Liz Atwood talks about Christmas traditions in this week's Tween Tuesday: 

Do you recall the scene in the classic movie A Christmas Story where Ralphie’s aunt gives him a rabbit costume and his parents make him put it on? Poor kid, he was so embarrassed.

Well, I don’t dress my sons in costumes or even make them wear matching sweaters, but I have one Christmas tradition that I’m sure they would like to forego.  Ever since my older son’s first Christmas when he was four months old, I have taken a picture of him holding a plastic reindeer. When his brother came along, I took a picture of him with the reindeer as well.  I always pose them in the same chair and holding the same reindeer I picked up at a flea market long ago.

Don’t ask me why I do it. I have no idea. Although I had a reindeer just like this one when I was a kid, my parents didn’t take pictures of me with it.  My sons, now 9 and 14, moan and groan about posing with the reindeer each year. One day they will probably be in a psychiatrist’s office recounting how their mother humiliated them at Christmas each year. But, I’m going to try to get them to do it again this year. Perhaps I can bribe them with Christmas cookies or extra video game time.

Do you have any holiday traditions at your house that you just don’t want to do without no matter how old the kids are?