Christmas Traditions

Since I have a little one, I’ve been thinking a lot about what traditions I would like to start for my family. I’m sure we’ll all open pajamas on Christmas Eve… but I also wanted to start a few of my own. Landon’s still little, but it doesn’t hurt to plan it out now. I need something to help my forgetful mind remember what I want to do! So anyway, here are a few traditions that I think I may want to have.

Tradition #1

Bake Christmas cookies and decorate with icing on Christmas Eve. (Now, I’m pretty sure I better get started on this tradition early. I don’t know how great my cookie making skills are, and I’m sure I’ll need quite a bit of practice. I think Mr. Hubby is most excited about this one.)

Tradition #2

Drinking hot chocolate and making chocolate sundaes on the evening of Christmas Eve. Then we’ll drink and eat in our Christmas jammies (Hot chocolate and ice cream… can’t get much better than that?!)

Tradition #3

In addition to opening pajamas on Christmas Eve, I’m going to buy a book for my little one(s) to open, and we’ll read our books before we go to bed.

Tradition #4

Assuming I have more children in the future, I’m going to wrap each child’s gifts in a certain type of wrapping paper. Then I’ll hide a little bit of the paper in their stocking so that they know which gift is theirs. (If Landon ends up being an only child, I’ll just wrap all of his in paper that he chooses… then I won’t have to label any gifts, which I hate doing with a passion!)

Tradition #5

On Christmas Day, we’ll eat a special Christmas breakfast! (Umm, this is assuming that I learn to cook eventually!)

Tradition #6

Drive around town and look at all of the pretty Christmas lights. (This is just a fun thing to do, and I love looking at lights!)

Tradition #7

Make reindeer food and sprinkle out on the lawn for Santa’s reindeer. (So sweet.. and just plain fun!)

 

Well that’s all I have so far! I’m sure I’ll think of more when the time gets closer. Landon won’t really understand what’s going on this year, but I can’t wait to start doing some of these things soon!