Favorite Holiday

The holiday I am most looking forward to this year is Christmas.  It seems each year as the children get older and understand better and the excitement builds each fall, I like Christmas more and more.  We are slowly developing our own traditions and carrying on a few from when Jason and I were children.

We open one gift on Christmas Eve.  We make a gingerbread train or house at some point during the holidays.  We have a big dinner together at the table.  I don’t know who will be there from year to year.  In 2009 we were just our own family.  In 2010 my brother came.  There are a few books that I am collecting that we will read each year in December as well.

Jason tries to book off the 23,2 4, 25 and 26 from work, so that he can be here to participate in things with the children.  It doesn’t always work, but for the most part he has been able to be home those days.  This is something that is important to him and to me.

In the coming years I would like the children to participate in our Christmas Eve service by either singing or reciting Scripture or poetry.  I have this dream of all the children saying at least a line or two of a poem.  Jason wants it to be optional for all but I want it to be a requirement.  We’ll see how it goes in the coming year.  Another thing I would like to add to our Christmas season is having people over to visit, play games, eat goodies.

As part of the Christmas season (most of December) we attend a number of parties.  These are important to me and so our babysitting costs in December are a little higher than normal.  We have the Fireman’s Ball (in October, I guess, so that’s not Christmas, but mentioned as important just the same), Fire Dept.'s children’s Christmas party followed that evening by the adult party, J’s work Christmas party, Christmas Eve service, and our church’s New Year’s Eve party.

Christmas is a long way away at this point in the year, but it is the holiday I look forward to the most!


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