2006-07-30 04:31:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Tradition is big in my house. What we do now is everyone sits in a circle (my grandparents, mom and dad, my sister, my husband, etc) and from oldest to youngest we each open one present and then we start the cycle over again when the youngest (my sister) has opened hers.
We still do a tradition from when I was little. We go get the Christmas tree and my dad cuts it down, but we all pick it out and we get greens around it so that my mom can make a wreath. Then we we decorate it, my mom makes little dessert pancakes (from a recipe of her great aunt) and we listen to Christmas music. It is so much fun
2006-07-30 04:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by wickedfairymaleficent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On Christmas morning, Mom and Dad would make my 2 brothers and I wait upstairs while they came down, had some coffee, maybe some coffee cake, got everything straightened out, turned Christmas music on, and had a moment to themselves before the insanity of Christmas morning began. Then they'd let us come down and we'd start opening presents. It meant that the five of us spent Christmas morning together (instead of like on "Christmas Sotry" where the kids go running downstairs before the parents are even up). It's a tradition that we've passed on to my nieces, at least till they hit 18.
The other thing we do that's very different from many is that we open presents one at a time, so everyone sees what everyone else gets (and has a chance to thank the giver) instead of everyone ripping through their own presents without knowing (or caring) either what others have received, or that their own gifts to others were acknowledged or appreciated. Which tends to mean it takes us like three hours on Christmas morning to get everything opened, which is wonderful. It's time spent together talking and laughing with each other.
We also put our Christmas cards to each other in the Christmas tree - on Christmas eve when we're putting out all the presents, it's sometimes a challenge to get close enough to the tree to tuck the cards into the branches!
2006-07-30 11:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my kids were growing up, we had a tradition where we would fill 24 envelopes (one for each day leading up to Christmas) with a suggestion of something to do. At first it was just Mom & Dad writing these. As the kids grew older, we divided up the suggestions to be written. These consisted of anything from going to look at Christmas lights, going to get dessert, helping with dishes, playing a game of the chooser's choice etc. One was put into each envelope, and then, starting with the youngest in the family on December 1st, an envelope got chosen each day and we did what was in the envelope. The kids loved this tradition.
2006-07-31 23:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by Pam K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My parents divorced when my sister and I were small, and shortly after my mother, sister and i found a home, we had a fire caused by dryer. It was only a couple of months away from Christmas. We had to go to a shelter for the holidays. to make it special for my sister and I, my mom had us string popcorn and Cheerios's on a thread and decorated our little area. Soon after we started to rebuild our life till it is the great one we have today. But every year we still string popcorn and Cheerios and decorate a small tree to remember the hard times, and the "true meaning of Christmas for us". That year it really wasn't about presents, it was about us all being together and okay. We never forgot that, and have kept the tradition alive. It is a good reminder or what the season is really for.
2006-07-31 23:25:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My parents didn't have much money and I was the last one living at home. My siblings were much older then me and had their own families by the time I could remember any Christmases.
Anyway my siblings and their families would come over Christmas Eve and my Brothers would go and get a free tree from the gardening place across the street. We would spend an hour decorating it with antique ornaments inherited from my Grandparents.
My Mom would make a modest dinner. Then we would unwrap presents. My Mom always made each of us something and baked us cookies. My Dad gave us canned vegatables and fruits from our garden. Some how they always managed to save enough money to by me a toy. We would then go to Midnight Mass at our Church. Then we would come home and my siblings would leave and off to bed for me to await Santa and find something in my stocking in the morning. It was never a lavish Christmas but a simple one. With both Parents and a Brother gone these are the Christmases I will always cherish most!
2006-07-31 20:26:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i only had a few growing up...like: we got to open ONE present on christmas eve morning and on christmas day after the presents were opened and my mom was making breakfast, we watched "how the grinch stole christmas"...but i've started some of our own traditions...i'm a stay-at-home mom so i have quit alot of time to spend with the kids..
1- we decorate for christmas after the dishes are done on thanksgiving,
2- i try to bake something christmas-y everyday with my kid's help,
3- on christmas eve right before the kids go to bed, we make peppermint- cocoa and my husband reads "twas the night before christmas"
4- also, i have 2 kids, so on Dec.1 i put 50 candy canes on the tree and everyday they get to take one off the tree each. sort of like an advent
2006-08-01 01:50:45 · answer #6 · answered by Allyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We always opened just one gift on Christmas Eve, and let the rest wait for Christmas morning. And Mom always read the story out of the Bible about Jesus's birth before we opened presents.
2006-08-03 02:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by Cy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we used to go to my godfather's house every christmas eve for a traditional celebration. we sang songs in spanish and rocked the baby jesus to sleep. but the best part was the tamales we ate afterwards! then on christmas morning my immediate family would make chorizo and eggs for breakfast. it's pretty dorky and maybe not so sentimental but for me it's what i remember most about christmas as a child.
2006-07-30 11:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our tradition was going to bed early, leaving the doors to the bedrooms open and listen to mom play Christmas music on her piano. Very lite, gentle, soft music that lulled everyone to a wonderful slumber. God, I miss that.
2006-07-30 21:17:22 · answer #9 · answered by beacon1954 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we celebrated christmas with my granny an paw on christmas eve we gave an opened presents
then on christmas day we would go to my momaw's house and open presents and play in the snow an eat turkey an dressing
2006-07-30 17:19:11 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋