Comments on: Our Favorite Holiday Family Traditions https://www.kaileewright.com/favorite-holiday-family-traditions/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 02:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: kailee wright https://www.kaileewright.com/favorite-holiday-family-traditions/#comment-20414 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:40:18 +0000 https://www.kaileewright.com/?p=11338#comment-20414 In reply to Britnie.

What a great way to remind them how blessed we are, especially this time of year! I completely agree on the importance of traditions. Thank you so much for sharing with me!

]]> By: kailee wright https://www.kaileewright.com/favorite-holiday-family-traditions/#comment-20413 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:38:47 +0000 https://www.kaileewright.com/?p=11338#comment-20413 In reply to Anca Buia.

I absolutely love these ideas! What simple fun ways to tie more service + the real meaning of Christmas in, especially with little ones. Thank you so much for sharing!

]]> By: Anca Buia https://www.kaileewright.com/favorite-holiday-family-traditions/#comment-20412 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:12:55 +0000 https://www.kaileewright.com/?p=11338#comment-20412 Our church does a Christmas carols night the first weekend of December we love to attend. We also bake cookies for our neighbors and write them a quick card as we live in a sub full of retired folks. But mine are little, I buy a huge tub and let the kids grease the pan and make balls of the premade cookie dough. We wrap them together with the kids and deliver them door to door. We call it “sharing Jesus”. Also each child gets a shoe box for Operation Christmas Child. We go to the Dollar store and each is responsible to pick their own toys, socks, and needs, etc to fill it with.

]]> By: Britnie https://www.kaileewright.com/favorite-holiday-family-traditions/#comment-20411 Wed, 08 Nov 2017 01:28:20 +0000 https://www.kaileewright.com/?p=11338#comment-20411 I love traditions. I actually just heard a speaker whose topic was traditions. She spoke all about being intentional about traditions and how they keep children feeling part of a unit. It was really great.

This year we have started a family thankfulness tree. I cut out different colored leaves and after dinner we all take a leaf from the basket and write our names and what we’re thankful for that day. Then I tape them to the way to create a tree shape. I really wanted to focus on teaching my kids about being grateful for what they have as opposed to just being excited about getting stuff.

We also get a new family ornament for the tree every year. They get Christmas jammies and we make hot cocoa on Christmas Eve then watch a Christmas movie together.

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