Comments on: Christmas Traditions

By: sethbartell

sethbartell — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:16:58 +0000

Since we my family wanted to really keep the CHRIST in Christmas, we couldn't even pretend to believe in santa. Instead, our family liked to pretend that Mary and Joseph brought us gifts, because thats so much better than believing in Santa….

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:21:24 +0000

Umm…did we grow up in the same family?

Sounds like it.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:06:46 +0000

And how about how "clear the den" gets earlier and earlier every year? Back in the good days, it was around 4 or 5. Now, its like a race to get our gifts open before dad's ready to call it a day.
So what if we're all in our 20s.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:58:16 +0000

Love the top of the stairs. When my sister and I were little, we would break out the baby monitors on Christmas Eve and use them Christmas morning to communicate with our parents (the living room was in between our bedroom and theirs). My mom would come do our hair (because, of course, we couldn't possibly look like we had just gotten out of bed…on Christmas morning…in our pajamas) and my dad would set up the video camera. The best footage we have is when he left the camera rolling on the tripod and we're opening presents just outside of the shot.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:40:04 +0000

Saying "AWESOME" after opening each and every present.

By: Jared

Jared — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:34:49 +0000

Your dad is still my hero.

By: abby

abby — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:12:02 +0000

hide the pickle in the tree.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:08:23 +0000

18? that's nothing. my oldest sister is 36 and we are still doing a santa picture for my mom every single year with all our husbands and kids in the picture as well. Our only way to save face is that we now dress someone/something up as Santa.

By: Rob Shepherd

Rob Shepherd — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:27:26 +0000

We go to a movie every Christmas. It's one of my favorite traditions. We open gifts, eat and then go to a movie with the entire fam.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:34:05 +0000

We also have to sit at the top of the steps every year (notice I'm using the present tense here…. I'm 31 years old), but we have to wait for Mom to go into the living room where the presents are, which we can't see from our perch, and come back and say "Guys! Santa didn't come this year!"

But we also get sticky buns made in a Christmas-tree shaped pan, so that makes up for it.

But then we have to watch "One Magic Christmas" (haven't seen it? Really? The classic with Mary Steenburgen? Where the Christmas angel Gideon helps the mom get some Christmas spirit which in turn brings her dead husband back to life? With the epic line, "But Daddy's never been dead before!")

Love yours, though – the Santa picture is awesome. The look of resigned bewilderment on Santa's face says it all.