A couple of Christmas traditions that I have with my mom are making/decorating Christmas cookies and going to a craft show. Today we let Cora join in to decorate a few of the cookies (or eat them) and in a couple weeks she will join us for the craft show.
Another tradition is that mom decorates way early for Christmas and loves to go out for the holiday season. I have apparently picked this up since I finished our Christmas tree a week ago.
For Christmas, my mom usually worked on Christmas day, so we would celebrate our family Christmas after Communion was finished at the church on Christmas Eve. We'd eat pizza, read the Christmas story, sing songs and then open presents. And I'm glad, that even if we don't celebrate Christmas or Christmas Eve on those actual days with my parents, we still try to have our pizza before we open presents!
And I'm thankful for the traditions of big family get togethers that Craig's family has. It took me a while to get used to those traditions since we've never really had many family get togethers with all my aunts and uncles. It's so much fun to have each side crowd in a house and catch up. I'm thankful Cora will grow up with these family get-togethers and knowing all her cousins.
And we've started one tradition with Cora...Craig wants to try to make gingerbread cookies each year with her. We made them last year at his mom and dad's house. She wasn't old enough to do anything last year, but I have a feeling she'll love being a part of the mess this year.
I love having family traditions this time of year too!! We have some that we started when we started our family years ago, and we still hold onto some of the ones we grew up with with. It's really neat to think about one day my kids carrying on some of the traditions that they grew up with.
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