The Martin Box » traditions http://themartinbox.com Tweets and chirps from The Martin Family Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:53:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 christmas cards http://themartinbox.com/2008/12/christmas-cards/ http://themartinbox.com/2008/12/christmas-cards/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:05:52 +0000 Paula Netherland http://www.themartinbox.com/?p=463 I love getting mail…seriously.  Since you never know what you’re going to get, it’s like a little present every day.  Sometimes you love it, sometimes you don’t, and sometimes (though not very often) it’s something you can regift to someone else.  Since I love mail so much, I really love the holidays because I know Christmas cards are on their way.  I always send my cards out riduculously early, but I can’t help it.  I just can’t wait to send them.  Well, today we got our first Christmas card.  It was so exciting to see it there in the mailbox.  Who’s it from?  What does it look like?  What does it say?  So many questions in just one little white (sometimes colored) envelope.  This year’s first card came from Aunt B and Uncle Buck.  Rea squealled in delight at the three little snowmen on the front.  She grabbed it and ran to show her daddy.  I love getting cards from Aunt B because she always puts the date on the inside and if it’s a birthday card she also puts a mark for each year.  I always count those little marks.  I love those little marks, and I love you Aunt B for making each one.

]]> http://themartinbox.com/2008/12/christmas-cards/feed/ 0 Christmas traditions http://themartinbox.com/2008/12/christmas-traditions/ http://themartinbox.com/2008/12/christmas-traditions/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:39:50 +0000 Paula Netherland http://www.themartinbox.com/?p=453 I thought it would be fun to share some of our Christmas traditions with each other.

One of my favorites is every year I add one black and white photo of each girl in a photo frame ornament to our Christmas tree.  Not only do we get to enjoy them every year, but one day when the girls are old enough to have a Christmas tree of their own, I’ll get to give them their photo ornament collection.

So, that’s one of our traditions, what’s yours?

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