Our Christmas Tradition?

Q: After 6 years of traveling on Christmas day to everyone's home(3 different towns approx.6hrs. on the road) my husband finally decides to spend this upcoming Christmas at our house! (FINALLY!) I'm so excited. I really want to start our own family tradition but don't really know what we could do. Its just my husband and I and our 3 yr. old son. I really want it to be special and memorable and something we can do every Christmas. Do you have any ideas? *Just a note I've suffered many a Christmas at my in-laws house--having to wake up really early so we could be there for their Christmas breakfast. Which I didn't mind for the first couple of yrs. but when I was pregnant it was terrible. I puked like 3 times that day. Once was in their driveway after I ate breakfast with them! The in-laws can really be a pain! MIL is the worst--so i'm really looking forward to not seeing her face first thing in the morning! lol! Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

A: well me and my family kinda have a schedule because of all the traditions we have! You and your husband should try to put in a little bit of your own childhood traditions into your sons life, like baking sugar cookies for santa (i have a wonderful recipe if you'd like it), watching a christmas movie, a nice christmas and christmas eve dinner, hanging up the stockings, sitting by a hot fire and drinking hot cocoa, little things like that and just spending a lot of time with your son! And then on christmas day you could wake up late, and open presents, have a big christmas breakfast, and then play with your son and his presents. Its little stuff like that that he's gonna enjoy! Also make traditions during the christmas season, like always having an advent calender and stuff like that! Good luck! and to help you out i typed up some stuff me and my family usually do for christmas christmas eve- morning- everyone makes sure we have that last minute gift, enough bows, ribbons, and wrapping paper to finish it up and we start the cooking! afternoon- finish up whatever we were doing earlier, watch christmas movie, and get ready for mass. go to mass. night- start sugar cookies, eat a relaxing dinner with my grandma, finish up sugar cookies and prepare everything for Santa, watch christmas movie (this one about the real christmas) while everyone is awake we talk about how Jesus is the real reason for Christmas and retell the whole story then put the baby Jesus in the manger! while we are doing this we drink hot cocoa and have christmas songs play (usually they are playing all day) and a fire going. it is one of my favorite parts of christmas! then the babies and nathan are in bed by 9:30 or earlier. parents and kinda me finish things up by 10-12 (i'm usually in bed by 10, i help them wrap some things) christmas day- morning- sometimes i come down 5 or 6ish and start the coffe and make the pancake mix, and set out the strudel (i make sure i don't peek at the christmas tree or anything) then i go back to bed for 1 hour and by then everyone's getting our parents out of bed. then we go down stairs and open stockings then presents and we drink hot cocoa by the fire and eventually eat breakfast at about lunch time, call cousins and friends. afternoon/night-we're usually playing with are new stuff parents are finishing up the cooking and i help make about a million deserts aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents come in midday. Then we have dinner with everyone(and this year we're gonna try to have a table that fits all 20 of us). Later we open presents and sit by the fire and roast marshmellows and some people watch a christmas movie and we talk about the day and have desert.

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