Our elf toilet papered the living room, drew red noses with lipstick on all of the kids while they were sleeping, ate candy from the advent calendar, made a snow angel in flour, had a date with Barbie and drew mustaches on our family photos. The red noses with lipstick didn't work well. It was hard to do and the kids ended up wiping most of it off in their sleep. I'm now officially out of ideas.
We do a lot of Christmas things, is my favorite time of year. Our house is decorated with lights that dance to music, we drive to Des Moines wearing our silly Christmas hats and with mugs of hot chocolate every year to see Christmas lights (my 19 year old college son even comes home to join us). The rule is if you don't wear your hat you can't go. Grandma even started to join us and proudly dons her goofy hat.
Santa always leaves a note and some sort of proof he was here. It could be a piece of fabric torn from his outfit when he went up the chimney, his spectacles, boot prints in soot.....one year my daughter wanted a picture of Santa so my dad (now deceased) slept on the couch and got a picture, it was my dad's last year here so that memory is precious. We always track Santa on Norad and the kids get a video message from him, we go on a carriage ride to Santa's cabin for a visit and take a train ride to his village. We also have a lot of neat things in our town and eventually I hope to do some sort of family work with the local food bank. I love these things, the looks on the kids eyes and knowing that these little traditions might live on in my family long after I'm gone.
I think it's great that you want to do some old traditions with your children. I'm sure they will love every minute of it.
We do a lot of Christmas things, is my favorite time of year. Our house is decorated with lights that dance to music, we drive to Des Moines wearing our silly Christmas hats and with mugs of hot chocolate every year to see Christmas lights (my 19 year old college son even comes home to join us). The rule is if you don't wear your hat you can't go. Grandma even started to join us and proudly dons her goofy hat.
Santa always leaves a note and some sort of proof he was here. It could be a piece of fabric torn from his outfit when he went up the chimney, his spectacles, boot prints in soot.....one year my daughter wanted a picture of Santa so my dad (now deceased) slept on the couch and got a picture, it was my dad's last year here so that memory is precious. We always track Santa on Norad and the kids get a video message from him, we go on a carriage ride to Santa's cabin for a visit and take a train ride to his village. We also have a lot of neat things in our town and eventually I hope to do some sort of family work with the local food bank. I love these things, the looks on the kids eyes and knowing that these little traditions might live on in my family long after I'm gone.
I think it's great that you want to do some old traditions with your children. I'm sure they will love every minute of it.
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