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[quote=Anonymous]Leading up to Christmas we drive around looking at the Christmas lights almost every night while listening to Christmas music. Even the baby likes the lights and our toddlers love them. Our neighborhood has a competition and we make a point of visiting every home that enters it before casting our vote. We discuss the displays and cast a single vote as a household.

We make a big deal of having our kids help decorate the tree. Every time we go on a trip together we buy an ornament as a souvenir so each ornament is a family memory and we discuss them as we put them on the tree. And we tell the kids the story behind each ornament from before they were born as well.

We also watch The Snowman every year. It is our oldest's favorite movie and it is really cute—there are no words, just music.

And each year we listen to the old Apollo 8 Christmas broadcast. That one is more for the grown ups at this point but maybe the kids will appreciate it more later. Might not be as touching if you aren't at all religious but it never fails to move me. You can find it on YouTube.

And we always bake Christmas cookies. And listen to a lot of Christmas songs.

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