Christmas for my family is filled with many traditions. I love some of these traditions and have carried them over to my family. Some I do still love, but they directly conflict with my husbands family traditions.
Some of my favorite traditions include dinner. My parents always did dinner on Christmas eve. My dad would read the story of Jesus' birth and we would light the Jesus Candle then have dinner. The next morning it was like a challenge to see who could get up the earliest. We weren't allowed to open any presents until everyone was awake, but we could always get in our stockings. Another of my favorite traditions is the movie "White Christmas". I love that movie and still watch it every year. My children aren't quite old enough to enjoy it yet, but I'm hoping some day they will.
I'm hoping this year was the beginning of a new tradition. My family never really went to Christmas Eve service. (at least not that I remember) This year I packed up the kids and took them to Christmas Eve service. It was something I remembered doing as a teenager and loved. I'm hoping to keep this as a tradition and repeat it year after year.
What are some of your favorite traditions? Whether new or old family traditions.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Making Memories
I have a lot of memories of things my family did as a child. Some of my favorites are the dinners on Christmas eve. We have been making lots of memories with my kids. Well at least I hope we have. We bake a cake every year for Jesus' birthday and go to Grandma and Aunt Alicia's house every Christmas eve.
Another of my favorite memories is putting up the Christmas tree with my family and being able to look at all of the ornaments and knowing the story that was attached to each one. My favorite always has been my dad's ornament. It was always the last to go on the tree and my dad was always the one to put it on. I'm hoping to instill something like that in my children.
Now for the fun part. Every year the teachers at school would send home little ornaments with us kids to go on the tree. Mom looked forward to it every year. We homeschool so I am now the teacher in charge of all those cool gifts. I decided to work on salt dough ornaments this year with the kids.The recipe was really easy:
2cups all purpose flour
1cup salt
3/4 cup water ( I ended up using almost a cup)
Mix flour and salt together. Add water slowly. Mix until if makes a dough mixture. Make your ornaments. Bake in oven for 20mins at 200degrees. Really simply and really fun. The kids had a fun time. we did some for our tree and for all of the grandparents trees.
Another of my favorite memories is putting up the Christmas tree with my family and being able to look at all of the ornaments and knowing the story that was attached to each one. My favorite always has been my dad's ornament. It was always the last to go on the tree and my dad was always the one to put it on. I'm hoping to instill something like that in my children.
Now for the fun part. Every year the teachers at school would send home little ornaments with us kids to go on the tree. Mom looked forward to it every year. We homeschool so I am now the teacher in charge of all those cool gifts. I decided to work on salt dough ornaments this year with the kids.The recipe was really easy:
2cups all purpose flour
1cup salt
3/4 cup water ( I ended up using almost a cup)
Mix flour and salt together. Add water slowly. Mix until if makes a dough mixture. Make your ornaments. Bake in oven for 20mins at 200degrees. Really simply and really fun. The kids had a fun time. we did some for our tree and for all of the grandparents trees.
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