After
our Christmas Eve dinner and once all the cleanup is over with I make hot cocoa
and fill up our travel mugs. Then we all
pile into the truck and head off to drive through certain neighborhoods and
look at Christmas lights. I don’t know
why but the truck is the vehicle of choice for this event. The girls always insist on it.
Ever
since my son was born this has been our family tradition every year. It is a great way to get kids settled down and
ready to head for bed. When my son was
younger he would fall asleep in the car and I would just carry him in and put
him to bed. When he got older he got to
do the driving and I would get to see and enjoy the lights more.
One
year it snowed really hard and as we crept along through the neighborhoods the
girls would reach out the back window of the truck, grab some fresh snow out of
the truck bed and play with it. I think
they were having a snowball fight back there.
Every
year we pick a different neighborhood and spend about two hours touring the
lights and sipping our cocoa. Then home
to brush teeth, get a quick update on Santa Tracker and then get to bed and
fall asleep before “you know who” gets here.
When
I was a child the tradition was to put our pajamas on and have Dad read us
“‘Twas The Night Before Christmas”. The
book we had was a neat old book full of Victorian style pictures. I still love that story to this day.
Do
you have a particular Christmas Eve ritual?
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