Christmas Traditions

December is here and in full swing, although the weather outside isn't frightful things inside are starting to look delightful.

At my house most of our decorations are up, we will be putting up the tree over the weekend.

A few years ago we bought an artificial tree, just to be used that year as we had a one year old running around and thought he might get in to everything, well that one year old just turned four in November and we still have the fake tree. I don't mind it actually, less clean up at the end of the Christmas season, no needles to vacuum up and clog up the canister, no fighting with it as we carry it up the stairs from the basement. Just pull it out of the box and decorate!

Speaking of decorating... its a process at this house! My husband, is a perfectionist when it comes to tree lights. How it usually works is, I take the tree out and set it up, we leave the room for a few hours while he puts the lights on ( no wire showing and every branch with lights on it), then we all come together as a family and start to decorate. The kids love looking at the decorations as they put them on.

Every year I buy my boys a decoration according to their interests that year. So, for my 7 year old we have everything from Bob the Builder, Little Bill, Hot Wheels, Darth Vader and Indiana Jones! If I can find a Lego one this year he might just fall over! I hope that one day when they have their own trees and they are putting it up with their families, they will look at their box of "childhood decorations" and it will bring back memories for them.

Whatever your Christmas traditions are, its nice at this time of year to think back and remember our own Christmas memories as children. We can pass them on to our little ones and hope they will do the same with their children one day.