1. What is a tradition your family does every year?
2. Do you celebrate Christmas as Christ's birthday or something else?
3. Do you draw people's names for gifts?
4. Do you put up real Christmas tree or an artificial Christmas tree?
5. Do you have a tall or short Christmas tree?
6. Do you wrap your presents with brown paper or colored paper?
We hope you will share some of your family's favorite Christmas traditions!
1. My younger sister and I try to trick each other with our gifts. I give her something I know she will absolutely hate, like an ugly sweater, and act like it's the only thing I got for her. She's edited pictures of me so that I had a dress, crown and a wand and had it framed all nicely. It's all in fun, and makes things interesting when we swap gifts.
ReplyDelete2. I celebrate Christ's birth, but do not believe that it happened on Christmas day. I do believe that celebrating Jesus at any time is a good thing though!
3. We draw names for gifts at parties, or with friends, but our family is small enough that it is manageable to buy gifts for everyone individually.
4. Artificial
5. I would say in-between, ours is about 7 feet tall.
6. Colored paper
Every year our family makes a big breakfast casserole that we eat after we have opened all of our presents. It's usually the only time we have that particular casserole too! We celebrate Christmas as Christ's birthday, it is a time to remember the miraculous way that God chose to send His Son to become our Savior. With our immediate family we just get each other gifts. I bought colored paper this year, but sometimes I use brown paper and decorate it myself. When it comes to the rest of the family we play Dirty Santa with fun gifts and then we decide on a local charity to give money to as a family. Dirty Santa is always fun and usually gets pretty loud! I have a small artificial tree because I'm allergic to almost everything and I live in an apartment where there isn't much room.
ReplyDeleteWhen we put up our Christmas tree, my family listens to an old Gene Autrey Christmas record that has one of the first recordings of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. (Ms. Race may have to explain records to you) and drink hot chocolate. The record we listen to is the very same Christmas record that I listened to when I was a little girl. For us, Christmas is all about spending time together as a family. :)
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ReplyDelete1. A tradition that my family does every year is to have Christmas Breakfast
together and then open presents.
2. We celebrate Christmas as Christ's birthday ... Happy Birthday, Jesus!
3. Because our immediate family is so small and our extended family is so large
we do not draw names. However, we have a small group of friends from church
that we draw names with.
4. We put up an artificial tree. Although we love the way real trees smell, they
are messy and give us allergies.
5. We have a 7 foot tall tree.
6. We wrap our presents with colored paper usually to coordinate with the colors
of the ornaments on the tree.
One of my favorite things to do around this time of year is to go to a drive through (like McDonald's or Sonic) and pay for the person's order that is in line behind me. Then I have the cashier tell them what I have done and encourage them to pay it forward.
And now I do it for my kids too. Oh yeah and baby Jesus would be removed from the manger news year day just waiting for Christmas day
ReplyDelete1. On Christmas Eve my husband reads the story of Jesus' birth and I read "The Night Before Christmas." When my oldest son was small he wanted to make Jesus a birthday cake. We make one for Jesus every year and sing Happy Birthday to him.
ReplyDelete2. We celebrate Christmas because it honors Jesus.
3. We buy gifts for everyone.
4. We have an artificial tree.
5. Our tree is 71/2 feet tall.
6. We wrap our presents with Christmas paper. Santa wraps the presents he brings us in his own paper.
One of my family traditions are we have a house shaped calender that has the first day of December to the last day and every day we open and day and there will be a piece of candy in it.
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