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Gift Giving Christmas Tradition

Each of my children give a gift to each family member because the best part of Christmas is giving. 


As a child, nobody asked me to give but my parents were pastors and I always saw my mom wrapping gifts for the whole church throughout Christmas Eve night and I just caught the spirit of giving, I guess. I started making and wrapping all kinds of presents for my siblings since I was about 7, and it carried on to family members and friends, then I added more and more church members over the years until I would end up wrapping gifts for every single church member I could think of and extras for new comers. On Christmas Morning when I got to church, I had about 3-4 XL paper bags of presents to give out to every church member in mind from a baby to the oldest person there... This tradition carried on even until after I got married.


So as far as Christmas traditions goes, this memory is what I wanted to pass down to my own children. I start with the family -- each kid buys a gift for each family member, including mummy and daddy, grandpa and grandma. So that's a lot of gifts. I literally have a spreadsheet to keep track of who gives what, status whether the gift has been delivered/ordered/arrived/purchased and where I've hidden each unwrapped gift because I get confused all the time.


We aren't very well to do so I bring them to a salvos or order online. And sometimes, when I see a good deal, even early on the year, I would grab it and hide it the whole year.


The kids also bring candy cane, sweets and goodies we collected throughout the year, in cute Christmas bags to church on Christmas Morning to give out to the kids in church.

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