The Boy's Store Blog — Traditions

We have a birthday coming up, and every year we try to take a little birthday interview asking our kids some things about themselves. It changes every year. As they grow and change so do their favorites, their fears, and their goals. We ask the same set of questions every year to see how they change. It has become a very sweet tradition, and we love to review their past answers each year. We do ours on a chalkboard that we photograph them holding for every birthday.  We ask several questions: What is your favorite color? What is your favorite...

You may find that when you have kids you have your own schedule. This applies to practically everything, and most importantly of all, bedtime. Everyone is different. Our family tends to go to sleep early since we wake up early. This is just routine for us. We try not to enforce a bedtime at holiday time or break time, but it happens by habit. This means we are often ready for bed around 9PM. So New Year's Eve can be a bit of a downer. Thank goodness Netflix says 9PM is the new midnight! Netflix for the last 5 years...

Our kids are really into Santa this year. It is the fun magical age where everything they imagine is real to them. We try to make sure the magic lasts as long as possible and we can enjoy it as much as our children can. So we go all out with the Scout Elves, creating fun scenarios for them to find each morning. We also worked on our Santa letters and we are beginning to bake our fancy Christmas cookies to leave out on Christmas Eve. This year, however, we thought we would try something new: We have become big...

I absolutely love a good baby photo, especially during the holidays. Some of my favorite photos of my kids as babies are when they are all dressed up in holiday-themed outfits. I still frame them and place them out to enjoy every holiday. Now you can grab a few sweet little baby boy holiday onesies on sale and make sure that the baby in your life has a great holiday photo to commemorate the cuteness forever. Baby Boys' Jolly Holiday Coverall by le top: This adorable Santa-themed coverall will deck out your little guy as if he is the jolly...

We sit together as a family for the holidays. We used to do a kids' table but now we just let the kids sit with us at the Thanksgiving table. To keep them busy we try to have little activities at the table. We keep Mad Libs, coloring pages, and we all play ice-breaker games together. This year our kids are really into Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, so we tried to incorporate them into our ideas this year. We found some great coloring pages at Holidappy. We found some fun Mad Libs from Country Living. What do you...