Christmas Traditions

I had an interesting conversation with someone at work today about Christmas traditions. We were talking about the process of buying presents for our wives (to which I had nothing to say) and he told me what he and his wife do and I thought it was an awesome idea.

Each year he and his wife decide on a theme to buy presents for each other. For example - This years theme was "Gifts that remind us of when we dated". The gift doesn't have to be big or expensive, but simply something that represents the theme. So each year they get their presents and after the kids have gone to bed on Christmas Eve they open them up together. And remember...

I love stories...especially love stories...and I think the retelling of stories is one of the most important things we can do. We need to remember, we need to be reminded of how we met, how we feel, how we loved and how we've grown. We need to tell and retell the story of our love of each other to our kids, friends, family and even ourselves.

I liked the idea so much I might even talk to my wife about adopting the practice in our home. But the whole thing got me thinking about Christmas traditions. We don't have many Christmas traditions in our family. I'm sure there are some other great ones out there like my friends from work.

Does anyone have any special Christmas traditions they could pass along?

P.S. - Andrea I love you and thanks for putting up with my non-Christmas spirit.

Love,

The Grinch (Rich)