Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas Traditions


Our family has many Christmas traditions, but we don’t do them all every year.  Instead, we do whichever ones feel right for that particular year.  Some of our many traditions (besides the Christmas Eve ones which I will mention in another post) include a nativity advent, reading from the Christmas story basket, decorating a gingerbread house, giving gifts to Christ, going to the city’s light display, going to the light display at the LDS temple grounds, doing twelve days of Christmas for a needy family, singing Christmas carols around the tree on as many nights in December as possible, participating in the neighborhood Christmas play, etc.  We also like to try new traditions as we go along.  This year, along with doing a selection of the old traditions, we also read excerpts from the four gospels every night possible in December.  By Christmas Eve, we’d read the highlights of Jesus Christ’s life, atonement, and resurrection.  It was a wonderful way to remember Christ during the holiday season.

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