On the 9th day of Christmas my true love gave to me:

……pajamas.  Several years ago when my son was small we started the tradition of buying new pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve.  Really, it was born out of vanity because I wanted everyone to look cute on Christmas morning for photos.  Everyone in my family loves this tradition and looks forward to their new pajamas, which we aren’t allowed to wear until Christmas Eve.   I think that it would be so cute if we all had matching pajamas from The Company Store, but I just don’t plan far enough in advance.  You would think ordering pajamas mid-November would be enough time, but no, they are all sold out by then.   And I just can’t get my head around planning for Christmas in early October.

But this year we managed to match gender at least, the boys have the same pajamas as do my daughter and I.   The girls were easy; PJ Savage has several styles for big people and little people.   We got cupcake flannel pajamas at Nordstrom;  bam-boom, in and out, easy peasy.  The boys?….not so much.  We went to Belk, (which has a great men’s department at Phipps Plaza; I can’t vouch for any other Belk) and there was a sea of pajamas–so many choices that they couldn’t decide.   And it didn’t help that there was a flat screen TV showing a football game.  It took forever to get out there, but finally they decided on a Ralph Lauren thermal top and cotton pajama bottoms.

We broke tradition this year and put the pajamas on last week to take our Christmas photo, but afterwards they went back in the drawers until Christmas Eve.   Usually we put them on late night, after everyone leaves our house, but I think that I will have a pajama party this year and ask everyone coming over to wear pajamas.  That sounds like fun!

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The 12 Days of Christmas by Funkidivagirl

On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me….the words to the song.

On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love gave to me….Christmas cards.

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me….Chili Dawg.

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…..a Christmas vacation.

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me…..Santa Claus.