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MOMday Morning for November

It’s MOMday!! I feel a little last minute this month because I’ve been a little busy…

IMG_3045Luckily, I get to open with two pretty cool announcements (No mom, I’m not preggers). First, we are adding another AMAZING business to the MOMday Morning fun. Drum roll please……

Soni from Stringbean Company!!

I’m a huge fan of her blog, her store and her products! I know you’ll like her too! (see all my posts with Stringbean stuff)

Second, our MOMday Morning cash prize is now $100!! Can you believe it!?!? Just in time for the holidays!! We are so excited to bless you with even more cold hard cash along with this month’s prizes!!

Let’s get started!

You all know the guidelines…

This month we’re featuring Pretend City’s Good to Go from Head to Toe program and Dr Ann Corwin aka The Parenting Doctor.

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I met Dr Ann at a free class held at Pretend City (yes, FREE!), called Toddler Talk. The casual (free) class takes place in a play type setting. Toys are set up for the kiddos and Dr Ann teaches on topics the parents pick as they play. When one of the kiddos has a major meltdown a little squabble breaks out, Dr Ann shows the parents how to handle the situation. The (free) class was SO informative and practical!

Check out some of her advice about tantrums, potty training, sucking thumbs & using pacifiers, and lying!
Some of my favorite advice from the (free) class was, “our job as parents is not to shelter our children from disappointment but to teach our children how to respond to disappointment in a healthy way.” The more I think about that statement the more it resounds in my parenting everyday!

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Giveaway time!!

The prizes are…

… a Lid of your choice…

giveaway … one of our NEW Pirate tees…

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…and $100 cold hard cash!!

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AND, I’ll choose (through random.org) 2nd, 3rd & 4th place winners who will each receive a copy of Dr Ann Corwin’s Parenting Passport as well as a $10 gift certificate (via gift code) to Eli’s Lids!

How to win… (open to all US residents)

Main entry (mandatory): Now that the “holidays” are officially here, I can use some inspiration for family fun ideas! Leave a comment on this post with a fun holiday family tradition.

So you want extra entries??

I don’t blame you!

These prizes kick a&$!!

~Follow Blessed Nest, B.Y.O.G., Stringbean Company,  Eli’s Lids & Pretend City on Twitter or let us know you already do. (1 entry each, separate comments please)

~Tweet the following about MOMday Morning. (1 entry every day!)

Win $100 cash by spreading holiday traditions for #MOMdayMorning http://bit.ly/aMBWhG @BlessedNest @BYOG & @ElisLids @StringbeanCo

~Become a fan of Blessed Nest, B.Y.O.G., Stringbean Company, Eli’s Lids and Pretend City on Facebook or let us know you already are. (1 entry each, separate comments please)

~Do a Facebook status about MOMday Morning, include the link. (1 entry every day!)

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F.Y.I. – I’ll be adding MORE extra entries midweek because I like to stir the pot a bit!

For every extra entry, be sure to leave a separate comment on this post! i.e. If you follow Blessed Nest, B.Y.O.G., Eli’s Lids & Stringbean Company on twitter leave 4 separate comments!

For more detailed rules go here.

***Giveaway open 1 week! Ends MOMday (Monday) November 8th 9:00pm PST***

Thank you for serving, loving & nurturing us throughout the years.

 

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  2. Auriette says

    As a family, choose a senior or child in need and buy presents for them. Local agencies often have displays at stores, sometimes the families are listed in the newspaper, or just do a search for “angel tree” and your city. It gives a good feeling to know that you’ve helped someone else and it’s a reminder to young and old about the true meaning of Christmas.

  3. Sonya says

    We love to let the kids open 2 present on Christmas eve, always pajamas and a holiday book. That way they have new, cute pjs for Christmas morning pics and we read the holiday book to get in the spirit before bed!

  4. Carrie M says

    As a tradition, I kick off the holidays with Day after Thanksgiving shopping. It is a family affair, my husband and sister go with me. I have been going for 15 years straight. After Thanksgiving, it is a free for all for holiday fun, including music and decorations.

  10. Veronica Garrett says

    We take the kids to a Christmas Tree Farm to pick out a tree. We cut it down and bring it home We let the children help decorate it. We have cookies and punch and sing Christmas carols. .

  12. Sand says

    We host a cookie decorating party every year and invite all the little ones along with all the parents. I pre-bake sugar cookies the day before and leave them undecorated then purchase icings and candy for decorating. The kids have a blast, we then order pizza, watch holiday movies until it’s time to go home where all the little ones get to take their cookies home.

  27. brian e. says

    Thanks for the giveaway…growing up, my Mom “enlisted” the entire family each year to go to a local farm to pick apples that would be made into cider (on site) & used in her kitchen to make pies that we would enjoy on Thanksgiving Day.

    senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com

  30. Jill says

    Some family holiday traditions that I enjoy with my kiddies are baking sugar cookies and gingerbread houses, walking around Naples Island to see the lights, Elf on a Shelf, reading the Nativity Story and acting it out with Fisher Price Little People, and leaving a jar of change that we have collected throughout the year on someone needy’s doorstep. All things we truly look forward to each year.

    Thanks for the MOMday mornings!

  35. Pamela S says

    My family’s favorite tradition is we hang our stocking 12 days before Christmas. Then people “sneak” very small and inexpensive gifts into each others stockings a few of the nights. It’s fun to see everyone get so excited to check their stocking every night to see if there’s a surprise!!

  39. hbomb says

    we always walk through a park or drive around for one night with the family to look at christmas lights. we love going through a hospice sponsored neighborhood, which we donate and see gorgeous lights!

  40. susan smoaks says

    for the extended family we do a chinese gift exchange, you have to make the gift that you put in the exchange, it’s a lot of fun!

  54. Nicole Greene says

    Every year at the end of November/ early december we spend a day as a family putting up Xmas decorations/listening to xmas music/and making cookies!

  55. faith says

    we decorate ALOT! One of our biggest holiday traditions is picking colors and/or themes for the house for the holidays and then assembling (the no less than 4) christmas trees throughout the house. Since the trees are so elaborate and time consuming to assemble we usually leave them up until feb. 5 (my younger sister’s birthday, she likes to call them birthday trees : )

  84. barbara wright says

    We decorate the outside trees with pine cones covered with peanut butter and bird seed. The kids love it because we go to a park first to collect the pine cones. And then we use all different colored ribbons to hang the pine cones so it’s very festive looking when we’re done and the birds love it!

  91. Sarah - PS Mom Reviews says

    My holiday tip- We’re always so busy traveling to family on Christmas Eve & Christmas Day. I wanted a special day with just our little family (us and our son) before all the craziness and travel. So, we open our family Christmas presents the Saturday before Christmas. Then we stay home and play with our gifts and just have fun together. It gives us that time alone, and it’s fun to have presents a little early too. 😀

    psmomreviews@gmail.com

  92. Laura says

    My kids and my nieces all get matching pajamas for Christmas that they wear on Christmas Eve! We’ve done it now for 8yrs and the pictures of them are sooo cute!!!!!

  108. Justine says

    Our fave holiday family tradition is going to look at the lights somewhere like your local zoo…we also have them at other places and they are usually reasonable. Pack snacks/drinks/and be sure to bring your gloves and super warm clothing!

  109. Heather says

    We all go to my Great Grandmother’s house on a Sunday in November and a Sunday in December! Family members we don’t get to see often comes in, we eat, sometimes we get to go outside depending on what the weather is like, Sometimes we get to go play in the snow. The Older ones, we look at pictures and talk about when we were younger, and what we have done the past year. Sometimes we make cookies, but it is something we only do Two maybe three times a year. This year we will have one less due to the unexpected death of my 18 year old cousin in July. It will be different and difficult but Im sure we will still have a good time knowing he will spend this Christmas with our Great grandfather in Heaven!

  110. ewhatley says

    If your kids have a good life and you think they may not appreciate it, an idea for a family activity is to volunteer during the holiday season. Check your local area and I’m sure you’ll find many opportunities to help others. How about serving Thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinner to the needy. Have your kids pick one gift they received to donate to kids who may have no gifts. I gave this idea to my boss years ago and he said the first season was the best holiday season they had ever had and now it’s not only a family holiday tradition but they’ve found opportunities to help others throughout the year.

  111. Melanie says

    We have a couple different holiday tradions, so here are a few of my favorite.

    My three boys and I bake holiday baskets for our neighbors and deliver them one week before Christmas.

    I make the boys matching PJ’s to wear Christmas eve.

    Christmas eve we drive the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights.

    melaniecalcut@gmail.com

  122. kathy pease says

    right after thanksgiving time we love to all sit at the table together and make christmas ornaments for out tree tou can use styrofoam balls,glitter,felt or anything you want its fun family time and ornaments for the tree 🙂

  123. Angela R says

    A fun tradition that we do is that we open our church doors and offer a free Christmas meal to anyone who would like to come have one.

  130. Tara A says

    My girls always really love stringing garlands- with cranberries and popcorn. We also make our own stockings every year 🙂
    thanks

  135. Zavonna says

    My husband, two kids and myself do two things. We do secret Santa. We all list 3 things we’d like all for under $25 each. This way on top of everything else we’d want for Christmas we at least get one of those things. We also make 4 ornaments each. They each represent who we think the other is.

  138. Joanne Schultz says

    When we were younger and would celebrate Christmas with relatives, our cousin would play the carols on the piano and everyone else would sing the carols.
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  140. lace says

    We have a huge breakfast on Christmas morning before sitting down to exchange gifts. We also head out to the movies later in the day.

  145. Amy Delong says

    we do a family tree and the kids get a tree they decorate that santa leaves a small gift under that is their first they open in the morning!
    ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com

  155. gnwg says

    Every Christmas my mom puts out her elf and bear collections which she adds new members to every year.

  156. Jodi says

    Our zoo does the holiday lights, we always get a large group and go every year, this is something that even the big kids look forward too.

    purehrt555(At)Yahoo(dot)com

  169. DEBIJOT says

    Every year before Christmas I get the grandkids over and we spend a day baking cookies. Then they decorate the cookie like they want and give them to their parents for an early Christmas present.

  175. Shelley Mitchell says

    We do a cookie exchange. It’s fun and we all end up with a good variety of cookies. Yum!

    Thanks for the great giveaway!
    msjem2001 at yahoo dot com

  176. Rachel B. says

    Holiday tradition: My grandparents always celebrated Xmas eve with the grand kids (me) with hiring someone (extended family) to dress as Santa and give us each 1 gift. These are some of the fondest memories I have of my now deceased grandparents. I’m hoping in the future with my moms help, of doing the same thing for my daughter and future kids.

  190. Ambrosia says

    Every year we make a photobook for all the grandparents, and we keep a copy for ourselves, too. The boys help come up with the captions for the pictures. We also find new cookie recipes to make every year on Christmas Eve and try to save some to set out for Santa.

  193. sarah says

    Our family gathers on Christmas Eve for a big meal and to exchange gifts. I could do without gifts, but I sure love being with my family.

  215. dddiva says

    We go out to look at lights on Christmas eve and Santa makes a quickie drive by at the house and leaves us fresh new pj’s or blankies and a feast of cheese and crackers to enjoy while we watch our new movie and try to settle down.

  216. Tiffany says

    My three kids love wrapping presents together. I get out several presents for family members along with various wrapping paper, tags, bows, etc. They choose which present they want to wrap. I help them a little but let them choose the wrapping, tags and they love being able to wrap a present for someone they love and especially writing the names on the tags.

  217. jasmin gunning says

    hello, i would love to win this giveaway for my niece vogue brooks. she is in the military based over in cheyanne, wyoming. last week vogue gave birth to a beautiful baby boy Elias! he is a beauty coming into the world at over 8lbs. i am sure that in the coming weeks, she could use the cash to get those items not received during the baby shower. she would be gratefula and i will feel proud knowing that i found an unusal way to help her and newcomer ELIAS BROOKS!!!!!!!!!

  218. alisa a says

    we open a present xmas eve with the little ones…it’s always pj’s or slippers that they can wear in the morning when Santa has come..

  219. Jamie says

    We open presents one at a time and one person at a time. If it takes three days to open them then that is fine. We all open one and then take time to play with/check it out. Take a break eat/ snack and have coffee and then when all are ready head back to do some more. I love it because it gives everyone time to see all of the gifts and the reactions to things that were given with thought and love.

  227. Anne says

    One tradition we have is we only let the kids open their stockings right away on Christmas morning. Then we get dressed, make pancakes and eat before they can open the rest of the presents. This makes it less rushed.

  239. Rosey says

    We do a family gift swap, and it’s hilarious fun. We designate a present amount and everyone brings a wrapped gift. We have numbers in a lid. Everyone draws in order of their number. The first person opens gift. The second person can ‘steal’ that gift or open another, and so on and so forth. Everyone in the family loves the game and looks forward to it every year.

  241. Jade W. says

    We have an ornament exchange every year. Each of the kids draw another kids name out of a hat. Then they make an ornament for that person. It is a lot of fun and they usually want to make more ornaments for other family members when they are done. We enjoy putting them on the Christmas tree along with the ornaments they received from previous years.

  244. Amanda S. says

    We drive around in our pajamas one night in December and look at Christmas lights…my kids love this tradition!

  245. Tonya Dean says

    Our favorite thing to do this time of the year is play in the leaves. We will make the biggest piles we can and jump in. So much fun!

    tdlsfm(at)gmail(dot)com

  256. Carmen Q. says

    A fun holiday tradition for us is simply having my daughter help decorate the tree and with all the indoor Christmas decorations. Her eyes just light up when she sees them and she feels useful helping out. Such fun!

  258. Paula Culver says

    Our favorite tradition takes place the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We live in the beautiful Black Hills of SD, so we go tree hunting. And when I say tree hunting, I mean hunting. After we find the right tree, we shoot it down with a shotgun, no saws needed. Safety first with all the little ones. But each year we have a better story to tell about the adventure then the year before. We have so much fun spending the day as a family.

  262. sarah t says

    our tradition is every year my kids get a special ornament with their name on it.when they move out they will get their box of ornaments to have to decorate their 1st tree with.my mom did this with us and i’m carrying on the tradition.

  269. Molly K says

    One holiday tradition we have is to drive around and look at christmas lights. We go to different neighborhoods every weekend in December. We grab a thermos of hot chocolate and play christmas music.

  270. Angela Winesburg says

    We have an annual cookie making/decorating day. We invite my family and some of our friends over and we make cookies all day and listen to carols, thanks for the chance!

  271. Traci66 says

    Our family has a cookie/candy baking day where we all get together to cook then we all makes trays to share with teachers, co-workers, etc.
    ozzykelley1 at yahoo dot com

  279. Jill Myrick says

    I am a fan of Stringbean Company via Facebook as Jill Myrick.

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  282. Jill Myrick says

    We always have fun making new ornaments for the Christmas tree.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

  284. Rhonda says

    My favorite holiday tradition is putting out milk cookies for Santa. My husband and I have our children leave a quick note for Santa and Santa leaves one in return, complete with an empty milk glass and cookie crumbs.

  295. Erin Walsh says

    Up until last year, the only fun tradition that we had, was to wait until the absolute last minute, I’m talking a couple of days until Christmas Eve to go out and cut down a tree, and then hand it off to me, to decorate. Fun times.

    My mom bought us the most beautiful artificial tree last year and handed me a storage chest of the most beautiful ornaments and accessories to put on it. I hated to take it down last year, and I can’t wait to put it up this year.

  297. Viva says

    Our family loves to make and decorate a gingerbread house together a week or two before christmas. Fun for all!

  298. Mistysunrise says

    like Pretend City Children’s Museum on FB from Hearts N Flowers

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  303. Erica C. says

    Around the holidays, we go to our local fire house to see their train display. A lot of fire houses do this, so you can usually find one in your area.

  309. Mistysunrise says

    A tradition we have every year, is to have a big meal with the whole family.

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  320. Cindy says

    My favorite holiday tradition is using food coloring to color dried pasta tubes of all shapes and making tree garlands with them. The colors are so much fun for the kids!

  331. Andrea B says

    Twelve days before Christmas (dec. 13) we (my mom, dad, sister, brother, nephews & neice) do something as a family dedicated to each one of the “12 days of Christmas” song, while counting down to Christmas … :

    1st day: we all make chicken (partridge) with baked pears (in a pear tree)
    2nd day: we all help to make turtle brownies in the shape of doves & have 2 each (2 turtle doves)
    3rd day: we have a French Horn competition (French hens)
    4th day: we have a day @ the park and see if we can find any “calling birds”
    5th day: we pick names from a hat & have to buy or creatively make that person a ring, but it has to have a meaning to it
    6th day: we dye eggs Christmas colors (geese-a-laying)
    7th day: we have a apple dunking contest, acting as the swans-a-swimming
    8th day: we normally go to our local farm if it’s open to milk cows for fresh milk, if not we bake cookies & dip them in milk (maids a milking)
    9th day: the whole day we play music in the house while dancing & singing (ladies dancing)
    10th day: we go in the backyard & have a leap frog competition, whoever loses has to wash dishes for that night (lords a leaping)
    11th day: we go look at all the Christmas lights at night, and 1 of our neighbors always has a display of Pipers piping in their yard
    12th day: we (my mom mainly) make this HUGE dinner & we all have these little drums and when 12am comes we all run around the house playing the drums happily because Christmas has arrived!! 🙂

  334. Leslie Price says

    Our favorite holiday tradition is to bundle up, get some hot chocolate from Starbucks, and go walk around the local neighborhood that really goes out of control with Christmas lights. We look forward to it all year.

  341. Danielle says

    we always make pinwheel cookies. you take sugar cookie dough, dye one half red, roll both halves out, place one on top of the other and roll them. then slice them into cookies and bake as normal.

    when they are done brush them with an egg wash and sprinkle crushed candy canes on them. sooo good!

  343. Vicki says

    I still make up stockings filled with candy and little goodies, even for the adults in the family, It’s fun to see their eyes glimmer like little kids again! Thanks!

  344. Jason says

    We mix glitter with dry oatmeal and make reindeer food. The girls throw it out in the driveway before they go to bed so the deer have a snack also.

    paradise459 (at) sbcglobal (dot) net

  351. AEKZ2 says

    Our holiday traditions are donating toys that my children no longer want and then decorating sugar cookies.

  352. Tammy Darling says

    The kids make holiday placemats for our holiday breakfasts. Just give them construction paper and crayons and have them make one for everyone. It keeps them busy and you’ll be amazed at the results!

  353. tess says

    we unwrap and read a christmas book every night until christmas. “25 books till christmas” 🙂

  354. julieh says

    We have the tradition of opening one present on christmas eve, it really gets us excited for christmas morning!

  372. Amber says

    Make fun salt dough ornaments for the holidays! We use a simple salt playdough recipe, easy, non-toxic, and fun to make and customize. Let the kids shape the dough however they want, or use cookie cutters for angels, stars, or tree shapes. Poke a small hole through the top of each creation. let the creations dry overnight, the next day they’ll be hard and ready for hanging! Put a piece of ribbon through the hole on top and knot it, so you can hang the ornaments on the tree, or around the house. The kids can even paint the dough ornaments when they are dried, using non-toxic finger or watercolor paints! 🙂

  387. Nicole Hartmann says

    Every Christmas Eve we have a HUGE Italian family dinner in the Bronx. The house is PACKED, everyone is trading their Secret Santa gifts, kids running around, delicious smell of cooking food fills the house, I cant wait! 🙂

  406. wcc says

    This will probably sound boring, but our main tradition is just to spend time together and put up all of the decorations and trees together. I always look forward to it – it is one of my favorite days of the year. We always have Christmas songs on in the background. I do always try to make some baked goodies for it as well. Thanks for the chance! 🙂

  407. michele says

    Thank you for the giveaway. Normally, we bake cookies, drink hot chocolate and eat fingerfoods on Christmas eve. This year, we’re going to make homemade ornaments, magnets and invite friends over for Christmas eve dinner.

  419. Kerri Kwiatkowski says

    We have a bunch of traditions for Christmas – we go and cut our own tree, we make a red/green countdown chain, we bake cookies, and we all get new pajamas on Christmas Eve!

  430. kristen huss says

    Our little tradition is letting the kids decorate the tree…alone! Each year the ornaments get a little higher up! We have taken pictures of it each year, and I printed them in 8x10s and framed them, so along with the “sitting on Santa’s lap at the mall” photos (framed), that is how I decorated the house! It actually looks super cute…I hang them all over the mantle and they giggle at how low the ornaments were the previous years while my husband and I giggle that they are STILL super low!
    This year will be more fun since we have one more helper, and most of the ornaments are homemade!

  433. Martina says

    Baking cookies together and having Advent coffee with cookies and candles and hot beverages on a weekend afternoon is my favorite holiday family tradition.

  439. D Johnson says

    The Saturday after Thanksgiving we spend the day putting up our Christmas tree and decorating.

  453. joni taylor says

    We take a christmas morning photo in matching pj’s. I have to search awhile to find them since my husband and I are not model thin and our children range from 6 to 14 but this is our tradition and our older kids know they can change as soon as mom gets her pic.

    joni(dot)taylor3710 at gmail dot com

  455. simone says

    We do a Christmas morning potluck. It gives you something to do Christmas Eve besides wrapping presents and that way everyone has a really yummy meal Christmas morning. It is actually my favorite holiday meal since everyone is in their PJs and eating good food. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com

  456. Suzanne K says

    We got out in the car in the evening near Christmas time… and drive thru neighborhoods that compete in their Christmas light displays.

  466. Ellie W says

    On Christmas morning when the kids wake up they find a note under their pillows with a clue that leads them to the next note/clue and so on until they find their first present. Which is usually new pj’s/robe/house shoes, which they change into before coming to the family room for gifts and pictures. They love the treasure hunt almost more than the gifts.

  473. anna t. says

    We usually go over to my eldest son’s house to watch the grandkids open some of their presents.

  482. Denise B. says

    We celebrate the whole religious aspect of Christmas. Starting with Advent right after Thanksgiving and ending with the 12th day of Christmas. We love lighting the Advent candles and opening a door on each day of Advent on the Advent calendar. It’s sad how the whole Christmas season and celebration is lost on most people.

  483. hminnesota says

    we pack our gifts in night because kids don’t have school that week..that is so much fun for girls to play with wrapping paper and they are not much worse than me in wrapping:) so great feeling for them!

  484. Jaclyn Reynolds says

    We like to take a walk at night and enjoy the neighborhood holiday lights and decorations.

    • Eli's Lids says

      Last year was the first time we took the kiddos to see lights in a neighborhood that just goes crazy with the decorations. I love the idea of just walking around our neighborhood!! This your for sure!!

  485. Lynda E. says

    We’ve been doing this ever since my son was old enough to help cook to combat the madness of Christmas over shadowing Thanksgiving. We don’t listen to any Christmas music or watch any Christmas shows (harder to do than you think!) until the night before Thanksgiving. Then after dinner we put the Charlie Brown Christmas CD on in the kitchen and do all our baking for Thanksgiving day and we always stop and dance when the Peanuts song comes on!

  490. Brittany says

    Our holiday family tradition is to go and see christmas lights, it’s fun for the whole family.

  494. Sara B. says

    A tradition I’ve passed down from my dad is holiday candy making. I take one evening in December with my kids to make divinity and fudge together. It’s a great (and tasty) way to spend time together.
    bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com

  495. Alice C says

    this will be my first x mas as a single parent, will have to think of some new traditions to start :0)

  498. Aimee says

    My family is of German descent, and every year we celebrate St. Nicholas day. After dinner St. Nick comes pounding on the door and leaves a canvas bag filled with clementines, chocolates, treats for the dogs, and little gifts for the youngest in the family.

  499. Pat says

    Every year I would get a new special ornament for the Christmas tree for my children. In 20 years, they had ornaments for their own household. We also had an Advent calendar to count the days up to Christmas.

  501. Monique Rizzo says

    We go look at holiday lights (driving) with a twist. We make I spy sheets. Like “I SPY an inflatable Santa” etc.. we copy the lists and see who gets them first. ITs fun!
    Thanks for the chance.
    mogrill@comcast.net

  520. Andrea S. says

    We bake cookies and make candies together. There is so much laughter and fun and afterward we have treats to eat, and to share with those we love. I learned from my Mother who learned from hers. To think that my Sons would share some of my baking history with their children is an amazing thought.

  533. Dluxe Dana says

    I grew up in chilly Upstate NY where we cut our own tree in the snow every year for Christmas. We started the same tradition with our kids here in the South a few years back! Even though there’s been a couple years we’ve had on shorts and t-shirts and sweat our butts off dragging the tree to the car…it’s a memorable, enjoyable experience we treasure with our kids!

  535. Heather S says

    We bake cookies and breads together as a family. This includes kids, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc. It helps us bond and it teaches kids that the holidays are about giving and making others happy.

  540. Susan S says

    On Christmas Eve, my whole family gets together and goes to eat pizza, followed by a movie. We then go look around at the Christmas lights and take a short drive up a mountain so we can look down into the valley to look at the town. We open our presents on Christmas Eve so the kids can remember the true meaning of Christmas… plus we don’t need to wake up early.

  552. jennifer horn says

    My girls all spend a day with grandma making cookies for Christmas. We also go as a family to see the Christmas lights in our town.

  565. Justine McD. says

    We were going to start a yearly tradition of going to the pumpkin farm but then my son got h1n1 from it last year so we were too scared to go this year >.<
    For Christmas the only thing we do is make cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve, and open 1 present before bed on Christmas Eve (usually a new pair of jammies to wear that night)

  566. sandy says

    when the kids were younger they would make cards in free time for the senior citizens homes -\it is amazing such a little thing like that handed to someone with a hug means so much
    eash year we would make cinnamon ornaments- easy and affordable to make

    • Eli's Lids says

      I love love love that idea!! I always think we have to make time to go there but we could totally do craft time at home and do a quick trip. Thanks!

  570. Megan @ Mama Bub says

    One holiday tradition that we have is to walk the neighborhood and look at the Christmas lights every night. I know it’s nothing big, but my three year old LOVES the lights. It’s the highlight of his day.

  571. Linda Stewart says

    A few years ago I started making personalized ornaments. This year I will be adding a new ornament for my newest grandson. The ornaments make a statement for who each individual is. They are beautiful and as my collection increases I move further and further away from the traditional store bought ornaments. The personalized ornaments decorate my tree and I will have them to pass along to other family members throughout the years.

    • Eli's Lids says

      OMGosh, best idea ever! Can you buy the album or have to make it? I’m going to do this in some way shape or form. If you’ve blogged about it, send me your link!

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