We get a live tree each year the first week of December. The kids help me bake christmas cookies. We pull out home movies as well as any christmas movies on DVD we have. One of my favorite things is taking the kids to the store for them to each pick out a new ornament. When they get old enough and all get married off, they will each receive a box. In it will be all of the ornaments they have picked out over the years plus a few from their great-grandmother that have been passed down to me. My grandmother handmade ornaments that were very complicated with beadwork, fringes etc. I have taken special care of them and will follow the tradition of passing them down to the kids.
I also make homemade hot chocolate and put it in the crock pot to keep it warm.
I make a traditional dinner of ham, lasagna, Italian green beans, salad, rolls etc. I usually have a bottle of red wine while the kids have sparkling grape juice.
Once January 2nd hits, the rest of the season feels like a cold, wet, gray time of yuck.
That's how a typical December goes for us. Obviously, things are not going to happen in quite that way, this year, but we will still have our dinner and I may put up some lights.
I also make homemade hot chocolate and put it in the crock pot to keep it warm.
I make a traditional dinner of ham, lasagna, Italian green beans, salad, rolls etc. I usually have a bottle of red wine while the kids have sparkling grape juice.
Once January 2nd hits, the rest of the season feels like a cold, wet, gray time of yuck.
That's how a typical December goes for us. Obviously, things are not going to happen in quite that way, this year, but we will still have our dinner and I may put up some lights.
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