Holiday Traditions

What do you do during the Holidays?


Every year for my family and I, we have dinner on Christmas eve together, and it's nothing but junk food... a continuation of my dad's Christmas eve tradition when he was a kid. (He was 1 of 9 kids, his mom let them eat junk for dinner Christmas eve so she had time to prepare everything else for the next day).

After the junk-food dinner, we go to my grandmothers for a visit, then before bed, my sister and I exchange a gift from each other. We've done that since we were little, and were so excited my parents let us open one thing each... from each other. We don't get as insanely excited now, but it stuck

 

Me and my girl just started our own tradition. A Christmas ornament for each Christmas we're together. I'll post a pic soon.

 

... if I had a girlfriend, I'd spend the holiday with her.. alas, that never happens.. :smt010 holidays are always lonely and aggravating..

 

I wants to start this tradition last year, but we never made it to the arts and crafts store before it snowed and this year, he's in Japan.

My kids and I put the tree up together and my daughter bakes cookies with me.

 

I've done that with my kids since their birth. It's pretty neat rehanging them year after year as they get older. It give the fam a chance to reminiscence.

 

We are the crazy neighbors that totally go all out with decorations...we put lights on the house and inflatables up in the yard...parents bring their kids over to take pictures ...people drive by constantly...I love doing it for the kids :heart:

 

I enjoy decorating my house with my princess. It's especially a great time of the year for us both and our son because we do it for him. We have Christmas dinner with our families (hers and mine together). This is a time in which we as a family regardless of race celebrate together. I love my princess. The holiday would be nothing to me without her. In many ways she saved my life. Happy Holidays my princess and son.

 

Us too. Love looking back on their ornaments and see how much their personalities have grown :heart: Baking cookies on Christmas Eve (for Santa of course), and carrots for the reindeer. New jammies for the littles. It's all about the babies :heart:

We have a history of going ridiculously crazy with the outside decorations. Different scenes on the lawn, some inflatables are just 3-4 feet, some are 12+ feet! Lights everywhere, fake snow, light projection on the garage doors, all that good stuff. We used to get traffic in our housing community because people loved to stop and take pics with their families lol. Pretty fricken awesome. Our house now is in a gated community so it's only our direct neighbors that get to enjoy the craziness Luckily our closest neighbors do it up (albeit on a smaller scale) as well.

 

There is a neighborhood in Chicago of rich people and many decorate their houses professionally.

My parents, my daughter and I drive into Chicago, look at the windows in the downtown stores, see the lights they put up in Lincoln Park Zoo, and then drive through that aforementioned neighborhood.

Then on our way home, we drive through other places where we know from experience put up decorations.

We also MUST watch Christmas Vacation and The Ref (my daughter doesn't participate in this movie yet) at the very least one time before Christmas. :smt023

 

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I love the holiday drives too, looking at all the decorations! Glad to see others like doing the same

8 more sleeps till my Christmas gift arrives early, lol. Told my parents they're not allowed to put a bow on him and stick him under the tree,

 

I remember a drive-thru one night in a high-end neighborhood in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. We were lost that night. It was a place where not only were the homes real nice, but the the holiday decorations were fantastic(I can't imagine what the electric bill would be after the holidays). I was 11 or 12 at that time. Add the holiday music and good food and you have holiday memories to last a long time.

 

And then there's Festivus for the rest of us

 

having your birthday a few days before Christmas gets depressing, especially when you don't have a girlfriend...:smt011

 

Christmastime is not too bad. Neither is New Year's Eve. If you want to be with a woman during Christmas, go to Japan. Christmastime is difficult for the single and unattached Japanese woman. Valentine's Day is the worst.

 

I'm a bit of a grump at Christmas so my tradition is just to survive through the family gatherings without wringing someones neck.

But nice stuff wise, me and the kids put up the tree together and decorate the living room and what not.
I've been subjected to at least a dozen Christmas movies so far (sky has devoted a whole movie channel to it "Great") the kids love it though.

We only have a small front lawn so I don't do outdoor decks, I used to decorate the privet hedge but I pulled it all out this summer lol

If we have time this week i was going to take the kids to the zoo as we have annual passes this year and last year which the Kids seem to enjoy and the animals are usually more visible when you go in the winter and not hiding in the shade.

 

Since my son won't be with me this year, I'll be catching up on my reading.

 

Excellent point.

 

It's really getting out of hand.

At Target, they were putting up Christmas stuff while the Halloween stuff was still up. And all you heard for the entire month of November was Black Friday sales this, Black Friday sales that.