For Christmas Eve we have many many traditions and we do our best to do them all. Jason had to work this year so it did put a pinch on some of them but we managed pretty well still. During the day we made our cookies for Santa which are usually rice crispy treats but due to the fact that when we went shopping for our food there were no rice crispies to be found we made smores in a pan instead and they were good. I am SURE that Santa liked them!We always go to dinner and a movie and this year all the restaurants were closing early (in Jordan Landing) so we saw our movie (Desperaux) and then picked up Sampan take out (the only restaurant still open when the movie was over) and ate it at home. It was so nice to be home earlier than usual. We always open 1 present and it is, of course, jammies but because a few years back we were having trouble with kids counting presents and shaking presents etc I wrapped all of each family members presents in their own unique wrapping paper and do not put a tags on the kid gifts. On Christmas eve they all pick the jammie package they think is going to be theirs and open it. Sometimes they get it right and sometimes we have to trade around but luckily it put a stop to the troubles we were having and now it is loved by all and must be done every year. Don't you know that if you do something twice it is a tradition? LOL! Does that make sense? Basically each child will have an individual wrapping paper and all of that child's presents are wrapped in only that paper. 5 kids=5 diff papers.
Oops CJ got pink jammies! Looks like that wasn't his wrapping.
Get ready get set GO!
Picking out the wrapping.
1 comment:
The jammies are CUTE! That's our family's Christmas Eve tradition, too.
Your wrapping paper idea is great. We may have to do something like that next year.
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