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Allison Czarnecki of Petit Elefant
Allison Czarnecki lives in Utah with her husband and two kids, a daughter age 10 and a son age 5. She writes about fashion/travel/family/home, and also is a fashion stylist.
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How we celebrate Christmas Eve
How we celebrate Christmas Eve with my little family of four is vastly different from how my family growing up celebrated Christmas. I’m one of eight kids, so Christmas was an entirely different prospect altogether, but Christmas Eve especially so. Everyone’s holiday traditions are so different, and my new family traditions took a bit of getting used to in the early years.
As a kid on Christmas Eve we grew up singing Christmas carols around the tree, 10 family members and a dog in various poses of slouching all over the family room furniture. Sometimes we’d go to my grandparents’ house for dinner, have a blessing on the food and spend the evening in song and general merriment. Once in a while we’d watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and we always, always went to bed early so Santa would come fill our stockings.
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