did you discover something enjoyable to do together as a youngster with YOUR parents, or did you come up with something different on your own? how do YOU celebrate the holiday season?
2006-11-21 23:33:08 · 14 answers · asked by patzky99 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Every Christmas Eve we have dinner as a family and b/c were mostly Italian we have the tradition of having seafood that night. Then about 6 or7 years ago we started the tradition of watching the Santa clause movie and drinking hot chocolate before bed. We wake up at 6 every Christmas morning and open our presents from each other. We just spend the day together and have some small food all day long on the table so we can just pick at it. It's fun something i will always treasure and hope to one day pass it on and keep it alive with my own family!!!!! To everyone out there enjoy the holiday's and have the best one ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-11-28 23:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by Christina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, this has always been since I was a little girl, so I don't know how it started. But on Christmas Eve we have dinner at other family member's houses. Like we'll go to my mom's mom's house, then to my stepdad's house. We will open the gifts we got from them, and laugh, eat, then go home. For the rest of the day we'll watch Christmas movies, relax, and just spend time together. Me and my sister always got to open 1 present on Christmas Eve from under the tree. Christmas day we always got up at like 5 am it seemed. Mom would make breakfast, usually her delicious french toast, and we'd exchange gifts, and open "Santa's" gifts. We could always leave our stuff piled in the floor all day Christmas. There would be xmas music, movies, and we'd have a quiet little family dinner. Now, married, me and my husband celebrate Christmas Day alone, and on Christmas Eve, we go to our parents house. We don't have kids yet, but as when I was a child I will carry on the wonderful tradition that my mom presented to me.
2006-11-28 16:12:51 · answer #2 · answered by honeysuckle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every holidays, we usually have dinner together as a family. It's something that I always look forward to since we rarely eat together as a family during weekdays even on weekends unless we eat dinner in a restaurant.
Recently, I've attended a Christmas Traditions seminar in our church and it actually inspired me to jumpstart another tradition that is not only enjoyable for my family but a meaningful one as well.
2006-11-21 23:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by Alias G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being a cunning woman(witch)I celebrate the winter solstice instead of xmas.Most of my family is of different faiths but celebrate xmas.So we get together the weekend before Xmas and have a Yule party.Everyone brings food,drinks,gifts and we have an all day bonfire,eat,play gamesand enjoy the season.
It also frees up my family to visit their spouses family and friends.
2006-11-26 07:26:23 · answer #4 · answered by crow lover 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
our infants are 2 and four, a number of our traditions are our very own, yet some are carried on from as quickly as we've been little. one element we do is shrink down our very own Christmas tree. in many circumstances that's the day after Thanksgiving, then the tree is going contained in the storage till each and every week or 2 till now Christmas. We extremely have a family members baking day or 2 the place all of us party and crank out approximately 10 forms of cookies and candy. as quickly as our daughter became into born we would have cherished her to awaken in her very own residence on Christmas morning, so as that's something we attempt stressful to do. presents from Santa are unwrapped and might nicely be performed with precise away, however the different presents might desire to attend till after breakfast. additionally, in line with annum we supply my niece and nephew an decoration exceedingly for them so as that while they advance up and have a tree of their very own, they might have some starter adorns. We oftentimes get them at craft gala's so as that they are unique, and my siblings do the comparable for my toddlers. that's in line with threat my popular custom.
2016-10-04 06:00:38 · answer #5 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husbands family started a Christmas morning breakfast for
their tradition many, many years ago. Though his family is not
doing this any longer as a big family(and I do mean big) he and I
have kept it going for our children and grandchildren. All of us look
forward to it and have kept it a tradition since 1987 when our kids
were still very young.
2006-11-29 00:32:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WE have a family tradition called "adopt a family on Christmas eve"... it started couple of years back... we live in a depressed area where people sometimes cant celebrate a christmas dinner..... we've seen our nieghbor and we envited them to have dinner with us.... up to this day... .we invite those families who can have a good dinner to our house..... and it is increasing every year that we need to prepare many things because people keep coming to our house for a Christmas dinner!!! its always fun!!!!
2006-11-21 23:46:02 · answer #7 · answered by bugi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I spend it like I used to with my parents. Open some gifts at midnight and the family has breakfast in the morning.
2006-11-29 03:05:01 · answer #8 · answered by Amethyst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EVERYONE EATS AT MY MOTHERS HOUSE ON XMAS AND WE PLAY PIC KENO AFTER DINNER IT GROWN TO ABOUT 10 PEOPLE AND THE MEN CAN WATCH FOOTBALL WHILE WE PLAY ON XMAS IS THE TIME IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND YOU WANT THE FAMILY TO MEET THAT THE WHEN WE ARE ALL IN ONE PLACE EVERYONE ARRIVES AT MOTHERS ABOUT 11 AM AND THE LAST PROBABLY GOES HOME AT 8 OR 9 PM
2006-11-28 17:51:54 · answer #9 · answered by hymans10 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once the commercialism is over we start to relax on christmas eve with a few drinks and mince pies to get us ready for the next 12 days of xmas . i love christmas and hogmany but hate tge commercial side of christmas over here in uk the shops advertise xmas goods from august onwards and then once january arrives in come the easter eggs and bunnys.. so its money money money all year round.
2006-11-21 23:49:26 · answer #10 · answered by justmaz2004 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋