Marguerite53
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This has been such a lovely thread to read!!! Janea....how will you ever find the time in one evening to take advantage of all these wonderful ideas? I love the heritage book idea. I am diligently working on "baby" books (um, my kids are 19, 22, 24!) to present at Christmas. I think I'll ask each child (all in college) to write something this season. A wonderful addition.
On Christmas eve we generally go out to a nice dinner, then to a candlelight service. Sometimes we drive home through some neighborhoods to see the lights. On our first Christmas, my husband gave me an ornament Christmas Eve. I loved it SO much that we continued it. So we come home and open ornaments. Our tree is very full, now. We each have some definite favorites, many of which reflect our personalities or quirks.
I know you didn't ask about Christmas day, but I've always loved how we used to start our mornings, so I wanted to share it. My husband is not a morning person. Christmas morning isn't any exception. When the children were young, they would not be allowed to enter the room with the tree, they could come down the stairs, but not to the floor! I would come down and make coffee and bring their stockings and coffee upstairs to our bedroom. They would pile into our bedroom and open their little gifts. Then I would bring up a "picnic" of juice, croissants and jam and we would sit on a blanket on the floor and eat together. That gave my husband time to wake up, and gave us some sustenance before we "did Christmas" in our one person at a time, fashion.
Margueirte
On Christmas eve we generally go out to a nice dinner, then to a candlelight service. Sometimes we drive home through some neighborhoods to see the lights. On our first Christmas, my husband gave me an ornament Christmas Eve. I loved it SO much that we continued it. So we come home and open ornaments. Our tree is very full, now. We each have some definite favorites, many of which reflect our personalities or quirks.
I know you didn't ask about Christmas day, but I've always loved how we used to start our mornings, so I wanted to share it. My husband is not a morning person. Christmas morning isn't any exception. When the children were young, they would not be allowed to enter the room with the tree, they could come down the stairs, but not to the floor! I would come down and make coffee and bring their stockings and coffee upstairs to our bedroom. They would pile into our bedroom and open their little gifts. Then I would bring up a "picnic" of juice, croissants and jam and we would sit on a blanket on the floor and eat together. That gave my husband time to wake up, and gave us some sustenance before we "did Christmas" in our one person at a time, fashion.
Margueirte
so we'll have to start some traditions of our own too.
