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[quote=Anonymous]I was just talking about this with my younger kid last night.  The biggest tradition, IMO, was my grandmother's cookies.  She'd put them in old butter cookie tins, layered with wax paper, and line the tins up along the edge of her staircase (there wasn't much storage space in her house).  I'd steal cookies every time I visited all through the month of December.  The two types I remember are gingerbread people and spritz cookies.  Unfortunately, her gingerbread cookie recipe is lost, and while my aunt makes an excellent alternative (ok, they actually do taste better) it's not the same emotionally.  My mom does still make the spritz cookies, though.

DH, the kids and I start Christmas music on Thanksgiving night after dinner, while we put up the tree and decorations.  We also typically visit a couple of houses with really over-the-top decorations (including one where you can write a letter to Santa and use a pulley system to send it up to a mailbox on the roof) on Christmas Eve.  We'll sadly be missing out on that one this year since those houses are near my ILs, where we usually celebrate, but we're not traveling this Christmas.  I also have a tradition where for Hanukkah my kids always get a calendar for the upcoming year, a bag of gelt, and an ornament as three of their eight gifts.  [/quote]

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