Christmas

What Christmas means to me is it is Jesus’ birthday and if you don’t have Christ in Christmas it is a miss. It is about spending time with family and having a good time with them.

On Thanksgiving night we have an Elf on the Shelf and she is always hiding on the tree the first day and then hides in random places. She has to hide up high so the little kids don’t touch her. On the night before Christmas Eve and gives us pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve night and on Christmas day.

Everybody has traditions and here are mine that my family and I do on Christmas morning. One tradition we have is once we wake up we watch a movie together. Then we have a bible study and my uncle always reads the ten commandments and this is what he says: 

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before me. you shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work; but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your manservant, or your maidservant, or your cattle, or the sojourner who is within your gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.You shall not kill.You shall not commit adultery.You shall not steal.You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s”. 

Then we open presents and we clean up and play with our presents. For breakfast, we have cinnamon rolls and then we just do anything we want. My favorite present is my bed that I got this Christmas and my mom got me the bed and Santa got me all the covers. When I got it I said, “Thanks mom I love it I am so EXCITED”.We go to my aunt’s parents’ house for dinner and more presents. We all play games and have a good time.

Before Christmas, my mom and I always spend time with each other. How we spend time together is by shopping for our family. It is very fun because we usually go out for lunch and dinner also. As a family, we go out and do stuff and on Christmas Eve we go to church and then we get all the stuff out for Santa and watch a movie called star and it is about Jesus’ birth and how a guy is looking for him and trying to kill him.

Every year before thanksgiving we set up our Christmas tree and lights and we do it as a family and every year my cousin says “ Whoa I love this batman ornament and this superman ornament”. Then I always get to put the angel on the top of the tree and every year I say “Can someone please get me a stool to get the Angel on the top of the tree”.

That is how we celebrate and get ready for Christmas in my house every year. Christmas is my favorite holiday because it was the day Jesus was born and that is very special to our family.