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[quote=Anonymous]Balloon PP back. YES, it’s a lot of work! But DH is in charge of the balloon-blowing and he actually gets a kick out of it. We have done it for years (4 kids, including a Bonus Baby).

If Santa didn’t bring those balloons, it wouldn’t be Christmas!

As far as the balloons popping, I was downstairs wrapping gifts today and - swear to God - one of those balloons is STILL down there, floating around from last year. They seem to be magic! (They are also totally annoying, but even our grown adult son loves them.)

We have all kinds of Christmas traditions here, including reindeer food, cutting down a tree, reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas and the story of Christmas from Luke before bed on Christmas Eve...the list is long and probably too much for some. But DH & I enjoy making the holidays memorable for our kids.

I grew up an only-child, low-income household, with a widowed mother who still managed to make Christmas special for just the two of us. She passed away last month, in her 90s. On Nov. 1, I put up a little Christmas tree in her hospital room - just in case she didn’t make it to Dec. 25. It was the last thing she saw, which I’m glad of.

Christmas is what you make of it, OP.[/quote]

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