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Growing up, my dad used to reading me ’the Night Before Christmas " before I went to bed on Christmas Eve. He traveled a lot for work and was military, so was very special for us.
My parents are coming to visit for baby’s first Christmas, and he is bring the book!
When I was a child my grandparents neighborhood association had a santa that came to everyone’s house a few weeks before christmas on a huge sleigh (on wheels)with helper elves to lift the little ones in and out. He heard all your wants and wishes and when you were done he gave you a “stocking” (i think it was a clear plastic sleeve) with an apple and orange in the toe and filled with peanuts in the shell, and a few chocolate pieces. I recently found out from my father when he moved back to that same neighborhood that they stopped doing it a few years back :-( My boyfriend and I bought a house last year and are teaming up with a local carrage company and our home owners association and planning to spend part of our tax money on santa and elf costumes to try to revive this tradition for my son.
Every year we went to Midnight mass, and because children dread going to church let alone in the middle of the night my grandmother would let us open one gift early. We now have started our own tradition of opening holiday pj’s on christmas eve for super cute Christmas morning photo’s.
We get to open one present before Christmas morning and its ALWAYS new pajamas that we wear the next day! Cant wait to do it with Eleena! Hoping to get a matching set of PJs with her one of these days :)
Findind the pickle in the Christmas tree! During Christmas at my grandma and grandpa’s, my little sister and I would stare at their tree for hours trying it. It is a cherished memory of mine and I would love to pass that on to my baby.