The holidays have become crazy shopping sprees involving spending too much money and dealing with ALOT of rude and impatient people. It's way too stressful and I don't want to participate anymore. I want to create some new family traditions which involve togetherness, fun, and a sense of well-being without all the craziness but I also don't want my children to feel shortchanged. What are some ways to change Christmas into something much more meaningful?|||Good food with family and/or friends. Mmmmmmmm.|||My family cooks. We pull the kids together in the kitchen and cook away. Creating cookies, sweet breads as well as cakes. If things are really tight, we do this a day or two before Christmas and then wrap them up in Tupperware. Each person gets to give what they made to a family member.
We also go the gingerbread house thing. It is messy but fun.
Also, we have done in the past home crafts. Making holiday decorations or crafts to give away at the holidays. It isn't very pricey but very personal. When we give them away to friends and family they know we took time to make their gift and didn't just take the easy way out at a store. You can order a lot of these online, they don't take long and you can avoid the store crowds. |||make decorating the tree a family job, with everybody helping. you could also bake cookies (with the kids) with holes in the top, to thread and hang on the tree. let the kids have a go at making their own christmas decorations. before bed everyone have a mug of hot chocolate around the lit up tree.|||This year we are having a Birthday party for Jesus. We are not very religious, but my kids are too young to worry about how much money we are spending. So, I figured we would start our little tradition with the birthday party.
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