Ahhhh....I just LOVE this time of year. Come December 1st, I didn't hesitate to pull out all our Christmas gear and start filling the house with Santa's, stockings, decorations, and all the rest. Arthur just loves how our house is like a walking Christmas museum. I hope our little man grows up to enjoy and love Christmas as much as his mom does. I hope he doesn't turn into the Christmas Grinch like his daddy!!
Growing up, we had all kinds of Christmas traditions. I suppose it stemmed from our mom who just loved this time of year too. Our home growing up was always full of Christmas decorations and a huge tree with lots of gifts underneath. My mom made this massive nativity scene out of ceramics. It was like a special feature that always went up in the living room. No matter how much (or how little) space we had there, she always found room for that. It was beautiful.
When we were really little, we would get together with my mom's 9 brothers & sisters and all their kids. Someone would dress up as Santa and hand out gifts to the kiddos. It was so much fun having all the BIG family together like that.
My parents use to take us to Christmas mass on Saturdays (normally) as it was shorter than Sunday's mass. When we got home from church, we were allowed to open ONE gift. We had to hold out until the morning to open all the rest. It was so much fun waking up and seeing all the gifts from SANTA!! I just can't wait for Austin to be old enough to understand Christmas and SANTA!
This year, we bought the book 'The Night Before Christmas'. One tradition we're going to start in our little family is reading this book to our little ones on Christmas eve (and the lead-up to Christmas too if they want). As for the church part, well we'll just leave that as a special treat to enjoy when we go to Texas for the holidays!
Happy Holidays from the Ioannou family!!
(Thanks to Lisa for the idea of posting Christmas childhood memories!)
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