Holiday Traditions & Personalized Gift Ideas
Disclosure: Thank you to Shutterfly and Collective Voice or sponsoring today’s blog post! All products were chosen, created, and loved by me!
Year after year, the holidays come quicker and quicker, and are in the rear view mirror even faster. And while some things about the holidays will change as our kids get older, we want to make sure that we’re being intentional about the memories we’re creating each year, an have a few traditions that we’re continuing each year. Plus I have some thoughtful gift ideas that will capture how things are right now, and allow us [and others that we gift them to] to look back on in future years!
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Christmas Card
Every year we send out Christmas cards to friends and family all across the US. Shutterfly makes it so simple to choose from 100s [or maybe even 1000s] of designs and quickly personalize them with your text and photos! We are sure to save one from each year for ourselves as well!
Metal + Slate Ornaments
There’s nothing better than decorating the Christmas tree with our little family. Adding a new photo ornament each year has been a fun way to look at how much we’ve grown each year, which I’m sure will bring me to tears some day when it’s just two of us decorating it again! *cue the tears now thinking about that….*
Hot Cocoa [+ Coffee] Mugs
When the cold temps hit, so does the hot cocoa! Double packet, add whipped cream + mallows- voila! My kiddos are also big – I mean BIG – into drinking their morning OJ out of coffee mugs [they call it their coffee 😉 ]. And what better way to drink it than out of their own mugs? We’re gifting these to them this year and I can’t wait to see how excited they are to get them!
Puzzle
We actually gifted my 80+ year old mother-in-law one of these puzzles last year with a photo of one of her beautiful sunset pics, and she absolutely loved it. That gave us the idea to make one of these puzzles each year using our own photos from the year that we could do together on Christmas Break!
Card Games
Go fish! That’s what my 4 and 7 year old are going to be saying a lot after they get these personalized playing cards in their stocking this year!
Metal Tabletop Photo Print
Dear husband – act surprised when you find this under the Christmas tree this year! I love the modern take on a photo with this metal tabletop print to keep on his desk at the office!
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