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"Part of the reason Christmas felt so magical when you were a kid was because of all the special things you did only at that time of year, like sing Christmas carols or help decorate your mom&amp;#39;s famous sugar cookies. (OK, fine. Also because of presents.)\nAnd once you start celebrating the holidays with the person you love, it&amp;#39;s even more special to share your traditions with them and start your own to look forward to all year. Don&amp;#39;t have an annual ritual with your guy yet? Here&amp;#39;s a list of 23 suggestions to inspire you to start one. (Um, you don&amp;#39;t need to do all of them, unless you secretly found a way to make each day during the holiday season have 10 extra hours in it.)\nPinterestFacebook\nDo a movie-marathon night of your mutual favorite holiday movies, like It&amp;#39;s a Wonderful Life, Elf, and Love Actually. (He knows he secretly likes it.)\nMake a special meal of both of your traditional holiday favorites.\nDo good together: Volunteer to make holiday visits at a nursing home, provide gifts for a family in need, or help collect for a local coat drive.\nAgree to skip the shopping and buy yourselves one nice mutual gift like a record player for the house, or a pricey bottle of Scotch to enjoy together.\nMake a ritual of putting up a particular decoration in your house: an Advent calendar or matching stockings with your names on them.\nSend your friends and family a funny joint card.\nOr exchange naughty cards with just each other for fun.\nGo to a Christmas-tree farm to cut down your own.\nBundle up with some travel mugs of (possibly spiked) hot cocoa for a romantic moonlight stroll.\nGet a grown-up picture with Santa. (You&amp;#39;re never too old.)\nForget your usual cool and don matching holiday sweaters. Or pajamas, if you&amp;#39;re too embarrassed in public.\nTake a day off work together mid-December to actually relax in the midst of all shopping/traveling/cooking chaos.\nGo ice skating.\nBuy each other one special ornament each year so you&amp;#39;ll eventually have a collection of memories to decorate your tree with, instead of a jumbo pack of generic bulbs from Target.\nFill each other&amp;#39;s stockings with your favorite candies before Christmas (and then eat them for weeks).\nHave a moment of reflection by telling each other your favorite memory of the year that&amp;#39;s almost past.\nIntroduce each other to one of your own family&amp;#39;s traditions.\nExchange at least one homemade gift.\nExchange &amp;quot;experience&amp;quot; gifts instead of material gifts: a photography class, a weekend at a B&amp;amp;B, concert tickets, etc.\nHost an annual party for all your friends with a fun theme, like White Elephant or ugly sweaters.\nDrive around the ritziest neighborhood in your town to look at the fancy houses&amp;#39; lights.\nIf you aren&amp;#39;t so into family time, make the most of the days off by making this your usual vacation slot and jetting off to somewhere warm.\nAfter the year&amp;#39;s first snowfall, make snow angels in your backyard or the park.\n\nDo you have any special traditions with your guy for the holidays? Please share so we can all copy them!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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