The one tradition that I am most excited about is the gifts. I have decided that we will only do 4 gifts each for Christmas; something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read.
I really want to focus on the real meaning of Christmas, and not really focus on just giving/getting many gifts. Birthdays are the time when the kids will get many gifts! I think it birthdays are awesome because you get to really focus on each individual child and just shower them with love and affection (and gifts!). But Christmas isn't really about that. It IS about love and affection, but it's not about the gifts.
As the kids get older, we will do the "Angel tree" thing, but in a different way. We will also do the four gifts for another child, and I will let the kids pick those gifts out. That way we will teach them about giving and doing for others. After all, I feel like that's more appropriate for the Christmas season.
Another tradition is Christmas jammies! Every year the family will get a pair of jammies for Christmas, and we will get to open those on Christmas Eve so we can wake up in our new jammies!
I'm just so excited to celebrate with the kids! As they get older, it will be fun to really talk about the true meaning of Christmas. Right now they are a bit young. However, we did read about baby Jesus being born, and that was also a fun new tradition to begin.
I'm looking forward to the years to come when the kids will be more involved, and we will hopefully have more kids to share the love with!
