Start a Lasting Christmas Memory

Christmas memories are important to you and your family. But you don't want them all blurring together. Make lasting memories so you can live them all again.

Steps

 * 1) Make a bauble with the year on it. At Christmas, take a picture, then print it and put it Inside the bauble. Do this every year. After a few years, you will have a whole tree of memories of past Christmases.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 1.jpg|center]]
 * 2) Make a journal or guest book just for Christmas. Have everyone sign it and add a message about how much they enjoyed this Christmas. After a few years, it should be full of memories. Then make another one for the next coming years.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 2.jpg|center]]
 * 3) Take lots of photos every Christmas and keep them in a photo album. Bring it out every Christmas to remember past ones.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 3.jpg|center]]
 * 4) Make a tradition just for your family. Repeat it every year and nobody will forget it.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 4.jpg|center]]
 * 5) Include your pets. Pets can be with you for Christmas and in your photos. Then you will remember the Christmas by which pets were in the pictures.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 5.jpg|center]]
 * 6) Put a Christmas decoration in water. Freeze it. Any time you take it out, it will be preserved in the ice and will remind you of the last Christmas.[[Image:Start a Lasting Christmas Memory Step 6.jpg|center]]

Tips

 * Ask your children to make memory items. Put their age and date on it for future memories.

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