Which are your favourite Holidays :) ?

Question

Why? What's special about them, for you?

How do you and your family celebrate them, now? And how did you celebrate, when you were a child?

What good memories do you have, related to these days?

Which are your favourite traditions, foods and songs related to these Holidays?

What else can you tell me?

Thank you for sharing your life with me! :)

Have a wonderful weekend! :)

If it's not a problem for you, please tell me where are you from and where do you live, now. Thank you! :)

Answer 1

In descending order, my favourite holidays are Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Easter. But it is safe to say Christmas is by far my very favourite. Nothing compares to that feeling of Christmas spirit in the air each year as another one rolls around. I don't care about the religious connotations or commercial trappings. For me, it's all about the happy memories and shared experiences the holiday represents. So many wonderful traditions... Christmas is just incomparable.

As for celebrating these holidays, well, obviously it has changed a lot from childhood. Christmastime was always filled with holiday TV specials and movies (still is, really) and those great expectations of Santa's arrival on Christmas Eve. As a child, can anything top that feeling of sheer euphoria you feel when you see the bright, glowing Christmas tree (with loads of beautifully wrapped presents underneath) first thing on Christmas morning? I think not. :)

Halloween was all about trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood in costume -- and filling up on yummy candy! I've many memories of childhood Halloweens, not all of them happy. I recall the year my best friend had his bag of candy stolen by a thug (a teenager) as he waited for me at the end of the driveway to one of the houses we had stopped at. It wasn't all bad, though. He dried his tears and we went back to his house and divvied up my candy between us. :) In adulthood, I enjoy handing out the candy to the kids in costumes as they come trooping along, but it seems some of the magic is lost and safety is even more of a concern than in my youth. Changing time, eh?

Thanksgiving is mainly about eating, isn't it? ;) Beyond the traditional turkey dinner, which I have learned to prepare myself over the years, it's mostly about family and football! Yes, this is very much an American holiday (though Canada celebrates their own about a month earlier) and sets the stage for the Christmas holiday season which officially kicks off on the following day. I actually think Thanksgiving is the only holiday on this list I enjoy more as an adult than as a child... possibly. ;)

Easter is another "candy holiday" but also has the religious associations of Christmas. As a child, I loved the search for that elusive Easter basket. Easter egg hunts outdoors could be fun, too, but that was not an annual thing where I grew up. Colouring the eggs the night before was always a blast and I especially enjoyed playing the Easter Bunny for my baby brother when I'd grown up. (Remind me to tell you the joy of planting red herrings sometime, lol.)

Again, most of the traditions I continue have been carried down through my family for generations. Some are very American, others veddy British (my father's birthplace), all of them cherished. Christmas has the most and is the most memorable, by far. From films to music to decorations to shopping to eating to family to friends to snow (if you're lucky), Christmas has it all. And there is that festive spirit in the air which no other holiday can imitate. It's magic!

Now, Moon, what can you tell me about your favourite holidays? I'd really like to know.... :)

Answer 2

Christmas! <3

Answer 3

I like all Holidays they are all awesome!

Answer 4

Christmas is when all of the family is together...

Answer 5

XMAS

Answer 6

Halloween is the best holiday ever!
Why?-- it's the time of the year when my true nature comes out and I can be anyone I want to be-- and NO one can say "boo" about it... well, actually, that's the one time of the year people say boo, but you know what I mean! I can dress how I want, decorate scary and have fun.
I remember being a beautiful pixie one year and getting some extra good candy for it. I loved dressing as a witch. I like how people are scared of me when I'm an executioner-- and I don't have to do anything! And all the kids love how I decorate and the treats I hand out!
Halloween begins to come when I smell the first scent on the wind-- candy corn and decay. The first hints appear before the stores even get in Halloween items, and the scents get stronger every day, as does the change in me. I get weirder, to everyone else's eyes, but I know that, in fact, I'm becoming more ME. As soon as I get the chance, I begin going through the stores, browsing the Halloween stuff, putting up a little of the decorations here, a little there! Along the way, I attend nearby functions like Phobia at Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, FL, Haunted Trails in Lake Wales, and the Winter Haven Ghouls' Nite Out-- too cool! By Halloween, the house is decorated, the treats are bagged, and I am at the peak of my excitement! I begin making my special meal: cannibal soup, spaghetti and meatballs, vampire repelling talismans, witch's brew, and brown vampire bats, watching movies and listening to Halloween CD's (especially Broomhilda and Thriller) (wishing I had that "there was an old woman, all skin and bone" song on CD) with my nieces, and reading and making up stories, playing games. We eat. The trick-or-treaters come and each takes only one bag of treats. Some are too afraid to step on the porch! Some hide behind their mommies until they hear my voice behind the mask. My nieces stay over and we have a seance and tell more ghost stories. They're too afraid to sleep, soon, and strange things happen. The room gets icy cold and tappings sound on the window, the roof. Moans make them jump in their beds. They turn the light back on and try to calm down. The talk inevitably turns to scary movies and one niece tries to imitate the woman from the Grudge coming down the stairs. We're all laughing. My other niece tries and does better, but we still chuckle. They talk me into trying and so I do-- and they both run from the room! I'm too creepy, they say, I do it too much like the movie. One of my nieces can walk like the ghost gjirl from Gothika, though, so I say she's the best at being creepy. They disagree, of course.
We finally calm down and sleep.
Still, Halloween is never over until at least the weekend after, and then I leave the decorations up as long as I can-- so I still feel more like myself. Halloween is my day... that lasts over a month!

Answer 7

I'm from TX but moved a couple of years ago to WY and had my family all come up for our very 1st white Christmas....well, it didn't snow here, it snowed almost a foot in Corpus Christi, TX, where I was near, grrr. Not only did I miss it, but my family did too. But, Christmas is my all-time favorite, I love EVERYTHING about it, from decorating the house and tree on Thanksgiving night, to listening to only Christmas songs until the day after Christmas. I love the Christmas spirit people have, the decorated town and stores and neighborhoods. I love driving around going light-seeing. I love waking up Christmas morning, lighting the scented candles, making hot cocoa for my family, and watching everyone open their presents. Although I hate cooking, I do love sitting at the table with my family looking at the beautiful food (mainly the cornbread dressing and sweet potato casserole) and us all digging in, spending special time together. My daughter will be home this Christmas from the Navy, so we've got the entire family home this year. Next year, my baby is off to the Air Force, so this will be our last "complete" family Christmas I'm afraid.....98 days! I can't wait!!!!!!!!!

Answer 8

I just love christmas. the family together, the decorations, the pie! the tree, the presents, the smell of pine.
and halloween, that's so fun. the costumes, the candy, the fun, friends, family, scary tricks, and many many more things!
I love the nutcracker song, and this song that goes, h-a- double l -o-double u-double e -n spells halloween!

Answer 9

I am origionally from Long Island, now I live in FL. Hanukkah and Christmas are my favorite holidays. I was raised Jewish, but my father's family is Lutheran, so my parents decided to raise me Jewish, but celibrate the Christian holidays, just not for the religious reasons. For Hanukkah, my mother and I light our menorahs, adding one candle every night, and say the prayers and such. Gifts are exchanged, and sometimes my dad'll make latkas. I would play dreidle, but there's no one to play with, and I'll play some songs on teh piano or flute.
Christmas Eve, when I was in New York, was spent at my great-aunt's beach house, but now we don't go cause we're in FL now. The tree is all decorated by Christmas Eve and I read "The Night Before Christmas" before my parents and I go to sleep. We open presents on Christmas morning, and then go to my aunt's house for more presents. Then we eat dinner there and go home.
This Christmas will be hard. My grandfather passed away in May, and the kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids all gathered at our house last year for Christmas.
Not only do I celibrate Hanukkah and Christmas, but my birthday's December 8th. Its been a family joke that I spell December, P-R-E-S-E-N-T-S. But I'm far from greedy. I donate things I got from previous years to charities that I don't use anymore.

Answer 10

I'm from Greece.
I like summer vacations. I leave all my duties back and I'm vanish into the Aegean Sea's thin air.
I like to visit small islands, dessert beaches and swimming alone with the seagulls. I like to sleep in my boat under the stars...
I enjoy that more than everything in the world. Aegean Sea is like a paradice during summer

I like also Christmas.
The houses/stores are decorated, children sing carols, all look happy. In my parents house we have always many visitors during Christmas. We ate, drunk, sung, danced and celebrated almost every day. The traditional Christmas meal is roast turkey and New year's Eve vasilopita a pie/cake with a coin hidden inside. The person that tooks the piece with the coin is the lucky person of the year.
Now I don't celebrate so much, just a restaurant with my mom (my father's died) cause I don't leave her alone....
Love from Greece. Ti.