One Tradition that I have started
for my daughter who will be 4 in December is I always buy her a Holiday Barbie ornament
(even bought one when she was 3 days old that first Christmas) and I buy her one other
ornament every year, usually something that she is interested in at the time. For example,
1st year Barney and now this year, for sure, the Rugrats!
Laurie Brown, Group Manager - Discovery Toys
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We make cupcakes before Christmas Day. On
Christmas morning, after breakfast, we put a candle in one of the cupcakes, and my
daughter sings Happy Birthday to Jesus, and blows out the candle for him.
Dottie Gruhler - President, HerPlanet Network
http://www.herplanet.com
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5 years ago, I had a Holiday Tea Party for my
daughter. It was such a success we've done it every year! We do three activities:
Decorating cookies, making an ornament and decorating large Holiday cards. We also put out
finger foods and play Holiday music in the background. After the activities, we take the
girls to a local nursing home for Christmas Caroling. They share the cookies and cards
they decorated and spend time visiting with the residents. The girls bring a gift to the
party, but they don't exchange them; instead, they are donated to a local women and
children's shelter. This party takes a lot of pre-planning and a lot of work, but it is
creating wonderful memories for my daughter. She will always remember this tradition of
having her very own Holiday party every year from the time she was 5 years old! We have a
lot of fun. Each year, her friends, old and new, ask me if we're having our party. It
gives my daughter the chance to be the child who gets my undivided attention - for a
little while, at least ~:0)
Jeri Sires, Owner - TowelBuddies
http://www.TowelBuddies.com
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I grew up in the outskirts of Seattle,
Washington and did the normal things rural families did during the Christmas holiday. We
went to the tree lot to get the best looking bent tree we could find. In 1994, when I was
27 and just married my second husband, we moved to the beautiful state of Wyoming. That
Christmas was like no other I had ever had. |
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