Christmas eve box

[angelsnight]

Who else does a christmas eve box for their kiddos?  For those that don't know, it's a present they get to open on christmas eve (we do the night before since we are with family on xmas eve) and it usually has a movie to watch, snacks, and new jammies.

Just wondering:

What movie are you giving?

Anything special about the jammies?

What are your favorite movie snacks you'll include?

This year will be Aladdin.  We bought it when it recently came out of the vault and decided to just save it for the box.  I'm excited, I haven't seen it in a long time, and E is now at the age where she knows a movie from a show (she'll sit and watch a movie whereas a show she'll pay attention here and there).  I'm excited to all sit around and have family movie night.

E is all about Minnie Mouse lately.  I am amazed at how many products have Minnie on them, she can spot them from a mile away.  So of course we had to get some Minnie PJ's.

I love movie theater popcorn, but we'll likely order pizza or something so I doubt I'll want popcorn too.  My favorite movie candy is Raisinettes, and the hubs likes Bunch a crunch.  Not sure what to get E since those are both choking hazards.  Maybe some regular raisins, she loves them.

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This is a cute idea. I always give pj's but I have never designated it as a Christmas Eve present. So I will likely do it this way this year.

[zandeela]

we do a Rattle box. the one gift you can pick up. usually things that make a lot of noise. This year for C I found a wooden set of refrigerator magnets of the alphabet and animals, new jammies. I like the idea of a movie. I found out last night that my copy of Rudolph is not in its case, so C may get that. I wonder if they have a trilogy of frosty, Rudolph and the drummer boy.

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Sounds very cute and a tradition in the making, we have always opened one or two small gifts in the week leading up to Christmas but nothing set in stone. It is typically as you said a Christmas themed movie or snack and pj's.

[fish8412]

Cute tradition!! DD is also obsessed with Minnie...she has been for a good 3 months.

Our Christmas Eve tradition includes getting Chinese food take out and watching Christmas movies. This year we will be adding another tradition: making cookies for Santa! DD won't really get it but oh well. I'm going to get place and bake cookies so she can help.

[younglove316]

We are doing it this year! As for the movie, she is obsessed with Mickey & Minnie and I found a Christmas sing along one or something like that.

As for the pajamas, this year she is getting a pair that we were given last year and still have the tags on as they were a size too big.

Snacks I'm not sure of yet but possibly some hot chocolate and give her some chocolate milk. She loves pretzels and cheese puffs so probably some of those as well. I like the idea of ordering a pizza too.

[angelsnight]

younglove316 chocolate milk is a good idea, E loves it for a treat.

[babycaps]

We usually do all gifts x-mas eve and then breakfast/brunch x-mas day. We have yet to decide what we are doing this year.
We aren't doing anything other than our one gift. This kid has a lot of stuff already AND we are still opening birthday gifts from his b-day! No joke. so we will likely bring some of those out!

[lakecountrygal]

I plan on doing one for DS. It will contain Christmas pjs, the book "The Night Before Christmas" a fun treat for everyone and then possibly a movie.

I'm not going to lie the book and possibly the movie will be the same every year just to save on money. We will watch it that night and then it will go away until next Christmas.

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lakecountrygal, I think same movie every year is great; next year they won't remember and after that it's tradition!

[mrssmith613]

Dec 4, 2015 22:05:46 GMT -5 babycaps said:

We usually do all gifts x-mas eve and then breakfast/brunch x-mas day. We have yet to decide what we are doing this year.
We aren't doing anything other than our one gift. This kid has a lot of stuff already AND we are still opening birthday gifts from his b-day! No joke. so we will likely bring some of those out!

I wish I had the self discipline to only buy one gift! I LOVE shopping for others so each kid has like 5 and i have a hard time stopping there! I said I was done shopping weeks ago but somehow there are more gifts in my trunk to be wrapped now.

We bought ds1 a real four wheeler this last summer and decided he would only get one gift for his bday last wk. he ended up with THREE gifts, a pretty Spendy cake, and we took him and two kids of his choice out to lunch and the bounce house :-(