Our holiday traditions are still being established. My oldest daughter enjoyed decorating for Christmas for the first time last year, when she was 4. It was the second year of our Elf tradition when her own personal elf comes to visit and causes some chaos when she sleeps. We make gingerbread houses, listen to holiday music, take trips around NYC, and do as much as we can to get the most out of the holiday season.
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we have dinner at home and spend time together.
My mom and I always open the gifts from out-of-town relatives on Christmas Eve night after going to church. We save the rest of the presents until Christmas morning.
We have two Christmas trees each year. One that our kids alone decorate with ornaments that they have made throughout the last few years. The other is our family tree.
My daughter and I bake cookies together.
baking Christmas cookies with the kids
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my mom and sister before Christmas Eve!
To be together all the family , to eat and create special moments
Hot chocolate with my family on Christmas Eve night after all the guest have gone!
Taking down the tree – good riddance – bah humbug!
My girls and I making something special for Santa Christmas Eve night. We choose something different each year to make for him. Thank you!!
Driving around town to see the Christmas decorations.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter like I did with my mom and grandmother
I love loading the kids in the car, putting on Christmas music and going out to view the Christmas light displays.
Baking cookies with my Mom and Sisters
I love our traditional morning of Christmas…everyone comes home for the exchanging of presents
One of my favorite Holiday traditions is when we go get our Christmas tree together as a family! We get up early, get hot chocolate and listen to Christmas music in the car and drink hot chocolate and go to a tree farm to get our tree!
One of my favorite traditions is having a big family breakfast on Christmas morning before leaving the house to visit relatives for the day.
my kids help make the cookies
we love baking cookies
Putting cookies out for santa.
We like to cook together. It’s a great way to catch up on the family.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together and decorating sugar cookies.
We have dinner together on Christmas Eve.
we each open one present Christmas eve, a German tradition.
picking out our christmas tree
Decorating the tree together as a family after thanksgiving.
I like baking traditional family favorites for the holidays.
I buy a Hallmark ornament for each of my children each year since they were born. They will each have a box of ornaments special to them to start their own tree!
One of my favorite holiday traditions is driving around with the kids on Christmas Eve looking at all the great light displays.
We always open gifts together as a family and take turns guessing what gifts we got!
Our favorite is baking cookies together for Father Christmas.
My favorite holiday tradition is hosting the meal at my house for my extended family.
tamales on Christmas eve with the extended family – so yummy!
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We like opening presents in pjs before breakfast.
We like to drive around and look at Christmas lights and decorations each year.
Having green bean casserole. This is the only time of the year I have it.
taking plates of cookies to the neighbors
We make stockings and fill them with toiletries and donate them to the Christian Aid center
We have the whole family over for diner and then open presents.
We love going to Longwood Gardens to see the lights.
I love to play Canasta with the family after Thanksgiving dinner.
We always get names from the Angel Tree and purchased toys and clothes for them.
We like to decorate the tree while watching National Lampoon’s Vacation
My favorite tradition is spending the weekend making candies and cookies to ship to our loved ones with their Christmas gifts
my favorite holiday tradition – well two, getting together to bake with my sister, SIL’s and cousins a few days before Christmas Even for our family gathering. Then Christmas Eve is a full day of fun with family, we get together early in the day so all the kids can bake cookies for Santa, then we end the day with a meal, a gift exchange, games and lots of laughs. Great time with family we don’t always get to see often throughout the year.
my favorite is when the family gets comes over on christmas eve
When I was young my Dad was a farmer. So we opened our gifts on Christmas Eve. To this day my husband and 4 sons and I open gifts after Christmas Eve mass. We always have lots of goodies and snacks too.
We attend the Children’s Christmas Eve mass and dd is usually singing in the children’s choir!
I love to bake cookies – always traditional ones, but have to pick a new recipe every year, too.
Our new tradition is to buy gifts for the kids, but the adults in my family, we do one secret santa gift and then put money we would have spent on those extra gifts towards a local charity, family in need, etc.
Baking cookies together!
We always go to the candle light service at church on Christmas Eve.
My favorite Holiday tradition is our families Dirty Santa party. So much fun!
We have Christmas with the in-laws on Christmas Eve and with my parents on Christmas day.
I like baking cookies for friends and family.
decorating the tree after Thanksgiving
My favorite holiday tradition is spending Christmas day at my parents house with all of my family.
Going to my Uncle Bob’s for Thanksgiving.
We buy a gift in honor of family members that have passed & donate it
Church and a big family dinner.
We have a tradition of decorating the house/tree on December 1st. My daughter is really looking forward to that this year. She keeps asking how much longer until I get the tree out of the attic. 🙂
We decorate the house on the day after Thanksgiving.
Putting the Christmas lights on the outside of the of house after Thanksgiving.
we always do peel and eat shrimp at midnight on christmas. family traditionf or years
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We always let the kids open one present on Christmas Eve. Thanks for hosting!
We love to decorate the tree and house together
I love having our annual cookie baking day!
I love going to my mom’s on Christmas day for a feast with my entire family!
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree.
Cookie baking and candy making
Decorating and holiday baking are our traditions!
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My son helping me hang ornaments on the tree.
Making cookies with the grandchildren.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking snickerdoodle cookies.
We love go looking at all the Christmas light displays each year.
I love when we get together as a family and play games.
We like to watch movies.
I enjoy putting up the tree with my daughters and talking about all our special ornaments and the memories associated with them.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating our butterfly tree!
going to church on christmas lights and looking at houses all lit up.than home to drink hot chocolate and watch a Christmas movie
On Christmas morning we put a lit candle in a cupcake, place it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to Baby Jesus.
pumpkin pie on Christmas morning
We always go to Denny’s on Christmas Eve for dinner.
Decorating Christmas cookies with my daughter.
Going to church and attending the Candlelight Service, worshipping Jesus,
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my sons and husband and all the great memories we have of our ornaments.
We like to open one big gift on christmas eve and have a nice dinner both days
MY FAVORITE IS DECORATING THE TREE WITH MY KIDS
My favorite holiday tradition is all the children get together at grandma’s house each year before Christmas and bake and decorate Christmas cookies together.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to the Christmas tree farm together and picking out a tree.
We always bake lots of cookies!
We love to bake and frost cut out cookies together every year!
Christmas Eve our extended families visit for dinner and gift exchange.
Picking out a Christmas tree
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree.
I love decorating the tree as a family
Spending time with family and looking at lights.
My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree.
Chine buffet on Christmas Eve and monkey bread for breakfast
My favorite holiday tradition is just that we all get together for one day under one roof. Neat.
Every year we drive around and look at the Christmas lights. In Florida, it sometimes takes a little work to get in the Christmas spirit.
My fave Christmas tradition is spending the day with family making Christmas cookies. We make these awesome sour cream cut out cookies with homemade frosting, yumm!
I always get a sandwich platter on Christmas Eve and make appetizers and dips and all day we have family and friends stop by. It is the best day of the year.
Picking out our Christmas Tree each year is one of my favorite traditions.
Our tradition is decorating the tree with all the family
Going to Christmas Eve service and coming home to hot chocolate and opening one present.
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We have dinner at home together and watch White Christmas.
Christmas eve family movie night.
Family dinner together!
Last year we went DC and fed the homeless. hoping to go again this year !
My favorite holiday tradition is going to my Grandmother’s house for Christmas Eve.
I love decorating the tree
I like opening up one gift on Christmas Eve.
I like that my husband has time off of work during the holidays and we can spend it together.
we go and cut our tree down
We leave a note to each other telling what we hope for them in the coming year.
making Christmas cookies
I stay up all night Christmas Eve baking and wrapping gifts with my mom.
My favorite tradition is decorating the Christmas tree play Christmas Carols and drinking hot cocoa.
Making cookies with the family, we call it Cookie Day!
We open one gift on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning. Thanks for having this contest.
I love baking with my kids and than handing out the trays to family and friends. Thanks for the awesome giveaway 🙂
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Playing board games with the kids and hubby on Christmas eve creating memories!
I like the time I spend with family and friends…the feelings and forgiveness of the holidays
My favorite holiday tradition is making fudge for friends and family