What is your favorite Holiday activity?
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I love the wrapping and doing lots of baking, but my one favorite thing is pulling out the tree skirt and adding each of my kids’ handprints to it every year.
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skctilidie wrote: »I love the wrapping and doing lots of baking, but my one favorite thing is pulling out the tree skirt and adding each of my kids’ handprints to it every year.
Love love love this idea! My kids are older, but I'm keeping this in my back pocket for future grandkids.0 -
My daughter and I go to the Nutcracker every year. I love that.
I also love wrapping gifts. It's therapeutic for me, or something. I get a glass of wine, turn on some music, put on the fire, and spend hours wrapping and making the bows beautiful. I might give you a terrible gift, but it's going to be PRETTY!0 -
Leaving Santa's treat on the dining table. Sushi and Knob Creek. He loves it.
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I get naked and wrap myself up in wrapping paper then Hide under the tree for our Christmas work party just waiting for that lucky person to get me in the white elephant gift exchange. It’s the only time of year someone is excited to unwrap me.2
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JeepHair77 wrote: »My daughter and I go to the Nutcracker every year. I love that.
I also love wrapping gifts. It's therapeutic for me, or something. I get a glass of wine, turn on some music, put on the fire, and spend hours wrapping and making the bows beautiful. I might give you a terrible gift, but it's going to be PRETTY!
My dad is a fanatic about wrapping. We were taught to make precise creases for every corner and fold. He would say that a well wrapped gift was a gift itself. I have since resorted to gift bags for ease, convenience, economy and to be eco friendly. But only if they don't have glitter.
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For the last 12 years my busy season at work has coincided with the holidays and i feel like my holiday spirit has almost completely dwindled during that time. However, every now and then I’ll be in someone’s home and they’re making Christmas cut out cookies and listening to Christmas music and burning candles and it transports me back to when i was growing up. My mom loved the holidays and she made them so fun and magical. It makes me sad that I’ve not given my kids the same experience. I need to change that.2
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caco_ethes wrote: »For the last 12 years my busy season at work has coincided with the holidays and i feel like my holiday spirit has almost completely dwindled during that time. However, every now and then I’ll be in someone’s home and they’re making Christmas cut out cookies and listening to Christmas music and burning candles and it transports me back to when i was growing up. My mom loved the holidays and she made them so fun and magical. It makes me sad that I’ve not given my kids the same experience. I need to change that.
You can try but they will probably fight and hate everything anyways. I’ve been quoted as saying “we’re gonna have a god da** merry effing Christmas” while trying to drive around and look at cool Christmas lights that I can’t see anyways because of the tears in my eyes making it all blurry. But then we got donuts and it was fun for everyone. Cherish the moments.1 -
caco_ethes wrote: »For the last 12 years my busy season at work has coincided with the holidays and i feel like my holiday spirit has almost completely dwindled during that time. However, every now and then I’ll be in someone’s home and they’re making Christmas cut out cookies and listening to Christmas music and burning candles and it transports me back to when i was growing up. My mom loved the holidays and she made them so fun and magical. It makes me sad that I’ve not given my kids the same experience. I need to change that.
You can try but they will probably fight and hate everything anyways. I’ve been quoted as saying “we’re gonna have a god da** merry effing Christmas” while trying to drive around and look at cool Christmas lights that I can’t see anyways because of the tears in my eyes making it all blurry. But then we got donuts and it was fun for everyone. Cherish the moments.
Awww this is all of motherhood wrapped up in one fell swoop ❤️❤️2 -
Eating.0
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On the real, decorating for Christmas is my absolute favorite!1
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sleeping-in
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hiding from family members2 -
I enjoy putting a star on my head and holding a flashlight while standing in my neighbors front yard at night pretending to be a Christmas tree0
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This year it will be drinking 🍷 🍸 🍹2
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caco_ethes wrote: »For the last 12 years my busy season at work has coincided with the holidays and i feel like my holiday spirit has almost completely dwindled during that time. However, every now and then I’ll be in someone’s home and they’re making Christmas cut out cookies and listening to Christmas music and burning candles and it transports me back to when i was growing up. My mom loved the holidays and she made them so fun and magical. It makes me sad that I’ve not given my kids the same experience. I need to change that.
That's so amazing! And very heart warming to read! Never give up on the feeling of the holidays!1 -
I enjoy breaking a broomstick in half then duct taping each half to the sides of my head while prancing around my neighbors yard and yelling “I’m a reindeer”1
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Baking, making gingerbread houses, wrapping presents... I love our Christmas Eve tradition of everyone getting new jammies
When my kids were little I always had new Christmas jammies for them. I miss that tradition, but they will not even humor me for one night anymore.
My favorite thing is late nights when only the lights on the tree are on. It gives me a very peaceful feeling.
My mom kept the Christmas pj's tradition going until I was like 22 years old, which is funny because she wasn't
"that kind of mom" in most ways. Anyway, I was 20-21 and in college and she bought us both these long matching flannel nightgowns with lacy stuff at the top. They were similar to ones we had years earlier, light blue with tiny flowers and stripes, very 80s. Months later, I was staying with her one weekend & we both had them on. We ordered pizza and the pizza delivery guy was staring at us so strangely. After we paid him and closed the door we both realized why. We probably looked nuts - like we were in some sort of Little House on the Prairie cult!!2 -
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Over eating and drinking and thinking "who cares, it's a 'holiday', I'll get back on track in January"1
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Pretending to use the bathroom so I can avoid talking to my weird uncle Sid.1
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Laughing at all the "New Me" posts after New Years.0
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The Flogging of the Venal.1
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For Easter, we had this odd tradition growing up where we'd only eat seafood Good Friday through Easter Monday and we'd just watch movies about the life of Christ (so many versions) and the ten commandments. Not religious at all now but Easter is still my favorite holiday.1
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Baking cookies. Binging on them alone. :כ1
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