First: how does anyone, much less a small child destroy a geode?????? :)
At the moment part of my traditions are looking frequently at videos of our FLOTUS making Christmas at the White House. She does things pretty, warm, colorful, yet elegant, and most of all she does things affordably. You can do the things she does, with adjustments for scale, of course. And as I have no room for trees or displays in our tiny place, what she does sort of stands in. I never felt that way about anyone else doing White House Christmas, however.
As both of us are not close with our families, everything we do is just about us. The best part is that we don't do things the same every year. Some of our best Christmases were far away from the U.S.
With children it's very different though.
Whatever you do, as long as the child gets the sense this is so special you do it only once a year -- that is Good!
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Date: 2012-11-24 01:25 am (UTC)At the moment part of my traditions are looking frequently at videos of our FLOTUS making Christmas at the White House. She does things pretty, warm, colorful, yet elegant, and most of all she does things affordably. You can do the things she does, with adjustments for scale, of course. And as I have no room for trees or displays in our tiny place, what she does sort of stands in. I never felt that way about anyone else doing White House Christmas, however.
As both of us are not close with our families, everything we do is just about us. The best part is that we don't do things the same every year. Some of our best Christmases were far away from the U.S.
With children it's very different though.
Whatever you do, as long as the child gets the sense this is so special you do it only once a year -- that is Good!
Love, C.