The Night Before Christmas {Flashback Friday}

The theme for this week's Flashback Friday is Christmas traditions and while we have a lot of traditions the thing I remember most from when I was little is Christmas Eve. Our Christmas days were different year to year depending on where we were for our dinner and who else was there but Christmas Eve has always been the same for as far back as I can remember and it's still the same now in my own house, with my own little family.

Firstly my parents would start preparing Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve so the house always smelled amazing. Me and my brother would have a bath and my Mum would leave our new Christmas pyjamas on our beds to get changed into. New pyjamas are a must for Christmas Eve, this is probably the most important tradition kept up in my house! More often than not she would then plait my wet hair so it would be curly for Christmas Day. We then had to have an obligatory photo taken in front of the Christmas Tree, with our poor pets who were pounced on and grappled to stay still. In our house Father Christmas wasn't a fan of the traditional mince pie and sherry, we left a brandy and a Mars Bar. Coincidently, this was my Mum's favourite drink and my Dad's favourite chocolate! We haven't done this yet in our house but I think the sherry may be substituted for a whiskey. I still keep up the tradition of us having photos in front of the tree although I didn't manage to get the cat on one last year. I've dug out a small selection of our Christmas Eve photos and even thrown in one I found of hubby too. This year I will make sure that Lucas is subjected to the pyjama Christmas Eve shot, including cat!

 

I'm linking this up to Mummy Mishaps and Real Housewife of Suffolk Country.