We put up our Christmas tree yesterday and the girls had fun getting out all of the fun decorations and remembering all the fun memories of every year. It was fun to watch Emma tell us where everything was supposed to go based on years past and tell us everything that we normally do this time of year. A few of our traditions are..... drinking hot chocolate while we are putting up the tree, the girls always get new jammies on Christmas Eve, cutting our tree down in the woods, we always listen to "Thistlehair the Christmas Bear" by Alabama while we are decorating the tree, the girls always do the Advent calendar every morning, the red card hanger always goes where the black framed picture was, making gingerbread cookies, etc etc. All the things they remember from every year. I hope they always remember the things we do and start their own fun traditions with their kids.
After seeing Kim's tree, I really don't want to put a picture up of ours. It's not my favorite tree but we went and picked it out in the woods and that's another fun tradition and that's more important. What are your family traditions that your kids remember?
John's wrestling our tree out of it's old home
Here it is, ok, we did have to cut it a little. It wouldn't have fit into our house being that tall.
2 comments:
yeah for traditions! I love it that the kids have certain things that they look forward to and that claim this time of year as Christmas for them. I bet the tree is beautiful!
we always got christmas eve jammies growing up too:)
my little one is just one, but i'm enjoying introducing her to our felt advent calendar with little people and animal ornaments for each day. i know she'll be super pumped for baby jesus--she loves babies! looking forward to creating more memories as she gets older:)
and i like your tree--it's a total original!
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