148. Why even make family Christmas traditions? (+ ones that didn’t work, ones that did)

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Family traditions are something we often think about as we start having kids. Many of us are looking for traditions to bring into our holidays that help us make memories with our kids. Sometimes we even feel an urgency to find the 'right ones, right now'. As we start to incorporate these new tradition ideas, sometimes they don't always work. But here is why I think it is worth spending the effort doing some trial and error with traditions. . . . In this episode we cover: the ways that traditions help us express our values as a family the role of traditions in family heritage finding stability in the routine of traditions the urgency we have to establish our new family traditions traditions we tried that DIDN'T work traditions that DO work for us what I've learned about having Christmas traditions as a young family The Christmas Pajama Stockings The blog post with all the Christmas tradition ideas is right here Simple Christmas Series Simple Christmas Podcast Episodes Episode 42. How to simplify the Christmas stress & gift giving (your Q+As) Episode 43. Tips to Simplify Your Christmas (kids, clutter, traditions, hosting, festivities). Simple Christmas Series Blog Posts Five Tips to Make Your Christmas Simpler and More Enjoyable 11 Ways to Simplify the Gift Giving Our Fave Minimalist and Clutter-Free Kid Gift Ideas Easy Toddler Christmas and Advent Activities Five Tips to Make Your Christmas Simpler and More Enjoyable Nine Ways to Make Your Gifts More Thoughtful How to Shop Your Closet for Great Holiday Outfits Bust These ‘Good Hostess’ Myths and Open Up Your Home this Holiday Season 42 Simple Ways to Spread the Love this Christmas Finding Your Simple Christmas How to Transition to a Minimalist Family Christmas The Simple Christmas Planner can be found right here. The simple pleasure of the week: filling out the NEW planner/calendar Planning your day as a mom How to Get Started Bullet Journalling (easy tips for busy moms) Share in the Facebook group (make sure to answer the entry questions) Tag me or message me on Instagram Join the Simple Saturdays email (it is FUN! email) FULL TRANSCRIPT 0:06 Welcome to the support purpose podcast. Here I like to share with you all the ideas, all of the tips, all of the encouragement that will help you simplify your home, your heart, your life and show up for the things that are really important to you. I want you to make space, make time and make energy for those things that you really deeply value and want more of in your life. 0:32 As we are coming up to Christmas, something that a lot of us do is think about traditions, we think about the Christmas traditions we had as children, the ones we want. And sometimes we're just carrying along traditions that we've had just adopting them into our future without really even thinking about it. 0:49 I remember back when I had my first my first son, this was 10 years ago. And I was really excited by this notion that I got to build a family, I got to be an active designer in the culture of my family. Back then I also had a ton of anxiety along for the ride. So that derailed a bit of my attempts. But I remember coming into the Christmas season and just building up a lot of buzz around, what are our traditions going to be? I wanted some like memories, I wanted to create some flippin memories. As a family. I wanted my kids to talk about these traditions that we had, I wanted them to carry them on in their own lives. 1:28 And it hit me in that process of really thinking about what are we going to do as a young family? And how are we going to bring traditions into our culture and our Christmas, that traditions are something that are quite important, maybe even sacred. And I think there are three major roles that traditions play in a family. 1:47