This year, I am so excited to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas with our little family! I have been thinking about some new traditions that we can start with our Jeremiah...I know...I know...he will not know what is going on, but if we start them now, we will, Lord willing, continue them!
- This year, we continued that Thanksgiving week tradition that Jonathan and his family have been doing the last couple years...we went to the WVU game here in town!
- One we started last year was, we get a REAL Christmas tree! Not one of those artificial ones, but the ones that smell like Christmas! So on Saturday, that's what we are going to do! We are planning on making it a tradition to go get breakfast, pick out a tree, and come home and decorate it!
- I was also reading in a parenting magazine about buying a ornament (like something specific...like snowflakes) for your child every year so that one day they can take it into their home for their tree!
- I would love to take one night during the Christmas season and ride to look at the lights...maybe pack a picnic supper or some snacks and hot chocolate to take along!
- Last year, we made photo Christmas cards, and we did that this year, too...can you believe it? I already have a few addressed!
- This year, we are sending some Christmas cards to our missionaries...I'd really like to continue that, too, and maybe as Jeremiah gets older, he can make some cards to send them!
- Read the Christmas story with Jeremiah!
These are some traditions we had growing up:
- We always spent Thanksgiving at Granny's with Uncle Don, Aunt Amy, Donnie, Sarah, and Molly
- We would go for a walk after our big turkey dinner on Thanksgiving.
- We would draw names...and draw again because someone somehow always would get their name!
- Thanksgiving evening, we put up Granny's tree. A job that I have to admit is not my favorite, but I miss it this year.
- On Friday, we would always go get our tree...most of the time at the School for the Deaf, and then, we would decorate it and watch White Christmas.
- I would go help Granny make fudge and seafoam candy...something I miss now...
- We cousins would all go shopping right before Christmas and of course grab something to eat!
- The last couple years, we sisters would make a gingerbread house together! That was fun!
- Christmas Eve party with ALL the family! Oh my goodness, all that good food!
- Daddy would read the Christmas story (Luke 2) on Christmas day before we would open our presents!
- Then, after presents, we would get dressed, wearing something we got for Christmas, and head to Granny's for turkey, sometimes ham, dinner!
So, do you have any ideas for traditions? What are your favorite family traditions?
2 comments:
Thanksgiving is a big day in our family. There are 5 of us kids and now one grandchild and we're always running in different directions so it's special to have a whole day that we spend in togetherness. Also, for 16 years now we've lived across the country from any other family so it became especially important to us since it was "just us". We watch the parade every year and that is fun. The part I like the best is probably the cooking (followed closely by the actual meal :P ). Especially in the last few years as each of us have added our own dishes to the table. In the words of my sister, family is wonderful, family in Christ is a blessing, having a family that is also family in Christ is perfect. :)
Happy Thanksgiving, Jennifer!!!
I enjoyed reading about the traditions that you hope to start in your family. We started the tradition of buying our daughter a new ornament every Christmas ( it's always something that she has been the most crazy about all year, you know like something that most represented her age that year) We write the year on the ornament box so we can remember which year she got it. When she gets married (her daddy says when she is about 40) ;) she will take them all with her. We have had a lot of fun doing this, and now she really loves it too! She is twelve and she starts trying to decide during the summer what ornament she wants. :)
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