Christmas is coming. It's pretty much the best time of the year, so I'm gonna give you the top ten traditions of the Stay household....
10. Christmas Music. It's pretty much on all the time from the day after thanksgiving until Christmas Day. Never before, never after. But once the season hits, we listen to it at dinner, in the car, pretty much all the time. We love Christmas Music, and you always have to start off with Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas album.
9. Christmas Presents. We Stay children, although we fight and pick on each other non-stop, give each other presents. We rotate names cuz we don't want to buy everyone in the family a present.
8. Wooden Santa and elf. They live in our front yard until they blow down, or until my mom's birthday when we finally replace them with the clown.
7. Unfinished tree skirt. It matches the little balls, and angel for our tree. Mom never finished it and its been like that since before I was born so I figure its tradition to use the unfinished tree skirt.
6. One present on Christmas Eve. Everyone gets to open one present on Christmas Eve. Usually it is the present from the person who has your name.
5. Movie. We watch a movie every Christmas Eve. Usually its a Christmas one, but sometimes its not.
4. Eating. We go out to eat every Christmas Eve and Christmas Day we have a pop tart for breakfast that we get in our stocking, and then for dinner we have Ham and fruit jello and yummy potatoes.
3. Best buy run. After Christmas my dad always goes on a Best Buy run. Its fun, we get to exchange gifts or get more stuff.
2. Reading. We always read the Christmas Story from the Bible, and then Twas the Night Before Christmas. Then I go off on my own and listen to our tape of Polar Express. After which I (yeah just me, and yes I still do this) leave cookies out for Santa.
1. Christmas Morning. They set a time when I'm allowed to go around and wake everyone up cuz otherwise I'll wake up at 630. Then I have to wake everyone up, and once everyone is up I can wake up mom and dad. Then everyone can go downstairs and open all the presents. Its pretty exciting. And ppl get annoyed with me, but it wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't wake up rediculously early and get everyone else up now would it?
That is what we do every Christmas no matter what.
