Your first married Christmas

by Ilona Peltz, Posted Dec 24th 2007 12:30PM

Filed Under: Relationships, Keeping the Memory, After the 'I Do's'

It's you and your sweetie, just the two of you. Well, there's your parents and his parents and your siblings and their families ... I know. We've tackled the challenges of blending two sets of family traditions and juggling in-laws in other posts. This post is about starting a new tradition for you, the new couple.

When my first child was born in early December, it was instinctive to buy her an ornament commemorating her first Christmas. With that as my precedent, it became tradition to buy each of them an ornament each year of their lives thereafter.

Why not do the same for your marriage? Get yourselves an "Our First Christmas" ornament this year, and then, year after year, you can shop together for the ornament that will best represent that year. You could use the anniversary gifts as your inspiration, or the gifts could commemorate a particular event or achievement of that year: your first child, your first home, a big promotion, a memorable vacation ...

Year by year you will build a Christmas tree full of memories of your relationship. Decorating the tree will become the inspiration of much happy conversation as each ornament spurs a special memory. "Oh, remember this year? That was the year we went to Ireland, and found that ..."

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