We want to start a Christmas tradition. Any ideas?

[Kayzr]

This is our first Christmas living together and we would love to start some sort of family tradition. Last year we both had our own houses, even though DP stayed over.

He has his family tradition. His mum always made the same meal on christmas eve which we are going to do this year.
In my family we always put the decorations up before my brothers birthday and we didn't eat the chocolates on the tree until we took it down.

We also want to start our own that we can carry on over the years. But we have no idea what.

Any ideas of something we can do as a family?

Thank you.

Long-suffering dogs must wear compulsory Christmas tinsel.

My sister and I each had a mini artificial tree to have in our rooms, with brightly coloured lights and decorations (I now wonder if it was a way to keep them off our traditional normal tree?). We'd spend the first Saturday in December "decorating" our rooms then unveil them and show our parents round whilst we drank "mulled wine" (hot ribena). Then every night during December we'd fall asleep with our tree lights on.

The girls are only 3 and 18mths so not been doing kiddy ones for long but so far its
The Snowman DVD on Christmas eve. Thought out December really too! (oh and Nov this year! )
Tree goes up first weekend of December.
Named stockings on the fireplace.
Chinese for dinner on Xmas eve.

This year we are starting Elf on the Shelf.

Christmas Tree goes up after the 9th December ( DD2's birthday is on the 9th). The girls decorate it when they were little DH did it with them, then when they got old enough they decorated it themselves. The last 2 years DD2 and 3 have done the tree as DD1 is now married. This year it'll probably be DD3 as DD2?doesn't finish uni until the16th. Up until last year they made paper chains during the week the decorations went up both for downstairs and their rooms. Used to have breakfast with Santa when they were little.