Comments on: Busy Mom on Family Traditions

By: Erin Dillon Wrestler

Erin Dillon Wrestler — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:18:46 +0000

On Christmas Eve, my daughters help mix, bake and decorate a birthday cake for Jesus. On Christmas morning, I light birthday candles and we all sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Jesus. Christmas morning is the one day of the year that my girls get to eat CAKE for breakfast!

By: Grandmother

Grandmother — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:34:50 +0000

Matthew and his bro were into the free-for-all method.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:08:17 +0000

Nice traditions BusyMom. I did the opposite as far as gift-opening. I went from a free-for-all to gifts getting opened one-by-one when I got married. Give me the free-for-all any day.

By: Malia

Malia — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 02:52:16 +0000

Got here by way of Busy Mom.

I had to laugh about the whole opening presents thing. When I was growing up we basically did the free-for-all thing and all the presents were opened in like 3 minutes. When I got married and started celebrating the holiday with DH’s family, my MIL insisted (always has) on the open one present at a time and let everyone see it and ooh and aah over it so that it takes THREE HOURS to open all the presents. So now that I have my own children, Christmas morning at home is kind of mix of the two styles with my daughter basically opening all of her stuff while we watch and then we open our stuff while she plays with her loot.

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:34:17 +0000

Came from Busy Mom’s blog. It’s nice to hear from a Dad’s perspective. I’m glad to find your site.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:55:04 +0000

I love Busy Mom. And I’m loving these posts–what a great idea, Matthew!