Friday, December 18, 2009

Christmas 2009











I LOVE CHRISTMAS TIME! I love all the days before Christmas even more than the actual day.


Here is a list of everything I love about Christmas:

Hot Cocoa

Lights on Houses

Snow and snowmans

Christmas music

Christmas trees and their ornaments

SHOPPING (of course)!!!!! (especially black friday)

Wrapping presents

Stockings

Parties

Christmas treats

Good food

Jammies of Christmas Eve

The excitement my kids feel waiting for Christmas to get here

Christmas break (from School)



Here are some of our traditions:

*Put up the tree the weekend after thanksgiving

*Daddy puts up the tree and straightens out the branches (I

try not to be home when he does it because he takes way too long)

*The kids put all the ornaments they want on the tree and I freak out

because the ornaments they choose are not the desinated ones so I suggest the kids have their own tree and we are all happy

*I decorate the tree exactly the way I want it even though I know it

will be rearranged thoughout the holiday


*Our advent calendar

* the kids put 4 treats in each cup and eat one everyday


*Writing a letter to santa

*they are very cute letters that will be scrapbooked


*Sitting on Santa's lap

* I protest this one every year but my mom always insists we do it. So,this year instead of going to the mall we went to Wal-mart. They were offering free pictures so I decided it might be worth it. It wasn't!!! Santa was 25 minutes late and reminded me of the Santa in the movie Christmas Story. The picture is soo funny. It has the book isle of Wal-mart in the background and...... a shopping cart with a bag of dog food in it. NO I am not kidding! If my scanner worked on my copier I would put the picture in this post but it doesn't work so just imagine how funny it might look!





This year we are starting two new traditions. This year we are just doing Christmas morning with our own family, no one else. I am sooo excited about it. The other thing we are doing on Christmas is NO fancy meals. I don't like cooking very much and every year I end up missing some of the joy of Christmas because I am cooking a fancy breakfast and dinner. I am not doing that this year. In fact, Santa is bringing my kids a box of cookie crisp cereal (my kids' favorite) and that is what we are having for breakfast. For dinner we are having left over smoked turkey and whatever else we have leftover from Christmas Eve. I think this will make a huge difference for me this year--- I will post about it after it's all over of course!!!




































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