Holiday Traditions

[Blackbeard]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

 

[alexe094]

My family is always making a big brunch on Christmas day at my aunt's house. It's the only time where we're all at the same place.

 

[Yukimajo]

For me it's being able to shut the world out and spend some time with my partner and watch cheesy films.

 

[Gruntdoc]

Working... paramedic so not unusual.

 

[BattleScale Collectica]

Our family traditions.
-XMAS music starts on Black Friday.
-Tree up and all decorating occurs first weekend in Dec. Watching the various Rankin Bass holiday specials now begin.
-Christmas Eve evening usually go to Evening Church Service, then after that kids open (1) present and then we watch Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.
-Christmas Morning stockings and "Santa" gifts waiting for each kid when they wake up.
After breakfast we open all gifts under the tree from family. Then we go to grandmas for more presents.
-NY EVE we watch Rudolph's Shiney New Year.
FIN.

 

[elektrus]

Cooking!!
We home cook everything and it's just so much fun! Also, we always have friends, family so it's always great.

 

[Marauder1981]

Family Holiday meals, planning and preparing them, before, during and just after Christmas. It is one of the few times everyone is back together, around the table, cutting up and having a mini reunion of sorts. I've found no subsitute for that feeling of being surrounded by family.

 

[Cold War USAF guy]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

Well, my family used to have the traditional Christmas when I was a kid, but there is only me and my sister left now. I just send and receive cards from friends I've known from the past and watch dvds like "It's a Wonderful Life" and "White Christmas". Of course, going to Church is a big part of Christmas for me, too.

 

[TimM63]

Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving and come down the day after New Years.
Christmas Eve we watch the movie Elf. Open gifts Christmas morning, then have breakfast. I always make a Christmas breakfast casserole Christmas Eve day, then put in oven early Christmas morning and let it bake while we open gifts.

 

[Cold War USAF guy]

Christmas decorations go up the day after Thanksgiving and come down the day after New Years.
Christmas Eve we watch the movie Elf. Open gifts Christmas morning, then have breakfast. I always make a Christmas breakfast casserole Christmas Eve day, then put in oven and bake it while we open gifts.

Sounds great!

 

[banistersmind]

Down here in Australia, our Christmas is a summer affair and we're usually celebrating on or near the beach. Christmas eve tends to be a quiet evening. I'm an ICU Nurse and more often than not, I'm either working or I'm coming off a run of shifts. This year, I'll be starting a delicious vacation of four weeks and I'm so looking forward to it.

 

[doggonemess]

This is not my favorite tradition, but one that I think people would find amusing. My mom was a little odd. At Christmas she would put things that we were always using up in our stockings like Scotch tape and pens (in addition to more traditional things). I think she did it out of annoyance that every time she wanted to find the tape it was missing because of one of us. So now, with my kids, I always make sure that I put a roll of Scotch tape in their stockings (along with candy and fun stuff).

 

[Pantherman]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

I like to watch the muppets Christmas carol and elf with my girls. Pantherman

 

[Down Time]

When I was a kid, on Christmas eve morning, my Dad and I would go out and find the cheapest tree available. Decorate it on that same day, if the tree had some thin spots we would cut lower branches, drill holes and reshape it.
Now, no extended family around, just my Wife and Daughter, so it's a do nothing PJ day, 4 must watch Christmas movies:
Ernest Saves Christmas
Christmas Vacation
Polar Express (3D)
Die Hard

 

[bwilt]

Uptil recently Christmas was just working days, but still always big dinner etc

 

[mark2]

Christmas day I cook the dinner and usually would have drunk a bottle of bucksfizz time that's done, my kids are over every other Christmas day as they live with their mum but my girlfriend will be here, then movies and see who falls asleep on the sofa first lol
In the uk we have boxing day (26th) and the whole family will meet at my mums for dinner. Most people won't go back to work till about the 2nd January so it's a nice break.

 

[Wig41]

Can't say that I have any hard family traditions other than going to visit my daughters sometime before Christmas as dictated by my work schedule.

 

[PDGinther]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

On Christmas Eve, thewife and I get together with the kids(both adults now), have dinner, open a gift, and then go to midnight Mass. Christmas Day we meet again, open gifts and usually do lunch.

 

[Down Time]

Working... paramedic so not unusual.

Thank you for being out there, can't be easy.

 

[dillyn]

A family tradition of having Spaghetti on Christmas Eve

 

[buckeygoldstar]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

Mom' Pecan Pie - Halloween- Thanksgiving- Christmas - Whenever

 

[PDGinther]

Thank you for being out there, can't be easy.

Hey Gruntdoc….. where at?…. I just retired from 36 years as paramedic/fire officer here in FL…. Guessing from your screen name, you might have been a corpsman too?

 

[ScatPack]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

We travel to our in-laws on Christmas Eve and open some.presemts at midnight. On Christmas morning we drive back home amd do gifts at our house. Our son lives in MI, so if it's our year to travel to him, we do it all at his place in MI. Luckily he's here this year.

 

[Bendinggrass]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

Christmas Day my brothers and sisters and Mother get together and share a lovely cooked meal together. It is very sweet. There are not many left in my family now as we are getting older. Thanks Giving is also sweet in a similar way.
Personally I also love Easter for its spiritual quality.

 

[Roadworn]

The Phoenix AZ area does not present a traditional Christmas atmosphere as most know it so after our morning of opening gifts with the family my wife and I go to our other home in the White Mountains. At 7000' elevation we get our fix for snow.

 

[Belugawhaleman]

On Christmas Eve we have our big dinner.
Afterwards, we have Coffee, cake/pie conversion,
we play Canasta. Before bed we open our presents.
On Christmas morning, a nice breakfast and a day
of rest and calm. Later we have another big dinner.

 

[rspect]

Our whole family gets together on Christmas Day. Used to be my favorite day of the year, but I hate it now. Would just rather be off by myself.

 

[Edbert]

The entire family, sometimes extended family, get together sometime around Thanksgiving and Christmas and process white-tailed deer like an assembly line.

Once, with the whole crew, took nine deer from hanging complete to ground/sliced/chopped/fileted/weighed/wrapped and packaged for the freezer in a day.

 

[durangod]

no tradition here. Used to when lived close to sons, but now its just another day.

 

[kevin]

Mom would buy and cook a steak just for our dog Butch, half Shepherd half husky, on Christmas day.
I still enjoy watching " A Charlie Brown Christmas ".