Your Holiday Traditions!

quitmakingexcuses
quitmakingexcuses Posts: 906 Member
edited October 2024 in Chit-Chat
It's that time of year! What are your favorite holiday traditions? :)

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  • pkiesch
    pkiesch Posts: 259 Member
    baking baking and MORE BAKING! fudge, divinity, haystacks, whoopie pies... driving around looking at lights, watching Christmas Vacation WAY too many times and reading Holly & Ivy with my mom & sister. I love winter...
  • gunmetalsunrise
    gunmetalsunrise Posts: 131
    Delicious sweets and baking treats! :) Ginger bread, Ukie apple pie, ginger cookies. Basically anything with "pumpkin pie" spice in it. Soooo delicious.

    I suspect I'll be working out double-time to make up for all of it. ;)
  • 03258
    03258 Posts: 60
    Love how all of our favs revolve around FOOD. Hmmmmm....are we seeing a pattern here? We go to church as a family on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Caroling, Baking cut-out cookies, frosting cut-out cookies, baking ginger cookies, chocolate chip cookies, Angel Crisps, Brownies, Spritz cookies, fudge....shopping and finding just the right gift. Wrapping presents with pretty bows, Parties and Slush. Snow, snow, snow...and pretty Christmas Music.
  • roberts1013
    roberts1013 Posts: 103 Member
    Krum Kaker, Lefsa, cinnamon rolls, and cookies mmmmmmmmmmmm.
  • PenguinPrincess
    PenguinPrincess Posts: 101
    Shopping! I love buying gifts for people...I always feel guilty buying things for myself, but it makes me feel good to buy things for others! Baking too. I love baking desserts for the holiday get togethers.
  • Ephena
    Ephena Posts: 610 Member
    Getting the family together and everybody decorating the Christmas tree.

    We've always done it at my parents house but last year we actually got to do it at my house! My kids get so excited to decorate the tree and they put all the ornaments at their eye level in the same section of the tree. (Think leaning tower of Pisa) :laugh: Then we take a picture, send the kids to bed and relocate the ornaments. When they see the tree in the morning they think the elves came and redecorated (they're 5 and 7 so that won't work for much longer). :cry:
  • pinkgigi
    pinkgigi Posts: 693 Member
    Here is Australia it is often boiling hot on Christmas Day. We used to have the whole hot turkey thing when my (European) father was alive, but now we usually have a cold meat/salad (or seafood) day. A couple of years ago, I just had lamb straps and salmon on the barbeque, with cooked veggies and salads on the deck on a beautiful sunny day, but sometimes we can't do that because of fire-ban days during the drought. Funnily enough we still have decorations with snowy themes and snow men, even though we never have snow! I usually have an icecream Christmas pudding.

    I usually go to midnight mass, although my son will not be singing this year. Christmas for me also means feeling heavily the loss of loved ones, and it feels so hard to make the effort each year. BUT I bought a wondeful advent calendar and put choccies in for every day, and my children (21 and 19) are really excited, so it doesn't take a lot to feel the anticipation.

    GG
  • Mountain_woman
    Mountain_woman Posts: 229 Member
    We go to midnight mass and come to a late, late dinner. The next day, my mother and I cook, cook, cook. It's a blissful, food filled time with all I love the most. My favorite time of year. Hands down.
  • vaderandbill
    vaderandbill Posts: 1,063 Member
    I have always enjoyed eating and drinking like a viking and then feeling bloated and crappy for 3 days. Maybe this year will be different!
  • Thena81
    Thena81 Posts: 1,265 Member
    my famous sweet potato pie and ribs! ...for Christmas that is! for Thanksgiving we do turkey and ham if we feel like it. i cut it this year cause if the fat and sodium
  • k8bugz
    k8bugz Posts: 64 Member
    My favorite family tradition growing up, which we still do today w/my parents, is decorating the tree on xmas eve (I think it's a german tradition, but not sure). Then my dad makes greasy scrambled eggs. It makes xmas eve so much more special, and my mom keeps the tree up for the twelve days of xmas.

    When we were kids, my dad used to make us kids wait at the top of the stairs until all of us woke up. Then we all had to brush our teeth and then immediately drink an entire glass of OJ (gag, so gross) before we could see the loot santa left.

    Another tradition for the men in my family is they all get a girlie mag and a cigar in their stocking.
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