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For me, it's always opening stockings first. No matter what there was enticing us under the tree, it's always been a tradition to open our stockings first. Another tradition associated with the stocking is that it usually contains some socks and underwear.
Opening stockings first for our family, too. (I love stockings and Easter baskets.) And growing up, our stockings always had a tangerine in the toe. Another tradition I love is advent calendars. Growing up we just had the paper ones with the little flaps.
ReplyDeleteMy kids have gotten many special ornaments through places we have traveled, from friends and family, and from me each year based on their interests or favorite characters that year. My children decorate their own tree in their bedrooms the weekend before Thanksgiving with their ornaments and tree skirts I made them. For each ornament they receive, I make a note on the ornament or on the box the year and who it came from or the event associated with it. Each year, as the kids pull out each ornament, they recollect the person or event or just call out "I remember this ornament" or "This is my favorite ornament". My kids are 10 and will likely leave my house with enough ornaments to decorate 2 trees at their own house.
ReplyDeleteEach Christmas since Mark and I have been together, we have gotten a dated ornament to add to our tree. Although this may not seem like a very important tradition, I always love opening up my decorations every year and seeing how long we have been together and reflect on the many memories we've had during those years.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is telling my mom I'll help her decorate the tree. I hang up a few ornaments and then "have to take a rest" and sit on the couch and watch her. All of the sudden, before I know it, the tree is decorated! ;) It happens EVERY SINGLE YEAR. Every time I offer to help, even though we both know I don't end up helping much haha.
ReplyDeleteWe go to Disneyland every holiday season and go on "It's a Small World" Christmas. Love it!
ReplyDeletemy favorite holiday tradition is just being with family and drinking wine
ReplyDeleteMy fav holiday tradition- making sugar cooking for my hubby, it's so fun and the cookies are scrumptious! what better way to spend a cold white holiday together!
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we actually have a few at our house. we always have an orange in our stockings.... always! we get a new special christmas ornament every year, and we always always have fresh pumpkin pie. my mom makes it from the halloween pumpkins... so super yummy!
ReplyDeleteg a new tradition this year, my 4 yo is really big into Thomas the train, so we are taking a santa train this year. Hopefully every year after.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is watching Miracle on 34th Street every Christmas Eve!
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ReplyDeleteI have so many favorite Christmas traditions... but i think my favorite is our Christmas Eve tradition- we go to a movie during the day (i have been doing this since we were little- my parents way of "killing time" since we were so antsy), going out to eat for dinner, and Christmas Eve candlelit service. Singing silent night by candlelite with everyone at church on christmas eve always makes me cry!!!!
My favorite holiday tradition is family night of watching the Polar Express on Christmas Eve. Can't wait :)
ReplyDeletei love all the traditions of christmas, but particularly the candlelight service on christmas eve and seeing the candlelight illuminate the excited faces of my kids. And i love sitting in the living room with my husband, drinking tea and shutting all the lights out except the christmas tree. dreamy.
ReplyDeleteTraditions for me have changed over the years. My favorite that we still do is on Christmas Eve we get to open up one present which is our Christmas pajamas! We then wear them while opening all of our gifts the next morning. I love it! :)
ReplyDeleteThe best thing our family does every year is all get together. Each side of my extended family makes a huge effort to all be together for Xmas. No small feat when you consider a total 14 aunts/uncles, over 30 cousins, spouses, kids.....but we all look forward to it and it is so much fun catching up with everyone!
ReplyDeleteWe always open gold presents on Christmas Eve which have our Christmas pjs in them. Love the pictures of my children all ready for bed in matching jammies.
ReplyDeleteOne of our family traditions is letting the kids open one present on Christmas Eve. This usually takes some time and they have to jiggle and rattle each package. We have an unusual Christmas dinner tradition of serving saurkraut with out meal. It tends to balance out all those starches.
ReplyDeleteI actually have two favorite traditions. 1)Each Christmas Eve before we get the cookies ready for Santa, out three kids get to open one present. The present contains new Christmas pajamas for them to wear that night and for Christmas morning. 2)Ever since our kids were newborns we have gifted them with dated ornaments. They each have their own collection of sleigh bells or holly bells that they get to hang on the tree each year. It's so excited to see the collections grow year after year, and know that someday they will be pasted along for their family tree.
ReplyDeleteA favorite is decorating the house together as a family...the kids get so into it!! Can't wait to do it this year!!
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas caroling with my extended family. We do it every year and it is such a fun way to celebrate the holiday's and bring some Christmas cheer to other's!
ReplyDeleteSince I was little my Mom bought me a new special ornament each year so that once I was an adult I had a whole set of ornaments for my own tree. Now I have started the same tradition for my own kids :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is making sugar cookies and just being with my family :)
ReplyDeleteI just love the Chritmas time..I really enjoy to do same special ornaments im my house and in my tree!!!!All my kids love todecorate our tree..I have a big one....
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Super cute! My family tradition involves decorating the tree. My condo doesn't have much storage, so I keep all my Christmas decorations at my parents house. When it's time to decorate, we all work together getting my home ready for the holidays ... so much fun!
ReplyDeleteThe food! I love gathering with the family and enjoying good food. Helps that I've married a wonderful chef! I also love getting out all of the wonderful ornaments I made with my mother when I was young. Makes me cry, but in a good way of remembering her.
ReplyDeleteOmgosh - want those! LOL My favorite tradition is buying a box of multicolored candles and making sure that on the 8th night of Chanukah, I had just the right rainbow mixture as all 8 candles burned on the menorah - I love that sight. :)
ReplyDeleteohhh love those!!!
ReplyDeletefave tradition opening new pjs on christmas eve and wearing them to bed and for chritmas morning pics!!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking. It doesn't really matter what holiday it is, I bake. And I love it! And so do those around me... ; )
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is pulling out all of our ornaments and telling the stories behind them as we put them on the tree!
ReplyDeleteI would have to say it would be our family get together the day before. We all have busy lives so for all of us to get together is a real special treat.
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas Eve day we would always go for a lamb roast at my Great Grandpas house in snowy, cold Minnesota. Then for dinner we would head to my Aunts house where we would play "white elephant."
ReplyDeleteWe love having GG's homemade scones for breakfast every Christmas morning!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition?
ReplyDeleteHaving my family friends over for our annual Christmas cookie baking extravaganza!
our cookies don't always come out well (brownies made out of brick, burnt gingerbread, crumbly sugar cookies) but we love each other's company!
My tradition isn't so much about the holiday itself - we have a standing appointment every year to meet up for after-Christmas day shopping!
ReplyDeleteI loved sneeking up early with my little sister and checking out what everyone got before they woke up. Then my mom would get up and put on an Elvis Christmas ablum and we would open presents =)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is the food. I just love the turkey and homemade cranberry applesauce. It's so good - along with the green bean casserole and the candied yams. Yum. I would just love to get my hands on those Elle Studio stamps too. Jealous!
ReplyDeleteOur traditional family champagne breakfast that I have had every year since I was a baby. I still make the breakfast every year even if I am unable to be with the family it doesn't feel the same without it.
ReplyDeleteOH where to start.... We open exchange gifts on Christmas Eve and we also do stocking first. oh and EVERYTHING is wrapped!!! none of this walk in and see everything at once and it's over in an instant crap. We take turns and watch as everyone opens their gifts so it lasts a longer it's wonderful!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition that we started is getting together with the girls and planning out and making our Christmas cards. We make a day and night of it and everyone brings goodies to eat while we create.
ReplyDeleteReading 'Twas the night before christmas' with my kids on Christmas Eve!! I love that with a young family, DH and I are adding new tradtions each year!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is the big family gathering, which I haven't had the chance to participate in for the last two years...
ReplyDeletegetting all the boxes down from the attic and finding the perfect spot for each and every decoration.
ReplyDeleteGoing out to pick out a Christmas tree on black friday and start to decorate the house with garland while the tree branches settle.
ReplyDeletemy favorite holiday tradition is absolutely getting to bake pies with my grandmother! it makes me so happy! :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is just spending the time with extended family. Wherever we are, we will be with a house full of relatives.
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas Eve our family stays the night with my husbands parents. We play games, have snacks and a few drinks. We also open 1 present before bed. It is a blast!
ReplyDeleteA favorite tradition from when I was a child was always opening one gift on Christmas Eve, and that one gift was always a new pair of pajamas so we would look cute for pictures in the morning. Now I enjoy buying/making an ornament to remember something special from the previous year. This year I'm getting a school bus ornament because my son started preschool this year.
ReplyDeleteOooooo... i LOVE those Elle's goodies!
ReplyDeleteEver since I married hubby, we've made it a Christmas tradition to come up with a non-traditional menu and invite the family over for festivities. one year, I did surf & turf. the next year i made a strata and we had a lavish breakfast. every year, it's something different.
My favorite holiday tradition would have to be the family Christmas cookie baking. Everyone comes to our house, bringing with them, the cookie cutters, sprinkles, and goodies. Scattered throughout the main floor of the house we all roll out the mixes and bake our creations. In the end, everyone gets a sampling of ~10 dessert types, instead of a whole batch of maybe 2 recipes that we would have made at our own houses. Plus, we get to spend time together making them!
ReplyDeleteEvery year since I turned one year old, my mother has presented me with a new ornament for the tree. The ornament always represents something about my life that year. I am so happy to be giving my daughters their own ornaments each year. Decorating the tree is like taking a walk down memory lane.
ReplyDeleteOur favourite holiday tradition is to put out a glass of beer for Santa (hence his big round tummy) and oats for the Reindeer's along with our wish lists. We also sprinkle glitter over the grass so Santa will see it glisten from his sleigh. We then hang a key on some ribbon from the front door so Santa can let himself in as my children pointed out that we don't have a chimney that he can come down.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is baking the week before Christmas with my sister, and then delivering all the goodie baskets to our family on Christmas Eve. We sit around & reflect on the past year :)
ReplyDelete~Cori S
i guess our favorite tradition is just being with family.
ReplyDeleteEvery year, the kids and I rent all the Christmas movies available at Blockbuster and we watch one (or two) every evening. They also take turns opening the drawers on the Advent Calendar to get the chocolate inside. This year, I plan on giving them their on Daily December journals so that they can chronicle the holiday season in their own point of view--something I hope to do with them every year.
ReplyDeleteStockings for us too! My brother and I were allowed to get our stockings whatever time we woke up as long as we didn't wake mom and dad up before 6. We're letting our kids do the same, it was so special for my brother and I and I hope that by boys feel the same.
ReplyDeleteThe question asked, "do I want to win?" Ummmmmmmmmmm, heck yeah. I adore Elle's they make great items.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition on Christmas Eve. is the one gift I give all the kids and let them open it up...is new pajamas and then we all sit around on the floor as my DH puts on his Santa hat and tells the Christmas Story from the Book of Luke. I love looking at my children as they listen. I always get choked up by the story and the love that fills us in that moment each and every year.
christmas a.m. we always open gifts one at a time to make the experience last as long as possible. then after all the hard work of opening gifts we make breakfast together! then go to grandma's house for more food and gifts!
ReplyDeleteI love to lay down under the Christmas tree in a dark room with the tree lights on and look up. It's just so peaceful.
ReplyDeleteHmm ... do I have to pick just one? Our stockings also always had an orange in the toe ... and a candy cane sticking out the end. Now, as an adult, I love our annual Christmas Open house - picture 50 odd people, a good 20 of them aged 7 and under filling every room in our house!! It's a blast! I also love the Christmas morning Wife Saver and lazing around in my pj's all day Boxing Day. The rule is that the cook gets to relax!
ReplyDeleteThe first night that our tree is set up and completely decorated, our kids get to camp out in the living room and sleep with the tree lights on. A little slumber party, the glow from the lights is so magical and really signifies the start to the season! Those goodies from Elles Studio are great!
ReplyDeleteMine is getting a letter ready for Santa with the boys to leave him on Christmas eve. And, we leave him cookies and milk and reindeer carrots too! The next morning, they have all been eaten up by Santa and the reindeer!
ReplyDeleteWe are EXTREMELY BUSY with visiting family on Xmas Eve and Xmas Day. While my kids get to open lots and lots of gifts, they don't get to play with any of them because we are enjoying the time with our extended family. So 2 years ago I named the day after Xmas TOY DAY. The 4 of us stay home all day and have fun with just our little family. We play with the toys together, play board games, drink hot cocoa, eat xmas cookies, and have PIZZA for dinner! After running around to 4 families in 24 hours the day before, it really helps us to enjoy US.
ReplyDeleteMy mom-in-law has a tradition whereby she creates Advent Calendars for all of us. They are different every year and contain gifts and sweet treats. Everyday, after reading a scripture, you are allowed to open one gift I have a photo of my son sitting looking at his advent with absolute longing in his eyes, wanting to open them all at once ... it's a wonderful tradition, especially for the kids ...
ReplyDeleteOur family celebrates Christmas on Christmas eve. We all hop in the car and go out to look at all the beautiful Christmas lights then retun home to open gifts and have a nice dinner.
ReplyDeleteThis tradition started when I was 5 and my sister was 3. We would go out Christmas eve to see all the pretty lights and to see if we could spot Santa, Rudolph and his sleigh. We never did see them, but he always found our house by the time we got home. Gifts were under the tree and there were tracks from his sleigh in the snow in our yard. Such good memories.
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around at night looking at lights. When we were kids, we would get to put on our jammies first, then go driving to the best neighborhoods for lights, then get doughnuts on the way home. So fun!!!
ReplyDeleteI love to make advent calendars for my husband. And another great tradition is that we make tons of cookies! The house smells so yummy all the time!!! My mother always wanted them to keep for christmas, but we sneeked some out. After christmas no one wanted to eat all the cookies any longer!
ReplyDeleteour family tradition is to decorate the tree as a family, with each child adding a personally hand made ornament.
ReplyDeleteWow, I just read all the previous posts and now I cant wait for Christmas to come. I especially loved the one who leaves out beer for Santa! LOL
ReplyDeleteMy faves:
1. All my brother-in-laws get super excited and wake up ridiculously early like 4AM, and the youngest is 18 years old. But they know that they cant open anything till mom makes the once a year German Apple Pancakes, sausage, more sausage, juice, and then some enough to feed an army.
2. I love making decorations, like advent calendars out of muffin tins, and sewn glove and stocking ornaments.
3. Getting to make fun of my brothers and sisters during the opening of presents. Laci in Alaska
oooohhhh, cherry-go-round for breakfast. It would simply NOT be Christmas without it!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I can pick one favourite tradition. For me it always starts with baking cookies on the first Advent weekend. Of course there is also the Adventwreath with 4 candles.
ReplyDeleteThe decorations also start going up the first Advent weekend but the tree will only go up the night from the 23rd to the 24th.
One new tradition for us is making, sending and receiving all those Christmas cards.
my favorite Christmas traditions are making handmade little gifts and while opening gifts let my mother (or me!) take too many photos!She make me laugh!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is sipping egg nog and listening to christmas tunes after decorating the house :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music!
ReplyDeleteegg nog, fire in the cheminée, family hugs and Christmas songs !
ReplyDeleteegg nog, fire in the cheminée, family hugs and Christmas songs !
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ReplyDeleteMaking dozens and dozens of Christmas cookies while listening to holiday music!
ReplyDeleteBreaking out the decorations the day after Thanksgiving. I love bringing in the holidays early. I can't wait!
ReplyDeleteAs kids we were allowed to pick out a present to open on Christmas Eve and then wait for morning to open the rest. Love the november kit.
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I love to make christmas cookies and decorate the tree with my family.
ReplyDeleteour tradition is firt we serve a ccktail and then we all open our presents at the same time and it is such a mess !
ReplyDeletelove it !!!
definitely the exchange of gifts. :)
ReplyDeletechristmas dinner at midnight - gian de la rama
ReplyDeleteEver since i have move to S'pore, my favorite Christmas tradition is walking along Orchard rd to see e beautiful decoration streets lightings & listern to the christmas songs played from e malls...
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Gift wrapping on Christmas eve at the mall, with the proceeds going to the year's pick of charity. My mother and I have done this tradition for over 6 years in a row. It has become one of my favorites to do. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favourite is the Three Holy Kings day. In Spain, it's the day we get our presents and it's exciting! I love it :)
ReplyDeletemy favourite holiday tradition is decorating the house, in particular decorating the tree :-)
ReplyDeletethanks for this chance to win^_^
It seemed growing up we had a tradition of getting the fire roaring before the kids came out to see the tree - and at least 3 years in a row my dad managed to fill the house with smoke....
ReplyDeletemy fave holiday tradition -- well I am gonna go with fall/Halloween, since thats the closet holiday :) --hope thats ok -- i love our pumpkin patch visits & actually, this applies for Christmas too! we go to the same place for our pumpkins as we do for our xmas trees & I love that tradition at Christmas, going to teh tree farm & having our tree cut fresh! love that! so much fun!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is watching The Snowman by Raymond Briggs on Christmas Eve. I've watched it every year since I was 3 and this year I'll be watching it with my son. :)
ReplyDeleteFor us too : opening stockings first !!!
ReplyDeleteand I love smell of the christmas tree.
I like decorate the tree with the kids !!! it's always so funny
ReplyDeletethanks for the chance
We always have an orange in our stockings, it's my favourite tradition
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my favorite moment is to see the eyes of the kids when they open presents on Christmas Eve
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I always cook with my mum and with my sister... that's my favorite tradition
ReplyDeleteAt Christmas we always sing some beautiful songs, and now with the kids around us it's magical
ReplyDeleteMy children use to create an hand made ornament, and add it to the family tree, it's so beautiful
ReplyDeleteI love decorating the house and the christmas tree, with special ornaments (some hand made), and cook some cakes for all the family and friends
ReplyDeletethanks for the chance to win on this reveal night
Making christmas cut-out cookies with my family. And in most recent years having a cookie (and wine) exchange with my co-workers.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is that my sister, mom and dad and us come together to cook and enjoy a special dinner.
ReplyDeleteremembering that Jesus is the reason for the season!
ReplyDeletewe always open stockings first too. my fave tradition is going on a horse drawn wagon ride in our town singing carols before meeting santa
ReplyDeleteThis will be my second Christmas with my husband, and the second time he'll be deployed during the holidays. =( So the only one we have so far is leaving the tree up until May or so when he gets back! (I know- Christmas for 5 extra months!!)
ReplyDeleteOur favorite tradition is staying home Christmas eve. We break out our new usually matching pj's make finger food including lots sweets,and warm mulled cranapple cider. Play games, watch movies and just hangout together. We all really look forward to this time every year, so we can slow things down and really enjoy the holiday.
ReplyDeleteI always make my favourite white chocolate cheesecake for dessert after christmas dinner. Not everyone likes plum pudding in my family. The cheesecake is a hit with my brother-in-law whom we don't get to see a lot of (being in the navy)so I am always happy to oblige and make this family favourite!
ReplyDeleteWe always have a chocolate orange and a satsuma in our stockings. It's not christmas without them!
ReplyDeleteI love getting the stocking on the morning og the 24th, where Santa has put chocolate and fruit in it and we all just chill out in pyjamas and wait for the big evening....
ReplyDeleteAnd I love the food, and yes - I admit - I love the presents :o)
My favorite tradition is just being with family.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition has always been to spend time with our family. It's been difficult some years as my husband and I both work shifts, and we were living away fromour families. We now live in the same town as my family and I do "bank" shifts, so can pick and choose when I work, so we do better these days. I think its really important especially now that we have our own children. Thank you for the chance to enter the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is hanging my old Santa that I got when I was a year old (that makes the Santa 51 this Christmas!!!) on the Christmas tree. He is the first thing that gets hung on the tree and the last ornament to come off when we take the tree down. I love that old guy!
ReplyDeleteOoh, I'm going to be cheeky and say that my favourite tradition is our pre-lunch champagne cocktail! It's the perfect kick-off to a wonderful day spent with family!
ReplyDeleteI love the tradition my mom had of always buying us new pajamas for Christmas and we alwas got to open those on Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteI love getting the ornaments out. I have some that I've picked up in places I've visited. I have others I made and still others from my students. It's fun to go through the box of ornaments and reminisce!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is making NEW traditions with my 3 year old daughter! Last year we started a new tradition of making cookies for Santa which I can't wait to repeat this year :)
ReplyDeleteLove dressing the tree...and taking photos!
ReplyDeleteOurs is getting my kids to help decorate the tree...
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is haing a personal Christmas tree. Each and every ornament has a special meaning to us and reminds us of a time in our lives. They may not all match, or look cohesive like the beautiful trees in the stores, but the tree is ours and tells its own story. My kids each get a new ornament to remind them of something that has happened or something they have enjoyed in the past year.
ReplyDeleteopening stockings is my favorite holiday tradition....followed by all the food!
ReplyDeleteLove the giveaway and REALLY wanting to buy the new kit. Awesome!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with my mom. Every year we set aside a day to make chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, m&m, no bake oatmeal, and sugar cookies. Now that my son is old enough to help, he looks forward to it too!
Haven't had too much time to make traditions, but this year, it'll definitely be putting up the tree. Especially now that we have gotten a ton of special ornaments throughout the year. That might be our first tradition...buying ornaments together wherever we go.
ReplyDeleteI love decorating my tree, and remembering all the stories behing where I bought each ornament. Then going to my parents' house and helping decorate their tree too!
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the christmas lunch with my family, 'cause there are some relatives that i only get to see at this day.
ReplyDeleteopening up the ornament oboxes each year with the kiddos. They love hearing the stories behind each and every one. :)
ReplyDeletedecorating the tree and sending cards! :)
ReplyDeleteMy fave holiday tradition is decorating a gingerbread house.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is watching "Christmas Vacation" together as a family- we crack up the whole time even though we've seen it many, many times!
ReplyDeleteDinner...always dinner. My Sister and her family come over abd we eat!
ReplyDeleteWowserz - this is one fantabulous giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteMy fav tradition has to be baking, Just love spending time making those delish cookies with my family! ;o)
we have many but the main ones are also opening stocking first! We also put on our fav ornaments from our childhood. and my moms homemade rolls! yummy
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition that I grew up with and continue for my children is making and decorating sugar cookies. All 4 kids and some cousins each get to cut out and decorate their own cookies- the sky is the limit when it comes to the icing and sprinkles they choose! We have had some masterpieces that have tasted wonderful. Another tradition is having a Christmas picture taken each year- it really makes you appreciate how the children have grown over one year.
ReplyDeletewe always baked a birthday cake for Jesus on Christmas Eve....and now my kids do too!!
ReplyDeleteI love watching Mickey's A Christmas Carol. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition started when I got a little older. My mom always got us stuff for our stockings, but she never got anything. One year, I changed that. I went out and bought her all sorts of stuff! It was so fun, we kept it going for years!
ReplyDeleteEvery year we meet up with my parents and we each pick out a real Christmas tree. It is always a fun day.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad always read "The Night Before Christmas" aloud with all the grandchildren piled on his lap. Now that he is no longer with us, we still curl up on the couch and read the story while reminiscing about Grandpa.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite traditions on Christmas period is to decorate the tree with my daughter, she is 3 years old so you could easily imagine how it is magical for her, and for me of course. This year, I think our twin of 2 years old will also help us to decorate it, sure it will be fun !!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteCrazy giveaway !Thx for a chance to win ;)
I love lighting Chanuka candles and singing the traditional songs--especially this year since my first anniversary will be on Chanuka.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is to watch A Christmas Story (which is on for 24 hours on TBS on Christmas day!) while we are opening the presents! We love that movie!! :)
ReplyDeleteMy fave tradition also involves stockings. In my husband's family, everyone buys a little something for everyone else's stocking, so it's fun to shop for them and also to open them.
ReplyDeletefor me we always had to wait until our parents were ready to get up. I remember waking up so early and the anticipation while we waited for them to get up and settled. The it was a mad dash to stockings and santa presents. Now my parents spend the night on Christmas eve so they can see our son wake up.
ReplyDeleteI have so many holiday traditions that it's hard to pick one! We always get new pjs for Christmas and open them Christmas Eve after mass to sleep in that night. As my kids have gotten older it has gotten challenging to find unique pajamas for them - it was easy when I could just get Dosney character ones!
ReplyDeleteWonderful giveaway!
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Decorating the tree is definitely up there. There is something about Christmas preparation that is always so much fun for the whole family
ReplyDeleteleaving (and eating) the cookies left out for the big man in the red suit! Delicious.
ReplyDeleteMelissa F.
snacks with santa at our local zoo! my mother in law & father in law started this tradition when the 1st grandchild was born. there are now 10 grandchildren under the age of 8! one year we were the largest group at the zoo so we got a special picture with santa!
ReplyDeleteGifts. And the tree..
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is the lighting of the luminaries on Christmas Eve. In our town therre are many neighborhoods that line their walkways and sidewalks with white luminaries and the effect is just magical. We used to drive around and look at the houses all lit up and now we live in the middle of it and go out for a walk with hot chocolate and enjoy.
ReplyDeleteMy kids and all their cousins act out the nativity scene as their grandfather reads the Christmas story each year.
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas pajamas the night before is always one of our favorites. There's nothing like a new pair of PJs to get you all set to open presents!
ReplyDeletejust getting together and having fun, nothing in particular!
ReplyDeleteChristmas caroling still is fun for us!
ReplyDeleteWe always have a very traditional English Christmas in our house...Brussels Sprouts, watching the Queen's Speech and playing a boardgame after lunch. I love Christmas!!
ReplyDeleteMaking things for friends and family....Love the advent calendar...baking cookies and candies....picking out the tree a favorite tradition..decorating the house...when the day comes we love to celebrate by opening the stockings first then spending time with family....oh the list could go on and on....then there's shopping!!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is the candlelight singing of Silent Night when we go to church. It is in tha moment that I truly feel the meaning of Christmas.
ReplyDeleteChristmas Cookies by the fire on Christmas Eve
ReplyDeleteI love our traditional Christmas tree and the kids love the countdown calendar I fill with candy, money and coupons each year.
ReplyDeletea holiday tradition for my husband and I is decorating the tree together. We each put out our special ornaments and talk about where they came from
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to pick a favorite - I'd have to say making gingerbread houses with the kids at home, then making a huge round with my kid's entire class! I make 25 graham cracker houses at home over a couple of days, and in school the kids decorate them. It's the closest I"ll ever get to feeling like the "Cake Boss" - trying to get those houses loaded in the car, through the school halls & into the classroom without breaking them is almost comical! But it's all worth it to see the look on the face of a child who doesn't get the opportunity to make a gingerbread house at home - and to witness their creativity!
ReplyDeleteLasagna for dinner on Christmas Eve. With days of turkey, stuffing and the fixings in the future - lasagna is a make-ahead dinner that can be taken from the freezer and heated. Little effort for a busy time.
ReplyDeleteI love decorating the tree. It's a mess and takes an entire day, but I love it.
ReplyDeleteNew pj's for the kiddies and me on Christmas Eve starts getting everyone ready for the big day day!
ReplyDeleteEating at my in-laws for lunch, taking a nap and then getting up to eat at my dad's for supper. Ahhhh... the sweet life!
ReplyDeleteGetting together at my Mom's with all my siblings and their families! It's a huge party...SO much fun to be all together : )
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is putting out the cookies & milk for Santa, then going out on the porch to sprinkle "reindeer dust" where we want Santa's reindeer & sleigh to land. The reindeer also get left some yummy carrots! It is a magical tradition at our house that I don't know if I'll be able to stop someday :)
ReplyDeleteMine is what we do over the entire Thanksgiving weekend. We get to see relatives that we haven't seen in ages on Thanksgiving Day, followed by trimming trees on Friday (not into the shopping frenzy that day), then decorating the rest of the house over the weekend. We put up a tree in each of the 4 bedrooms and one in the playroom - 5 trees keep the house twinkling and bright!
ReplyDeletei love our advent devotions each night leading up to Christmas. it's such a special time to remember and teach our children why we celebrate this holiday!
ReplyDeleteChristmas night we gather as a family and sleep in the living room by the Christmas tree. All decked out in our new pajamas, we lay next to each other under the twinkling lights and reminisce of what our favorite thing that happened that month. After such a busy day (and month) it's nice to just relax and enjoy it all.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many little traditions that I love, but I'll say our Christmas Eve supper with fried ham sandwiches and the non-stop snacking that follows is my favorite.
ReplyDeleteWe open our stockings 1st and there is always an orange in it and some fun necessities. We always have a fun breakfast like a special pumpkin bread or pastry and then steak and baked potatoes and salad for our Chrstmas dinner meal. Just love being together withour 2 daughters.
ReplyDeleteWe read the story of Christ's birth from Luke 2 every Christmas morning before opening any gifts... as the kids get older, they've been reading it to us & it's like opening my eyes to a new story when I hear their little voices recounting it. That's my favorite tradition by far.
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As a kid mine was always that on Christmas Eve my Mom would let me pick one present that was under the tree and open it. I will do the same with my daughter when she gets a little older.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is baking bread and cookies with my kids and my mom. We have a great time together and it's just the simple little things like that during the holiday season that mean the most. : )
ReplyDeleteI have a three year old and a 18 month old. Growing up we didn't have many traditions s last years I started a few for our household. Starting on Dec. 1st I tell them a story and each night I add to that story. The story ends on the 25th. I make sure each night write down the story and before new years I put it into a nice book to give them. Another tradition is picking out or making an ornament that represents their them for the past year. I look forward to continuing our own traditions!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition - leaving out some stuff for Santa and the reindeer - my girls are 14 and 11 and I know we will still be doing it again this year!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Holiday tradition is going Christmas Tree hunting with my fiance, and then coming home and having hot chocolate before we decorate it.
ReplyDeletemy favorite tradition is driving around to see the Christmas lights!
ReplyDeleteWe have alot of traditions - my oldest daughter thinks if you do it once, it's a tradition. We always do the stockings first, then pass out presents. But you have to wait your turn to open & then only one. It takes a long time, but everyone's gift gets the attention it should. Then it's a special breakfast. The menu varies, but I try to make it extra special.
ReplyDeleteFirst our kids have a "double header" Christmas concert in church. Then we host Christmas Eve with my side of the family, and always have the kids open presents in order by age, youngest to oldest.
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Reading the night before Christmas on Christmas eve to my son
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is to update our felt advent calendar every night (along with a chocolate one--I think the kids enjoy both, but the chocolate one is my favorite-of course!) We also have to feed the reindeer on Xmas eve...it's not Christmas without oats and glitter!
ReplyDeleteCount me in! My favorite holiday tradition is candle light services on Christmas eve. What a wonderful time to reflect the nativity.
ReplyDeleteAlthough it never really started out with the hopes that it would become a tradition, a favorite tradition of mine is Christmas Eve wrapping. Everyone in the family comes from all different places and we are always so busy with travel arrangements and making everything just perfect that we never quite find the time to wrap the presents. Now, on Christmas Eve, after Mass and Grandma's house, we all go in a different room hording the wrapping papers and tape dispensers, so we can wrap presents for eachother. It always makes me laugh because we get so creative in making sure you cannot see what is being wrapped from the door because it is inevitable that someone will always try to barge in when you least expect it with hopes to see what presents ight be for them!
ReplyDeleteGrandpas pancakes on Christmas Eve morning after we open stockings. I love that the holiday starts early in my family.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas Eve we have a family dinner and enjoy each others company for hours. At the end of the night we all open one present.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite tradition is a recent one (for the last six or seven years) of watching It's a Wonderful Life on dvd with my husband every Christmas Eve - such a lovely film; makes you really re-focus and appreciate life :oD
ReplyDeleteWe get to open one present on Christmas Eve and it is ALWAYS new pj's. At 37 my mom still buys them for me and as a mom I buy them for my girls - 6 and 8. LOVE IT!
ReplyDeleteA tradition that has been around since I was a kids is opening one present on Christmas Eve...for my children it is always matching PJ's in the holiday theme of course. Another one we started a few yrs ago is the Elf on the Shelf...my kids named him Pepermint and they are already anticipating his arrival in our home this Holiday season!!
ReplyDeleteSince I was kid we always have one kind of toast we call here "Rabanada". I really don't know what is the name in english. We used to make it on the day 24 to eat it on 25th breakfast. Now that i havemy own place, i still do it. The recipe is from the grandmother of my grandmother and i do it exactly like they used to do.
ReplyDeleteWe have many traditions durning the holidays. I think my favorite would be the time we spend together stringing the popcorn and cranberries for the tree garland!
ReplyDeleteFirst off these goodies are FABULOUS!! But now to pick ONE holiday tradition....ugghhhh there are so many. I have to say Christmas eve when we do stockings we always a smorgasbord of everyone's favorite appetizers. YUMMMMYYYY!! We make it last all night so it's lots of fun and a HUGE mess!
ReplyDeleteWe take turns opening presents. This way everyone can see what each has gotten. All get to enjoy the item being opened this way. It works pretty good and it makes the time together as family very important.
ReplyDeleteGoing to cut down our tree.
ReplyDeleteKathyv
I started a new tradition with my daughter last year - making gingerbread houses. I can't wait to do it again this year!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite traditions is setting up the Christmas tree as a family everyone gets to help decorate and put their special touch on our Holiday.Another favorite tradition that was started a few years ago was documenting December with a December Daily Album.We love to go through the past albums and everyone gets a kick out of the past and the traditions that have been kept.
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Every Christmas Eve, after midnight services, we open one gift each, and it is, you guessed it, new Christmas p.j.s!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is making our family Christmas card!
ReplyDeleteopening my sisters gifts, and a pair of PJ's from my parents on christmas eve each year!
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Megan
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with family around the piano on Christmas Eve and singing Christmas Carols. We usually have a marvelous time!
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I love decorating the tree. It's always fun to look at all the ornaments and tell stories of where they were from.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite tradition is going out to look at all the decorations on Christmas Eve. So many Oh's and Ahh's and just plain beauty.
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