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[quote=Anonymous]Try every tradition you want to try, but keep feelers out for the ones that are meaningful to kids as they grow. As my kids become tweens we streamlined a lot of the old traditions but kept the ones they remembered well. Revisit this list every year and make sure it still works for your family. Also, listen to the kids as they talked about the holidays. You never know what things you never intended as a "tradition" become a tradition. One year when they were 5, DH and I both got the flu, but the kids were fine. We spend the holidays lying on the sofa and alternating who would give the kids something to eat. There was no food in the house so for Christmas dinner we had to resort to a frozen store bought meatloaf and dehydrated potatoes. The next year my daughter sounded disappointed that there was no meatloaf for Christmas. Who knew? They loved that meatloaf and thought it was a tradition. We have a small meatloaf at every Christmas since then.[/quote]
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