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12/10/2020

Happy Holidays from the Steltman Family!

Becoming a parent and watching my girls grow up has changed how I see the holiday season. As I had gotten older, I had forgotten about the magic, mystery and excitement of this season. Watching my girls wake up each morning and want to find their elf on the shelf, seeing houses decorated with lights, it’s all been so nice this year and has un-grinched (I made that word up) my old heart. This year, I want you to think about what you like doing best with your family over the holiday season. What traditions do you follow, what do you find exciting, how does your family choose to enjoy the many holidays that are celebrated over this time?
For your blog post this week, I want you to write out, in the style of a descriptive story, the traditions that your family celebrates that you want to remember when you’re older and pass onto your families, should you choose to have them. Please write your story in the first person (I, me, etc.) and walk us through the experience so that it feels like we’re living it with you!
As an example topic sentence: “As my eyes flutter open, my brain wakes up and reminds me, “IT’S the last day of school!” I race to get my clothes on to celebrate this exciting day.

Spencer

12/10/2020 03:28:59 pm

I wake up bright and early still very tired like any other day but then I realize it’s Christmas Day! I suddenly don’t feel tired any more and quickly rush down the hallway, loudly whip open my parents door, and out of breath I tell my parents “it’s Christmas!” They get up to slowly for my liking because I am filled with so much energy because all I want to do is open presents. We all go down stairs with our dog and after a hour that felt like forever my brother came down too. Now we can start the festivities! First things first we start by opening stockings. I go through my stocking the quickest and everyone else finishes a little bit later including my dog who has has his very own stocking filled with bones and treats. When we’re all done with our stockings we go to the kitchen table and have delicious, mouthwatering cinnamon buns and grapefruit but my brother doesn’t like grapefruit so he isn’t going have any. Once the yummy yummy breakfast is done I want to dig in to the presents but my mom insists that she and my dad have to clean. The kitchen first. Finally when they are finished in the kitchen we can open presents. When we get to the living room where the Christmas tree is and see a verity of different coloured presents underneath the tree and rush to look for one with my name on it. As we go through all the presents looking for all the one with our names we finish all of them and start playing with all the toys we got that earlier that morning.
THAT IS MY CHRISTMAS MORNING!

douglas

12/13/2020 11:01:32 am

I wake up and it is a special day. I don't remember why today is special. I rush down stairs and see a bunch of presents under the tree and in the stockings then I remember it's christmas. I rush back up the stairs and tell my parents that it's christmas. They slowly get up and we open our stockings then my nanna comes over and eats a yummy breakfast with us . After breakfast we open the presents under the tree and I open mine from nanna. I go out with my new toys and play with them.
THAT'S MY CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!

~Leah~

12/13/2020 11:14:52 am

I wake up on the 24 and start to pack my bag to go to the cottage.''Finley Im done packing''. as I walk down stairs my mom says. ''Leah can you come help get the ordomens off the tree so we can bring them to the cottage'' ''yes'' Leah said (dad comes in the room) ''do you guys need any help'' ''dad say. no thanks'' Leah said'' '' I will get the other ones in the front living room'' mom said. '' i'm going to help dad put the bags in the car''. (sami walks in the room) she says i'm done packing.''ok'' mom says. '' Can you get some snacks for the car ride pls'' ''yup :)'' (15 min later) " Im ready to go'' leah said ''same'' sami said "ok then let go!." mom said ( 2 hours later...) " yay we are finally here" leah says. time to make the fondo and the mac and cheese( the mac and cheese is for me) Mmmmm. Thats sooooooooo good. (3 hour later) time to go to bed. (the next morning) as I wake up
I remember its christmas morning. While I wait for every body to wake up I watch a movie and It is always the same one. Then ones everyone is up we go down stairs to open the presents. :)

Leah

12/13/2020 11:25:35 am

I wake up and remember it's christmas. i get really excited so I watch a movie while. I wait.
Then ones everybody is up my dad lets the dogs out. Then we go down stairs. And open the stockings. as we open them my grandma and grandpa walk in then that's where the fun really starts.We get to open the presents. ones we are done that me and my sister make little spaces to put hour new stuff
AND THAT'S MY CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!!!!

TEO MET SANTA IN HIS DREAMS :)

12/13/2020 12:08:31 pm

MY NEW YEARS EVE:
The first thing I do, in the morning of the New Years day, is get out of my bed and go down to our music room where my Christmas tree is. We gather with my sister and my parents and have a cup of tee together.I love mint tea with a little bit of honey. We talk about what we are going to do on this glorious day. Well, the first thing I think of is opening my presents. HOORAY! A brand new Cessna model kit. What a magical thing present is! After that we usually play, either cards or chess. Both of those games are my family's favorite. Then me and my family would go out for a nice short walk around the block, then watch all-time Christmas movie treat called: STAR WARS, all episodes.....In the Galaxy far far away.....!
In between the episodes we also make cookies and my grandmother's sweet cake called "Kasato" witch is a European type of cake, sweet, and chocolaty, and tasty all over. Yum Yum!
The night then falls and the winkle stars show up. Its time for me to finish off with a night wish and COOKIES.......well with another episode of Mandalorian, just in case Star Wars weren't enough.
That is my Christmas and New Year tradition
HOORAY!

Layla s10rp

12/13/2020 12:53:19 pm

My favourite thing to do with my parents is during the holidays, I wake up excited on Christmas morning and go and wake up my parents, they finally get up and walk down the stairs, obviously I have to "wAiT fOr ThEm tO fiNiSh tHeiR cOffEeEeE" which is something that I have to wait for every single year, but it's worth it when they finally finish their coffee I can open my presents. A Christmas tradition that my family and I always do is on Christmas eve, we always get to open one present which is usually pajamas that we have to wear to bed on the night of Christmas eve. And that is something that I really enjoy to do with my family <3

Grace

12/14/2020 06:27:43 am

On Christmas night I can not fall asleep but when I do I only get like 5 hours of sleep because im so excited . I wake up around 6 O clock and go up stairs and shake my parents until they are awake . We come down stairs me and my brother are so excited to see all the presents. Guess what we can no open them till my Mom gets her phone my dad has his coffee . that takes a long time I always start with witch present is the biggest . No well first I do my stockings then I go to the big ones . After that we will have some bacon and eggs and some Golding brown hash browns then we will stay at my grandparents for dinner and to op some gifts the end .

ChristoSLORP

12/14/2020 01:56:26 pm

I wake up by my younger sister screaming that its Christmas and that gets me exited too. My sisters (annoying) voice woke up my parents and they tell us to head downstairs. As we walk down the stairs my sister who was ahead of us started screaming (again) I was happy too we open our stockings first we find life savers in there like always but we also had chocolate and stuff. once we finish with our stockings i cant believe what I got!

callum

12/14/2020 02:46:16 pm

I wake up on Christmas morning to my brother jumping on my bed telling me that Santa came! Then we go jump on my Mom and Dad's bed and wake them up. After that we would go downstairs to the Christmas tree and take our stocking's off of the fireplace to open them. Then I would open the presents inside my stocking. I am still tired at this point but looking forward to opening presents. After we open our stocking's we would open the presents from the Christmas tree. When we open our presents my brother and I would grab one present each and open it at the same time, and when we open our presents for both of us we would open it together. After opening all of these presents we are starving, and then we would go make bacon and eggs. Yum! Christmas morning is a fun time to spend time with my family and we look forward to it every year.

Lorelai

12/15/2020 02:24:08 pm

Every Christmas eve I will get ready to go to my grandma and papas house for Christmas eve dinner. The people in my grandmas house start greeting me, once I get to the kitchen to help finish cooking the food I smell the warm turkey coming out of the oven. I then find all my cousins so we can go into the basement until dinner was ready, I reach the last few steps of the burgundy coloured rug in the basement I jump to the end of the stairs and play with my younger cousins (I'm the oldest on my moms side out of all the kids). Then when I hear my mom and relatives call us up to open presents we all run up the stairs and go tt the tv room to open presents.

Eva

12/15/2020 04:25:18 pm

My Christmas morning starts with me waking up supper early but being so tired because I hadn't sleep all night being way to excited. My parents tell my sister and I the night before we can wake them up at 7:15. We watch the clock until it is 7:15 and I start screaming "TIME TO WAKE UP ITS CHRISTMAS" Of course just like other people, my parents are sloths! Getting out of bed getting their coffee,It feels like FOREVER until they say OK! We run down the stairs and see are stocking full and big and small presents siting under are tree. We look on the Santa plate and their are crumbs with no milk left in the cup. My dad puts on Christmas music and we all open are stockings first and look at what we got. I then be the "Santa" and hand out the presents where we all open one at a time and see what we all got. Afters that's done I cheek my cats stocking and give her,her stuff. My mom then makes the same thing we eat every Christmas it is a cinnamon bunt cake thing, well my sister and I play with are stuff.
That's how my Christmas morning goes! 🎄🎁🎄🎁

Eli :(

12/15/2020 04:49:24 pm

BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, my alarm goes off. I jolt out of bed and start climbing upside down on the celling like usual, but this is not a normal morning this is CHRISTMAS MORNING. I run into my parents room and ask "CAN I OPEN MY STOCKING". They of course say NO ITS 3am. I go back to my room and check the clock and it is 3am, so I get into my bed and fall asleep instantly. BEEP, BEEP, I am now so exited I run around my whole house 1234 times. Now I don't care what my parents say I just go open my stocking. That is how my Christmas morning goes!

Sawyer

12/17/2020 04:29:43 pm

sounds surprisingly true

Maya

12/16/2020 05:33:41 am

I wake up on christmas morning and I run into my parents room and say "IT IS CHRISTMAS". then my parents get up and say "we all go down together".So we all race down the stairs and we see that Santa has brought presents.We go to our stockings and take them off the hooks. and we start with the small presents and we take turns. Then we open up the big presents.After we open all of our presents we go and eat breakfast it is the same as always.Do you want to know what it is. Ok it is french toast. After we eat breakfast we play with the toys we got
That was my christmas morning

{Adrie}

12/16/2020 02:41:58 pm

As my eyes slowly peek open I hear my dog whimpering at my tall black door, The sun had just went up, I slowly step out of my large bed to peek out my tall window. The grass has been covered by the finest layer of fluffy, white, cold, glorious snow, i’m so surprised my eyes beam open. I come to realize that Christmas day has come, I rush to my tall black door and let my small adorable puppy into my room, I quickly tiptoe to my siblings bedrooms to wake them up for the exciting event, first I wake my sister up once she realizes it’s Christmas day she jumps with excitement, my brother does the same. My parents hear us squealing with excitement that they wake up, we all rush down or tall tan staircase. The joy hits us as we see the crazy amount of gifts that have been placed nicely under our tall, large, green decorated tree. The presents that sit underneath are wrapped in the finest wrapping paper, the papers covered in all sorts of colours and so many different divine patterns. A smile is on each of our faces as we open the gifts one by one, the wrapping paper scattered all over the floor while my sister and I play with our new toys. My dad and brother start to make the most scrumptious breakfast of all time, it’s filled with all sorts of things like, ham eggs cheese etc. We are come to sit at our table, after the most pleasant breakfast in the universe we start to open our stockings. We walk over to the bannister to see the Divine stockings filled to the top with small toys and treats. Later on in the day our grandparents and cousins come over for the late dinner, we have perfectly cooked turkey, mashed potatoes and more. After dinner we have dessert, and trust me, it never lasts long, once the day is over, you might think I would want to stay awake but trust me, with a day like that at least I would need to sleep. I step in to my large bed cover myself in some blankets and wonder “what will next Christmas be like?”
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄❄️❄️❄️❄️🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

Paige?☃️

12/16/2020 06:42:42 pm

It´s December 24! I am very exited. I yell, ¨IT´S CHRISTMAS TOMORROW!!!¨ When I go upstairs to bed I stare into space and go on my phone because I can´t fall asleep because it is Christmas tomorrow! I keep saying to myself ¨the faster I fall asleep the faster it´s Christmas.¨ So then I finally fall asleep. The next morning I get up around 3am and meet my sister in the family room. I go and see if my parents are up but then they tell me ¨it´s 3 AM!!!!!! Go back to bed¨ so then I go look at all the gifts and I say ¨ WOW THAT´S A LOT!¨ Then I make my way back to bed. Then i can´t fall asleep so I just go on my phone but it takes so long! Then i put my phone down and try and fall asleep. I then get up at 6 am and I see my dad with the dog having a coffee after he got back from walking the dog. Meanwhile my mom is still sleeping. I tell to get up but she says wait until 7. Sometimes she lets us open our stockings. When my mom gets up she makes us a breakfast that she makes every Christmas. It´s called the Christmas Morning Wife Saver....silly name. My grandparents always fly in from BC for Christmas, but this year it will be different. we would have breakfast with them and then open gifts. We take turns, each opening a gift one at a time. I always go first because I am the youngest. I can´t wait until Christmas morning!

That is my Christmas!☃️🎁🎀

nicolas

12/17/2020 01:30:21 pm

MY Family Tradition at Christmas

After finishing our delicious family dinner at Montfort’s we headed back home looking at all the beautiful Christmas decorations and lights on Guelph Line. After getting home we make hot chocolate with mountains of marshmallows on top and I sit down with my family and watch a holiday Christmas movie. We turn the fire on to keep us warm while we drink our hot chocolate by the Christmas tree. After the hot chocolate and the movie I get ready for bed by putting a cookie and milk on a table for Santa. Then I climb into bed and try my hardest to fall asleep. This is impossible because I am always too hyper and excited on Christmas Eve thinking about how amazing the morning will be. But then, after a LONG TIME I eventually fall asleep.

After what feels like a couple of hours, I wake up as excited as I have ever been because I know it is Christmas morning. It doesn’t matter how old I am because Christmas is my favourite. After rubbing my eyes I sprint up the stairs and go down the hall into my moms room to wake her up. So I go right in front of her face and say “WAKE UP IT'S CHRISTMAS MOM!” After that we all run to the christmas tree and see all the shiny presents. We then start to open the shiny presents and we start with the stocking. Usually I get candy, small water guns and little things like that. I then switch to the medium presents and things get a little more exciting. At the end I get the BIG presents. Last year I got a GIANT RC plane and this year I am hoping for a new gaming headset.

When we are finished opening presents we have our special breakfast which is super yummy. Most of the time we have pancakes with maple syrup. Then finally when we are done with our pancakes we take out our new toys and start to play with them while watching christmas movies. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I can't wait for it every year.

Cole

12/17/2020 02:47:20 pm

My tradition

I hear my mom say "time for a picture". My sister and me ran over to the tree wearing our new christmas pjs. We snap the picture and i go up stairs to my room. I can't sleep all night and just toss and turn in my bed. I wake up in the morning and run down stairs to see presents under the tree. After we open the presents we have a big french toast bake.

Sawyer

12/17/2020 04:36:54 pm

Christmas Morning:

I wake up get out of my bed trip on every sharp thing in my room and open my door to see my sisters on the stairs waiting to go down stairs and go check the presents but my mom says go get your other sister in the basement and we all go running down quietly and get the loudest speaker in our house and blast this weird song on it to scare our sister and make het wake up until she finally gets up and we open our presents.

Kate

12/17/2020 05:57:48 pm

Christmas Morning
walking up and feeling so exited to find presents under the tree so i run it to my bothers room and sayITS CHRISTMAS but he says ok and i jump on him to wake up so we run down stairs ,but my parents say stocking first so and i get mad because i wanna find out what i got, then finding my little puppy try to eat the gifts, then before opening the gifts but getting the wrong :( and being HAPPY that i got so many gifts:)

-AdDiE-

12/17/2020 06:20:36 pm

On Christmas Eve before bed, my mother reads "The Night Before Christmas" book to my brother and I, and I lay down on the floor beside his bed, where my mattress is placed, and I try my hardest to fall asleep, but I am just so exited. Once I finally fall asleep, I wake a up early, and jump up and down to wake my brother. I run out the door, and peek at how many presents that I see, and I take a quick look at my stockings. I then am just too exited, so I run to my parents room, and jump up and down saying exited-ly "IT'S CHRISTMAS IT'S CHRISTMAS!" and as my parents wake up, they realise reality, and they are super exited as well! We run to the basement to get my nanny out of her living room, and to grab her stocking, and we take out all of the little gifts Santa got us. Then we open the big presents! After all the excitement, we go ahead and make breakfast. For the rest of the day we go with the plans we had, and some fun family games! That's my traditions/day!

-AdDiE- (Again)

12/17/2020 06:29:33 pm

And before getting presents, of course, my parents have to have their morning coffee to legitimately realise reality! 😂😂☕

Harry

1/3/2021 02:36:58 pm

On Christmas Eve we usually go to my grandparents house for dinner. My cousins on my dad's side of the family are there and we open a few gifts together. We also love to play outside, especially if there is snow! We stay there quite late and go to bed right when we get home. In the morning, my brother Holden and I wake everyone up. My brother Leo is very hard to wake up! I am really excited to go downstairs and open the presents, but my parents make us wait and take pictures and my dad has to make his coffee first. Then we open up our gifts and have some time to play with them. Usually we would go to my other Grandma's house on my mom's side and my other cousins are there. We open more presents and leave to go to Ellicottville with some of our cousins. The rest of our holiday we do ski training. That how my family usually does our Christmas, but it was a bit different this year.

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