Tradition!!
I love tradition.
When my older children were just little I started using a code to label their Christmas presents. I started this to keep them from spending all day shaking their presents and figuring out what they were getting.
As the years went by. . . 
it became a tradition.
It became a race each year . . .
to see how long it would take them to break mom's code. Which they did every year! I simply use one letter per child and that letter stands for something that has to do with that child.
Even the year that I put the first letter of each of their Sunday School teachers, they had it figured out before breakfast was over! How do they do it?? There have been years when I have given them just a little clue, not that they couldn't eventually have figured it out, but I did it more just to save my sanity. :) They usually don't take too many breaks until they figure it out!
Even though a lot of my yearly traditions have kind of been outgrown by my older ones, they go along with it anyway for the sake of the younger ones. So it made my day to place the presents under the tree the other night and see the older 3 dive right in, trying to figure out the code! I finally went to bed at 11:30 on Saturday night and they were still at it. It actually took them until Sunday evening this year.
I love traditions!
They make life fun!
