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Community Christmas Traditions

12/7/2016

Every family seems to have them.  Traditions.  The momentous events that help to create the memories of the season that we cling to year after year.  For our family those range from cutting our tree down together at a local tree farm to baking cookies with our family. Church Christmas Eve afternoon before gathering around the table with our family and oranges at the bottom of everyone’s stocking on Christmas morning.  Some of these have been passed down to us, and some are new ones we’ve made together.

As a young family we decided to start the tradition with our children that Santa Claus would bring them each three gifts just like Jesus received on his birthday.  There are no strings attached, just three gifts.  They know that’s what they get so they usually only have a list of three items.  It’s not to say we don’t cheat a little and add a few extra pieces to a box now and then.  We have also started that fun little elf tradition, except in typical me fashion I rebelled against it for as long as possible…so our elf is about 1 1/2″ tall…made of hard plastic that I got out of an Elf on the Shelf card game on clearance for $3.00.  So all we do is move it around, no fancy tricks since he is sitting permanently on a little blue box…what can I say, it hasn’t seemed to dampen the children’s enthusiasm for him.

Through the years I have heard so many fun traditions from people.  I love learning about them, the people they came from, their communities and cultures.  We asked our FizlDizl community to share some traditions with us and are so thankful we did!  What wonderful stories they had to share.

Renee shared with us that Santa fills their stockings on New Year’s Eve on his way back to the North Pole!  How fun is that?  christmas-stocking-traditionThey use the stockings that her grandmother made for her and sisters when they were children.  I love how they incorporate the same stockings and continue such a fun tradition with their own children.  And who doesn’t like just one more gift?

 

 

 

We love Darin and his son Kai’s tradition of cutting a piece off the bottom of the tree every year and labeling it.  They keep them all in a dish and display them each year with their Christmas decorations.  father-son-christmas-traditionsI think this is such a wonderful idea and fun way to look back at all the Christmases spent together as a family.

 

 

 

 

Each year Leigh-Ann and her husband get a new ornament for their tree each year.  Sometimes it’s from their vacation destination that year, other times just something they see and love.  They label the year if it doesn’t already have it.  tree-ornament-tradition-familyTheir children also get to chose an ornament each year and when they get married they will receive them all in a box to display on their own tree.  Her mother did this with her, so she is continuing to pass it down to her children as well.

 

 

Stephanie and her family place an ornament called The Christmas Nail on their tree first.  They read a poem that goes along with it as a reminder of the real reason for this amazing season.  children-praying-at-treeWhat a simple way to pause in the midst of the hustle and bustle of getting the family tree in place!

 

 

 

 

 

The stockings are hung by the chimney with care… and Amanda fills her kids stockings with breakfast treats!  What a novel idea!  Wish I thought of that 16 years ago.  The stockings overflow with fruits like oranges and bananas and are topped off with little packs of donuts, a juice box and of course a little chocolate.  family-of-fiveThe children sit and nibble while they all open gifts together.  What an adorable tradition.

 

 

 

We would like to thank everyone who sent us messages about their Christmas traditions and a very special thank you to these families for not just sharing their traditions but their treasured family photos as well!  There are still so many to share…would you kindly leave a comment below with your favorite family Christmas tradition please.  We love reading them and sharing them with others.  May your Christmas journey be filled with love, peace and traditions new and old.

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  1. Kelly R Smith says

    December 10, 2016 at 8:47 am

    What a fun list of treasured family traditions! Thank you and your community for sharing!

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  2. Lauren C. Moye says

    December 11, 2016 at 4:10 pm

    We don’t have any strong Christmas traditions yet (since my daughter is only 1). I’m picking up my family’s tradition of a Christmas Eve book gift, though. Each year after Christmas I go shopping to pick up all the really cool bags/wrapping paper/labels that I wanted at a heavy discount. I also choose to buy one set of ornaments each year when they go on clearance. I’ve found that I look so forward to doing this that I start visiting stores to see which ones I want to target. My Mom also sends me an ornament each year.

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    • jbassett says

      December 11, 2016 at 7:37 pm

      These are such great things to look forward to and will surely create many wonderful memories in years to come!

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  3. Joanna Alonzo says

    December 12, 2016 at 12:18 am

    Wow! Beautiful traditions. Beautiful family.

    The one tradition we’ve maintained for years is barbecue and our time of worship as a family. We used to create elaborate Christmas carols and sang it to our aunts/uncles. We used to get a bunch of money from that every Christmas. The older ones saved up for that event. It stopped, because our younger cousins were too shy to keep it on.

    But yeah. We still have worship. I’ll miss being with them this year.

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    • jbassett says

      December 12, 2016 at 7:56 am

      WOW! What a beautiful and fun tradition. You never know, it may come back in future years. Merry Christmas!

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