas to the family. It started with milk, cookies and our small children to a glass of wine with our older children to formula with our grandchild.
everyone bakes something and we all get together and swap goodies
our traditions include driving around looking at Christmas lights, church on Christmas Eve, and new pajamas!
With both of our extended families being far away (10+ hrs with driving), once we had kids, my husband and I decided that we will not be travelling on Christmas Day. We will enjoy Christmas Day at home: opening gifts, staying in our jammies, and just have a relaxing day.
We make a cake or this years case a stack of pancakes to celebrate Jesus’ Birthday… the kids love decorating for this great celebrated day.
This year was our first year with an Elf on the Shelf- Everest! We also get our PJ’s on, make hot cocoa, and drive around to look at Christmas Lights the week before Christmas.
Thank you for the chance!
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For the last 3 years I have started doing homemade ornaments for the kids. It is really fun. I will have some sort of photo in it.
Every Christmas morning if we are home we pen gifts, do stockings with the family, and go ice fishing. Today we let Daddy and Uncle go ice fishing without us since we aren’t feeling so good. Mommy was up all night sick (pregnant maybe?) And of course our 17 month old decides to cut another tooth last night. Ready for a much needed break after hosting the lady two holidays! Always good to be with family though. God Bless
Christmas pjs are my favorite!
Reading ‘Twas the night before Christmas before bed on Christmas Eve!
We have a cute mouse countdown to Christmas calendar. We also read a story from the Storybook Bible and hang a corresponding ornament on the tree each night
My kids are 11 and 7, even before they were born we would go to the tree farm every year and cut down our Christmas Tree!
I’m so excited to begin having traditions with my little family, since my oldest just turned 2 we are slowly developing our own traditions, this year included decorating the house just before Thanksgiving, our elf comes just after thanksgiving, and we celebrate Christmas as our own little family Christmas eve morning. Then it’s on to family Christmas’s for the following 2 days. As our little family grows I’m sure our traditions will become our own, but until then it’s for our LO and Grandparents ♡
I love Macy’s! I wish we could have made it to the holiday display downtown anandad gingerbread. How don the Christmas weekends get filled up so quickly? Would love to have this!
My husband and I get an ornament for each other of something that happened that year. And now that we have a little one we started her out with her first ornament this year ad well.
My favorite family tradition is baking sugar cookies and watching my little ones have fun decorating them, it’s always a huge mess but so worth it! 😉
We go to Christmas Eve service then home to open Santa gifts while eating taco dip, smokies and meat/cheese platter!
I started doing an activity a day with my son this past month in his advent calendar. It was great having a prepared activity that ensured he received special one on one time everyday!
our family puts up our tree the day after thanksgiving. We then go out and each kiddo picks out an ornament for that year. We plan to have the kids take their ornaments to their house for their Christmas someday.
Baking Christmas cookies with my kids.
We do a Jesse Tree and the “The Donkey in the Living Room.” Fun family time to learn about Christmas and countdown the days!
Christmas tradition is to have wings for dinner after Christmas eve church service. Had to alter it a little this year because my brother in law is a nurse and had to work so we did Christmas with them last Sunday. Also brunch Christmas day with my husband’s grandma.
Decorating the tree is our favorite tradition
We always did new pajamas on Christmas Eve, but this year we switched it up…our elf “Tinsel” brought them with him on the first day of our Advent calendar. The kids were able to enjoy their special pajamas the whole season!
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My husband and I with the kids go on a “tree hunt” for the perfect Cheistmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving. We go to a tree farm and search out which tree looks the best for us. It’s so fun for everyone!
Our family has a couple of christmas traditions that my sisters and I all do with our kids. We all have the exact same stocking. My mom made us all matching ones as babies. Now that we are all grown with our own families she has made our husbands and children the same one. We also all make christmas morning coffee cake for breakfast.
After breakfast on Christmas morning, my husband reads the Christmas Story from the Bible, and then we open pressents!
Christmas eve we attend the church program then home for soup and time witb family. Christmas morning we head to my parents home for gifts, food, and family time. The days leading to Christmas we usually check out christmas lights and bake goodies 🙂
We get together with my in-laws on Christmas Eve and the youngest child there gets to place baby Jesus in the Nativity set.
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we pick out ornaments each year that represents different events that happened, a fish if we visited the ocean or a baby if we had a baby. Etc
Jeff and I started a tradition when we got married to go cut down our own Christmas tree back in his hometown. We love to run around the tree farm hunting for the perfect tree! It definitely makes us feel like kids and we are excited to continue the tradition with our family!
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is having a sleepover/slumber party at Great Grandpa and Grandma’s house with all our Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins! We eat Christmas goodies all day long and finish the night with everyone sitting around the table playing games together as a family! Just tucked the little one in, and kissed her goodnight, and now back to laughing and playing some more games with the family! I love this time of the year! 🙂
Our family has started a tradition of, on Christmas Eve, we all get new jammies and one new family movie. We get to open them after supper and wear them and watch the movie before attending the Christmas Eve service at our church.
STOCKINGS!!! We fill them up with all sorts of goodies and open them first thing!!! I love it, sooooo fun!! Merry Christmas!!
I have 2 daughters. A 2 year old and an 8 month old! This is the first Christmas that my husband and I decided to make family traditions of our own. We made sure to fill the girls stockings with goodies, and added an orange and a maple candy to it! (my husbands family had this tradition). We Did the 4 gifts for our girls tradition. We bought something they want, something they need, something to wear and something to read! It went off with a bang! Just enough gifts for the girls, purposeful also, AND we made sure that they knew the REAL meaning of Christmas. We sang Happy Birthday to Jesus about 5 times! <3 Looking forward to next year!
We have the adults open their gifts Xmas Eve so that Xmas morning is all about the kids!