Boxing Day
Boxing Day is a largely British holiday that is now associated with shopping deals and going to soccer games on the day after Christmas, but its history is much more noble. It’s slightly ambiguous whether it was based around churches opening their alms boxes after Christmas to distribute to the poor or whether it was masters giving their postmen, errand boys, and servants the day after Christmas off to go celebrate with their own families and sending them off with a box of gifts and bonuses. Regardless, it was often a day for generosity.
Our family tried to continue that spirit by partnering with our local Senior Citizen’s Nurses program to go as a family and deliver Christmas gift bags to local senior citizens. Needless to say, the twins were a hit… even if they didn’t always keep on their elf ears 🙂 We also put together gift boxes for our mailman and our day care teachers.
Beyond that, it was a day full of “box”-themed items and keeping it simple. Holiday-themed boxed cereal, boxed mac and cheese, frozen pizza, and boxed wine. We had some fun with boxes of crayons and 1970s's top Christmas toy Rock ‘ Em Sock ‘ Em Robots as well as “Junk in the Trunk” Minute to Win It. And, as is fitting for one of the biggest soccer days of the year, we watched England take on France in the World Cup.
MENU:
Holiday Boxed Cereal
Boxed Mac & Cheese
Pizza Box
Boxed Wine
Boxed Brownies
Box of Chocolates
ACTIVITIES:
Delivering Gift Bags to Local Senior Citizens
Gift Boxes to Post Man & Day Care Workers
Box of Crayons / Christmas Drawings
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
“Junk in the Trunk” Minute to Win It
Christmas Boxers
Soccer (England vs. France) on the "Magic Box" (ie: TV)
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