I know this is like a month late but I decided to put up a few Christmas pictures!! It was so fun this year because Makenzie is finally old enough to understand what is going on!! Every day she would say "Santa comes and brings me presents!" It was so cute i also told her how it is Jesus's birthday on Christmas.. She only messed up a few times and said it was her birthday on Christmas and Santa brings her presents!! We stayed in Oregon this year, I was really excited not to have to travel during the hustle and bustle of things but i didn't realize how challenging it would be mostly with traditions. Every other year we had either gone to Montana to visit my family or to California to see Jeff's, so it was easy we would just follow the traditions of that family but now that we were going to be all by ourselves who's tradition would we follow? In my family we always had Christmas Eve dinner and in our Christmas dinner we would have green bean casserole with french cut green beans Then we all went to look at lights and when we got home we got to open just one present of choice before we went to bed. In Jeff's family they made dinner on Christmas day and and used regular cut green beans and, didn't open any gifts on Christmas Eve. Those were just some of the small thing we were having problems with but the biggest on of all was opening presents from Santa in my family we always opened our presents from Santa first which makes sense to me because you go to bed so excited that Santa is going to come that when you wake up in the morning you want to open his first because that is what you have been waiting for. In Jeffs family they opened presents last from Santa because they were always the best ones so he sees it as best for last where I see it as best for first!! So how we did it this year was we had dinner on Christmas Eve, I won that one obviously since i was cooking and he actually liked it that way you have a nice dinner then and leftovers on Christmas day! I also bought french cut green beans once again because i was cooking. Although i might of picked the regular cut ones if i would of know how much she i mean he would cry about it. And all of us Except for Jeff opened a present on Christmas Eve. Then he said that since we did some or to him all of my traditions. We opened presents form Santa last. I still really didn't like that. So i started asking everyone i knew if they opened presents first or last form Santa. I probably asked 15-20 people and only 1 other person opened presents last.... So do you open your Presents from Santa first or last or how do you bargain with your spouse to start your own traditions. If you have any thoughts let me know!
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You're funny. :) Well, I know what you mean about it being hard trying to blend traditions! We always open ONE present on Christmas Eve (nathanael's family NEVER did that) but he likes that tradition. We also have a big Christmas Eve dinner and leftovers on Christmas Day (Nathanael's family has the big dinner on Christmas Day) and as for presents from Santa...we didn't open them in any order. They were just blended in with the rest of the presents and we opened them in whatever order they were picked up in. Anyway, good luck in trying to resolve how to do your traditions! :)
I'm glad you two could compromise, although why was Jeff a dork about the Christmas eve present thing? Everyone does that! Next year be sure to get him the right green beans. :)
Hey, at least you are beginning to start your own traditions. We still go to our parents' houses. However we are trying to decide if Santa wraps his presents or not. He never did for me. How do you wrap a bike or a Barbie house? Because it's gotta be put together before your child opens it otherwise its no fun to wait watch daddy out it together. Each person has to give a little to make things work out for YOUR family.
hEY- MY ADVICE:
Give and take. Give and take. That is what everyone says. But I say, give give give. If both people in a relationship are giving %100 than you never run short. I say the same to Jeff, though. If you try your best to make him happy, and if he tries his best, then it all works out. However, you have to give %100 WITHOUT expecting the same in return. Just give because you love him, and don't expect anything back.
WITH all of that said, ha ha, I need to listen to my own advice. Whoops. It is so much easier to dish it out that it is to live it....
Hey I have some ideas... why don't you let the kids decide which presents they want to open and in which order. The whole present thing is really for them anyways... right??? That way they can choose if they want "best for first" or "best for last" or heck maybe "best in the middle". You guys can follow this rule too if it helps. The present on Christmas eve thing is okay... but personally I kinda feel like that is cheating and poeple should have to wait. You dont want to teach your children that they can get whatever they want when they want it do you??? And lastly... obviously regular green beans are much better!
But then again I would settle for any presents in any order on any day or any kind of green beans because Im in freaking Africa!
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