Family Traditions for Mother & Baby Magazine
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I answered a request for Christmas time family traditions on Twitter. At the time I didn’t know that it was for the leading parenting magazine Mother & Baby!! When I read that they were looking for Christmas family traditions, I immediately thought about the tradition we have had for years and loved since we were children.
We have a lovely Snowman tradition in our family that started with my Nanna when my brother, sister and I were little. She covered an old sweet jar with cotton wool and decorated it with buttons as eyes and a nose, and a woolly hat and scarf to look just like a snowman. He would then sit on the table during Christmas dinner and contained a present for each of us attached to name tags with ribbon. We would each in turn pull out the present with our name on during Christmas dinner. It was lovely to have a small present at the table after we had finished opening all of our main presents in the morning. My mum then started to do the same and from then on we have always done it.
When we had Mia, we decided to make our own snowman and carry the unique present-giving ourselves. She loves it and as she gets older, she knows what’s coming which adds to the excitement!
For more magical Christmas traditions, make sure you check out The Heaton Family blog!
Our Christmas tradition was published in December 2015’s issue of Mother & Baby
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A Moment with Franca
Aww such a lovely tradition!! And well done you to be featured and Mother&Beauty!! Congratulations lovely!! Thanks so much for sharing this at #KCACOLS! I hope you join me again tomorrow for the last #KCACOLS of 2015!!! 🙂 xx
mummydaddymia
Thank you! Its been really nice 🙂
Something Crunchy Mummy
What a lovely idea! And great you got in the magazine. Thanks for linking up to #justanotherlinky xx
mummydaddymia
Thank you! Its been really nice to see it in the magazine 🙂
Life as Mum
So lovely that you are continuing that tradition! 🙂 And you got featured in a mag, well done!
Thanks for linking up to #justanotherlinky
mummydaddymia
Thank you! Its lovely 🙂
The Speed Bump
That’s fab congratulations! #KCACOLS
mummydaddymia
Thank you! Its lovely 🙂
Ellie @ Hand Me Down Baby
That’s a really sweet tradition, and so great to be featured in Mother & Baby!
Thanks for linking up with #KCACOLS
mummydaddymia
Ahh, thank you! Very exciting, first time in a magazine 🙂
Coombe Mill - Fiona
A lovely tradition and how wonderful to be carrying it along another generation #KCACOLS
mummydaddymia
Thank you! It is a really special thing for us to do 🙂
Heledd - Running in Lavender
Ha ha… that’s so cool, you’re a celeb!!! And what a fun and lovely festive tradition. Thank you for linking up to #SundayStars xxx
mummydaddymia
Aww thank you!! It was really fun! 🙂
veronica lee
I am loving the snowman jar idea! How cute! And congrats on the feature!
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mummydaddymia
Thank you! Its really lovely 🙂
Sarah (lifewithwaldo.com)
Such a cute idea! It’s great to have unique traditions like this one, and to have it published in a magazine is just the icing on top!
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mummydaddymia
Ahh thank you! Yes its been lovely and my mum and nan are really excited about it too! 🙂
Jenny
Congratulations on the fame darling and what an amazing christmas tradition. I love it. Thank you ever so much for linking up to Share With Me #sharewithme
mummydaddymia
Thank you! It is a lovely tradition and will be even more special now this year! 🙂
Jennna
Oh I love the snowman sweet jar idea – so cute.
I also think it’s nice to have a present leftover for the evening. I think that’s something we are going to start doing too. xx
mummydaddymia
Thanks! Its been in our family for years and something we still look forward too! 🙂
Joanna @mumbalance
It’s a lovely idea and it’s wonderful that you are now continuing with the tradition for your daughter 🙂
Congratulations on the feature in Mother and Baby!
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mummydaddymia
Ahh thank you! It is a really nice thing to do and I love the look on Mia’s face 🙂