What is your favorite Holiday activity?
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Baking, making gingerbread houses, wrapping presents... I love our Christmas Eve tradition of everyone getting new jammies1
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Hot Chocolate and Christmas light looking.0
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Dressing up like an elf, sneaking into my friends houses at night and drinking all their booze until I pass out under their Christmas tree.0
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spending time with my daughters and their pets and boyfriends - with whatever they would like to do,0
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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.0 -
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.
I think my 11 year old plays hard to get.. He enjoys it but won't admit it. My 17 year old will entertain me and wear them for Christmas breakfast and 1 pic. That's all I get.
I also enjoy having the tree be the only light in the room0 -
Picking out a tree and bringing it home the Friday or Saturday (usually) after Thanksgiving and decorating. I get a fire going and Christmas music going and drink some old fashions while we deck the halls.
My boys are 6 and 8, so going to see Santa is a pretty big event still...though I think it will be ending sooner rather than later.
Watching Christmas movies on the weekend with the boys.
Posole and Tamales on Christmas Eve.0 -
Decorating the tree and baking holiday treats for family and friends0
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Getting drunk and binge eating 😆0
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Drinking0
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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.1 -
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
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