Our Christmas traditions are in flux-- My nine year old figured out a couple of years ago that her parents are Santa (she found a stash of presents before Christmas and noted that, on Christmas, some were labeled as from Santa). We're still last year, we still labeled some stuff as from Santa, but I don't know if we will this year. There pretty definitely won't be milk and cookies left out for Santa.
My family's tradition on trees was to put the tree up no sooner than the weekend before Christmas and to leave it up until the 6th of January. My husband's tradition is to put it up sooner and take it down sooner. Our compromise has more to do with when we have time available to do the work. We tend to put it up relatively close to Christmas and take it down the first weekend after New Year. Our living room is small, and the tree takes up a lot of room.
I have kept one tradition from my family-- I make a Swedish rice porridge for Christmas breakfast. My mother used to make it Christmas morning, but I make it a day or two in advance (it takes at least an hour) and just reheat it on Christmas.
We spend Christmas day with Scott's family because they're relatively local. I miss my relatives around Christmas, but they've mostly all moved to other states. My brother, who lives two hours away, is the closest, and he has a standing invitation to Scott's family's Christmas, but he mostly chooses to stay home. At least we got him for Thanksgiving this year.
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Date: 2012-11-23 02:43 pm (UTC)My family's tradition on trees was to put the tree up no sooner than the weekend before Christmas and to leave it up until the 6th of January. My husband's tradition is to put it up sooner and take it down sooner. Our compromise has more to do with when we have time available to do the work. We tend to put it up relatively close to Christmas and take it down the first weekend after New Year. Our living room is small, and the tree takes up a lot of room.
I have kept one tradition from my family-- I make a Swedish rice porridge for Christmas breakfast. My mother used to make it Christmas morning, but I make it a day or two in advance (it takes at least an hour) and just reheat it on Christmas.
We spend Christmas day with Scott's family because they're relatively local. I miss my relatives around Christmas, but they've mostly all moved to other states. My brother, who lives two hours away, is the closest, and he has a standing invitation to Scott's family's Christmas, but he mostly chooses to stay home. At least we got him for Thanksgiving this year.