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holiday traditions?

MrsNJSwimmerMrsNJSwimmer member
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Do you have holiday traditions without your extended families?

Do you watch movies? Football (We're looking at Thanksgiving and Christmas here)?  Have a special meal?  Go out to eat somewhere?  Go to the movies? 

DH and I want to start some traditions of our own with DS.  We're getting to the point where we want DS to be home at Christmas and we're trying to get some ideas of what to do, without ending up being just another day.   

 

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  • vtkgirl77vtkgirl77

    I want to do some of the things my mom did with me growing up with my kids like baking and decorating holiday cookies, decorating the tree together, etc. We go to see the Seneca Lights each year in Gaithersburg.

    A new tradition that I want to start this year is this Advent where you put an ornament in 25 bags and each morning the kids get to open one and put it on the tree. I saw it on Pinterest.

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  • WinesNot WhinesWinesNot Whines
    We have some traditions that don't specifically involve the kiddo (he was so young last year for his first Christmas), but I would like to continue them:

    1. Drive around to see Christmas light displays on Christmas Eve.

    2. See the holiday lights at Seneca Creek State Park (although this has morphed into running/walking the 5k "Run Under the Lights" at Seneca Creek, which I HIGHLY recommend -- it's the best 5k I've ever done).

    3. Growing up, my family would often go to the movies on Thanksgiving. I'd like to do that again when LO is older.

    4. Watch the holiday parades on TV while drinking hot cocoa.

    5. This is Thanksgiving related, but we may start a tradition of doing a "turkey trot" on Thanksgiving morning.
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  • LindseyJWLindseyJW member

    mostly christmas related:

    1. make and drink as much eggnog as possible, then nothing else really matters.

    2. repeat.

    ok, seriously!

    1. we write a note for santa and leave it out with cookies. santa always leaves crumbs and a thank you note.

    2. we also leave a special "Santa Key" on the front door, since we don't have a chimney. this way, santa can get in without breaking the door (tomas pointed this out when he was 3).  

    3. we always drive around and look at lights.

    4. we open one present before bed (usually pre-washed christmas PJs that the kids will get to wear that night)

    5. T usually goes to his BFF's house to make xmas cookies sometime the week before

    6. we try to take a family photo, but it never works out. it's becoming tradition (that it never works out)

    ETA: forgot a few others:

    7. we make reindeer food out of toasted oatmeal, various seeds and raisins, then scatter it outside.

    8. we buy our tree the day after T's birthday and do all of our decorating then. that way, T's birthday can be completely separate. 

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  • tracy042206tracy042206

    Since having kids it is a great excuse to not travel Christmas Eve or morning.

    I always make hot buttered rum balls that we start drinking right after Thanksgiving when we decorate the tree but the kids are usually in bed for this.

    With the kids we love going to see the lights at Seneca Creek Park and Maggie is already looking forward to seeing Santa - LakeForest Mall has seemed to have a great Santa and Mrs. Claus in years past.

    I always make Christmas cookies and I save some for Maggie to help me decorate now.

    I have a Night Before Christmas book that we read a bunch but will always read Christmas Eve.

    We leave out the cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer - I just got a nice personalized Santa cookie plate that should be coming anyday now.

    When the kids are a little older I would love to go down and see the National Christmas tree and do some sort of play or show like the Radio City one in NY but down here in DC.

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  • umdbrideumdbride
    imagetracy042206:

    When the kids are a little older I would love to go down and see the National Christmas tree and do some sort of play or show like the Radio City one in NY but down here in DC.

    The Radio City show actually goes on tour and we got tickets a couple of years ago when it was in DC and then it was cancelled because of snow :(  Maybe it will come around again in time for our LO's to enjoy it!

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  • suecadencesuecadence

    These are such good ideas. This year will be the first that DS is really aware of Santa so I want to try and start some good traditions in that vein.

    Some things I'd like to continue that we've done the past couple of years: go together to pick out a Christmas tree, attend Christmas party/get photo with Santa at DH's work, go to Christmas Town at Busch Gardens (really cool for real), bake cookies together, watch Rudolph.

    We have traditional food we make when we are home for Christmas Eve (heavy hors d'oeuvres) and I'd love to continue that. There also somethings I bake every year (egg nog cake...delish!).

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  • Mama AngelinaMama Angelina member

    We always go the day after Thanksgiving to get a tree. 

    We also exchange ornaments each year in the week after Thanksgiving...so our tree was very bare when we first started out five years ago.  It has plenty of room for more.  

    Finally, we read and act out the nativity story with DS.  He has the Little People Nativity Scene coming this year so that will be fun!

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