I think this is a fantastic tradition! Any qualms about adopting it into my own family?[/QUOTE]My parents were always like "Chistmas is going to be slim this year"...they said that every year although it usually wasn't true. They always had at least 1 "big-ticket" item for me, my brother and my sister. For us though, Christmas was about all the time BEFORE that day. We had a tradition called "little boxes". My mom had 24 small boxes with a slip of paper in each one. We'd take turns picking one per day until Christmas. We had stuff like Make Christmas Cookies, See Christmas lights, Watch a movie, Play Hide and Seek (Loved that one), Do a puppet show, Sing Carols, Make a Pizza, Play a game together, etc. From Dec 1st-24th. I looked forward to it every year and it was a way to make sure we did things as a family every day until Christmas Day.
Ha, of course not. Anything to bring families together for Christmas is a good thing in my book.