I remember holiday traditional activities being one of the biggest, excitingest (is that a word?) things as a kid. Every year the anticipation of those things was great! And looking back, the memories it created and the family bonds that were formed during those times were irreplaceable. Now that I have my own family, I have tried to come up with family traditions for us as well. Each family has its own personality, so they won't always be the same as you did as a kid, but it is so important to try to do these things! Here are a few that we do:
Bake holiday cookies or brownies with decos related to that holiday.
Carve a pumpkin and take pics with it.
Go to Harvest Fest (or other).
Cook and Eat together on Thanksgiving (using special china!)
Bake holiday pies.
Do stockings (at a different time than presents).
Do the Christmas tree together.
Have Christmas coffee with special creamers with candy and cookies!
Have a "Christmas Surprise" waiting under the tree on Christmas morning (unwrapped) or a gift from Santa if that is what you do (I am a selfish mom and want my kids to know who really bought it!)
Christmas Bible readings.
Make a Card or Cake or Cookies to celebrate Jesus' Birthday (find SOME way to keep the focus where it should be)
I am so excited that the holiday season is here! I just hope I can do a good job conducting here in the new place! Something we are going to try to do also is find some outreach that we can do together as a family every couple of months to teach the kids about giving and reaching out. Right now we have just begun a Shoebox (most of you know what that is). I encourage you to find things like this that you can include your kids in.
What are your traditions?
Just Like Him..
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The relationship between us and our Heavenly Father, Abba Father,
Here is the link to the song that gave me the inspiration for today's blog.
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8 years ago
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We used to have traditions before everyone grew up and moved away.... :*( Now I am about to do a tradition of having everyone come to our house the odd years I hope this works out especially since some are moving further and further away.... :*( again... Anyway we used to have a Christmas Eve Buffet, and invite friends and family, and then we would have a nice breakfast on Christmas morning, and open our gifts. Then we would go to Gramma's (GiGI's) for Christmas dinner with the whole family, and opened gifts after dinner. It was a lovely time. Oh and we used to read a family history story while decorating the tree because we bought special ornaments or made special ornaments every year, and everyone hung their ornaments on the year they were born as the story unfolded. We used to cry and laugh through the story, and it was a good time until the boys got to be make fun of mom teens... then I lost the story and never tried to do it any more. :*(
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