Christmas traditions - what are yours?

sparkles07

bossymoo wrote: »

We've got an elf (well 2 this year) and we have an advent tradition. The elf brings advent calendars and a note from Santa saying he can stay till Xmas and he gets up to all kinds of mischief through the night. The littlies think its hilarious.

When he leaves, there is a Xmas eve "hamper" with new pjs bubble bath, reindeer food, snacks, a DVD and some craft stuff. This year we have a special key to let Santa in too as we have no chimney

We read "the night before Xmas" as our bedtime story, but downstairs (usually have 4 grandparents staying and we take turns in reading it) then leave mince pie and milk, plus a carrot out.

Then we light a sky lantern if its dry, and watch it float away to "heaven" for my late DH - he loved those things.

Once the littlies are asleep, put together any last gifts (last year was pumping bike tyres up!) then adults have a wee dram of something and a nice supper and watch TV.

It's often then we decide we ought to sort sleeping arrangements :eek: so I've mentioned it to my mum already and we have a plan lol. Nobody wants to be drunk in charge of an air bed pump...

that was scary actually, I thought maybe my husband had written it as these are all our traditions too! :rotfl: