Family Traditions: Christmas Day Christmas Morning  Take pictures of the kids getting up.First one up wakes everyone or kids must wait until a special signal-e.g.. play a tape.Read Luke 2 before opening gifts.Move Mary, Joseph and Jesus into the manager (see Nativity advent traditions)) or place Jesus in the manager from Christmas straw advent tradition.Light last candle in the advent wreath.Have oldest or youngest pass gifts. Or have the giver give to the receiver.Have a special Christmas menu each year or make a breakfast bread in the shape of a cake and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus.Christmas Day Put the a verse of the 12 days of Christmas under each plate. Have a 12 days of Christmas sing.Invite quest to come early and attend Christmas morning church service with you.Tape the family gathering and send to a relative who lives away.Use a white table cloth and have the quest autograph it and write a thought or draw a picture. Later embroidery.Get out old pictures or video tapes and view together.Take a walk together.Call friends or family or talk to them on the web cam.Play a new board game.Pick out a movie to watch together.Ask family members to share their favorite holiday memory. Record.© Lady PP's Heart of the Home  Please post your ideas for Christmas on the Holiday Message Board  Thank-you to J. S. Magic for the graphics
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