This Christmas will be a year of firsts and creating new traditions. It will be the first time our little family will stay home and have Christmas at our house all day long. It will be a strange feeling to not see my family on Christmas Eve or Christmas, but this year, that is just how it is working out. I am excited, however, to begin a few new traditions for our little family of 4.
We started our newest tradition last night- opening and reading a Christmas book. I saw this on pinterest or something years ago and thought to myself,
"No way am I going to buy 24 Christmas books just so my kids can do this." Then I rounded up the Christmas books we already had and was shocked. I bought 2-3 to add to the mix and all the sudden we had 12 Christmas books. I figured a 4- and 2-year-old wouldn't care that it they didn't get books all month long anyways. I plan to add a couple each year and maybe we will get to the 24 days of Christmas books, but for now, 12 is juuuuust fine :)
"No way am I going to buy 24 Christmas books just so my kids can do this." Then I rounded up the Christmas books we already had and was shocked. I bought 2-3 to add to the mix and all the sudden we had 12 Christmas books. I figured a 4- and 2-year-old wouldn't care that it they didn't get books all month long anyways. I plan to add a couple each year and maybe we will get to the 24 days of Christmas books, but for now, 12 is juuuuust fine :)
I went super gung-ho and wrapped the books a few weeks before Thanksgiving. I am glad I did because then it was all done and I didn't have to stress out about wrapping anything else besides Christmas gifts.
The kids were so excited when we told them about it. Chloe wanted to unwrap all of them last night lol.
Being that he is the oldest, Luke got to choose first :)
He was so excited to sit and read Red-Nose-Go!
Chloe loved it too!
I wish the book was just a little bit longer, but the kids loved it nonetheless.
I plan to share about all of the books we read, feel free to share your favorite Christmas books too, I am always looking for more!
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