We have several traditions we like to follow every year in the few days leading up to Christmas. One of them involves reading Christmas stories every night during the month, another involves watching the movies in our Christmas collection. One that we have done every year since the year we were married is to make sugar cookies, cut them with cookie cutters and decorate them. This year Tamara spent the day of the 23rd with us, and she got roped into the mayhem.
Here are a few of the resulting cookie designs. (Mine!)
After we bake and decorate them, everyone gets to pick a favorite to put on the Santa plate. The rest get eaten over the next few days.
Our Christmas Eve traditions have remained fairly constant. After supper, we gather to read the Christmas Story out of the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, and 3rd Nephi. Then we say a family prayer, hang our stockings, put out the Santa plate and then coerce the kids into bed. Then we climb into bed ourselves to await the arrival of morning. We usually hear the kids scurrying back and forth most of the night, keeping each other awake, until we decide to put them out of their misery, usually about 6:30 am.
Today has been pretty typical of our Christmas Eve days. We finished wrapping presents, slid them under the tree,
remade our bed, put away the clean clothes and fixed pizza rolls for lunch. The kids have spent the afternoon watching "Muppet Christmas Carol" and the afternoon is waning. Soon we'll be finishing dinner and starting into our evening rituals.
"Happy Christmas to All, and to all a Good Night!"
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