It’s always fun hearing people talk about some of the unique traditions they do at Christmas time with the family. After all, Christmas is not just about the giving and receiving of presents, but it is about family. It’s the season of the year where we step back and take a moment to be thankful and count our blessings, be joyful, and spend more time with loved ones

What are some unique Christmas traditions that you do with your family each year? Share with us some of those fun and funny things you do.

One of the things my kids love to do each year is making a Christmas ginger bread house. Now that they’re a bit older, we don’t do that as much, but I can recall how much fun it was doing it together as a family

I never said we were good at it This one was done about three years ago.

Another fun tradition we enjoy as a family is celebrating ugly sweater day. Yes you heard it right….Ugly Sweater Day!

This is how it works: We pick a day when the kids are out of school for the holidays and we go to a second hand store like Goodwill Store or Katy Christian Ministries and we purchase three of the ugliest sweaters we can find. We then purchase fabric glue, felt, silly strings, pipe cleaners…..anything we can find at a craft store to “embellish” our ugly sweaters. We then get to work to see who can create the ugliest sweater, Sometimes we get our friends and family involved and post pictures on Facebook to compare. It really is alot of fun!

Ugly Sweaters Before

During

And then we showoff our ugly sweaters! Don’t you just love them?

We have many other traditions that we do at Christmas time……my son always makes an ornament for the tree each year at school. That’s always interesting seeing them on the tree We  also always decorate the tree and the house together as a family

Since it’s just the three of us, we don’t get alot of presents from extended family, but we sure like to feel like we are getting tons, so we each spend $20.00 at the Dollar Store and that way we have alot of presents to open Christmas morning. We also buy one or two real presents from the Mommy Claus lists I get every year.

Leave me a comment below with some unique Christmas traditions you do with your family

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