It’s almost Christmas, my favorite time of the year! Here are 28 glorious Christmas traditions to get your Holidays off to a great start.
1. Listen to “The Christmas Song” sung by Nat King Cole.
2. Pile into the car at night and drive around looking at all of the Holiday lights and decorations.
3. Write a letter to Santa. If you email him from this site, he’ll write back. 
Another idea is to make photocopies of your children’s letters to Santa each year and keep them. They can read them years from now and remember back to when what they wanted most in the world was an Elmo doll.
4. Watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas”.
5. Make a Gingerbread House.
6. Get a special Christmas mug you use for the entire month of December. Put candy canes in your coffee.
7. 
Bake Christmas Sugar Cookies. Here’s a YouTube video that will show you how step-by-step: How-to Make Sugar Cookies. You can also use Martha Stewart’s Sugar Cookie Recipe.
8. Get Matching Christmas Pajamas for everyone in the family to wear on Christmas Eve (some people wrap the pj’s and everyone unwraps them on Christmas Eve).
9. Get an advent calendar to help you countdown to Christmas. Day by day, starting on December 1st, the windows are opened until December 25th. Another alternative is to make a list of 24 Christmas activities and complete one each day starting on the first of December; that can be your countdown to Christmas.
10. Find an ornament for each family member that commemorates a special memory for that year. It can be an ornament of a baby bottle for the birth of a child, a ballet slipper for a first dance class, and so on.
11. Watch your favorite Holiday movies. You can even host a Holiday-movie marathon. Here are some of my favorite Christmas movies:
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas
- A Christmas Story
- The Santa Clause
- Miracle on 34th Street
12. Read Christmas themed books, in particular, “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement C. Moore, or “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg.
13. Make a list of all the people who have touched you in a positive way during the year and send them Christmas cards.
14. Make a string of popcorn and cranberries for some old-fashioned decorations for your tree.
15. Make sure your house smells like Christmas. Here’s one way to do it:
Place 4 to 6 cups of water in a pot on the stove. Add orange peels (from 1 or 2 oranges), 3 to 4 cinnamon sticks, 1 tablespoon of whole cloves and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract. Bring the contents to a boil and then reduce the heat so it is left to simmer.
16. Remember the less fortunate this Christmas. Does your local mall have an “Angels Tree” with the names of children you can get Christmas gifts for?
17. Sing Christmas carols. It’s OK to sing out of tune (I know I do, and that doesn’t stop me). You can find the words to your favorite Christmas songs here.
18. Go to the tree farm to pick the perfect tree.
19. Set up the Christmas tree soon after Thanksgiving.
20. Once your tree is all decked out, turn off the light and sit on the couch, just admiring the tree.
21. Get poinsettias; they’re known as Flores de Noche Buena in Mexico (Spanish for “flowers of the holy night”).
22. Go to a performance of “The Nutcracker”.
23. Stick to the Holiday recipes that your family knows and loves. If you’re not sure what to make for Christmas, Gooseberry Patch has several fabulous Holiday recipe books.
24. Have a Christmas toast with home-made eggnog.
25. Hang a wreath on your door to welcome in the Holiday, as well as visitors.
26. Hang up the Christmas Stockings. Make sure each stocking is personalized with the owner’s name. Fill them with simple stocking stuffers. Here are some ideas:
- Do they collect anything?
- What are their hobbies?
- How about gag gifts?
- Get Holiday candy.
- Pens and pencils.
- Socks.
- A book they’ve been wanting to read.
- Gift cards.
27. Put together a Christmas Village.
28. Hang up the Mistletoe.
Please add your favorite Christmas traditions in the comments section.
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