Christmas, with all its traditions, marks time for all of us, with the annual photos of us all in traditional poses, changing slowly over the years, but it’s most marked in how our kids change over the years. You may notice some of the following if your kids are now in school and beyond the toddle years. … Your children are graduating from roles as shepherds and cows in the Christmas pageant to speaking roles. … Your older child writes out the Santa letter for the one who still can’t do more than print his name. … You see a note in the cookbook that the process used to take four hours and you all laugh.