Christmas traditions
Posted December 20th, 2007 by mcphail
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Joining you all from chilly Indiana. While answering Jeff’s questions, Kelly and I were pleased to share during last Sunday that we enjoyed the traditions surrounding the Christmas season, and they’ve done a lot to help us as we look to start a family.
So I pose this questions to you:
Good or bad, what traditions have helped form your perceptions of Christmas, or simply what traditions have you enjoyed.
My example, I REALLY enjoy snow around Christmas.
We only did it one year...
but one of my favorite Christmas memories happened only about 4 years ago.
We went back to Michigan and out of no-where my dad suggested we do something on the day after Christmas. We went to the Greenhouses my family owns and loaded up about 100 Pointsettias we had left over (they didn’t get sold before Christmas - and would have been dumped). Then we delivered them to a local nursing home with about 80 residents… and stayed a LONG time bring each resident a flower… talking to many of them..my children and their cousins were a big hit.. and the flower brightened the residents lives.
That was a good Christmas.
Eggnog, fire, and baby Jesus
My family’s Christmas tradition since we were small, is to read the Christmas story out of the Bible while drinking eggnog by the fire. After all the hustle and bustle of the day before Christmas, it’s nice to sit down, relax, and re-center our lives about why we are celebrating during this season! I can’t wait to share in this tradition as now I have two little ones…
—brandi
Children's Christmas Programs
In the church I grew up in, every year the children gave a Christmas program with singing and speaking parts. Of course, there was always the 2 kids who kept pushing each other, the girl who kept raising her dress over her head, the kids with the lisps, the kids who forget their lines and of course, the doll in the manger representing Jesus, with Mary and Joseph in their bathrobes. Today I was able to see one of those Christmas programs. And it still makes me smile. The only difference between then and now is that parents use watch the program from their seats with both eyes. Now they watch the program with their eyes on the camera screen or video screen and they are all standing within 10 feet of the stage. :)