In the past few months, I've collected a bunch of random ideas for activities and traditions for Christmas.  Here are the ones I'm particularly fond of, and would like to try at least once, maybe :)

My husband's family didn't really do stockings when he was a kid, but it was a really big deal in my family.  We often got more into the 'stocking' part of gift opening than we did any of the other gifts.  I remember my parents going so crazy buying stocking stuffers that we would have our stockings hanging on the banister - as well as an extra shopping bag hanging next to it! My Mom in particular was a brilliant stocking stuffer - and she paid such close attention throughout the year, that I would often find things in my stocking that I was shocked she had even remembered! When my husband and I got married, I informed him that he must become a stocking expert also, because I wouldn't be getting stockings from Mom forever - but I didn't want this particular tradition to die!

This began as a Toddle Along Tuesday theme, and I found that over the next few days I was hearing myself say other odd things that probably never would have occurred to me prior to being a parent as being necessary things to say.  Here they are, as they come to me...

Here is a list of books I would like to read outloud to/with my children.  I got this idea from Pinterest, and it came from the blog 'Grasping for Objectivity' which you can check out here.