Memories and Traditions of the Holidays

With RocketMoms’ assignments and Giant Squid Challenge support, I’ve created three new lenses. I’ve had a lot of fun creating lenses for RocketMoms’ shopping lenses and adding to their unique holiday gift ideas. As I work on holiday lenses, I’ve enjoyed visiting memories of past Christmas seasons and family traditions.

My son creates stop animation movies with Legos, so you can imagine that any LEGO set is big on his Christmas list. The Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 actually lets you build a real, moving robot. It’s amazing what you can build with this kit. You can build four different types of robots. The robot can move, sort colors, talk, and many other motions that you create with computer software and download into your robot project.

One of the RM assignments was to create and share a kitchen lens:  a product / gadget, tip, or recipe. I realized how much my family loves salt & pepper shakers and always sets out special Christmas Salt and Pepper Shakers.  I have a couple holiday shaker sets, like my cute reindeers, and I found more wonderful shaker sets. My shopping list has grown (I loved the kissing Santa shakers). The lens brought back loving memories of my mom and her Christmas table settings.

I started thinking about other holiday memories and traditions, as I built a funny lens on how to celebrate “A Christmas Story” Christmas For Your Family. Our family watches the movie, A Christmas Story, every year. My husband and son think it’s hilarious, and it’s been added to our traditional Christmas movie queue.

I also entered a Twittermoms’ blog contest on your five favorite holiday activities with your kids. What are your traditions for the holidays? Is there some family activity that makes your Christmas special? I’d love to hear about it.