Special Holiday Traditions
Special Holiday traditions. Whether its hiding elves, family games, looking at Christmas lights, baking or watching classic holiday movies together these are memories that help to create holiday traditions to remember for a lifetime.
Today I am joining some amazing friends, that also happen to be bloggers sharing our Special Holiday Traditions. I always love to hear about the special moments and traditions that friends embrace each holiday season in their own homes with their loved ones. I hope you will too. All the links will be at the bottom of the post.
Special Holiday Traditions
My kids actually showed me how important a tradition was in our home last week. I was totally unaware of how special this was to them. Something that carried more meaning to them then I thought. Something that they identified with the Holiday season in our home. You know what it was? Red decorations on the family Christmas tree.
You may have seen another version of our family tree that I put up in my holiday home tour here. The blush one. I thought it was magical and what I had envisioned for the family tree this year. I loved it so much, I even made matching stockings for the family. All decisions about using blush, silver and blue ornaments were done without consulting the family. Ha, next time I even think about changing out red for the holiday, a family meeting is needed.
But the blush tree was not what my kids had envisioned. They wanted red. The randomly scattered red tree with the same ornaments, star and stockings that they love. The one’s from their first Christmas with their names on it. The nutcrackers that we have started to collect on the mantel with the only stockings they have ever had. They wanted Santa and snowmen and elves scattered throughout the room.
After I put the “other” tree up the kids asked “when are you putting up the family tree”? It was then I realized that I needed to make a change….back to tradition. So one day when they were at school I changed it all out so they could come home to the tree and decorations that were familiar to them. The one’s that made them happy. The one’s that made them smile. A traditional one.
My blush one’s were pretty but it wasn’t tradition. Like the stocking that I had when I was child that I hang on the tree every year to remind me of my own special childhood Christmas memories.
Here’s a view at night of our traditional red Christmas decor. Needless to say, the kids family is all happy now. And this mama is happy because I helped create a holiday tradition for my kids, without even realizing it.
The start of a new tradition
But guess what, you know the blush? It seems I am starting my own holiday tradition….. I moved it into my bedroom.
What are some of your holiday traditions?
Merry Christmas!
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Aw, Laura … how sweet that you changed your tree out while the kids were at school! I love this story. Reading this reminded me how my mother put the same decorations in the same place every year. The tree was the same every year, too. I think I would’ve felt like your kids had she changed anything. I didn’t realize how important simple decorations can be until reading your story. I do love your blush tree so I’m glad you found a new spot for it! Your bed is gorgeous. Thanks for organizing today’s hop and for inviting me to be on it!
I loved the blush tree, but I really love the red one. It reminds me of my past Christmas’s.
maybe next year I will do a red and blush combo!!
I just love an accidental holiday tradition! And while the blush tree is so soft and pretty, the traditional red is pretty too! So glad you found a place for the blush one in your bedroom! Thanks for organizing, my friend!
🙂 Linda
I should have asked them first maybe we could have done blush and red together. Next year! have a great weekend and merry christmas!
I loved the blush tree but so understand this! My son always wanted more traditional than I do on our main tree so I got another one and put all of their ornaments on, etc. I love it! And I LOVE the blush in your bedroom…so beautiful! Thanks for organizing this fun sharing of traditions!! Merry Christmas friend!! xo
actually deep down I probably love the red just as much as they do.
Laura – there is no messing around with Christmas traditions! Our kids are very vocal about what they want and we must give it to them! Love both of your trees – Merry Christmas my friend.
yes they are!
Well, Mom, you should have known they wouldn’t be happy with that pretty tree in blush. They want there tree with the traditional colors that they have grown up with. I think kids don’t like change much or at all.
Wishing y’all a very Merry Christmas!!
I know right!!!
love that you brought the blush to your bedroom and it looks so perfect in there with the blue! and our tree is always a family tree full of memories- so i totally hear you! we can’t have it any other way! 🙂
Isn’t it so funny the things that matter to them? Kudos to you for giving them back their tradition! Love the blush in the bedroom… it’s a keeper. 🙂
xo Heidi
Wow – I can totally relate to this post My son is 28 and he still gives me grief whenever I decorate the tree differently from what he grew up with – this from someone who puts up his own tree with his girlfriend and does it differently every year. This year I couldn’t disappoint him (like I did with my white, aqua & gold tree), so out came all of the ornaments from his childhood, together with the colored lights. When he saw the tree he said, “Thank you mom, this is what makes it Christmas ” – I just never realized how much it meant to him.
You are such a good mama, Laura! I know those kids loved coming home and seeing their beloved ornaments and stockings where the pretty pink ones had been. Aren’t they so funny? I made sweater stockings one year for the whole family and my oldest son and husband wanted their old ones back. My son said his new one was made out of “old sweaters”, which is true ha ha. I still keep the pretty ones I made on the mantel, but fill their original ones on Christmas Eve and leave them by the tree. It was a good compromise and they liked that just fine. Merry Christmas my friend, and thank you for hosting this fun tour! XO
You are such a good Mama to switch out your decor to what the kids wanted while they were at school. The red looks both pretty and festive and the blush is gorgeous and romantic for your bedroom. I hope you enjoy this next week with your kids making more Christmas memories.
So glad that you put this tour together. I am truly enjoying “reading” opposed to flipping through photos. Your home is just lovely and yes, we’ve got to make the family happy with that holiday decor. All the pretty blush was made for your bedroom. I am inspired to add that to our room next year! XO
My girls did the same thing to me when I decorated with bright colors one year and made white stockings with fun color cuffs. My girls would have none of it and they were grown!!! No messing with traditions especially at Christmas. Both your trees look beautiful and does your house. XO
Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas.
it’s all about the kids isn’t it? hope you have a very merry christmas! hope to see you soon.
I love that the kids love traditions!! By keeping up the traditions for them throughout their childhood and beyond you give them the sweet memories to carry on to their own families. Love that you granted their wishes to go back to their traditions as they hold them dear. Merry Christmas to you and your family!!!
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