How to Make Christmas Eve as Special as Christmas

Your kids are excited about opening presents on Christmas day. However, you are dreading the after Christmas blues. Why not add something special to Christmas Eve?

Things You'll Need

• 1 Candle for each person at your home on Christmas Eve.
• matches or a lighter.

Instructions

1. Watch a great movie, sit by the fire, play a card game, or do anything to get everyone in a relaxed state of mind. Put some soft holiday music in the cd player.

2. Ask everyone to gather in the coziest room. Pass around the apple cider or hot chocolate. To make things more convenient, you may want to wait until little kids (kids under two) have gone to bed.

3. Pass out the candles asking everyone to take one. Then light them. Of course if there are small children, you probably want to pass on letting them hold a candle.

4. You start a new holiday tradition by sharing a special thought or memory from the past year. Maybe it is something or someone you are thankful to have. Ask everyone else to add their special thoughts.

5. Once everyone is through sharing, make a new year wish and blow out the candles. This should bring a smile to everyone's faces and make some memories that will last past the after Christmas blues.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful with the candles. But you knew that already.