
Originally Posted by
sassyspoonicus
I think one of my favorite Christmas memories was when I was very little. My dad was raising me with my grandparents and uncle, and one of the guys would put flour on their boots to make footprints up to the Christmas tree from the front door - we didn't have a fireplace or mantle, so little me was very concerned Santa couldn't get in. Grandma would also make 'reindeer food' (aka oats mixed with Christmas sprinkles) and we'd sprinkle some out on the front lawn for specifically Donner. Who knows how I got a favorite reindeer?? But it was the coolest thing ever to wake up and see 'evidence' Santa came in, and he'd leave a note thanking for the cookies - we'd always make special Santa cookies. (During which I also licked off the frosting for at least a quarter of the cookies.....) And we also got to unwrap a new Christmas ornament every year that was always related to some accomplishment from the year before.
Once my dad remarried, StepMomma made us a tradition of everyone decorating the entire house the day after Thanksgiving, which also starts the month of too much baking and eating, lol. And Christmas music. She loooooves Christmas music. We also went to Handel's Messiah every year starting in high school. StepMomma also has a deep undying love of everything Nativity scene, so now that there's at least 20 scenes scattered around the house, with 6 of them having movable figures....there's an unofficial tradition that Hubs or my dad move around all the baby Jesuses to have 'playdates'.
Now Hubs and I have made a tradition of getting a real Christmas tree (couldn't have one as a kid, most of my family's allergic to pine) and decorating it together with our own ornaments. We do it all in one day after Thanksgiving. I just found out that where we live now also has an orchestra put on Handel's Messiah so I think I'm going to drag Hubs there with me. I'm making a knit Nativity scene for StepMomma this year, and I think I might make myself one for next year and bring it out too. We don't do too much at home, since it's just us and we still travel back to our hometown to see family that week.
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