Last year I bought this book for the Toddler 
We wanted to start creating some family traditions of our own and so on Christmas Eve silly old Santa accidentally let it fall out of his sleigh and into our front room. This is obviously the kind of thing that happens if you stop and have a glass of sherry at every house you visit!
It’s a cute story about a bear who wants to see the moon but is too scared, a story of learning to be brave. But I love how a cheap book we picked up helped to create something even more magical for our family, a tradition that we can repeat every year.
Does your family have any Christmas traditions? Do share them below, I’d love some more ideas of things our family could do too!
We get D new pyjamas on Christmas Eve – means that the photos when he’s opening things look good! 😉
Thats a good idea, all The Toddlers pj’s are a bit small and tatty ;o)
What a lovely tradition. This year we are going to have a go at ‘Reindeer food’ with the little ones and we always open new pyjamas on Xmas Eve.
Oh yes, must try reindeer food!!
What a beautiful tradition. My favourite Christmas tradition is that everyone in our extended family contributes to Christmas dinner at our house. So my Mum cooks and bring the turkey, my sister the mince pies and cheese, my brother-in-law makes a trifle and so on.
That’s a great idea, makes life easier for you too!
That looks like a lovely book 🙂 We also love Christmas books, we’re starting our ’12 Books of Christmas’ tomorrow. The rest of our traditions are things like new pyjamas on Christmas Eve and leaving out cookies for Santa 🙂
Santa gets a large glass of red wine here. Hic!
After moving to the other side of the Atlantic, we discovered that the freedom to found our own family traditions was an unexpected silver lining to the loneliness of living on a continent where you know no one. It’s allowed us, as a multicultural/multiracial family, to find our own path in choosing what we celebrate. Freed from the shackles of visiting those who ‘don’t partake’ we now throw ourselves into the festivities with gay abandon!
With halal turkey and this year *drum roll please…* homemade Christmas puds, our repertoire of traditions just keeps growing and growing. But for starters, we always sprinkle ‘reindeer food on the lawn, and try to chuck some on the roof. And on Christmas Day what better way to help you digest than a Dance-Off with the X-box and the rest of the family as judging panel 🙂
Merry Christmas!
A dance-off is probably my favorite idea for a Christmas tradition so far ;o)
What a great story. We have the night before the night before Christmas which I bought last year and want to make into a tradition.
Aww, I love that book!!
I think this is a bit of common one…but here it is anyway….we write a little note to Santa and leave it by the chimney with a carrot for the reindeer and a glass of whisky and a mince pie for Santa. In the morning….they are ‘GONE’!!
That Santa does love a bit of booze ;o)