Traditions To Bring Your Family Closer This Holiday Season

Merry Christmas from your Neighborhood Credit Union family. We hope this holiday season brings you peace, joy and love. Your membership is a gift to our credit union every day, and we thank you whole heartedly for continuing to trust us with your financial well-being.

You put your family’s financial future in our hands each and every day. We would like to say thank you by giving you some ideas and traditions to help strengthen your family times and create holiday memories to last a lifetime. Creating family traditions is one of the most important things you can do to strengthen family ties. Here are some created by Once Upon a Family.

Kindness Box

Wrap a shoe box like a present and cut a small slit in the top. Place the box, along with a pen and pad of paper, in a central location of your home, like the dining room table or maybe under the Christmas tree. Every time a family member notices another family member doing something kind, have them write it down and place it in the box. On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, gather around the tree and have someone read the notes out loud. This is a nice way to take focus off of presents an put it on family values.

Reindeer Mix

Make reindeer mix with once up of oats, one cup of barley and two spoonfuls of gold glitter. Tell your children this is the mix that gives Santa’s reindeer energy. On Christmas Eve, have the children place the mix in a bowl or sprinkle it on the lawn, where most of it will dissolve in the morning dew. If they leave it in a bowl, discard most of it, leaving only a little as evidence that the reindeer made it to your house that night.


In Your Shoes

Put each family member’s name in a hat, and have them draw names (not their own). Have them trace the foot of the person whose name they picked, cut it out and write three things that make the person different from them or three things they respect about that person. Spend time sharing these reflections as a family and try to appreciate the differences that make your family both special and unique. This is another tradition that takes the focus off of gifts and puts it on the important people in our lives.

What are some of your family’s favorite Christmas traditions? Please click on Comment below and share them with your Neighborhood Credit Union family.

We hope you have a very merry Christmas!