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Family traditions are such an awesome concept. I read a long time ago that family traditions help your child feel secure and accepted regardless of what might be happening at school or in their friend circle. In all honesty the idea of family traditions helping kids feel included and confidant makes total sense, you know that you have a special group of people that do a special few things during the year together.
Given that my husband and I both never really had many traditions within our families we are scouring the internet often to find some cool ones to try out and see which feel right and stick with our family. Here are the few that we are incorporating this year around the holidays!
Tradition one:
The early Christmas Eve present. So every year we have bought the kids a new set of pajamas and wrapped them up with a new holiday book or movie as well as a pack of popcorn and a hot chocolate mix. This year we are changing it up thanks to the awesome folks at Lazy One who feature some pretty amazing family matching sets of pajamas. Now there is nothing cooler than seeing your parents in the same cute/funny flapjack sets as you! These matching sets from Lazy One are incredibly cozy, soft and adorable for the whole family. The perfect pictures you’ll get every year as you grow and add onto your family and all match every Christmas Eve are the best companion to the memories you’ll have of those special nights.
Tradition Two:
We make cookies together! Every year we go and buy a sugar cookie cut out kit and the funnest frostings and sprinkles to put together on the cookies. After all the cookies are all dry we put them into gift bags and the kids give them to all of our family members as gifts for Christmas. Our kids love making specific cookies for certain friends and family and I love seeing their proud faces as they gift them away!
Tradition Three:
We go pick out and cut down our tree. We then decorate the Christmas Tree together while listening to Christmas music. Now this one seems like such small simple one but they way our tree transforms the house really makes an impact and its easily the event our kids are the most excited about. Each of our kids has a duty, someone has to untangle the lights, plug them in and check that they still work. Meanwhile another person will untangle all of the ornament hooks and pile them up and make sure all ornaments have their little hanger attached.
So there you have it our kids are still young yet, being only 6 and 3 and another due in March so our tradition list isn’t forever long but we plan to only keep adding onto it as we go! What do you guys do for your family traditions, whether holiday themed or not? I know I’ve learned it rarely matters what you’re doing as long as you’re doing it all together!
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This post currently has 19 responses.
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Sarah L
Getting PJs for Christmas Eve has always been one of my favorite traditions. They have very cute ones.
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Cheryl B
I love the No Place Like Gnome Dog Flapjack pjs for my dog.
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Lisa Brown
I like the idea of an early Christmas present. It’s like a little Christmas appetizer!
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vickie
OH MY. Darling site.
we have lots of traditions..most listed along with our yearly dated ornaments. -
Steve Stone
love the shark pants for men.
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Jill Rivera
We open gifts on Christmas Eve because half of my family works night, but when my kids were little I let them open one gift on Christmas Eve
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Irene Lirette
I love the concept of matching PJ’s. I also love giving them as gifts with a movie and snacks. It’s a before Christmas kind of gift. Like a week before.
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Christy Peeples DuBois
This is a new to me line that is so cute. I love all the pajamas, pillow cases, notebooks, etc. I will have to shop them.
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This ended way early?..I thought 15th of January? I am glad I got some entries in…better than none..love them!
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You were trying to fool us with the form saying it ended and now reviving it. I am not fooled…. (well, I was a bit since I took it off my list, but it’s back now)
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I was not trying to fool anyone. There was an accident made when creating the form so it was set to close at the wrong date. The title of the giveaway has always read 1/15 and it always read 1/15 on the current giveaways page. Just the ending date on the form was wrong, I didn’t realize that until after the widget closed and then I corrected it so it reopened. Sorry for the mistake but I wasn’t trying to manipulate anyone. As a blogger, brands want me to get as many entries into their giveaways as possible so it wouldn’t make sense for me to try to trick people into thinking a giveaway was closed before it was, as that would mean less entries for the giveaway and less success for my blog post.
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Marilyn
I love these products. They are so fashionable and comfortable,too.
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Jeanine Carlson
I think these Huckle-Berry Women’s PJ Pants are adorable!
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Best Gifts
Hi Lakota,
The tradition one sounds like a great fun activity for your family
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Donna Porter
I like all the Pj sets especially the I Don’t Do Mornings Horse Women’s PJ’s. Very cute!
I totally love the matching PJS. I’m going back on the website and want to buy presents for my daughter’s family. So cute!