We aren’t like most people – we don’t get our tree or decorations up until way past the 1st of December whereas the majority of people I know wait until December hits and then go all out. We don’t do it because Jack’s birthday is on the 4th and we like to keep his birthday separate from Christmas as much as we can – we don’t want him to feel as if Christmas is taking over his birthday with how close the two are.
We do, however, buy some festive things in the run up to December – we have a wide selection of christmas decorations but we always let Jack buy at least one new one every year, it has become a tradition since he was one (he was obviously too young on his first ever Christmas at three weeks). Once his birthday has passed, we set aside a day to put the tree up, add the tree decorations and then decorate the house too. Our tree is always super colourful and Jack enjoys helping us put it up.
He is so excited this year as he is seeing trees everywhere – his school has one, there is one on our local common next to the war memorial and he’s seen a few friends and family members with theirs up already. He has been asking when we will be putting ours up and hopefully it will be in the next few days – we are currently having something of a declutter so I want to get all of that stuff out of the way before putting up a massive tree.
We actually don’t really have many traditions yet as a family, apart from the new tree decoration every year. I would love to make some new traditions like I know many other families do. We do like to sit down to watch a Christmas film together and we do love to open our Advent calendars each day in the run up to Christmas but I would love to make the season even more festive by adding a new tradition this year.
What do you do for Christmas?
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