whats your favorite holiday tradition?

Question

how do your hollidaysusualy go? when do you open your stockings, do you even have stockings? secret santas? how early do you eat on thanksgiving?

your holliday stories?

Answer 1

On Christmas my entire family(cousins and all) met around 6 for Christmas dinner at someone's house. We ALL sit together at a loooooong table and eat and visit. Then we all dance and joke and have fun until someone convinces everyone else that we should open the presents. Then we open the presents one at a time so that it takes a very long time and everyone tells stories and jokes while this is happening. Christmas only happens once a year so why tare off all the paper and open all the presents in a matter of seconds. We take our time and enjoy eachother's company. Then afte all the presents are opened- all of the younger family members get to search the tree for the "pickle ornament". It's an ornament that looks just like a pickle and it blends in very well with the tree. It takes a while to find it and when someone does discover it- they get a special gift such as a box of chocolates. The whole night lasts a very long time and no one leaves until about 2 or 3 in the morning. But we feal so happy and cheerful that the time doesnt matter!
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Answer 2

We usually have Thanksgiving (& Christmas) dinner around 2:00/3:00ish. Then have the leftovers for dinner.

Lots of holiday traditions.
• We go out of town to my mother-in-law's for Thanksgiving. When we get home on Saturday, the first thing we do is go get our tree and put it up.
• Sometime in December, we go to Frankenmuth (Michigan), a town that has two restaurants with world-famous chicken dinners, lots of little shops up and down the street, and Bronner's, the world's largest Christmas store.
• Every year, we add a bird ornament to the tree.
• On Christmas Eve, we drive all over the neighborhood and look at all the lights & decorations.
• My husband started this tradition as a kid: When opening Christmas presents everyone takes turns, starting with the oldest person in the room, moving on down to the youngest.

Answer 3

I'm newly married so new traditions are beginning. We also have the kids every other year.

Growing up: My favorite tradition was having Thanksgiving and Christmas at our house with family coming over (aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, etc.). I also enjoyed going up to my aunt's house for a Christmas thing, usually the weekend before or after Christmas.
Gifts are great but I enjoyed seeing my extended family more.
We used to play board games. It was so much fun with a lot more people. We would just laugh. Nothing was taken too seriously.

Answer 4

My favorite christmas tradition that family has, is that each family member gets a new ornament that they choose every year, and on christmas eve before we go to bed we make a wish on the ornament.

Another is that on christmas eve, each person can open up one present, but they have to be chosen by the rest of the family.

The only thanksgiving tradition is that someone used to make this thing called pumpkin freeze (secret family recipe) but it is simliar to pumpkin ice cream and we would go through like 3 batched of it : )

Answer 5

My fav Christmas tradition is when we get to hang our stockings on the fire place and put all kinds of stocking stuffers in them up until Christmas.

We also have a great tradition of actually going out to a Adult Care Center or Nursing Home and give out usable gifts like toiletries and singing Christmas Carols for the residents. Its always fun and you never know whose life you touch!

I love the holidays!

Answer 6

When i was a kid we started this tradition where my parents would hang bed sheets up in the door ways (using a curtain rod w/ those rubber ends) to block off the room where the presents were. I'm 22 and that tradition still carries on!! :-) Also, each family member opens up one gift on c-mas eve

Answer 7

10 yrs ago my dad cook a wonderful old years night meal and an aunt of mine who was alone for the holiday came over. she loved the food so much that from now on we have an unoffical old years into the new year big bash w/ close friends and family. we hav been trying to get out of it for the last 5 yrs but one hundred ppl look foward to flooding my house to taste my dad's food and to bring in the new year with us. it nice because we only some 1/2 the ppl on that night and no other time for the yr.

Answer 8

For thanksgiving, everyone must wear pajamas. Its the rule. We buy extra and have them on hand for guests that forget (or sleep naked).

For Hanuakah, we eat donuts.

Answer 9

I always remember that me, my sister, and my brother would all put out sleeping bags in mine & my sister's bedroom and then my parents would read the real Christmas story out of the Bible and T'was the Night Before Christams. And earlier that day we would bake cookies, and that night before we read, we would put out the cookies and milk. Then me & my brother & sister, wouold stay up really late in my room, except my sister would always fal asleep first, so it was just me and my brother. Finally at around midnight we sould fall asleep, but we'd wake up around 3 am or earlier, and me and my brother would watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas to pass the time. Then finally at about 6 am, me and my brother would wake up my sister, then go jump in my parent's bed and force them into the living room to open presents. Then we would open them from youngest to oldest and stockings first. Gosh! Typing thid just got me extra excited about Christams!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANKSGIVING: Me, my sister, my brother, and my parents to up to my mom's mom's house [[who lives right beside us]] for lunch. All of my cousins come up there too, we stay up there from lunch untill late that night and we eat left-over for supper. Sometimes I have to go to my other grnadparent's and step-grandparent's houses too. But we don't stay long cuz we're not that close to that side of the family. But when it's time for us to leave my mom's parent's house normally my cousin who's my age will spend the night with us. And then on Saturday my family [[without my cousin]] will go up to N. Carolina to get our Christmas tree and set it up later that day. Once it's set up I decorate the inside of the house, my dad decorates tohe outside of the house, and me, my sister, and sometimes my brother decorate the tree.

MERRY CHRISTAMS AND HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!