We decorate our tree together. I put the tree up and the lights on and Elexis and my husband put the angel on top. We all put on the ornaments. We pop in a Christmas CD or pull it up on iTunes. This has been our tradition since Elexis was born. We used to decorate with a theme and had bulbs, now our ornaments are all special meaning ornaments. I love our tree.
Another tradition is Christmas eve. Elexis gets to open two presents. She gets to open her new pajamas and a movie that we can watch that night. Her pajamas are usually Marie from the Aristocats. It's her favorite movie and I love that Walmart usually has Marie pajamas. I'm quite excited for her to open her Christmas eve movie this year. She has been obsessed with the movie Hugo more over Asa Butterfield. Celebrity crushes have officially descended upon our house and Asa Butterfield is at the top. I'm just glad he is still a teenager (he is 16...excactly 3 years and 18 days older than my daughter...she tells me all the time).
Anyway, those are our traditions. Tomorrow I wrap all of her presents, it is her last day of school for the year.
I wish I had started the Christmas pj tradition. I wonder if at our ages we'd look silly now. I think Richard would be so cute in Christmas pj's.
ReplyDeleteI think Richard would look adorable in Christmas PJ's.
Deletelol All we ever did on christmas eve was go to church. In the morning when we woke up we could open our stocking presents, but we could NOT wake up my parents. They had to wake up on their own or we got nothing.
ReplyDeleteWow! I wouldn't know what to do if Elexis let us sleep in. Even as old as she is, she comes and climbs in our bed about 4 or 5 and pesters us until we wake up. Funny thing is she has to go right by the tree and the stockings to get to our room. When I was a kid, we couldn't wake our parents either, we couldn't even open our stockings...:(
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