My Christmas Toast to Tradition – A Giveaway (Closed)
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This is a sponsored post from BlogHer and Welch’s. The first weekend of November, my children excitedly ran into the house, “MOM, Mr. Chris is up on his roof.” This is an annual event that marks the official start of the Christmas season in our neighborhood. Mr. Chris is well known for his extravagant Christmas decorations. Our quiet little street becomes a major thorough-fare during the holidays, as people from far and wide come to see his house. And we have front row seats every year. Because his decorations are so complicated, he has to begin decorating around the first part of November, so that on the night of Thanksgiving, he can flip the switch.
This picture doesn’t even do his work justice, as I could not possibly fit everything in, as well as the fact that he also decorates the interior of his garage with all manner of automated Christmas figures and trains. I’ve told Mr. Chris that he must never ever move, because his Christmas tradition means so much to the children of the neighborhood. And the “big” kids as well. We don’t go quite so grand when decorating the exterior of our house, but I do get a smidge carried away when assembling the traditional Christmas village in our family room. A couple of years ago, I added just a bit of drama for the villagers, in the form of Dino the Dinosaur.
After the children got over the initial horror, they greatly anticipate Dino’s return each and every year. My kids also delight in setting up our nativity scene. We have two, of course. The breakable version, which goes up high. And the non-breakable one that the kids set up. Every day I enjoy seeing what configuration the children come up with. Some days, a Wise Man can be spotting perched atop the manger. But, I have custody of the baby Jesus, and he appears in his tiny bed on Christmas morning. Other favorite traditions include the special 5 foot Christmas tree placed in the front of the house, which the children get to decorate any way they choose. With all manner of dolls, cars, paper cups, and hair bows, if desired. They think that mommy is being generous while allowing them their very own tree. What they don’t know is that this way, I am able to decorate the family room Christmas tree with my homemade BREAKABLE Christmas ornaments and special color coordinated bows. All while making certain that everything is evenly spaced, and pleasing to my eye. Don’t judge me. It’s a brilliant plan. If you lean toward the obsessive compulsive. Which I do. Another tradition that we typically enjoy in our house is the annual Rum Ball Rhumba and Egg Nog chaser. And by we, I mean Fiddledaddy and me. Sadly, because of my newly imposed diet restrictions, I am going to be forgoing the Rum Balls and Egg Nog. But now to worry, Welch’s has some amazing holiday type beverage recipes. Check these out, for your own holiday beverage options.
I checked all of the ingredients, and I’m happy to report that I can have most of these drinks. I’m particularly excited about the Spiced Grape Punch. And I plan to serve it in a beautiful wine goblet. A Giveaway! To kickstart your own celebration of the holidays, I’m giving away a $100 Visa Gift card, courtesy of BlogHer. All you have to do is answer the following question in the comments section: “What is your favorite family holiday tradition?” You may include up to two entries by: (Sometimes comments with links get stuck in spam, but don’t worry, I fish them out a couple of times a day.) A few rules:
Head over to the BlogHer Review/Giveaway Round-up page for 11 more chances to win! And for a list of official rules, click here. I will leave comments open until Friday, December 31st at 8:00 PM, EST. And remember, Welch’s Sparkling Juice cocktails are the perfect choice for happy family celebrations
Have a wonderful and safe holiday season, everyone! COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.
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New PJs on Christmas eve! I love picking out cute footie PJs for the girls to open and wear on Christmas eve night. Already have this year’s PJs bought and hidden. Will be sad when my oldest outgrows the footies, though some years I do see adult footies for sale … might have to stock up next time LOL!
Putting up the Christmas tree on December 1st and getting the kids new PJ’s that we open on Christmas Eve!
My mom and dad wanted a tradition that would last. So, from birth up until now (I’m 46 years old) we put on our Sunday best attire and eat a special dinner (same menu each and every year) by candlelight on Christmas Eve. My dad reads the Christmas story from the bible. There are 18 of us now counting spouses and grandkids so getting us all seated at a table in a feat in itself. Thanks for the giveaway!
Oyster stew on Christmas morning. I know, it’s weird, but so good!
My favorite holiday tradition in my family is opening all our gifts from each other on Christmas eve night and then getting gifts from Santa on Christmas morning
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Decorating the Christmas tree is our favorite tradition.
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I and my three siblings would draw names for a “secret santa” gift for each other. Even though we would give everyone else a gift too, it was always so fun to have that secretive element. We’re grown up now, but we still love doing it!
We are carrying on a tradition from my husband’s family. Apparently when he was little he couldn’t figure out why there was an angel on top of the tree if the most important part of Christmas was Jesus. Ever since, a baby Jesus ornament has topped his tree.
Cookies, cookies, and more cookies. We have some tried and true recipes, but we like to try a few new ones each year.
Church on Christmas Eve, new PJ’s after church, big breakfast Christmas morning, and opening one present at a time; I’m mean and won’t let the kids do the dive-in-free-for-all =)
Cutting down our tree and decorating it…hands down fave!!!
I loved making and frosting sugar cookies with my mom, brother and sister growing up and now hope to have that tradition with my kids!
As a child, my Christmas was a little different than others because we did not believe in good ole St. Nick. We would open our Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve as a family and then spend Christmas day going from relative’s house to relative’s house for all 3 major meals of the day. We would save our stockings until Christmas morning and do those before we left on our Christmas tour (as I have lovingly named it). Because of this stockings are extremely important to me. I LOVE opening my stocking, almost as much, if not more so, than opening my gifts.
My dad’s christmas cookies – I’ve tried and tried to duplicate them – but its not the same if he doesn’t make them…
We do a paper chain for December and every day we pull one and it gives is a family Christmas activity to do
We did the Jesse Tree Advent calender last year and LOVED it, so that will be a new tradition for us.
Also, each year, I have the kids made an ornament and we put it up on the tree. It’s already fun to see the difference between the handprint ornament my daughter did when she was 2 1/2 months old to this year, where she’ll make it almost entirely on her own at age 5.
Decorating the house a couple of days after Thanksgiving, ordering Pizza Hut pizza while we do so, and then watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation together! Last year we were moving from Florida to Idaho at Christmas, so we didn’t decorate at all – so this year will be double exciting as we get out all of our treasures that we haven’t seen for two years!
Making cookies! My sister & our kids make multiple batches of peanut butter balls. So a fun, messy afternoon. My kids & I also love to make & decorate cut outs!
My fave holiday tradition is driving around and looking at decorations while listening to Christmas music
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We bake a birthday cake for Jesus every year.
And make special star ornaments, a tradition from when my own mom was a little girl.
My family’s tradition was to open one gift on Christmas Eve. But my dear blessed husband refuses to follow this tradition!! We have been doing Advent candles and readings the last few years and it has been a wonderful blessing. I just hope to never repeat Christmas 2005 when I was in the hospital.
We open one gift on Christmas eve.
Putting up the Christmas Tree on the day after Thanksgiving…can’t wait to get it up!!
I love the whole Christmas season, but I especially love putting up the Christmas tree to the music of the season, but especially Bing Crosby. (J-j-j-jingle bells!) It’s the music that said the Christmas season has begun when I was growing up.
Watching “Elf” sometime after Thanksgiving…putting up the Christmas tree with all the keepsake ornaments-remembering the times past.
We open one present on Christmas Eve after reading the Christmas story from the bible. Then on Christmas morning, AFTER breakfast, we open all the presents under the tree!
Our whole (huge) family gets together and sings Christmas carols while the kids are decorating ginger bread houses. It’s sheer chaos and so much fun!
I love everything about the Christmas season! My favorite traditions include attending church on Christmas Eve and then heading to Hubby’s family annual Christmas Eve party. Santa takes time out of his busy schedule to drop off presents for the kids. We started a new tradition last year with an Advent calendar for Kiddo.
Since we don’t have extended family in the area, and we NEVER travel on Christmas (I like to be HOME), we started going to the movies with the kids a few years ago on Christmas Day. We enjoy a leisurely morning enjoying the gifts and breakfast and all that, and sometime in the late afternoon we’ll head to the theater. There’s usually a good family movie out every year. This year I’m sure we will see the latest Narnia flick.
Decorating the tree as a family is my favorite tradition
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We put up all the ornaments we’ve collected on trips and talk about the fun and not so fun times.
We leave baby jesus out of the manger until Christmas morning, then we sing “Happy Birthday Jesus!”
I love having Christmas Eve with my in-laws and their extended family.
Oh there are so many favorite traditions. Because I’m such a gifty-girl, I love the tradition we’ve had since I was bitty is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. We still have the tradition and our girls love it. Everyone now knows which gift is opened on Christmas Eve, and we all sleep much better in our NEW Christmas jammies, and enjoy all of Christmas day in them.
Husband and I take quiet time together on Christmas Eve to exchange gifts privately. It’s sweet, romantic and ours. I appreciate that he suggested it some years ago and have enjoyed it ever since. Tradition with our boys would be the hauling in and decorating of the tree. Last year we joined the ranks of the “naked tree” from our back yard in an effort to use that money elsewhere, and we plan to return to that new tradition this year as well.
Setting up the manger , which stays empty until
Baby Jesus makes his appearance on Christmas morning.
I love watching the macy’s thanksgiving day parade with my family on thanksgiving
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I love taking the kids to see Santa at the mall. We drive almost an hour to go to a mall in a different area of town to see the Santa there – all because one year we happened to take the kids to see that Santa, and from then on, they have believed that that Santa (and only THAT Santa!) is the real deal.
We always get together and Santa comes to visit with the kids (a friend dresses up as Santa)
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eating great meals loaded with different foods and snacks brought by all members of my family whom (who?) I only see at christmas!
We bake White Chocolate Cream Cheese Thumbprints and make Polish Bowties which you roll out, cut in strips, fold into bowties and fry then cover with powdered sugar. They have always been my favorite.
One evening, the family gets on their jammies and I make hot cocoa. We pile into the van, and wander the streets looking for Christmas light displays. The radio must play Christmas songs too! And since we are from Phoenix and we have no clue about “winter,” I roll down all the windows and my kids think it is “cold.” LOL
One of our favorite traditions are sprinkling pecans still in the shell onto the floor and telling that that the reindeer got so excited when they put the gifts under the tree that they pooped on the floor so Santa turned them all into Jingle Jollies (the pecans). It’s a little gross but really funny to the kids.
My favorite holiday tradition is putting the Christmas tree up on December 10th…..
in memory of my beloved dog, Molly ( who passed on 12-10-85 ), and my precious
20 year old cat, Punkin ( who passed 12-10-05 ), and a dear high school friend, Stacy ( who passed 12-10-85 ).
I like to remember each of them as I hang ornaments with their photos, and think about all the special memories
and silly things they did.
And creamcheese pecan pie, of course.
My favorite holiday tradition is one I have started recently: having a maid come scrub down my house top to bottom right after Thanksgiving, so it will be spotless for my decorations!!
My favorite tradition is driving around and looking at the beautiful lights and decorations!
So many to choose from…..one is driving around to look at lights and yes, Mr. Chris’ house is ALWAYS on our route!!
A tradition we have is… the kids get a new pair of jammies and a small toy on Christmas Eve, they get to open this one gift on Christmas Eve. Then they wake up Christmas morning in new jammies and excited for Christmas!
My favorite tradition is sleeping under the Christmas tree one night between now & Christmas. SO much fun to sleep under the lights.
My favorite holiday tradition is our church family caroling at the hospital (Mayo!) after our Christmas Eve service. We have a new pastor this year, though, and I’m sort of afraid that it won’t happen.
I LOVE Christmas!! and all the traditions that surround it. One of my favorite things in the candle lighting and singing of Silent Night during our church service. It is beautiful and so touching.
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Growing up we always made gingerbread cookie people then decorated them with frosting. As we aged, the icing clothes got more ….. interesting.
The time has come to get back to that tradition with my girls. They are old enough to enjoy the cutting out and decorating. If they don’t happen to like eating the gingerbread cookies….well, all the better for me!!!
When I was a kid, my Dad worked on Christmas so we always opened gifts on Christmas Eve. Shortly after dinner, my parents would invite us to go for a ride to look at lights and when we returned home, gifts were under the tree and the cookies and milk we left out for Santa were gone. It was magical! Now, my Dad is no longer working but all the little kids have grown up. So, to keep Christmas Eve special, we opted to make it a gourmet evening. Every year, whoever hosts the dinner, provides something different … something we won’t get at either Christmas or Thanksgiving. One year it was Bouillabaisse … one year a table filled with Hors d’œuvres … one year it was steak and lobster. It’s fun and we all look forward to making the evening special.
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve where everyone gets to open one gift which is always matching family pajamas that we wear to bed that night.
We get our tree on Thanksgiving weekend and get it decorated by Sunday night. Then every night that we don’t have to go anywhere, my sweet hubby and I just lie on the couch and cuddle and talk and enjoy the lights of the tree – I like LOTS of lights!
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My favorite holiday tradition is waking up in our own house on Christmas morning and playing with the kids!
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i love waffles on christmas morning
I love our family Christmas eve tradition of watching The Grinch together.
We’ve been doing it since the movie came out (waaaaay back when).
Our kids, even though they are college/high school STILL want to do it!
My favorite family holiday tradition has always been our annual “Try to watch as many Christmas Carol movies as possible”. We watch a different one every night or so, and it is fun to compare them!
Our tradition is to eat Sheperd’s Pie at Christmas-time to keep it simple and more to the meaning of real Christmas!
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One of my favorite Holiday traditions is picking out our Christmas tree on Black Friday, then making fudge and decorating the tree.
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My favorite holiday tradition is drinking peppermint hot chocolate while we drive around looking at Christmas lights ad listening to our favorite Christmas music as a family. We do it at least 10 times between Thanksgiving and Christmas and it is my favorite time together during the holidays!
One tradition we have is baking cookies. It’s fun decorating them and then we give them to family and friends.
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Taking our christmas family portrait!
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Our favorite is getting together on Thanksgiving, enjoying dinner and each other.
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The kids get to open 1 present from under the tree on Christmas Eve. (I wish they were still young enough to wear footie pajamas! Angel’s 15 and Eric will be 13.)
Love Christmas morning with just our family, awesome!
Oh, which one to pick? We are a family so steeped in various holiday traditions that it’s hard to find a favorite! We always kick off the season on Thanksgiving Day by going to a particular outdoor shopping center in our town and seeing them switch on the lights. Then we come home and have corn soup and bread sticks.
Everyone getting together to laugh and eat. That’s it, love it!
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When I was growing up my siblings and I would come home from midnight mass and make a fresh warm batch of chocolate chip cookies. These would be for Santa. As we got older we still made cookies but we also caught up with what was going on with one another. Now my siblings that have children do this same baking of cookies after midnight mass.
Sitting in front of our Christmas tree all decked out with simple white lights. All aglow. All together. That’s my favorite.
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with the family and watching the kids open presents at christmas
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Every Thanksgiving holiday we used to drive to Willits California and have a very yummy Turkey with my grandmother. She died in her late 50′s so we don’t do that anymore. It used to be a regular event.
My favorite family holiday tradition is baking and preparing holiday treats for our family celebrations. My husband and I and our two daughters all work together in the kitchen, tasting and inventing. We play Christmas music, and the girls always offer the first warm cookies to us with milk. This year, my Grandma is living in our home, and I know she will enjoy the holiday spirit with us. Thanks for the opportunity!
Michelle
Every year, the young ones gather with anticiation to make decorated cookie ornaments for the Christmas tree at Grandma’s house. This has been a tradition for 50 years or more in our family.
Every year since we were little my siblings and I spend Christmas Eve at my parents. We take family pictures and hang the stockings and are then “surprised” to get to open one gift early. It’s always Christmas pajamas and we rush upstairs to put them one. We take tons more pictures, posing with pets and each other. For an hour or so, we’re transported back to a time where we lived carefree lives, filled with a childlike excitement about Christmas and the knowledge of how blessed we are to spend it with those we love.
MY favorite holiday tradition is going to Midnight Mass with my family (we probably occupy about 10 pews altogether, lol) and then going to my gradparents house for our annual family holiday party early the next morning, where we open presents, have brunch, we all pitch in with the Christmas dinner….it’s crazy and loud and just the most fun ever!
I always loved how our family would travel and all gather in one place. We’d have a huge dinner and spend all night catching up because no one family lives in the same state as any other.
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Cooking a large and festive brunch on Christmas morning. I love the smell of bacon and eggs before we open gifts.
Brand New PJ’s for Christmas!
We always play the Mrs. Wright game where everybody buys a funny gift, wraps it, and we sit in a circle and pass “left” and “right” according to the story. It’s always a blast to see what surprise we have wrapped at the end.
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My favorite holiday tradition with our family is putting together a Thomas Kinkade puzzle at Thanksgiving. We always manage to lose the last piece to the puzzle which we end up finding in some odd place after we put the puzzle away, usually around Christmas time. It is so much fun to talk and snack while we work together to finish something challenging, while whining about the eye strain we are getting from staying up into the wee hours trying to finish it.
Watching my little boys open their gifts from Santa Christmas morning – they’re always so excited and that makes me so happy!
being in s texas my parents would order homemade tamales for christmas eve when they could find and afford them.
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I love dressing up together for Thanksgiving dinner (pilgrims and indians of course!) and singing Praise God from whom all blessings flow and counting all the beautiful, happy moments we’ve sharedin the year just passed.
I love a huge breakfast Christmas morning!
My favorite part of the holidays is spending time with our own little family. I love time with my extended family, but I treasure the time with just our kids and us.
My favorite tradition, now that the “children” are married and have their own children, is to still give the boys matching gifts – shoes or jackets or whatever. They humor me and put the item on for a cheesy picture. But then I see them wearing it later in the year…mom knows what the boys like!
For 18 years we have been lighting an advent wreath. We light it every night of advent with a story time, then discuss the symbolism, memorize verses and sing songs. It is a great teaching tool and we love it!
My husband makes his Grandma Pearl’s french toast for everyone, and it’s awesome! That is a tradition that my older three still come home for with their spouses now. And after presents and since we are in South Texas, we have tamales and chili for the rest of the day with friends dropping by.
Pick up our Christmas tree and decorate together
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stringing cranberries and popcorn on the tree
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putting up the tree and Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving
I don’t have a favorite tradition anymore except to visit with friends and family. I do like to decorate the house though
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My favorite Christmas tradition is when our boys come downstairs to “wake” us (as if we are asleep) by hopping on my husband and chanting “Hop on Pop!” It is getting very interesting now that they are both over 5 feet 9 inches tall but we continue the tradition anyway!
My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating Christmas Eve with family. Potato soup and chili and as many snacks as will fit in the kitchen. Exchanging gifts and just enjoying being together.
We just love to bake together and spend time at home with the family!
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We venture out to find the perfect tree as we sing Christmas songs. We bake Christmas cookies and on Christmas Eve decorate big boxes and bags for gifts and fruit and place them under the tree.
Our Christmas traditions have changed over the years as we’ve lost the older family members or others have moved away, so my family is starting new traditions.
Breakfast with the family on Christmas morning!
Our family is still quite new and we are still creating traditions. Is that silly to say? This will be our second holiday season together. Guess we’ll see what Traditions come to be!
Baking holiday cookies
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I love our Christmas Eve tradition of fondue, Caroling, and family togetherness.
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My favorite tradition is celebrating both Hanukkah (Happy 1st night!) and Christmas both. That makes for double to fun.
One of my favorite traditions that we unfortunately don’t get to do anymore ( due to living in a very cold place), was to go to an outdoor living nativity. It was amazingly well done and so meaningful! Now we like to enjoy our small town Christmas parade and attend church on Christmas Eve.
My favorite Christmas tradition comes from my family of origin. Before opening our presents, we would read the Christmas Story (from Luke, King James, Red Letter Edition!) and have a prayer. My earliest Christmas memories are of sitting in Daddy’s lap while he read and prayed. I will never forget the thrill of being able to be the reader! I read from my very own Bible that was white, had a zipper and a mustard seed in a little ball as a charm for the zipper. KJV, red letter edition
I carried this tradition with my children, and now my grandchildren participate. Having my grandson read the story and pray before we open gifts is the highlight of my Christmas joy. I hope that they will continue this tradition when they have families of their own.
We drive to the mountains and cut down our tree… the kids look forward to this every year!
Homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. Many, many, many cinnamon rolls with gooey icing.
My favorite holiday tradition is when my dad passes out all the Christmas gifts to everyone in our extended family on Christmas Eve. No one can open anything until he has passed them all out and he cracks jokes the whole time and wears a santa hat and it is the most fun thing about the holiday.
I just love waking up at my parents house and opening presents. No matter how old I get, I think I will always love this. And this year my 3 month old Emily gets to join in!
A favorite? That’s difficult because I have many. I love how my family all decorated our home the weekend after Thanksgiving. We all work TOGETHER. We bake cookies. and. eat. them. for. DINNER.
I also love the tradition of Christmas morning breakfast at my house… both sets of grandparents come over with their presents and we have breakfast, let our son share with his grandparents what Santa brought him and of course, open MORE presents. Yep, that’s a favorite, for sure!!
We have so many. We go to our town’s annual Christmas parade each year. The children and I put up the tree together and then decorate it. A local church has a live nativity scene and we go to that each year also. This year we are adding making cookies and taking a plate to each of our neighbors who are very special to us. I think my favorite though is the advent calendar we do each evening at dinner. A few years ago I bought a cheap advent calendar and every year the kids look forword to adding a piece to the Nativity and reading Bible verse that goes along with it.
Blessings to you and yours this holiday season!
Jana
It is a brilliant plan. Decorating the tree the day after Thanksgiving.
We always open one present Christmas Eve, then the rest are opened on Christmas morning. But before opening the gifts, we read the story of Jesus’ birth, The Greatest Gift given to us!
Baking holiday cookies with the kids on Christmas Eve.
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My favorite holiday tradition is hanging our handmade stockings on our mantle. They are made by my husband’s grandmother and we have 2 new ones to hang this year for our 4 month old twins!
One of my favorite holiday traditions is surprising my girls with new pajamas when we get home from Grammy and GrandDaddy’s house every Christmas Eve. Although, now that I think about it, they can’t be that surprised any more. They sure enjoy it, though, and so do Daddy and I.
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Cookies. It’s always about eating cookies!
My family always goes to Knott’s Berry Farm ever Christmas Eve!
Going caroling thru the neighborhood.
My favorite tradition is going out as a family to chop down our tree. We can wander the fields for hours looking for just the perfect one. Of course we always get one that is too big, but we just laugh about it. Then we come home and as dad puts on the lights, we make a daisy chain. Lots of fun.
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My favorite holiday tradition is caroling with my friends and family.
My favorite Holiday tradition is making two Gingerbread houses with my kids each year. One we wrap in clear plastic wrap and use as a centerpiece until after Christmas and the other we vote on someone special to get. Each year we try to choose a different person.
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Going to our small country church on Christmas eve.
The only holiday tradition we hold dear to our hearts is the oldest person in the family passes out the gifts.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is baking cookies with my daughter.
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Everyone gets new pjs Christmas Eve, so nice to have something new and comfy on when hanging out in the morning
“What is your favorite family holiday tradition?” Mine is when we all get together and have egg nog, listen to christmas music, and decorate the tree. I’m sure everyone does this, but it’s a great time, and means christmas season is here!
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Our Christmas tradition is going to midnight Mass and then going home and opening up one present.
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driving around looking at lights
My fav tradition is buying a dated ornament each Christmas for the tree.
My favorite family tradition is the Xmas eve get together we have every year where all the aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents get together at our aunt’s house for food and fun. I look forward to it every year.
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My favorite tradition is our annual ornament exchange
My favorite tradition is trimming the Christmas tree. It’s so fun to get out all the ornaments we have collected over the years and put them on the tree.
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I love creating a gingerbread house with my boys– granted it is one of the $10 box from Target kinds but we love it!
My Favorite tradition is taking my kids up to the mountains to cut down a christmas tree
My favorite tradition is leaving for a 7-day cruise every year either on Christmas Day or 26th… after all the holiday shopping and craziness, this vacation is a MUST. Plus – I am together with my entire paternal extended family, fiance, and our son. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE everything about December (the shopping ONLINE, wrapping gifts, smell of our tree, baking cookies for Santa) – but that vacation and leaving the craziness, messes, and drama behind – I LIVE for it!
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we bake cookies and bread to give as gifts to neighbors and friends.
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One of my favorites is having the kids as they got older sitting outside our door on Christmas eve waiting for us to wrap so they could put their own under the tree. They were so funny with reasons they needed to come in.
My favorite is one I started myself a few years ago. We get a lot of small presents, wrap them all and have a grab bag. Then we go round robin with each person picking one until all are gone. it’s a lot of fun since we all try to get unusual things and wrap so the content of the packages are not obvious. One person is a real chocolate fiend and she would go for it all if we didn’t work to hide the fact there is chocolate in that funny shaped box.
We load the kids in the car, pop in a Christmas CD and head out to check out the Christmas light displays.
My favorite holiday tradition is our annual trip to the tree farm the Saturday after Thanksgiving to choose our tree. We spend the rest of the day decorating the house and tree.
My favorite tradition is baking all the family favorites for everyone to enjoy.
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We always have the same Christmas Eve dinner–homemade soups and dips and cornbread. Then we eat it while watching A Christmas Story. During commercial breaks, we each pick out the present under the tree that we want to open first the next morning.
One of our favorite holiday traditions is to go downtown for the Festival of Lights (Mission Inn all done up in lights, music, etc) and then drive thru lots of neighborhoods that compete for over the top Christmas lighting displays!
No Christmas is complete without my grandma’s cookies! That is an essential part of the holidays for my family.
Sipping hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shavings on top, while cozy next to the fireplace.
my favorite family holiday tradition is just to spend time together
opening presents on xmas morning!
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My favorite holiday tradition is drinking eggnog
Singing carols southern gospel style as a family!!!
During the holidays, my husband and I play musical houses. So after it all settles, we invite our parents over for dinner together, bringing our two families together to celebrate.
Our family holiday traditions are pretty simple, honestly
We sit around the dinner table, enjoy good food, and talk about whatever we feel like talking about 
While feeding scraps to the dog of course 
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baking cookies and making our gingerbread house each year is our fav
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We have a family meal
Decorating the Christmas tree.
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No real “tradition” – i just always enjoy the family being together
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Holidays are just a time to be together and out family lives spread across the globe.
My very favorite holiday tradition is drinking wassail (an apple cider based drink for those who don’t know what it is). It isn’t Christmas without it!!
I love making candy and cookies with my children
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Baking Spritz cookies.
Setting up our nativity scene is our favorite tradition.
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Singing carols
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with my family and friends and having a Euchre tournament! It’s so much fun!
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Making my mom’s sugar cookies and decorating them
Christmas Eve we turn down the lights and sit by the tree as my husband reads the Christmas story from the Bible.
My favorite tradition is attending mass with the whole family on the evening of the 24th followed by dinner on Christmas eve and then exchanging of gifts. Thanks!
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Every year we make Christmas tamales with the family. We have been doing since I remember. I love it.
Christmas morning is by far my favorite tradition. Since I have been a little girl all of my sisters and I go over to my mother’s house for Christmas morning. There are now the additions of husbands, boyfriends, and pets, but all of the ladies of the family are together. My Pop Pop still spend the night at my mom’s house so he can wake up with us on Christmas morning and share in the presents, laughs, and love.
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My husband and I always go out for a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve. I look forward to that dinner all year!
Fave holiday tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. The entire family meets at one house on Christmas Eve and we have a gift exchange. It’s always really nice.
Going to Christmas eve services is my favorite holiday tradition
yum…I would love to try those festive flavors out. My favorite family holiday tradition would be preparing the feast for the family. We always celebrate and spend time together. Food simply tastes better when shared with family and love ones.
My favorite is Christmas Eve. My family plays games, eat snacks, watch holiday movies, and we each open one gift.
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My favorite holiday tradition is playing and singing Christmas carols at the piano. My mother did this when we were young, and it seemed to make the whole house glow. Now my kids love it when I play those same carols.
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My favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve, when my husband and two sons and I turn out the lights, stand in front of the Christmas tree, and sing Silent Night.
I love opening one gift on Christmas eve. It is so much fun
My family has a big Christmas brunch. We all eat way too much then lay about for the rest of the day and are just together.
Making Christmas Cookies!!!
making a gingerbread house is always fun for our family
Baking a festive holiday cake, of course.
I wouldn’t be “artistic baker” if I didn’t
We love to drive around and look at all the christmas light displays, or go to longwood garden to see the lights (it’s in PA)
Our tradition is watching “White Christmas” on Christmas Eve
I was going to say that my favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies…but I think that I have to say that EATING the cookies is even better!
We open one gift on Christmas eve. I think the new pjs idea is great…maybe next year.
I love opening one present on Christmas Eve. It’s always pajamas and we all go to bed wearing them.
My favorite holiday tradition is having peach bellinis while the kids open their stockings. Thanks! thebubbledies(at)gmail(dot)com
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My favorite holiday tradition is devoting the entire Saturday before Christmas to baking and candy making.
My favorite holiday tradition is calling my family members across the country to light the Chanukah menorah every night. Thanks!
My mom started doing “Mrs. Claus” wtih us girls wehn we hit our teen years. It was a special gift consisting of make up and/or skin care. It had us taking care of our skin early but also with a fun twist
We go over to my grandmother’s house on Christmas and New Years Day for a meal that she makes herself. Better than anything I could cook!
We always open present’s on Christmas eve
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Our favorite Holiday tradition is a family dinner. I love it.
My favorite tradition is hiding the pickle ornament in the tree and watching my son search for it. Once he finds it then he gets to pick one of his gift to open up on Christmas Eve.
We all spend the night at my parent’s house on Christmas Eve. Then, on Christmas morning, we wait until everyone has awoken and finally gather in the family room to open presents!
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My favorite tradition is baking with my mom and husband. It seems to happen every year even if we don’t plan on it
making banana bread yummy
Decorating the tree and watching ‘A Christmas Story’ while we’re decorating.
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Our favorite tradition is attending Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve. This is a special time for our family.
We love to have tamales for Christmas Eve dinner. It’s a nice, yummy way to start the festivities.
I love baking day – after baking tons of yummy things we play some games and “sample” them
Christmas morning is my favorite – we open stockings while baking some cinnamon rolls and playing holiday music. Lovely!
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we love to make holiday cookies!!
I like our family gift exchange.
We attend mass on the 24th and then prepare special rice cakes and flan (custard). The Christmas eve dinner is usually a feast with Christmas ham, fruit salad, noodles, chicken and seafoods. Thanks!
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The caroling service at church at 11pm…so peaceful and meaningful!
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Opening stockings in front of the fireplace.
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We love to cut down our own tree. Then out comes the boxes, upon boxes of christmas ornaments.
I really enjoy the Christmas baking. I enjoy baking anyway, and the sheer volume of Christmas baking is a joy to me.
My favorite family holiday tradition is driving around Christmas Eve to look at Christmas lights.
Our favorite tradition is opening one gift Christmas Eve, and the rest on Christmas morning.
My favorite tradition is going to the family service at church and watching my girls participate in setting up the Nativity scene.
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Our favorite family holiday tradition is baking and decorating holiday cookies. No one is too old or too young to help and the best part is you always get to eat the broken cookeis
LOL I had to click the BlogHer banner directly when I saw the Welch’s Sparkling grape. We get it every year for Christmas and for New Years. We’re a non-drinking family, and this adds a little fun and sparkle for the family. It’s a major part of our Christmas and New Years Tradition. The kids would say it’s a toss up for their favorite with the Christmas breakfast (which consists entirely of coffee cakes, cinnamon rolls, blintz’s and other sweets.
My favorite tradition is decorating the yard with lights and other decorations.
My favorite holiday tradition is when our family gets together on new years morning for a champagne brunch.
We eat crab legs every christmas eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is a cliched one but still something I look forward to every year: we buy each other new pajamas to wear on Christmas Eve and exchange one gift each before we head to bed and wait for Santa to come. Thanks!
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My favorite holiday tradition actually occurs on Christmas Eve when we have a family meal and then we drive around for a couple of hours checking out all the Christmas lights.
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I love going to pick out our tree.
My favorite Holiday tradition is getting together with my mom and sister every year to bake tons of Christmas cookies and candies.
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My favorite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm to pick out and cut down the tree, then coming home to hot chocolate and cookies to warm up.
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Having a good time spent with my children and my grandkids is what I like to do for the holidays.
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Christmas Day dinner with the whole family is my favorite tradtion
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I love decorating the tree with my parents at their house.
I enjoy baking a variety of cookies for everyone.
I enjoy our tradition of baking Christmas cookies/goodies & making up trays for my kids swim coaches!
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Making Santa’s snack late Christmas Eve. We go to my brother’s for Christams Eve and then come home and bake Santa so goodies. My girls pick out something different to make him every year. Thank you!
Favorite holiday tradition is to spend quality time with family and loved ones.
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just sharing as family
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Making graham-cracker gingerbread houses and decorating them with a sickening amount of candy!
As a child, every year we read a book called Santa Mouse, about a little mouse who is Santa’s helper….and every year we would place tiny gifts in the tree (from Santa Mouse) and we’d place a yellow light at the top of the tree so he could find his way (just like in the story)
My favorite is the garland, lights, lush ribbons and bows and ornaments that we wrap around our staircase banister. Although we decorate other parts of the house, for some reason, I love that banister at Christmas.
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every christmas eve we have tamale pie. not sure what is in it but i have learned to love it and associate it with christmas and family. its not christmas without it!
My favorite tradition is opening one present on Christmas Eve. It’s always pj’s and a little toy.
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We act out the nativity on Christmas Eve.
My favorite family tradition is going for a drive Christmas night to see all the neighborhood light displays.
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I love our tradition of going out for Chinese on Christmas day…always cracks me up and reminds me of that movie “Christmas Story” with Ralphie…as a matter of fact, that is why we do it!
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We relax, and follow the tune of whims, never experienced in non-holiday, over-booked lives!
the big turkey dinner on christmas day, mmm
Opening presents with my husband, just the two of us, on Christmas morning.
The baking of the many different shapes/sizes of the decorated Christmas cut-out sugar cookies
We have a vintage Knee-hugger Elf that was made in Japan in the 1950′s. His name is Elfie. Everynight from Thanksgiving until Christmas Eve, he hides with candy or other treat for the kids. They love trying to find him every morning. Sometimes one of his “cousins” hides like the little, tiny Buddy. It’s very hard to find Buddy since he’s so small
I have over 20 of the vintage elves, so there are plenty of cousins to hide.
my favorite holiday tradition is baking a new dessert every year
we have an extended family and friends christmas eve dinner
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We always make cookies on Christmas eve for Santa and the reindeer. The kids love to help and are always excited the next morning to see only crumbs left over.
Setting up the Nativities (we have three, one of which belonged to my Mother-In-Law), and going to the candelight service at 11 pm on Christmas eve.
We have so many, but I think the countdown calendar where we move the mouse each day means the most to the girls- they’ve all tried to call dibs if/when I croak
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My favorite family holiday tradition is putting up the tree together and getting out the old lovely ornaments and seeing if everyone remembers their “story” of how they came to be. This is followed by Christmas carols, and lots of hot cocoa! Thanks for such a great giveaway!
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Every year we all sit down together and frost and decorate the Christmas-shaped sugar cookies. No two can be exactly alike, and the last few can end up looking pretty wacky!
Stocking hung on the mantle with care “:)
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My favorite tradition is having dinner and opening presents at my mother’s house, along with my sister and her family, then afterward driving around looking at the pretty Christmas lights.
Putting up the Christmas tree and starting to listen to Christmas music in October.
Our kids are still young so we are just starting to create our family traditions. Right now I buy everyone a new pair of slippers every Christmas. I’m hoping that in the next few years we’ll settle into more of a routine with our holidays.
Looking at Christmas lights in the park!!!
We always get together with my parents and the great grandparents on Christmas day and have the non traditional steamed shrimp dinner.
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Family baking day is my favorite tradition.
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Putting Baby Jesus in the mangers of all our respective Nativity sets (usually each child gets to do one) right before we open gifts is our favorite holiday tradition.
My favorite family holiday tradition is having the kids and grandkids over to make sugar cookies and decorate them. It is a lot of fun and a nice break from the Christmas craziness.
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We make Jesus a Happy Birthday cake for Christmas and sing Happy Birthday to Him!
My favorite tradition is opening one gift Christmas Eve. Of course, all the baking of cookies the week before is right up there too.
My favorite tradition is going to Midnight Mass
My favorite holiday tradition is to decorate my mantle with greenery and my collection of Santas. We call it my “Santamantle.” Most of the Santas were gifts from my mother who did her best each year to find a unique Santa. it also includes hand-carved individual wooden letters-S-A-N-T-A. My son-in-law’s greatest joy is sneaking in to spell different words with these letters to give me a (loving) hard time.
My favorite holiday tradition is to get a butter in the shape of a Christmas tree.
I like opening one present on christmas eve and going to look at christmas lights.
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Our favorite Holiday tradition is making cookies and watching It’s A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve!
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Making hot coco for my family. Yummy
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singing christmas carols.
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Our family getting together for a wnderful time together with dinner and opening of the presents.
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My favorite holiday tradition is caroling with family
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I don’t have a lot of traditions but I do love cooking during the week with my fiancee. We make a lot of food gifts for people.
My fav holiday tradition is baking cookies and treats to share with classmates, co-workers and friends!
Every year we make an ornament with the kids picture on it. That way we have a photo of them every year at Christmas time!
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My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the tree and decorating it with my family.
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Baking lots of cookies with my kids to share with the Grandparents.
Our tradition is to go to my mother- in-laws house to celebrate the holidays. She lives 200 miles away.
My favorite traditions seem to center around great food. The entire extended family goes to an early Christmas Eve service, and then we get together for lots of appetizers. On Christmas day we must have our gingerbread waffles with apples and carmel. Oh my goodness!
Our favorite Holiday tradition is to open one SMALL gift on Christmas Eve. Not that the kids aren’t super excited and stoked about Christmas Day anyway but just to get them that much more in the spirit we let them open one.
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We used to have a tradition that someone in the family would get a tricky gift each year. One year it was a giant wrapped box addressed to Opa (my grandfather) and once opened revealed a smaller wrapped gift with a note saying that Opa hadn’t done it right and now it was Brian’s turn and so on until the final gift was a tiny package for mom. Another year I hid mom’s gift and left a wrapped clue that led to another clue and so on. These were all so much fun to plan and watch! Our family is much dispersed now so we don’t do this regularly but occasionally we’ll get a tricky gift here or there.
My fave holiday tradition is that on Christmas, all of the local family get together for dinner and everyone brings one dish. That way, we have more time to enjoy each other’s company and the host does not get overwhelmed with all of the cooking and meal prep. Thanks!
My favorite tradition is to bake cookies with the kids, we bake them and then decorate them.
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One of the traditions that we started when our kids were quite young is that every Sunday before Advent, we kind part of the nativity scene before we read scripture that evening. The first Sunday it is the animals…cow, sheep and donkey. The next Sunday it is the wisemen and shepherds etc. We hide the figurines around the house and the kids have a great time looking for them! Now that they are 8 and 10, they still look forward to that every year.
We love making Gingerbread houses each year!
On Christmas Eve, my two girls go upstairs to get their jammies on. While they are getting ready, Mrs Clause stops by with 2 of the fanciest cupcakes, still cold from traveling from the North Pole, that she baked especially for them. It’s such a treat knowing that they were thought of by both Santa and Mrs Clause! *of course, the cupcakes are the fanciest we can find from the store, frozen for a little while, then placed on the doorstep for them to find after the bell rings*
My favorite holiday tradition is opening one present on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the contest.
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Oh, so many traditions. We, too, have more than one nativity set. One is the breakable one from my Grandma, which goes up high. Then I have two for the kids to play with. One is a veggie tales nativity set, and one is from Germany. The kids love them both. Thank you for the contest.
We open gifts on Christmas Day and we never travel to each other on New Year’s Eve. We consider it to be too dangerous to drive where we live.
Our tradition is rather traditional; getting together on Christmas eve with tons of food and gift exchanging.
We have a family holiday party every year. I think it’s the only time that our entire family gets together. We invite friends to visit and play our annual bingo / gift exchange for presents!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking together as a family. From the night before Thanksgiving to New Years Day we all bake together. I love memories and laughter we create together as nothing usually comes out like you pictured it but it always tastes so good.
A family potluck and opening gifts on Christmas eve.
Singing Christmas carols on Christmas eve is my favorite family tradition.
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My favorite tradition is watching christmas movies the whole week prior to christmas.
We go out on Christmas Eve to look at all the light displays.Thanks!
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Making handmade ornaments.
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My favorite holiday tradition is driving around with my kids to see all the neighborhood Christmas lights.
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i like being at home with family
My favorite tradition is baking cookies together.
My favorite tradition is putting the Santa gift out early Christmas morning. We still even do it for the big kids, though they’ve long discovered who Santa really is in our house. Everyone loves it.
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Buying a new ornament to add to the tree each year. It is sweet to recall the year attached to each ornament.
Each year we set up the Christmas tree on my birthday on December 5th.
Our traditon is to adopt another needy family for Chankuah, with several other friends who also adopt families-then we have a chanukah party and wrap all the gifts together.
We always love to attend the Christmas parade held in our city!
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We sing Christmas Carols while my wife plays the piano.
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getting together with family and having a nice meal
Baking cookies on Christmas Eve
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My favorite is on christmas eve we go and drive and look at christmas lights. I
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My favorite holiday family tradition is the special Christmas meal of homemade raviolis & turkey with family & friends.
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Sitting around and enjoying a nice holiday family dinner on Christmas.
It seems like almost everyone has adopted my favorite tradition. Everyone wants to open presents so we always have new pajamas wrapped to open on Christmas Eve. When we first started doing in many, many years ago almost no one else did it. Now every family I know has PJ’s on Christmas Eve!
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Well it isn’t a holiday tradition anymore, but my favorite holiday tradition used to be how we put our artificial tree up when I was a kid. Each branch had to be put on the tree so my brother, sister and I would walk around our coffee table handing the branches to our dad all the while dancing with or singing with the christmas music we had playing.
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Love Mom’s homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast! They are the best!
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My fave Holiday tradition is taking my kids to see a light display every year!
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getting into our Christmas pajamas and baking cookies and a cake for Jesus’ birthday is our tradition.
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My favorite tradition is when we make fun of the hubs for putting lights on the house..one of the kids yells call 9 1 so we are closer to the other one when he falls off..
My favorite holiday tradition is baking various cookies!
we make cookies for santa and leave them out for him christmas eve
For me, the most fun I have at the holidays is cooking with my Mom. She makes everything fun!
Eating my Mom’s sausage gravy Christmas morning!
My favorite holiday tradition is making hot chocolate and popcorn. We then bundle up to drive around and look at all of the holiday lights!
My favorite family holiday tradition is that the whole family gathers in one place to celebrate! As we live far apart, it adds a special something to the holiday!
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