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Holiday Traditions
Asked by K.B. from Chicago
on August 30, 2009
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I'm starting to think more about what traditions we want to do at holiday gatherings. I'm realizing that it's my turn to start creating some of these memories for my f...
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- We just started this one. One of the uncles dresses up as Santa and walks around the outside of the house with his back to the windows like he's looking in the sky. ...
- My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride to the city. We would meet at the train station (it started as my parents, the 6 of u...
- The only tradition I've established is doing what works on any given year! I mean, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up and going Trick-or-Treating, Fourth of July wi...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by M.T. from Philadelphia
on November 14, 2007
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My husband and I are in the process of getting divorced. This will be the first year of holidays not spent as a family unit. I would like to start creating some trad...
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- Hello, my name is N. I am a mother of three beautiful children. One thing that my children and I do together is the christmas tree. I put the garland and the high or...
- My kids and I usually watch A Christmas Story on Christmas eve, and I let them open one small gift.That's my special time with them because they leave with thier dad o...
- Hi! I think it 's so nice and important that you want to create new traditions with your daughter. Here are some of the things that I do with my kids. We always bak...
How to Handle the Holidays...
Asked by D.B. from Chicago
on December 16, 2008
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Hi. My husband's parents host Thanksgiving and Christmas every year and invite only us and my husband's sister and husband (no kids). On my side we get invited to my e...
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- A long time ago I had the problem with a boyfriend we went to both houses. Now we have the problem with my brother and the ex wife and who gets to see them when. ...
- Hi D., In my own family all of us have gone through this dilemma of where to spend the holidays. This dilemma gets even more complicated once everyone starts having ki...
- Holidays, travel, big family. It's a mess. Have everybody come by your place since you have the baby. If they don't want to make you happy, then you will need to have ...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by B.H. from Albuquerque
on November 26, 2007
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hi, mommies! just wondering what you do as a holiday family tradition? i'd really like to do something special this year that we can do every year as a family! any ...
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- We get each of our kids a special tree ornament (either made or bought) and that way, when they are adults, they'll have 18 ornaments of their own - for keepsakes or f...
- One of the years we had the children make up a rap song and dance to a holiday song...We(Moms)wrote a little something special about each of our nieces and nephews...T...
- I love everyone's ideas! I would also suggest the APS Festival of Lights parade and the Santa's World at Firebird Raceway both are awesome, we have gone for the last t...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by H.J. from Lexington
on November 17, 2008
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My boys are 1 and 3 and I am looking forward to starting some new family traditions for the holdiays. Does anyone have any fun and simple suggestions? We do an adven...
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- How about making or helping them each make an ornament for your tree each year. I do that with my kids & now we have lots of wonderful homemade ornaments on our tree.
- Sounds like you have lots of ideas. My family does the elf on the shelf. Its an elf that magically appears Thanksgiving and every night he reports to santa. Each morni...
- We, like you, are starting to form our own special holiday traditions with our children, especially now with family so far away (we recently relocated from FL). Our k...
Holiday Traditions
Asked by N.C. from Melbourne
on November 9, 2006
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My daughter is 16 mos and I am pregnant with my 2nd. I would like to start some interesting holiday traditions with her. I did a few last year and have some from my ...
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- Yay for these kinds of topics and so far I see some wonderful suggestions! We do the giant Christmas Eve dinner at my aunt's house and the adults exchange presents ...
- My daughter is 12 and my son is 10. Up until they were 6 and 4 we lived down the street from my sister and her 3 kids. Every holiday season I would have all of the k...
- I purchased a tree skirt and every year i take fabric paint, put it on my kids feet and let them pace one set of prints around the trim so we can watch them grow throu...
Your Coolest Holiday Traditions and Money and Sanity Saving Ideas Wanted
Asked by K.G. from Seattle
on November 29, 2007
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I am a type B by nature and can handle a lot of stress and also am creative. BUT I have a lot on my plate and have been pondering our family traditions, gift giving an...
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- This year is the first year we're doing it so I can't tell you how it will turn out, but I think it will go very well. We (my husband and 3 children) each buy 1 (yes, ...
- I hear ya! This is only our second holiday with a kid but we scaled down tremendously and changed our gift giving. For the past 5 years, we get together with friends...
- hey, i just went to chruch sunday and the pastor talked about keeping it simple and staying in a budget and remembering what Christmas is really all about. It really p...
