Family Traditions

I am very fond of family traditions. As a matter of fact, next week at work, I am doing a presentation for families on CHRISTmas Traditions. I am very excited to be teaching the mothers I work with about the importance of Christ in the holidays. This year, in our family, we are using the devotions and some of the activities from the book The ADVENTure of Christmas. For the first devotion, we read about the meaning behind Christmas trees.

When I was growing up, my mom always gave us a new ornament each year. The ornament would symbolize something about our year or an interest we had during that time in our lives. It is a tradition I have passed down to our children. This year, we incorporated it with the reading from our devotion book and gave the kids the ornaments the night we put up the tree and read about Christmas trees.

Here is a video of the kids getting their ornaments:

They get to hang their ornament on the tree before all of the others. I convinced Abigail that her HUGE princess ornament had princesses on it that wanted to see out the window (hence, it is on the back of the tree... I know... I am terrible).