We just had such a wonderful week as a family. It was great having my husband home all week. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and the kids behaved for the most part.
Our Christmas decorations are up and I'm really getting into the holiday spirit.
Christmas is a big discussion right now for my husband and I. While this year is still a free year because Calan is still too young to understand, we are starting to figure out what our traditions will look like.
For me, Christmas was mostly about presents like most children, but there were a few traditions that I really do hope to continue with my children. The first being special morning breakfast. My mother always made and egg bake casserole, which we called "egg junk" because it was usually made with whatever was leftover in the fridge. The breakfast was served on my mother's China. She always said what good are special dishes if you don't bring them out to use. I am not sure how many dishes if any we broke, but I personally loved knowing that my breakfast was on my mom's special dishes. Another thing she did was that she never put Jesus in our Nativity season (which she gave me when I moved out) till Christmas morning.
Some things that we are hoping to do is to limit the amount of presents our children get. We want the holiday to be more about giving than receiving, so from us each child will get 3 presents. As they get older, we will incorporate them into adopting a family for Christmas that Maisie and Calan will help buy for.
While Santa is still being discussed, I think that we have decided not to push Santa (and that includes Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny, too). We want Christmas to be about who it is actually about Jesus and his birth and that God loves us so much that he sent his only son, which is the only present that we actually need.
Now, don't think in anyway that we plan to deprive our children. It is just that we want to center Christmas around Jesus and family, which is what we have centered our lives around. So, to be honest, it isn't any different from our daily lives.
Did you have a hard time figuring out what Christmas would look like for your family or did it just fall into place? What traditions did you incorporate?
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