What are some of the christmas traditions you and your family celebrate???

Question

tell me ALL of the traditions you DO or think would just be a good tradition :) thx !

Answer 1

This is a funny little tradition I decided to start now that I have small children of my own. Each year we buy cute new pajamas for each other. The night before Christmas, the one present each gets to open early is the pajamas. My girls get so excited to have the new pajamas, and we all look great the next morning- no embarrassment when we look back on the pictures or home movies, we all have on nice PJ's.

Also, since we go to grandmas house after we open our presents, and it's an hour drive, the girls enjoy wearing their PJ's for the ride there. Once we get to grandmas, of course they change in to their nice dresses. We usually stay into the late hours of the night visiting with the rest of the family and the girls exhaust themselves while playing with their cousins. Toward the end of the night, all the kids change into their PJ's for a comfy ride home, and they are ready to be carried straight to bed when we get in late.

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Answer 2

I no longer know what all traditions we'll be celebrating any more. Of course we'll be opening presents, and maybe starting this year we'll be back to the old tradition of doing so on Christmas day rather than Christmas Eve as we have the past few years (this has been pretty much due to preparing dishes for Christmas dinner). Naturally we'll undoubtedly be watching some Christmas movies (the classic version of "Miracle on 34th Street," the George C. Scott verison of "A Christmas Carol," "White Christmas," the Santa Clause movie series, the classic animated stop-motion/claymation cartoons, A&E's Biography of Satna Claus, and of course A Charlie Brown Christmas are absolute musts for us). Myself, I'll be looking at listening to some Christmas music (largely Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, etc.) and reading some Christmas themed books or stories (primarily Baum's "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus" and Dicken's "A Christmas Carol"). I'll also end up being the one to do all the decorating of the Christmas tree, which will probably happen around my birthday.

But the biggest tradition we've really been celebrating for the past twenty years has been the family Christmas dinner at my grandmothers, and that the one that's in question.It's always been one of three meals the extended family has gotten together for, the other two being Easter and Thanksgiving. My grandmother died at the end of April of this year, so I can already say that if we have a family Christmas dinner, it won't be at her place. But the question there is if. Grandma was pretty much the big reason our immediate family went to the dinner, so we'll see what happens. If we don't go to Thanksgiving this year, it's unlikely we will go to Christmas either.

Answer 3

WE always got to Christmas eve service, before opening any gifts we read the Christmas story from the Bible. Also, I would read to our 3 sons the book the "Littlest Angel", it's a Wonderful Story".
For my Husband and I we, always would have our quiet time together and open our gifts on Christmas Eve, and my Favorite book for us...."The Gift of The Magi", by O Henry..a beautiful love story with the true meaning of Christmas and Love. Putting up the manger scene.
Driving around town to look at the Christmas lights and folk art
Taking the boys to the Christmas tree festival at the local museum.
Having a Big Dinner..Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, & Gravy, & all the trimmings. And so much more. And oh yes, starting with the youngest opening their gifts 1st working our way up to the oldest.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Our tradition is a special ornament each year with the year written on it. It can be one we make or purchase, as long as it has to do with something special that we did that year.

For example, we have an ornament for our first year together, the year we were married, the year we bought our house, the year I was pregnant with my son. We have a special one each year for "the family". Now that I have a son, we also do one each year for him. My plan is that when he is an adult and leaves our home, he will get "his" ornaments for his own tree. If we have more children, we will do one for each child and one for the family.

We are thinking of making future ornaments from a special place that we have vacationed at that year.

I also like the idea of writing and singing a funny parody about your family to the tune of a Christmas carol if you get together with a large family for the holidays. It could be a collaborative effort, to be sung after dinner as a group on Christmas Eve.

What do you think of these ideas?

Answer 6

My family didn't really have any, except we were always at our own house Christmas morning, for Santa. I started up several I had seen others do, and then my very own that is unique as far as I know. We do stockings even the dog has one, everyone helps paint their own ornament from the craft dept.. (like 54cents) and our unique one is we bake a cake on Christmas eve together instead of cookies for Jesus Birthday. Gotta have a Birthday Cake!

Answer 7

Well pretty much around any holiday I'm "the decorating master" at my house but around Christmas I definately go all out the day after Thanksgiving I immediately put up the tree, I spend about 2-3 hours outside putting up lights, I put four stockings above the fire place (my parents, my dog and myself), We hang holly garlands and snowflakes and we put up a Christmas Village with little people and cars. On Christmas Day my family usually gets together at my house we get out all our plates with holly desings on them and a poinsetta table cloth and we all sit down to eat usually ham and then we all open presents, we usually love watching my nieces and nephew(ages 5,4 and 2) open there gifts the most and we usually listen to christmas music.

Answer 8

We go to church
Every child in my family helps my mom bake a dessert
Every year my family adds a new ornamet to our tree from an accomplishment or place we traveled
Open ONE present on Christmas Eve
My sisters are in the Children's Christmas Eve Mass
We give thanks to God and Jesus

Answer 9

Well, we open our presents Christmas eve....we're Catholic, and it's been a tradition for awhile.....

Answer 10

It doesn't have anything to do with "Christmas" really, but we like to put up a tree.