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3rd Trimester
Tonya_G
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s/o Christmas...
Tonya_G
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What traditions are you most excited to pass on to your LO, or to start as a family?
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Re: s/o Christmas...
Susan & Mark ... Married June 14, 2008 ... Chicago Area
James Tomasz born 1-5-10
Grace Dorothy born 7-13-11
PROJECT BALANCING ACT: BIO and BLOG- yeah... needs to be updated.
We do this too
Me: 37
DH: 36
Married: 08-25-07
DS: 11-20-09
Name change alert: Formerly Lisswastaken
The old German tradition of the pickle!
If you've never heard of the German pickle, the story goes like this--on Christmas Eve, a pickle ornament is hidden somewhere inside the tree. First thing on Christmas morning, the kids look for the pickle, and the lucky one that finds it gets an extra gift and good luck for the year.
You should see my brothers and I searching for that damn pickle on Christmas morning. We still do it to this day, at the ages of 28, 34, and 40 years old. Can't wait until my niece, nephew, and our LO are old enough to find the pickle!
Us too! We also all get a new ornament each year. It's fun to go back through all of them when we are putting the tree up each year.
1, one gift Christmas Eve - usually pajamas and a new book to read that night.
2. Ravioli Dinner (Italian tradition in my family)
3. baking cookies
4. shopping at the "children's store" where you can buy stuff for 50 cents and gift wrap it for your family. I treasured getting stuff from my Godson. He would buy a little bird house that one of the kid's made and would wrap it himself with tons of tape and paper. Too cute.
5. Goin to see the Live Nativity
6. Opening up Presents on Christmas Day
7. Giving to others (having him shop for a toy for the less-fortunate) or put to gether care packages.
just a few....
"Wearing his BING CROSBY clothes and crooning...buuuh buuh buuuh"
making cookies and fudge
soup night
decorating the house, especially the tree
feeding the reindeer (tossing oats and glitter at the roof of the house)
I'm really hoping to make new traditions with her.
1. Pizza Eve- the whole fam comes over to our house and we order pizza, make veggie and fruit pizza and other yummies, and overeat and play poker and Wii.
2. Caramels, candy and cookies- We always make and hand wrap homemade caramels, all sorts of other candies (buckeyes, hard tack candy, peanut brittle) and bake and decorate my aunt's "famous" sugar cookies.
Just noticed, all my traditions revolve around food... lol
I do this as well!!!! Also all the old Christmas cartoons from when I was litttle!!!
Opening one present on Christmas Eve.
Getting a new ornament every year.
Watching A Christmas Story the day after Thanksgiving.
My mom always recited Twas the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve right before we went to bed while we were all in pajamas. I have to use a book.
Buying toys for Toys for Tots.
A few...
new pjs every christmas eve
christmas eve at my aunts house where we order tons of pizza and wings and sit around playing cards
making cookies
decorating the tree
all day mall shopping on black friday with the girls (mom, me, sister, niece and LO)
Owen- April 2011
Olivia- Due December 24th