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Holiday Traditions? Posted: 12-06-06 17:30pm
I really liked .Gen's idea about getting a
.Cocacola bottle every year for little
.Amelia, and started thinking about what
other little traditions I might set up for
our family.
So come on, mommies! Have you given any
thought to setting up a tradition for your
little one(s)?
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Eyes Wide Shut
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Posted: 12-06-06 17:55pm
My granny has gotten me an ornament for
every year i've been alive. And now she
buys one for .Oni. It's a great granny
ornament!
I plan on buying her one, from mommy and
daddy and adding them on the tree each
year.
I'm gonna so the toys for tots as well!!
I think that's an important moral to
instill into little kids.
Sarah
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:03pm
I like the toys for tots idea. I'm
already doing the ornament! I got one
from things remembered in the mall! I
want chu to know what the real reason for
christmas is so every christmas eve i'm
going to read him the story of baby jesus.
And every year we watch a christmas
story all day on christmas so that's a
tradition that I want to carry over. We
also open one present on christmas eve so
we may do that as well...
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hopefulmjz
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:05pm
.I really like the toys for tots idea
ladies! I think .I'm gonna have to steal
that one. I want her to be just as happy
to give something as she is to recieve
something. Hmm.... Any other traditions?
Like what you do on .Christmas .Eve/day?
We go to my .Grandma's .Christmas eve
afternoon for a late lunch, early dinner,
then we all clean up, then we play some $1
game. Everyone brings a gift that only
costs a buck, and then we draw cards and
that person picks the first gift, then the
next one goes, and so on and so
forth...But when it comes your turn to
pick a gift, you can choose from the pile,
or you can steal one from someone else.
It was a blast. But anywho, after that
all the kids open their gifts...Then
whoever goes off and plays cards. Well,
my hubby and .I split and go to his
brothers house to be with his family. And
there we all act kinda childish, play with
the kids and eat again with them, then we
open gifts from there....There are at
least 20 family members for this, and the
gifts are like...Endless! It's crazy, but
it's sooooo fun. This year .I think we're
going to do a pinata! Woooo!! So what do
the rest of you do?
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arcadia
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:05pm
Yay .Christmas traditions!
My mom has gotten me &my sisters' an
ornament every year we've been alive, too.
I still love getting them. They're
always so pretty &unique. I think
we'll definitely do that for .Gabe.. I
like the .Toys .For .Tots idea, too. We
have lots of charity things like that
around here besides .Toys .For .Tots. We
also have a festival called .The .Festival
of .Trees.. It's really really gorgeous.
They have hundreds of differently
&uniquely decorated .Christmas trees
on display, &you can bid on them,
&the proceeds go to charity..
&.They have art displays,
&entertainment like choirs, dance
groups, orchestras.. There's also a huge
part of the building for kids. Like
crafts, &.Santa is there, &there's
a huge tree made out of stuffed animals
that people donate &the stuffed
animals are given to less fortunate kids..
It's really awesome. I already go every
year, so .I think we'll definitely make
that a tradition, too.
Also, when .I was little, my parents used
to pack us kids up in the car, get us
dinner to eat in the car, &then we'd
drive around the whole city &look at
all the .Christmas lights on people's
houses. It was one of my favorite things
to do every year. It was always so cool.
I want to do that with .Gabe, too!
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oh_mommy
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:16pm
Welll I have onetradiotion from my family
but I cant do it this year cause reese is
too young, but every year we got a
mandern(sp?) and a candy cane in our
stockings..
Something that was a tradion with me and
one of my brothers also was to wait till
we heard our parents go put the presents
under the tree, wait about an hour or so
to when they were in bed and then go down
the hallway and take our stockings and see
who had the most presents, my parents
caught on and started setting up traps so
they would hear us on the way to the
living room.. Damn... There went our fun
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:20pm
My husband's family is awesome. They open
all
of their presents on .Christmas .Eve! So
we spend .Christmas .Eve over there, and
.Christmas .Day in .Beaumont (about an
hour away) with his grandparents and other
relatives for a meal and gift exchange!
Each person brings a gift for their
gender. If you're a girl, you bring a
girly gift, and so on. And each person
draws a number and picks a gift from the
"girl" or "boy" pile! It's a lot of fun.
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arcadia
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:27pm
We trade off every year on who gets
.Christmas .Eve at their house. It's
either at my aunt's house or my parent's
house. This year .Christmas .Eve is at my
house! Yesss! I lovelovelove when it's
here. There's just something so calming
&peaceful about being in your own home
on .Christmas .Eve.. &.My .Christmas
.Day dinner is at my .Aunt's house! We
used to do .Christmas .Day at my grandma
&grandpa's house, but once my .Grandma
died, we started trading that one off,
too.
We always order pizza for .Christmas .Day
dinner, &on .Christmas .Eve, we make
real food. This year everyone is making
orderves (sp?!)... Which .I'm not too
happy about, but whatever. I'd much
rather have a steaming bowl of baked
potato soup &sit in front of the fire
on .Christmas .Eve!!
But .I'm excited. I love when our family
gets together for .Christmas. We have so
much fun.
Christmas .Eve, we all open our gifts from
eachother after we eat, &then everyone
goes home. Christmas morning, my family
gets up around 9am, my mom makes cinnamon
rolls &hot chocolate, &we open our
".Santa" presents, &presents from my
parents, &the presents us sisters got
eachother. Then around dinner time, the
whole famly gets together again &order
pizza &just relax &be near to
eachother. It's really nice.
I'm not really involved with .Chris's
family stuff for .Christmas. They don't
really do anything, &even though they
tell him .I can come, .I wouldn't be
comfortable going, because they've said
publically that they don't like me. So.
Yeah. Haha.
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sandyallen
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:29pm
We couldn't do anything for .Christmas on
.Christmas eve because that was my
.Sisters birthday but we did drive around
either .Christmas night or two days before
.Christmas, my .Sister kind of felt
cheated because her birthday was so close
to .Christmas and I can understand that.
I do miss cutting our own tree down and
decorating our own tree and making the
popcorn balls and decorating cookies and
goodies we hung on our tree, we never used
those christmas tree balls.
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Bridget
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Posted: 12-06-06 18:58pm
We're going to do the ornament each year
thing too. Nick's mom already gave us an
ornament that has "finnegan" on it and
"2006" so I don't know if i'll get him
another for this year. I guess if I see
one I love i'll get it.
I'm also starting the tradition of reading
the grinch on christmas eve. We already
bought finn his copy!
We already have a couple things we do
every year already. On christmas eve my
family meets up at our favorite chinese
restaurant for a feast. My younger
brother and I started this tradition about
12 years ago and then a few years later
our older brother and his girlfriend (now
his wife) started joining us and a few
years after that our parents started
coming. Now we all look forward to it.
Oh, except my older brother and his wife
didn't come last year because her sister
was having a party and unfortunately her
family always comes first and he won't
stand up for himself. But that's a whole
other thread. (p.S. My family doesn't
much care for her.)
the other thing we do is go to my parents
on christmas day, my brothers and evil
sister-in-law go too. We exchange
presents and usually watch a holiday movie
while my parents make a huge
thanksgiving-esque meal.
I'm sure we'll make more traditions as
finn gets a little older. Maybe we'll do
something centered around picking out our
tree or decorating it.
Christmas is so fun, I think more so now
that I have a family of my own. I wish
finn was a little older though so he'd be
more aware of what's going on.
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sandyallen
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Posted: 12-06-06 19:18pm
He will, don't worry! Do you have a tree
with lights this year, just think next
year you will have a rough time keeping
him away from it!
I think every year as long as hubby lets
me I wanna get them ornaments, I had one
from my sons first xmas last year but I
left it back in the states when I moved,
so I bought hima new one, and I got his
soon to be here sister one too, I also got
one for my husband for our first xmas
together because this is our first xmas in
our own house as a family, I wanna have
traditions but I cant think of anything
special we will see hwo this xmas goes
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Posted: 12-07-06 02:41am
oh_mommy
wrote:
started setting up traps so
they would hear us on the way to the
living room.. Damn... There went our
fun
what, like bear traps? Bit harsh!
my brother and I never had stockings, we
had a supermarket carrier bag each
and we'd spend ages on .Christmas .Eve
deciding where to put them. I can still
remember the year that my brother didn't
want to do that anymore - he's 4 years
older than me - and I was alone upstairs,
in the cold rooms, trying to decide where
to put my bag. Makes my bro feel really
bad when I tell him that story...Hee hee
hee...
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 12-07-06 10:24am
We did the coke thing growing up and now I
am going to pass them on to my daughter so
instead of having doubles she will just
continue the years. Until I have
another baby then I don't know how I am
going to do it.
I am going to get her an ornament as well
every year.....
Have already done a toys for tots (took a
picture with her toy for the tots) and we
have done a show box for a solder over
there. (got her picture next to the box
as well.) we (i) wrote letters to the
solder and sent them a bible as well.
We did 4 boxes. 2 for me and amelia and
2 for chad and brandon.
**edited to add**
i forgot that growing up we went the
nursing home every christmas and so I will
be taking amelia too.
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AyaMiyaki
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Posted: 12-07-06 10:29am
Hey .Gen, did you buy your coke bottle
this year?
The reason I ask is, .Aaron bought a 6
pack of them last night, and they have a
picture of .Santa on them, but they just
say "75th anniversary" instead of "2006".
It also says ".Sundblom .Santa" on it?
Weird. Does yours look like that too?
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 12-07-06 10:39am
ayamiyaki
wrote:
hey .Gen, did you buy your
coke bottle this year?
The reason I ask is, .Aaron bought a 6
pack of them last night, and they have a
picture of .Santa on them, but they just
say "75th anniversary" instead of "2006".
It also says ".Sundblom .Santa" on it?
Weird. Does yours look like that
too?
no I haven't even had time yet. I haven't
been anywhere but b.J.S for a few weeks.
Lol I need to go get her one. But I
guess i'll always know that was her first
year one.
I'll go today and look for one.
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AyaMiyaki
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i was a bit disappointed because I wanted
"2006" to be on there
*edited because my link didn't work. It's
four or five bottles down, the holiday
version*
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tigresacanela24
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Posted: 12-07-06 10:48am
Sweet! Now I want one!
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Sunflower_pie81
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Posted: 12-07-06 11:35am
For 2005 they didnt' even have the santas
on the bottles but at least they had the
year. I really want my daughter to have
the santas. The 2006 from england has
the santa and the year and the 75th. The
england one has the first santa that they
had on the bottles. Itsnt' that neat.
I need some one in ingland to send me one
bottle. Please help me out getting a
coke bottle from england that would be
great.
and we'd spend ages on .Christmas .Eve
deciding where to put them. I can still
remember the year that my brother didn't
want to do that anymore - he's 4 years
older than me - and I was alone upstairs,
in the cold rooms, trying to decide where
to put my bag. Makes my bro feel really
bad when I tell him that story...Hee hee
hee...
