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[quote=Anonymous]how old are your kids, op?

I think some of this advice can be sorted out into various categories, and you have to decide what you want to matter and what doesn't matter.  What I've found is over time, things become traditions.  And if something isn't working and no one likes it, you can drop it, and that's ok too.  The big full Christmas is ok, and the small simple one is too - you just have to decide what you want.

So if your kids are very small, you've got the time to start setting your decisions down - sit down with your DH, and talk it through.  What makes it Christmas to you?  Maybe it's a tree, outside lights on the house, a special meal for Christmas eve, Christmas morning, and Christmas dinner, church, a visit to SAnta, homemade cookies.  And that's it.  And so do that, add more if you want to (drive around one night and look at lights, hot cocoa and watching a Christmas special, etc).  Subtract what you don't like.   and add more or subtract more over time.

For example, when the kids were small, we got the tree all together as a family from the closest school that sold them.  It was fun.  My kids ended up going to a different school, and that first year my DH signed up to work the Christmas tree sale, and brought the kids, so now the tradition is he and the kids go to their old elementary school for the tree and I don't go, I clean the house or whatever prep for the tree.  So that's our tradition, even though the kids are in high school and we have other tree options, spending time at their elementary school is part of the tradition.

Tradition just means time - year after year doing the same-ish things.  So you are building traditions, sometimes without even realizing it.  [/quote]

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