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Do you have any Christmas traditions?
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Posts: 2824 (11/20/2009 9:50 AM) |
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Posts: 11509 (11/20/2009 9:53 AM) |
We order pizza on Christmas Eve and eat it on Christmas day for lunch.
 We also always go to the movies on Christmas day and have bday cake for me!!
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Posts: 27994 (11/20/2009 11:03 AM) |
One of my friends (former next door neighbor) and I do an open house Christmas Eve party at her house. Family and friends on both sides come and go for food
and drink. I always make lasagna. It's just a nice relaxing way to spend Christmas keeping the kids at home and enjoying it rather than running around
everywhere.
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Iwantnumber18 |
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Posts: 7707 (11/20/2009 11:10 AM) |
When I was little and my family exchanged gifts, my mom's sister and her 3 kids would come for dinner Christmas Eve. When the kids were done, we'd
bring down all the presents from my parents/Oma's room and dump them in the family room. The kids would sort through and organize them all until the
parents were done and then it was mayhem
Christmas Day we go to my dads sisters' for a late lunch.
My friends get together for a potluck on whichever day everyone is free and have a Secret Santa. |
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JulieAnne20 |
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Posts: 38012 (11/20/2009 11:34 AM) Best Debater '09
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New pajamas for everyone on Christmas Eve.
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HolyCannoli |
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Posts: 7932 (11/20/2009 11:35 AM) |
24 hours of A Christmas Story
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HalfPintNB412 |
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Posts: 1107 (11/20/2009 11:36 AM) |
My family and I travel to the next state over (where my parents are from and the rest of my family lives) for Christmas Eve and Christmas. I've never had a
Christmas in my house! When my sister and I were little, my dad used to write out directions to my grandmas house and leave it in the fireplace so he could
find us.
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Posts: 2827 (11/20/2009 11:39 AM) |
I LOVE a Christmas Story...I watch that every year
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Alex the Goob |
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Posts: 54478 (11/20/2009 11:40 AM) |
Nope...I did when I was a kid, but we don't do them anymore.
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HolyCannoli |
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Posts: 7934 (11/20/2009 11:41 AM) |
HalfPintNB412 wrote: My mom and dad used to tell my brother and sister this too! We used to go to Florida for Christmas break and my parents would tell us that Santa knows that we're there and that he was going to give us half our gifts then and half our gifts back home in New York. 
My family has done tons of things to trick the kids. My uncle went outside and took the reindeer lawn ornaments and hid under the bay window and moved them all like a sleigh. My cousin and I flipped out and swore up and down we saw Santa  And my Grandmother's jingle bell earrings. Every time she moved, we
swore it was the bells on Santa's sleigh
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Just A Little Stitious |
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Posts: 14759 (11/20/2009 11:49 AM) |
We have many, many Christmas traditions, all of which we still practice even though most of us are adults.
We open one present on Christmas Eve (which is
pajamas, always). We also read Luke 2 as a family, and sometimes some other Christmas stories. Christmas morning, the kids (including those of us that are 24
and 26) have to wait on the stairs until everything is set up and we're allowed. My parents turn on Christmas music, the lights on the tree, start the
fire, and get the camera. They take a picture of us sitting on the stairs (we have one from every year of my life), then we come down and go through are
stockings first, then all the presents one at a time. We get an orange in the bottom of our stocking, and then we eat that with cinnamon swirl bread and hot
chocolate for breakfast. We always watch a movie on Christmas Day and stay in our pajamas all day. Assuming I ever get married, I hope my husband isn't too
attached to all of his Christmas traditions. My way is how Christmas is supposed to be done.
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dana hoover |
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Posts: 872 (11/20/2009 12:21 PM) |
We have christmas eve at my house. We draw names at thanksgiving and then on christmas eve we exchange them and open them.
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AmberElise04 |
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Posts: 6297 (11/20/2009 12:31 PM) |
Just A Little Stitious wrote: That's how I am. Our "Christmas" tradition begins Black Friday. Me, my aunt, three of my oldest cousins, and my aunts best friend all go
shopping allllllllllllll day. We all scurry around with lists and meet up and mark off items and whatnot. Then we come home and we have a "tree"
party where we go to each others houses and put the trees up. Christmas Eve we carry the little kids gifts (there are 13 kids haha) to my grandparents who live
down the road from us. They are convinced (just as I was when I was little) that Santa takes the gifts to grandma's because Mamaw and Papaw want to see the
happy faces when the gifts are opened. Then on Christmas morning we all go to my grandparents and have a HUGE southern breakfast and then we go to the living
room and everyone watches the kids open the gifts and the adults exchange with the person who's name they drew. For lunch, we go to my other grandparents
who live in the next town over and have a huge lunch and open gifts there...then back home to rest for a few hours before having Christmas dinner back at my
grandparents down the road. I'm usually exhausted when it's all over!!!
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OhGetOverIt |
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Posts: 3837 (11/20/2009 12:41 PM) |
There is one tradition that takes place every Christmas Eve in my parents neighborhood. Its a Spanish tradition called Luminarias, where you line your sidewalk
with small brown paper bags and put a lit candle into each one. Here's a photo of what it tends to look like:
(Thats not my neighborhood, I just wanted to show an example )
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stef1208 |
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Posts: 352 (11/20/2009 1:22 PM) |
7 types of fish on Christmas Eve (we're Italian haha)
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Gemini9857 |
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Posts: 24904 (11/20/2009 1:37 PM) |
I go to Richmond every year (unless there's horrible weather or I'm sick) - and see my dad's side of the family. Although I don't know about
this year because my grandmother had heart surgery recently and so I don't know if she'll be up to go.
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curiousgeoff |
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Posts: 4476 (11/20/2009 2:03 PM) |
xmas eve getting hammed at my parents next door neighbors with our family, and their family, and some family friends.. open pyjamas with my brother from my
mom.. come home.. struggle to sleep (still a kid at heart), wake up.. open stockings, then gifts.. then mom makes breakfast, brother and dad go back to bed..
and I find someone to hang out with, or visit friends in the old neighborhood.
then xmas dinner with big family that night. (our house this year.) |
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LuvBug |
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Posts: 7779 (11/20/2009 2:07 PM) |
Drive around and look at lights/decorations
Cut down our own tree Watch It's A Wonderful Life as we decorate the tree |
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Ferris Bueller Youre My Hero |
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Posts: 3805 (11/20/2009 2:20 PM) |
On Christmas Eve my whole family gets together to exchange gifts and eat yummy food. We have some food staples we've been making for years. Every year the
location switches. It's either at my cousins, my house or my aunt's house. Xmas Eve is usually more exciting for me than Xmas Day except for opening
gifts in the morning.
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rory13 |
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Posts: 25033 (11/20/2009 2:30 PM) |
Christmas Eve we have a cocktail party at my uncle's house. It's dressy-dress and everyone tries to outdo each other with outfits and accessories. Last
year I wore a Kentucky Derby-style hat.
Christmas morning we have breakfast and "Santa" gifts at my parents' house with just our group of 6, and then extended family gifts and dinner at my grandparents' house. |
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bubbletoez |
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Posts: 2889 (11/20/2009 2:35 PM) |
We always go to my dad's house no Christmas Eve. We eat, watch the Grinch and open presents. The dogs all get to open their presents first (which will be
even more fun this year because my little brother just got a puppy a few months ago and I'm picking up my Doberman pup on Christmas Eve).
We used to go to Grandpa's house on Xmas Eve, but he passed away when I was 14. Christmas Day has changed now that I'm growed up and have a bf - we usually stay at his mom's house overnight and do Christmas with his family after we go to my mom's house. It's a little fuzzy there. |
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