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So, The winter holidays are upon us!

What kind of traditions do you do with your kids? Family?

Is there a pecial way you "track" Santa or write letters to him?

Do you do some sort of special decorating for the holidays?

I'd love to hear everyone's ideas. Its my first Winter Holiday time with my son where he's really active into everything, and I want it to be fun for him.

It'll be Aden's first Christmas this year, so we don't have any traditions yet, but I'm really looking forward to starting some, and carrying on some from our families.

One that I really want to keep from my family is opening new PJs on Christmas Eve. That's always been my favourite one, I think, and I'd love to do it.

I'd really like to start making breakfast on Christmas morning too. I saw on the side of an egg nog carton a recipe for egg nog pancakes, so I think that could be something really cool to eat every year on Christmas.

When I was a kid, we'd track Santa on this website. Ah! Here it is: Norad Santa tracker. We'd just leave the window open or something and watch it all night until we went to bed. That's something really fun to do with your kids, at least I think so!

We don't have many traditions involving the holidays. Our daughter has only just figured out opening presents this year. And it will probably be the last year for switching which of our parents we go visit.

Normally, we decorate our two Christmas trees and the mantle. One day, we'll decorate outside too, just not yet... I don't trust our neighborhood. However, seeing as I have a two and a half year old and two kittens in the house this year, (and we're traveling) we're not breaking out the trees this year. I really don't feel like picking the tree up off the floor every morning.

As far as Santa goes, both me and my husband decided before we ever met that we weren't going to perpetuate the Santa myth with our children. I mean, I love the story of Santa, but now a days, it's seems to be just a reason to have to buy two sets of presents. We're gonna tell them the story and teach them to be sensitive to the fact that other children do still believe Santa exists.