Sunday, December 13, 2009

Rediscovering Christmas


Growing up, Christmas was always such a special time of year. My mom is an incredible decorator, and I remember her spending hours, days, preparing the house. One of my favorite memories was our nativity scene, which would often take up the whole fireplace (Kenya is hot during Christmas) with a lovely story of Christ's birth. Christmas Eve our wonderful community of friends would come for the yearly hors d' oeuvres party, followed by my dad reading the Christmas story from Luke by candlelight & getting to open one small present. Then off to bed, trying to sleep until Christmas morning. We would sit on the stairs just waiting to hear the call that all was ready....glorious memories.

And now my husband and I are slowly making our own traditions. And, like most things we do, we are carefully asking ourselves why we do what we do & whether or not that is how we want to do them. We don't have any kids yet, but we both want our children to love this time of year and have special memories.

So we are dreaming of some great Christmas traditions to pass down. More to come on those in the days ahead, but what about you? What special Christmas traditions did you have? Are there any you are creating?

2 comments:

  1. Alain and i have thought about traditions too. We wanted to make sure Jesus birthday was celebrated, so we are making a birthday cake for Jesus! We are trying to find the perfect cake recipe as we would like to pass it down. The first 4 years of our marriage we had no children and our special tradition was to wait until Christmas night and sit on the bed across from one another and share our gifts we had bought. We knew it would not last forever, but it was fun while it did.

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  2. I could only post this as anonymous but i meant to sign the previous comment, Natalie!

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