Christmas Traditions
It's gone all Christmassy on the Raisingkids' forums - here's how our members spend their Christmas day.
 A White Christmas
My favourite Christmas memory is of Christmas 1995, it was my youngest daughter's first Xmas but as she was born on
December 28th she was just a few days off being one. She woke up early and I took her downstairs and
opened the living room curtains to see a carpet of white outside, it was snowing! I was crying that it had
snowed for my baby's 1st Christmas.
RK Member Ursula
Reindeer Dust
On Christmas Eve we go out to see the lights around the streets and my Mum, Dad, sister and brother-in-law come round to ours. we have hot choc and we all go outside with Daniel and he sprinkles his reindeer
dust (OK we sprinkle ours too!. In the morning we tell him Mum and Dad need to check Santa has been. So one of us come down stairs put on all the Christmas lights, Christmas music and we cover the living room (with the door open) door with wrapping paper so he has to burst through it to get in. It's brill.
RK Member virtualjacs
Fairies And Elves
Xmas Eve, we all turn the living room lights off, and kneel at the window, looking out for fairies, and elves. We know they're watching us all to make sure we're being good, but they're shy and hide behind chimneys so we have to be very quiet and look really hard. I love this time, especially when DD said last year "DAD! DAD! There's one!!!" (Just shows how strong the power of imagination can be if you nurture it). RK Member marcelbooth
Dressing Up
Here's an idea that I'm going to do this year. Courtesy of grandma. I'm going to dress up as Father Christmas and get my wife to film me putting the presents out, and putting the stockings on the kids beds, and maybe sprinkling some 'magic dust' over the kids or something. Make sure they're in view same time as Santa...Then the next morning I'm going to tell them I heard a noise and *I* tiptoed in and filmed him (to throw them off the scent). It's gonna blow their minds!).
RK Member marcelbooth
The Teenage Grinch
With my daughter now a fully-fledged "too cool for this" teen, our Christmases are sooooo different these days. I think my husband is now the most excited in the house - the decorations go up the first week of December & being an ardent Evertonian (bless 'im - someone has to be....) we have no choice in the colour scheme except blue & white!
We get up for the Buck's Fizz and slowly make our way through a vat or two of vino during the dinner making process. Usually, our daughter is dragged out of bed at midday with promises of fabulous gifts and a glass of bubbly - ye gods! whatever happened to my little cherub who reduced the local church congregation to tears with her solo of "In the Bleak Midwinter"? Now she's more likely to sit scowling from under her black fringe complaining that her presents are crap!
Roll on Boxing Day!
RK Member doyley
Baby In The Manger
December 1995 was my eldest son's first christmas - he was only 6 days old. I
was so proud of him that I trudged through really deep snow to take him to
church to show him off to all my friends. Our minister always went round the
church to see the children's presents and hold them up for everyone else to see.
He took Sam from me and held him up saying 'this is the best christmas gift' he
was so small and fast asleep that some people thought he was a doll. That is my best christmas memory ever.
RK Member joannemoore
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