Have you heard the story of the Pickle Ornament? This special ornament is hidden in the Christmas Tree and on Christmas morning, whoever finds it first gets a special present from Santa! This present is always something that can be shared well by four, sweet, selfless children who never fight over toys! *wink, wink* Our kids love looking for the pickle on Christmas morning!
We keep a basket of all of our Christmas books and starting on December 1, we read a Christmas book each night. I was surprised how many Christmas books we actually had! Next year I want to wrap each book, so that when they pick a book, they will have to unwrap it to see which one it is....I better start now, if I want to be done by next Christmas!
One of my favorite things to do around this time of year is look at Christmas lights! For the past few years we have started going to see Life University's Lights Of Life. They do such a good job with all of the displays and it is set to music! The kids look forward to seeing this every year. And before we go, we go out to eat at the Marietta Diner, now made famous after being featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on the Food Network. This place is the bomb! Good Eats! We let the kids order whatever they want, even if it is a mile-high piece of cake! Of course, they love that!! I am looking forward to this in just a few short days!
And finally....Every Christmas Eve since I can remember, at least 29 of them! *smile* before we opened our gifts, my Dad reads the Christmas story from Luke 2 and we use my Mom's nativity scene to act it out as he reads the story. Our kids are enjoying the role play now with the same nativity scene I played with when I was their age. There is something about my Dad's voice as he starts to read..."And it came to pass in those days..." I love it...it gets to me every time.
Well, here are a few of our fun traditions! Don't you love this time of year?! Enjoy each moment!
3 comments:
What cute ideas about the elf and the pickle!!!
Thank you for sharing! We might do some of these same things here at our house. But this year while going through Lights of Life we got a flat tire (signage was not good this year due to construction) and that is definitely not something I want to make a tradition! : )
Guess what I found at Kohls?!?!? A pickle! I saw it the day after you posted this. It was only a $1- so I had to buy it. I put it on the tree and told the kids we would hide it on Christmas- etc.....they are so excited!
Thanks for the idea.
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