It is full of stories and songs and wonderful scriptures pertaining to the birth of our Lord!
I love to hear them all.. (the songs, stories and scriptures) they are the best part of the Christmas season.
My second favorite part are traditions...
When I was a child, we had the best traditions. Christmas Eve was spent at my Aunt Mollies house.. My dad is one of 9 kids and you can imagine all of the cousins I had to hang out with and see. I LOVED it. After Aunt Mollies we would go to my grandmothers on my moms side.
There we would start off with a game of bingo! We would have dinner and presents.
We would start out with stockings which my grandma always placed an orange and an apple ...
We would leave there and go home to sleep.
We would wake up, do presents and head to breakfast.
Breakfast was for my dads side. All his siblings and their children would meet and eat breakfast.
This was a lovely tradition.. I would bounce from table to table sitting with my aunts and uncles and cousins... we would all chat about our Christmas prizes.
Then after breakfast we would go to a place called Bel isle. It is an island here where we live.
Back then they had deer that would eat out of your hand.. a frozen pine tree, ducks to feed and an amazing aquarium... It was such a great time ... this was spent with my moms side.
I do not remember any gifts I received in those years but, I have those memories and they are fond. I look back and smile and get all warm and fuzzy.
Things have defiantly changed over the years. My parents split up and I got married. We had four kids and things just sort of took on lives of their own.
We now go to my Aunt Mollies for a few minutes before heading up to my inlaws.
There we have a traditional polish dinner and my father in law plays Christmas songs on the accordion and all the kids sing. It is super special and sweet.
Christmas morning we do try and go out to breakfast (this is a tradition I have a hard time letting go... tho it is dying out :(
Then we celebrate with my mom and her side.
There are some things tho that I try and keep consistent and I try and make special with my kids so that when they think back on Christmas they think fondly of our time of worship and traditions.
Over the next couple weeks I will be posting some of our traditions as a family.... our first tradition of the season is our tree decorating ... seen here
another one is a Christmas countdown of some kind. Most years it was a paper chain we made... it has been a dollar store advent chocolate box ... last year it was a chain with all the names of Jesus (seen here )
This year we did something a little different.
On the spur of the moment I decided to make a paper flag countdown.
I cut some flags out in different sizes and had the kids color and decorate them with green and red crayons.
then I taped them to fishing line and hung them above the window.
These pictures are blurry. I meant to retake them but the kids started taking the flags down.
Oh well, you get the point....
AND my wreaths really AREN'T crooked in person :)
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