Family Christmas Holiday Tradition gives us freedom and guidance in a period that’s otherwise hectic and stressful, and often unorganized. Tradition gives us a blueprint of how our family anticipates and loves the holiday season, what they expect, how they like to celebrate.
Tradition gives us the opportunity to construct our Christmas holiday activities well in advance. We can prepare a plan of action, and organize our holiday events utilizing a true and proven site map. That will be taking off stress from last second activities, e.g., the frantic look for needed holiday decor, or the headache of coming up with the best holiday menu.
But what shall we do, if our family does not have a Christmas holiday tradition yet? Simply, we create our personal tradition. Let’s open the music box of our personal childhood memories. The thing that was it that made Christmas holidays so special? Was it the heavenly scent of cinnamon, orange and fir, all woven in to the air in a potpourri of Christmas promise? Or do we remember mother’s Christmas story at candlelight? Was it the holiday music that touched our heart? With our personal Christmas holiday memories in mind, let’s manifest our personal family Christmas tradition! Here are twelve ways!
1. Build the excitement and joy up in your and your family’s heart. Begin by decorating your house to invite Christmas promise into your family’s life. the most beautiful Christmas holidays of the year My mother used to decorate every picture inside our house or apartment with only a little fresh and wonderfully smelling fir twig. Once we saw that mother was get yourself ready for the holidays, excitement accumulated inside our lives.
2. On December 1st, we earned a fir wreath with four candles. Often three of these candles were purple, but one was pink. Coping with the very first fourteen days, we children were eagerly getting excited about the third Sunday once the pink candle of Joy and anticipation was lit.
3. Needless to say, we’d an Advent calendar and one of us was permitted to open a screen each day. This meant that individuals children visited great length to ensure we were good kids – clearing up our rooms, removing the trash, washing the dishes, etc. – so each of us got a turn to open a window.
4. It had been custom that a Madonna statue was carried from house to accommodate in memory of Maria’s visit a place to give birth to her child. Then when it was our turn to open our family door and heart to Maria, our mother would bathe the area in warm, gentle candle light. We sang the old carols and prayed. It had been an honor to accommodate the statue for one night, and every family tried to prepare a special welcome.
5. On the 4th of December, mom would make St. Barbara twigs from the garden. These cherry twigs, now brown and barren, will open their blossoms in the holy night. We watched the Barbara twigs carefully every day with excitement and wonder. Because out of those seemingly dead brown twigs, soon little green leaves would develop in the warm family room.
6. The 6th of December was St. Nicolas Day. That has been each day of joy for children. In the window we would find a red crackling plastic sack with apples, mandarins, nuts and chocolate. But in our family it was also tradition that St. Nicolas would visit in person. From the one special visit, when St. Nicolas admonished my little brother who was simply very bad in my experience at the time. The small guy did not know that anyone would know – especially not St. Nicolas, the old wise man with the sparkling eyes and the long white beard, who supposedly came directly from heaven into our home. From that day one, my little brother did not bother me ever again. I guess he learned his lesson.
This ends Part I of our Family Christmas Holiday Traditions. Make sure you read Part II also. We’ll discuss the standard Christmas celebration, share a lovely and moving Christmas story, and much more.
When Christmas holiday draws near, don’t let yourself be burdened by stressful last second holiday preparations. Follow your own time proven family holiday tradition – and if you don’t have a holiday tradition yet, manifest your own! Utilize a few of the suggestions I distributed to you from our personal family Christmas holiday tradition.