Happy Holidays, y'all!
How was your Thanksgiving week? Ours was amazing. Our family was all together, preparing for our Thanksgiving meal. We had fun sitting together after our meal, eating pie and writing in our Thankful Book, which is a tradition that we do every year.
Now, we are preparing for Christmas. Every year, one of our traditions is to start decorating the day after Thanksgiving, putting up the tree, Christmas lights, and transforming our fall into winter.
One of my favorite traditions is receiving my new Nutcracker for my collection. I always read E.T.A. Hoffmann's book, "The Nutcracker," that night.
Another fun thing I enjoy about Christmas is...shopping!!! I love watching parents buy their children presents, and seeing grandparents smile when their grandchildren show them their favorite toys.
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Christmas is a special holiday for our family. I am the oldest of nine kids, so I enjoy watching them open their presents on Christmas day. It's such a fun experience.
I hope your Christmas will be special this year too.
Merry Christmas!
Having buckeyes and a sock it to me cake. My grandma always made these for the family get togethers and now I'm making them for my own Christmas.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is opening one gift on Christmas Eve. Another is filling stockings for the family members. Another is reading a Christmas book before bed to the kids on Christmas Eve. Last reading the Christmas Story as a family before eating on Christmas Day.
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We like to go out to the family farm and pick a Christmas tree every year.
ReplyDeleteI guess my favorite tradition would be having a nice family dinner on Christmas day.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorites is baking and decorating gingerbread men and women cookies with my grandsons!
ReplyDeletePutting up the Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is reading with the kids every night
ReplyDeleteI love decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music!
ReplyDeleteWe have started the tradition that we always watch A Christmas Story as a family on Christmas eve.
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We kind of started a new Xmas tradition last year. Much of my husband's family does home-made gifts (which I love). So last year we did a 'Choose Your Own Xmas Adventure' thing where we all make our gifties and then let each other pick what we like. Someone really likes a certain type of cookie, or another loves the homemade tamales, they all get to pick what they like for Xmas. It was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteMaking tamales with the entire family is our family tradition.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is baking and decorating cookies with my mom.
ReplyDeleteMaking ginger bread cookies; thanks for the giveaway. :)
ReplyDeleteBaking cookies with my mom, my aunt, my cousins, and my kids. We do it every year together.
ReplyDeleteWe love taking toys to the local firefighters' pancake breakfast.
ReplyDeleteBaking and decorating the tree
ReplyDeleteWe do a white elephant gift exchange! So much fun :)
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In my family we get together around the holidays and make tamales...it is always so much fun and yummy.
ReplyDeleteI like stringing popcorn and cranberries for our tree each year.
ReplyDeleteWE get the kids in the family presents and for the adults we do one secret santa gift and donate what we would have spent to a local charity or person in need.
ReplyDeleteWe love looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeletei love doing our advent calendar
ReplyDeleteWe usually spend Christmas by ourselves and then have a family gathering at my grandparents on boxing day. My gran also likes to go and see the morris dancers in the morning and the rest of us try to get out of it!
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My sis and I have a new tradition.
ReplyDeleteEach holiday season we see a Christmas show/play.
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We love to listen to Christmas songs and make cookies!
ReplyDeleteOur favorite tradition is baking cookies together, my children get to pick a new recipe to try every year.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree! :)
ReplyDeleteI love looking at the christmas lights and watching christmas movies!
ReplyDeleteI love making Christmas cookies.
ReplyDeleteMaking handmade decorations together.
ReplyDeleteI love driving around and looking at Christmas lights with my family!
ReplyDeleteWe make sour cream coffee cake to remember my Grandmother's recipe!
ReplyDeleteI enjoy baking cookies.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is baking Christmas cookies
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is making and decorating gingerbread houses.
ReplyDeletei love decorating with my son
ReplyDeleteI enjoy getting Christmas presents for my family and friends.
ReplyDeleteWe always bake cookies together and watch Christmas movies.
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Our favorite tradition is when Dad would set up his model train layout around the base of the Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteBaking cookies and decorating the tree!
ReplyDeleteI love going to Midnight Mass.
ReplyDeleteVisiting my oma/aunt on my mom's side and then seeing Dad. So, family!
ReplyDeleteWe really enjoy watching Christmas movies as a family.
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I love baking specials breads and other treat for my family and friends!
ReplyDeleteMaking cookies!
ReplyDeleteI just like spending time with my whole family over the christmas holiday-
ReplyDeleteI love baking pies with my family.
ReplyDeleteI love decorating the tree and baking cookies with the kids.
ReplyDeleteWe celebrate and open gifts on Christmas Eve. My Dad was a farmer and had to get up early every morning to milk the cows. Cheryl Abdelnour cjabdelnour@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteEach year I love to bake many different kinds of cookies to have throughout the holidays.
ReplyDeleteWe like to ride around looking at lights and listen to Christmas music while decorating the tree.
ReplyDeleteEnjoying hot chocolate with my children after we decorate the tree
ReplyDeleteI live tree decorated and family gathering
ReplyDeleteWatching my kids open the gifts in their stockings is one of my favorite traditions.
ReplyDeleteDianna
One of my favorites is just decorating the tree as a family.
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I love opening presents on Christmas mornoing with the kids :)
ReplyDeleteevery year someone plays santa to hand out gifts to other family members
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is baking candies, fudge and cookies with the little ones every Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteI get my kids jammies to open Christmas Eve, it gives them something to open and something new for bed!
ReplyDeleteWe always have a big Christmas Eve party for our family & friends
ReplyDeleteI love spending Christmas Eve with my mom, brothers, nieces, and the rest of my family. Then Christmas morning we have breakfast with my mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and my husband's family. I like that we have our own traditions for each side of the family.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is baking and decorating cookies.
ReplyDeleteI like putting the tree up while listening to carols and drinking hot chocolate
ReplyDeleteI like going around to look at the lights and baking cookies
ReplyDeletemine is baking candy with my mom
ReplyDeleteWe still string popcorn for the Christmas tree every year.
ReplyDeletewe put up a huge D56 Dickens village that hubby made with about 50 buildings and all the accessories. We have a lit up pond and multiple levels and beautiful snow capped mountains
ReplyDeleteI love spending the days before baking!! And since my son's out of school the whole week, we'll be doing some extra decorating!
ReplyDeleteOne Christmas traditions is that my sons and their families all come to my house on Christmas day and we open presents and we eat, and we laugh and we remember and at times we cry for those we miss and then we call my son in California and all his brothers and sisters in law get to speak with him and my grandsons who live out there works well for us.
ReplyDeleteI always love decorating the Christmas tree with all the ornaments passed down from generation to generation.
ReplyDeleteI like making christmas cookies, going shopping and finding great deals.
ReplyDeleteWe make home made spaghetti for dinner on Christmas Eve night and i love that.
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