It's really important to my husband and I that Phoebe grows up with loads of happy memories of her childhood. We both love Christmas and are incredibly excited about starting some proper family traditions with her this year. We already had a couple that we'd started when we got married which we still want to continue with but we're looking forward to adding to those this year.
Our current traditions...
A new bauble for the tree - we had a bauble given to us for our first Christmas as 'Mr & Mrs' and decided it'd be a nice idea to add a new one each year after. So, each year, usually around my birthday in September (kill two birds with one stone and all that!), we go down to London for the day and pick a new bauble (or four) from Liberty. I'm also toying with the idea of Phoebe picking one each year and then she has her own little collection for her own tree when she grows up.
Ralphie Tinsel, the Christmas Elf - Ralphie has a bit of a reputation for being naughty so he's going to have to rein it in a bit this year, he's got a serious job to do now Phoebe's here! I'm looking forward to having some fun with him and in the next few years we'll include baking Christmas biscuits, writing cards etc as part of his visit.
Christmas Eve Box - we've had one of these for the last couple of years and made it very couple orientated. This year we're going to make it more about Phoebe and Father Christmas & Rudolph coming. I'm so excited! I'm going to do a separate post on this though as we've found some gorgeous bits to go into it for her.
Our new traditions...
Putting the tree up - I'm crazy for Christmas and the tree usually goes up as early as I can get away with. However, from now on, we're going to wait until Phoebe has gone to bed on 30th November and put it up so that it's "arrived" overnight and there when she wakes up on 1st December. I can't wait to see her little face when she sees all the sparkles and lights! We'll do this for as long as she believes in the magic of it all and then it will become something we all do together as a family.
Treats for Father Christmas & Rudolph - so we'd have probably looked a bit weird doing this before Phoebe arrived but this year I'm going all out, haha! She'll be eleven months old (yeah, I know, it upsets me) at Christmas so she'll have a bit of an idea of what's going on, there'll be reindeer food for her to scatter on the lawn, a carrot to leave out for Rudolph and a pint and a mince pie for Father Christmas...bet I draw the short straw and have to take a bite out the carrot rather than eat the mince pie!
Looking at the Christmas lights - there's a few houses near us that put up amazing displays of lights at Christmas so we thought we might wrap up warm when it starts to go dark and go for a walk to have a look at them all.
We'll continue to spend Christmas Day with the family but Christmas Eve is going to be just us and that's something we want to keep too.
I am literally skip around the room excited for this year! K x
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