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Below
are excerpts from some of the Holiday Traditions you
shared with us.
In
our family, we celebrate the 12 days of Christmas by
opening 1 stocking stuffer each night for 12 nights.
The anticipation has always made the kids’ excitement
skyrocket and cuts down on them asking to open a gift
from under the tree too early.
-Jennifer
D./Boca Raton, FL
I
started buying each of my children a Christmas ornament
(most of them dated with that year) from the time they
were born. Each year, we put all the old ones on plus
added the new ones. When they grew up & left home,
that 1st Christmas, they recieved ALL their ornaments
(lovingly wrapped & in a gift box) as one of their
gifts that year.
-Shelby
A.
About
2 weeks before Christmas, my 2 daughters and I pile
up in the car and go shopping for our Christmas tree.
We have so much fun piling them all on one car! Each
daughter and their families decorate their own tree,
then they all come to my house to decorate mine. We
play all my Christmas albums and bake cookies and sing.
In the past, the first 2 ornaments that were hung on
the tree were 2 red Santas that were the first ornaments
my husband and I bought for our first tree. I have given
each daughter one of those ornaments, and now they are
the first thing hung on their trees, in remembrance
of their Dad. The first things hung on my tree now are
ornaments that were hung on my grandparents first tree
in 1948, the year I was born.
-Granny Linda
When
we were little girls, my parents allowed us to open
one gift the night before Christmas. My grandparents
would always buy us pj's and that was the gift that
we would open the night before Christmas. We would and
still have our evening meal which is tortier (meat pie)
and then have our baths and then sit around the tree
and open our gift. My parents who are now grandparents
are now the ones to buy the pj's for their grand kids
and just bought my four month old daughter her first
christmas pj's.
-Debbysue D.
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This
story makes me think of my "Mom" time with
my girls and it makes me laugh! I hope you like
it, too:
The
Sermon I think this Mom will never forget....
"Dear Lord," the minister began, with arms
extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned
face. "Without you, we are but dust." He would
have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter
who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite
audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice,
"Mom, what is butt dust?" Author
Unknown
from
the BananaNanas!!
Grandma
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