Holiday Traditions

[Matt]

Welcome back Jingles. Now we can spend our nights trying to figure out where the hell to put you and the morning panicking because we forgot. Yay.

[SKT]

@Matt I’ll see your Jingles and raise you a Bop Bop. Bop Bop may be making his last visit this year

[Matt]

Noooooo!!!! Jingles will be around forever. Whether they like it or not.

[WhiskeySandwich]

Every year we make christmas cookies at my moms and my daughter gets so excited that she sounds like this looks....

my son like doctoring photos on the edit app

[WhiskeySandwich]

Another new tradition for the family is visiting Winter City in Olney.
This somehow did not frighten the younguns....

[DeeDee85]

@SKT @Matt I’ll see your Jingles & Bop Bop and raise you an “Alec” …. why that’s the name my 3 year old daughter came up with for him I have no idea hope this is a tradition which takes off, can already imagine the morning panic after forgetting to move him

[goosehd]

@WhiskeySandwich ...it's not Christmas until the kids are higher than a kite on sugar and mom/dad have the hangover of all hangovers...joy

[WhiskeySandwich]

@goosehd sounds about right, yup!

[endo]

is it ok to have both, the alcohol and the sweets?

[goosehd]

@endo that's how I put on a few (many) kilo's every holiday season

[WhiskeySandwich]

@endo Thats also how you get a mondo hangover

[endo]

a little yo-yo is fine @goosehd, and don't tell me about hangovers @WhiskeySandwich I'm an expert

[Brian]

We have a rose

And the tree up

[Brian]

Pales in comparison to some but the boy and wife are happy which is all that matters for someone who doesn’t really do Christmas or birthdays for that matter

[SKT]

Bop Bop zip lining today. This is all my wife’s doing. She gets really creative by the 24th!

[chrisjohnnick]

Elf on the shelf is something we never got into in our household. The kids don't know about it, and we don't feel like worrying about remembering to set it up.

[SKT]

@chrisjohnnick yeah I get this. We’re basically prisoners to the elf for a month. But once you start there’s no going back. Kinda like IH

[chrisjohnnick]

I remember my sister telling me about it when they started doing it for my nephews 10 or so years ago, and I just thought "Nah, that ain't for me"

[Mizmazzle]

@SKT love it!! Almost makes me want to have a kid just to torture em…I mean mess with their heads a bit. Well done my man!!

[Matt]

I don’t know of any of you do this with your elf but for one day she shows up in an empty plastic container, like for peanuts or something, so the kids can carry her around. Usually on a day we do something out like looking at lights or whatever.

One year she made a surprise visit on St Patrick’s day when the kids try to catch a leprechaun. She was in the trap dressed in green. The kids freaked all the way out.