So, I haven’t talked a whole lot about it, but my husband is a rock star and has been eating right and exercising for almost 6 months now. He’s lost quite a bit of weight and he’s trying to make it a lifestyle thing instead of a diet thing so it can be long lasting. My worry is that with the holidays and all of the food related traditions that go with it our whole family is going to fall back into our old bad habits with eating.
Traditions are really important to me and I want to continue to have them, but I need some ideas for traditions that don’t revolve around food—especially cookies, candy, etc.
This is where I need your help! What traditions do you have for the holidays? I need some fresh ideas and I need them fast so we can decide on some to try as a family. Thanks so much for sharing!
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Okay, we're starting a couple new ones, so they technically aren't traditions yet, but here you go:
1 - we've drawn names and are choosing a "favorite things" ornament for the person we chose. It's kinda fun deciding on an ornament. When the kids are grown and married, they get their ornaments for their tree.
2 - for every Sunday in December, we're celebrating a different Christmas tradition of our heritage - Aaron's Russian and Italian, our shared English, and my German. The first Sunday is for St. Nicholas day. The second is for Italy. The third is Russia and the last (Dec. 26th) will be Boxing Day in England.
3 - on Christmas eve, we make cinnamon rolls and take them to the firefighters and police people who are working. I think we took them juice or milk too. That was lots of fun last year.
4 - we watch "The Nativity Story" on Christmas eve every year - we might let Laurel watch it this year.
As for Thanksgiving, we have a Thanksgiving book and we write in it every year all the things we're thankful for. Laurel and Will even get to write a few things. Aaron started this when we first got married.
But I'm also all about the food traditions. If you keep it to one cookie swap, or a special dessert for the holidays, it isn't so bad. And you don't have to give treats to friends and neighbors. An ornament or something homemade is nice. Martha Stewart has lots of non-food ideas.
I'm proud of you guys. Wouldn't fly around here, no holiday food traditions.
Sorry for the long reply! It's a blog post in itself!
Try to use activity traditions like a family walk after Thanksgiving dinner. One thing that isn't a tradition, but that helps me is to keep the food in the kitchen and not put it all on the table. Have everyone fill their plates and then sit down. That way, in order to get more, you have to get up and go refill rather than just grazing while you're sitting there. It works great.
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