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Our biggest tradition is the Christmas cookie baking and decorating. I have great memories of that with my mom and wanted to keep it up with my kids. We also have some decorating traditions. My daughter has accumulated an angel collection, which are always displayed on a certain table and she knows exactly how she places each one every year. My son and daughter have also each accumulated several ornaments of their own, which I pack in separate bags of their own, so each year, as we decorate the tree, they go their own ornaments and remember who/where they were from and what the story is behind them. It's cute and they enjoy it.
Now that they are in school, they go to Secret Santa Shop at school and buy dollar store type items for their grandparents, myself and their dad. It is definitely cute to see what they pick out. The first year I was divorced, my son got me this set of little screwdrivers which have pink handles stored in a pink box and titled "Mom's Tool Kit". He said he thought I would need them since I had my own house now. It was so cute (and they're perfect size for those small screws on the battery pack holders of every kid's toy!). I use them ALL the time! He was in kindergarten that year too!
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