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umyesh

umyesh

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Happy DYD weekend everyone!

I don't know about you, but our December revolves around a lot of traditions, so for this "game" we're going to chat about traditions.

1. Share a December tradition you always find your way back to when documenting the season — and why it’s special.
If you share a tradition and the why, that is one entry to win a $5 gift certificate (via random draw) to the shop!
2. To keep the conversation going, you can also leave a meaningful reply to others' traditions and earn more entries.

Hopefully this gets you excited to scrap traditions and who knows, you might come away with another tradition you want to implement this year!

Entries must be submitted by Monday, November 17th at 11:59pm EST.
 
I'll go first!

The tradition:
The one tradition I always scrap is Christmas pajamas.

The why:
DH grew up opening Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve, so now our kids open Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. I love this tradition because it has been passed down from the previous generation. I also love this tradition because I always remember to take photos so it's easy to scrap! I also have fun finding scrap products to match the pajamas.
 
The tradition: watching Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve as a family

The why: For my son's first Christmas, we spent it at the Georgia Aquarium. It was my husband's consolation prize for his family not making the effort for baby's first Christmas like they did for his sister's baby the year before. It was COLD to us Floridians as we snuggled together in the hotel bed on Christmas Eve. The front desk sent up warm chocolate chip cookies with the extra blankets and we found Muppet Christmas Carol on TV. I decided then and there that Christmas was for us - me, my husband, and son - and I wanted to watch this movie together every year. Some years, we wrapped or assembled presents during the movie (once kiddo fell asleep) but we always end up watching it together. It's our time, just the three of us.
 
umyesh said:
I'll go first!

The tradition:
The one tradition I always scrap is Christmas pajamas.

The why:
DH grew up opening Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve, so now our kids open Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve. I love this tradition because it has been passed down from the previous generation. I also love this tradition because I always remember to take photos so it's easy to scrap! I also have fun finding scrap products to match the pajamas.
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I love this!

We get matching Hanukkah pajamas every few years, as my son outgrows his old pair. We don't do it *every* year but we always take photos when we get new ones (and usually when we're wearing the old ones too). I also send matching Christmas pajamas to my husband's nieces every year.
 
Brendazzle said:
I love this!

We get matching Hanukkah pajamas every few years, as my son outgrows his old pair. We don't do it *every* year but we always take photos when we get new ones (and usually when we're wearing the old ones too). I also send matching Christmas pajamas to my husband's nieces every year.
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I love that you get matching Hanukkah pajamas! So fun that you send them to nieces too.
 
Brendazzle said:
The tradition: watching Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve as a family

The why: For my son's first Christmas, we spent it at the Georgia Aquarium. It was my husband's consolation prize for his family not making the effort for baby's first Christmas like they did for his sister's baby the year before. It was COLD to us Floridians as we snuggled together in the hotel bed on Christmas Eve. The front desk sent up warm chocolate chip cookies with the extra blankets and we found Muppet Christmas Carol on TV. I decided then and there that Christmas was for us - me, my husband, and son - and I wanted to watch this movie together every year. Some years, we wrapped or assembled presents during the movie (once kiddo fell asleep) but we always end up watching it together. It's our time, just the three of us.
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Awe, this is so sweet. I love that you created a tradition all your own, just for the three of you.
 
GUEST COMMUNITY POLLY

TRADITION: I buy a new Christmas ornament for my kids and now son-in-law every year.

WHY: It's just something I decided I wanted to do when they were born, especially because Hallmark had such cute ones for 1st Christmas, 2nd Christmas, etc. Then, it became about their interests, to document those things they got into. It has gotten harder and harder to find "the perfect ornament" for everyone each year because we're not together all the time so I don't know what they're into. Last year, I don't think I even took a photo! I got them each one of those ornaments that has our three states on it. I don't remember if I got myself one. My daughter and youngest have their sets of ornaments. I still have my oldest's just because I don't think he puts up a tree. When I look at all the photos, I do get quite sentimental, so I'm glad I did it. I'm afraid if I stop now, they'll be sad.
 
Tradition: Baking lots of cookies!

My kids have always helped me bake our family favorites: Spritz, chocolate chip, peanut butter blossom, chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips, oatmeal, gingerbread, peppermint candy cane, sour cream cut outs, and chocolate crinkle. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and now I'n hungry for cookies! Some of these we use my Mom- Mom's recipe for and some I have found over the years. Now that kids are older, they kind of make it a competition on who makes the better cookies, LOL! I always take pictures of them baking and usually making a mess! I love when the house smells of baking cookies!
 
@scrapchyck We buy ornaments every year, too! My husband and I buy our 3 kids new ornaments, usually a Disney or Star Wars character, or things they were interested in that year, like ballet slippers, cowboy hats, running shoes, etc. As they get older it does get harder to buy them especially for my 15 year old! He's not really into anything that I can find an ornament for this year, so we are still trying to figure that out. Like you, I'm so glad we started doing this when my oldest was born. She has quite a few for her first year that other people bought, but it's a tradition we just do with the five of us.
 
I started taking a family photo on Christmas Day when my son was born (he was still in NICU then) and now we do this every year - so this year will be 24 years of family photos. It;s usually the first layout scrapped for Christmas each year too. Plus I have a little mini album with these photos in (still need to update the last 5 or so years in it - oops!)
 
3BluEyedBabies said:
@scrapchyck We buy ornaments every year, too! My husband and I buy our 3 kids new ornaments, usually a Disney or Star Wars character, or things they were interested in that year, like ballet slippers, cowboy hats, running shoes, etc. As they get older it does get harder to buy them especially for my 15 year old! He's not really into anything that I can find an ornament for this year, so we are still trying to figure that out. Like you, I'm so glad we started doing this when my oldest was born. She has quite a few for her first year that other people bought, but it's a tradition we just do with the five of us.
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My daughter got into knitting, so she had balls of yarn with knitting needles in them in both glass and fabric styles. My youngest is into D&D, so there was a dodecahedron dice ornament. My oldest loves the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Portland Trailblazers and the San Franciso Giants, so I can always go team-oriented. He's had some hip-hop themed things, too. It was fun to buy the "First Christmas Together" ornament for my daughter and son-in-law, even though they'd been together for 15 years! LOL There were the Pokémon years, the Sesame Street years, and the Spongebob years. Trains and cars and football for the oldest. My daughter loved the Nutcracker and musicals, so there were some nods to those. But what do you get for a lawyer, a user experience researcher, a hip hop producer and a non-dairy frozen dessert factory worker? LOL
 
As I think back over the years and my scrapping history, the one tradition I have always captured, is the decorated tree with the presents underneath. Some Christmas holidays have some sporadic pictures and not much documentation, but I think I have scrapped my tree each year (one year is was a tiny table top pre-fab one, but I captured it).
 
I had to give this one a lot of thought. In recent years it is the ornaments I have bought during the year. I love getting them on travels and when I see something that reminds me of one of the family. I try and buy a pretty angel ornament each year in remembrance of our daughter that passed away on Christmas Eve 1994, but I don't always find one. I want to look through the photos now and make a layout about the angel ornaments.

Thanks for the inspiration.
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I have many traditons I try to get photos of. Our advent calendars, Shelfie (our December friend that visits and causes mischief), baking and the tree of course!
 
3BluEyedBabies said:
@scrapchyck We buy ornaments every year, too! My husband and I buy our 3 kids new ornaments, usually a Disney or Star Wars character, or things they were interested in that year, like ballet slippers, cowboy hats, running shoes, etc. As they get older it does get harder to buy them especially for my 15 year old! He's not really into anything that I can find an ornament for this year, so we are still trying to figure that out. Like you, I'm so glad we started doing this when my oldest was born. She has quite a few for her first year that other people bought, but it's a tradition we just do with the five of us.
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Have you checked Etsy for some of the more niche teenage interests? My son wanted a Kirby ornament last year and I'm considering a Fallout one this year, both of which are easy to find (or make. I bought Kirby's face as a sticker and we made the ornament ourselves.)
 
3BluEyedBabies said:
Tradition: Baking lots of cookies!

My kids have always helped me bake our family favorites: Spritz, chocolate chip, peanut butter blossom, chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips, oatmeal, gingerbread, peppermint candy cane, sour cream cut outs, and chocolate crinkle. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and now I'n hungry for cookies! Some of these we use my Mom- Mom's recipe for and some I have found over the years. Now that kids are older, they kind of make it a competition on who makes the better cookies, LOL! I always take pictures of them baking and usually making a mess! I love when the house smells of baking cookies!
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I am of the personal opinion that all food should come in cookie form. Kudos for keeping up the baking tradition with the kids!
 
The tradition:
The one tradition I always scrap is Trimming the Tree

The why: I love all the details you can capture from close ups of the lights, ornaments, hands, and the big picture of the finished tree.
 
@umyesh So fun that you do Christmas PJs. Lots of people do but that is one that I never did. Maybe I will one of these years - even if it is just getting the grandkids matching PJs.
 
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