Looking to start a new something for the kids and family this year. Anyone got any good ideas for something fun we could start?
Looking to start a new something for the kids and family this year. Anyone got any good ideas for something fun we could start?
Not sure what sort of tradition you're looking for, but we adopted "Billy" as our elf and my kids love coming down each morning to see where he's decided to hang out for the day to watch and report back to Santa.
http://www.elfontheshelf.com/indexnf.php?id=about
Of course, I have young kids. Probably not so hot if you have teen-agers
Football related? Uhh... watch a bowl game?
Originally Posted by badger
My wife's family is Swedish. I guess a long standing tradition over there is to hide a small "pickle" shaped Christmas ornament on the tree somewhere. The kids all try to find it and whichever one does gets an extra little gift. Apparently it is a pretty common old tradition because I have heard other people say that they do that too. It sounds odd, but my kids love it.
Another fun tradition we have is that I give each kid $25 in singles as one of their gifts, but I always give it in a different way. One year I filled a giant box with shredded paper and rolled up the bills into tiny rolls and hid throughout. It literally took them 15 minutes to pick them all out. One year I had multiple clues sending them all over the house. The last clue sent them to our guest room. I had arranged the bills on top of a ceiling fan blade and when they turned on the light the whole room started raining dollar bills. Even though it is not their "big gift," my kids really look forward to opening that gift every year because they have so much fun actually getting to the money.
"That's a painting of me taking the bull by the horns. Its a metaphor. But that really happened."
No bowl games on Christmas Day this year.
at this point in the process, I can only assume it was a typo and they meant to say "cram"...
For our Christmas tree skirt we slather finger paint all over the kids hands and make an imprint with name each year.
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Before Christmas dinner read Luke 2:1-20... it will only take a couple minutes, yet the message is clear: Jesus is the reason for the season.
Go to church on Christmas Eve.
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever they can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser; in fees, expenses and waste of time." -- Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) Lawyer and President who saved the United States.
"Without opportunities on the part of the poor to obtain expert legal advice, it is idle to talk of equality before the law"-- Justice Chas. Evans Hughes
Buttsecks.
People don't know what it is to be a champion.
Oklahoma INVENTED it.
Get wasted and hit on your cousin.
Watch a Christmas movie. In fact, watch the best Christmas movie.
Loved By The People
"you are a disgusting pig and should be punished for such vile language. Would you like your mom to see that you wrote that? YOU=Disgusting pig."
"you lack any semblance of taste and suggest substandard upbringing and education"
"Guess what? You're a ****ing dildo!"
"You're an asshat!"
"racist pig by any chance?"
give gifts!
of buttsecks!
People don't know what it is to be a champion.
Oklahoma INVENTED it.
Hanging mistletoe around a beer keg at a Sorority.
"Hot cockles" was a popular game at Christmas in medieval times. It was a game in which the other players took turns striking the blindfolded player, who had to guess the name of the person delivering each blow. "Hot cockles" was still a Christmas pastime until the Victorian era.
you could play Hot cockles
sig this
Bake cookies. Hell, bake anything. You get tasty baked goods, and your kids actually learn how to cook something.
(Not saying you aren't teaching your kids how to cook, but there are an appalling number of people out there now that can't even figure out how to make mac & cheese any way other than "add water and microwave")
... that's not food.
Listen to Fred Phelps sermons.
"If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream." -Deion Sanders
Laughed awhile after reading this one
We have a longstanding tradition of playing bingo for valuable prizes. Past prizes have been the paddle ball game, a fruit cake (same cake, on its 10th year), chip clips. It is amazing how people will fight for the prizes. There are usually 30 prizes, so it goes for awhile.
The fans on here are known for their objectivity, fair play, open minded welcoming of others, debating in an upfront, firm, but respectful manner.....TexasLidig8r 11/21/04
I know a family that prepares a birthday cake and sings happy bday to Jesus...
btw, does anyone else suspect TF spends a lot of time sitting on fireplugs?
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