Comments on: Making Your Own Holiday Traditions http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:20:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: shraddha http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions/comment-page-1#comment-120347 shraddha Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:05:43 +0000 http://www.themomcrowd.com/?p=2681#comment-120347 i am from India but we have been celebrating all American holidays along with Indian holidays with my girls..(twins...3 year old) Choosing the traditions to follow has been fun road and is very enriching.. i am from India but we have been celebrating all American holidays along with Indian holidays with my girls..(twins…3 year old)
Choosing the traditions to follow has been fun road and is very enriching..

]]> By: Amanda http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions/comment-page-1#comment-120225 Amanda Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:25:30 +0000 http://www.themomcrowd.com/?p=2681#comment-120225 @Mel C - Wow. That is great story. Love the ornament idea! @Christy - Growing up we did Christmas morning as an immediate family. Then at lunch we got dressed and headed to Grandma's. I have taken on that tradition with my own family. Christmas morning is our special time, then we head out to my in-laws. (Although, we are spending the night at my in-law's tonight before Thanksgiving and may after Thanksgiving too :) ) My parents live 4 hours away so it is hard to make it on Christmas Day. So we usually make the 4 hour drive the next day or the following weekend. @Mel C – Wow. That is great story. Love the ornament idea!

@Christy – Growing up we did Christmas morning as an immediate family. Then at lunch we got dressed and headed to Grandma’s. I have taken on that tradition with my own family. Christmas morning is our special time, then we head out to my in-laws. (Although, we are spending the night at my in-law’s tonight before Thanksgiving and may after Thanksgiving too :) )

My parents live 4 hours away so it is hard to make it on Christmas Day. So we usually make the 4 hour drive the next day or the following weekend.

]]> By: Natalie http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions/comment-page-1#comment-120223 Natalie Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:02:31 +0000 http://www.themomcrowd.com/?p=2681#comment-120223 I loved the story Mel shared. So neat to hear! Love this post, by the way! I loved the story Mel shared. So neat to hear! Love this post, by the way!

]]> By: Christy http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions/comment-page-1#comment-120221 Christy Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:43:30 +0000 http://www.themomcrowd.com/?p=2681#comment-120221 Wow Mel... I love the idea of letting your daughter choose an ornament and that you are making her an ornament each year. That is so special. What a wonderful family that took you in that year to inspire you and give you the joy of the holidays back!!! We also try to make sure that on Christmas, we have our own special "family" time and then extended family can have fun with us after our special time. It was hard at first to transition from the extended family traditions to ours, but once we did it, it was wonderful! Wow Mel… I love the idea of letting your daughter choose an ornament and that you are making her an ornament each year. That is so special. What a wonderful family that took you in that year to inspire you and give you the joy of the holidays back!!!
We also try to make sure that on Christmas, we have our own special “family” time and then extended family can have fun with us after our special time. It was hard at first to transition from the extended family traditions to ours, but once we did it, it was wonderful!

]]> By: Mel C http://www.themomcrowd.com/making-your-own-holiday-traditions/comment-page-1#comment-120220 Mel C Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:40:55 +0000 http://www.themomcrowd.com/?p=2681#comment-120220 growing up I had a very disfubctional life from my birth home, to foster homes, and in my adopted family. out of all the holidays that i have celebrated one stands out to me. My foster family was going to Florida on Christmas vacation so they left me and with a family over the holidays. On Christmas Eve the father of this family read the Christmas Story, his wife played carrols on the piano as the family sang along, and then at the end of night they told me to choose any Christmas ornament that I wanted off of their Christmas tree. I choose a beautiful stained glass ornament that looked like a bell with holly on the top. I had hated Chrsitmas and all holidays up until that point and since then decorating the tree has been very special to me. Now that I have started my own family we have bought a Christmas ornament for our daughter every year (2 years now... she is 16 months old) and I have made one for her. We choose ornaments that she can put on her tree when she starts her own life away from ours so nothing that looks like it is suppose to be for a child only. Each ornament has a specail meaning behind it. Last year I got her a fairy ornament. The name of the fairy was the same name as my daughter and it was the last year that that ornament was sold... the year that my daughter was born. i made her the twelve days of Christmas ornaments (a song that she enjoyed listening to during her first Christmas). This year I got her a balloon ornament (an air balloon since we live in Albuquerque... so that no matter where she goes she always knows where she came from... Albuquerque is known for the balloon fiesta that they throw every year). And this year I am filling a clear ornament with a tiny quilt that I have made out of her baby clothes that she wore on specail occassions. For me, not having a strong family background has been difficult for me as I incorperate our own family traditions. My family is not part of our lives but my hubby's side of the family is and so I have to work around their traditions as well which can be difficult with his dad and step mom. We got started by insuring that the day of the holiday we spend alone without anyone else (except for Thanksgiving) and the day before or after the holiday we visit the family so that we still get to celebrate with everyone's traditions. growing up I had a very disfubctional life from my birth home, to foster homes, and in my adopted family. out of all the holidays that i have celebrated one stands out to me. My foster family was going to Florida on Christmas vacation so they left me and with a family over the holidays. On Christmas Eve the father of this family read the Christmas Story, his wife played carrols on the piano as the family sang along, and then at the end of night they told me to choose any Christmas ornament that I wanted off of their Christmas tree. I choose a beautiful stained glass ornament that looked like a bell with holly on the top. I had hated Chrsitmas and all holidays up until that point and since then decorating the tree has been very special to me. Now that I have started my own family we have bought a Christmas ornament for our daughter every year (2 years now… she is 16 months old) and I have made one for her. We choose ornaments that she can put on her tree when she starts her own life away from ours so nothing that looks like it is suppose to be for a child only. Each ornament has a specail meaning behind it. Last year I got her a fairy ornament. The name of the fairy was the same name as my daughter and it was the last year that that ornament was sold… the year that my daughter was born. i made her the twelve days of Christmas ornaments (a song that she enjoyed listening to during her first Christmas). This year I got her a balloon ornament (an air balloon since we live in Albuquerque… so that no matter where she goes she always knows where she came from… Albuquerque is known for the balloon fiesta that they throw every year). And this year I am filling a clear ornament with a tiny quilt that I have made out of her baby clothes that she wore on specail occassions.
For me, not having a strong family background has been difficult for me as I incorperate our own family traditions. My family is not part of our lives but my hubby’s side of the family is and so I have to work around their traditions as well which can be difficult with his dad and step mom. We got started by insuring that the day of the holiday we spend alone without anyone else (except for Thanksgiving) and the day before or after the holiday we visit the family so that we still get to celebrate with everyone’s traditions.

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