Thanksgiving: This was my first Thanksgiving away from my parents and siblings. While I missed them immensely, I enjoyed celebrating with my husband and his side of the family. We are only a couple of hours from his parents, so we made a day trip out of it. We drove north with his sister and enjoyed the time of visiting. There were twenty-three of us gathered for food and fellowship. I continue to enjoy getting to know his side of the family.
Friday: My sweet mister was wonderful and allowed us to start Christmas once Thanksgiving was over. This is our first Christmas together and so we are enjoying our time creating traditions.
I had been planning Friday to be a relaxing Christmas day. It wasn't quite as relaxing as we had hoped, but we began some traditions. After sleeping in, we woke up to make cinnamon roll pancakes [stay tuned for some tweaks on this recipe]. We went back out to finish some black Friday shopping. We came back to hang some Christmas lights and make my mom's caramel popcorn....of course while listening to Christmas music. We went out to pick our Christmas tree, and brought it back to decorate. For our first Christmas together, we have several Christmas ornaments and decorations [thanks to our aunt who gave a Christmas themed bridal shower gift].
After got things cleaned up from the excitement of Christmas, we made homemade pizza and enjoyed it with some sparkling cider.
We were thankful for two of the same days off this week, which hasn't happened for months!
And so on... Daniel was back to work on Saturday, and life goes back to normal, with the addition of some extra baking, Christmas aromas filling our home, and a few extra social events.
I do love the added scenery to our living room while having my date with Jesus in the morning.
We were thankful for two of the same days off this week, which hasn't happened for months!
And so on... Daniel was back to work on Saturday, and life goes back to normal, with the addition of some extra baking, Christmas aromas filling our home, and a few extra social events.
I do love the added scenery to our living room while having my date with Jesus in the morning.
We are open to ideas of other Christmas traditions. What does your family look forward to doing each Christmas together?
definitely consider getting The Advent Book for your family! it's one of my family's favorite traditions.
ReplyDeleteI will have to look into that! :)
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