We had a fun Christmas season this year and carried on with some of our Christmas Eve traditions. We eat dinner around 5:30 and our meal changes from year-to-year. I'm not set on eating anything specific, just whatever sounds good to everyone that year! This year we had chili and cornbread.
After dinner we sit in the family room and Ross will read the Christmas story via candlelight. I really like that we do this! The girls enjoy it, too, although next year I need to find a different way to do our candlelight! Hot wax dripped on both girls this year and that does not feel good at all!
Some presents are also involved in our Christmas Eve festivities! When I was growing up on Christmas Eve we always got to open presents from our "Omaha family" (grandparents and aunts and uncles). We would save all the presents from our parents for Christmas morning. I have carried that on with my girls with the "Omaha family" except it's presents from great-grandparents and great-aunts and great-uncles.
The last few years we've started singing Christmas carols around the piano with Lucy playing for us! This year Molly got to play a few songs for us and did a great job! I love that we do this!
Next comes getting ready for bed and putting out snacks for Santa and sprinkling reindeer food on the deck for the reindeer! We always have Christmas cookie cutter cookies to put out for Santa, but his drink varies each year. Last year it was orange juice and this year it was chocolate milk!
Our night would not be complete without a picture of the girls in their Christmas jammies standing in front of the stockings with a finger up their noses! This traditional picture dates back 4-5 years now! I wonder if we will still do this in 10 years when they are 18 and 16?!
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