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Every Christmas I make a big country breakfast/brunch of Ham, bacon, sausage gravy, homemade biscuits, eggs, coffee and juice or milk. Do you have a tradition that you do every Christmas?
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Every Christmas I make a big country breakfast/brunch of Ham, bacon, sausage gravy, homemade biscuits, eggs, coffee and juice or milk. Do you have a tradition that you do every Christmas?
Coming from an old Italian family the tradition is on Christmas Eve we bake a homemade plated bread containing Italian sausage, Italian cheese, sprinkled with black or red pepper (depending upon taste). This bread is then eaten after Midnight Mass and the birth of our Lord Jesus in celebration. This tradition goes back to my Grandmother's hometown in Italy.
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One that got started when I was a child. We open 1 present on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning. My grandmother worked at a nursing home and sometimes she worked on Christmas so We opened one present on Christmas Eve where she could be around and the rest on Christmas morning. I have kept the tradition up with my children and now they are doing the same with their children.
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We have a couple. We always try to take a family picture, see the life nativity and make treats for our friends and neighbors. After that we are flexible on opening gifts on Christmas or Christmas eve (have done both) and food (have tried Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Indian, Traditional)
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We go to my parents' house for Christmas Eve.
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We celebrate Christmas Eve with the entire extended family, all of us take a dish, we wait til midnight we open presents that are exchange between families and kids and then we do our own Christmas dinner on the 25th for me, my hubby, my kids and parents and/or brothers if they are in town.
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My family always gets together with my mom's youngest brother's family for an exchange. We each bring a gift for the younger kids and 1 <$25 gift to exchange in a game. Everyone in my family gets pajamas of sort to open on Xmas Eve to wear the next day. My mom makes a huge garbage bag of snack foods and other treats that gets open on Xmas Eve a la my Uncle who passed. We have a huge breakfast of scrambled cheese eggs, hashbrown patties, bacon, sausage and toast with a barrage of jellies on Xmas Day followed by a ham dinner complete with my third Uncle's corn pudding. We also always do the ornaments for the tree as a family. Mys sister and I also get an unwrapped gift in our room. The dog gets her own stocking and the humans' stockings are filled with useful things like toiletries. I also watch the 25 Days of Christmas on the Family Channel as many specials as possible.
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i loved driving around different neighborhoods to
look at the lights! that was my favorite tradition and
i still love to do it, even if it's just me and my fiance.
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I think it's a pretty common tradition, but we always open up 1 present each on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning :wave:
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We sleep at my parents house Christmas Eve along with my siblings, in the morning we open gifts and watch last summer's vacation movie which my daughter and/or brother have made into a feature film with a theme song, credits and commercials. It is a real hoot.
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My aunt taught me how to wrap gifts like a pro and even make my own bows. I miss her terribly and I always make a point of wrapping beautiful gifts!
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We always open our stuff Christmas Eve...well, if we have any stuff to open. That seems to be the only one that has stuck all of these years.
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Our Christmas tradition is watching A Christmas Story every year and we always make a ham and have a nice family dinner :)
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go to christmas eve service and open presents and have diner on christmas
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we keep the works and never understand it.
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I just love our Christmas tradition. We attend church together as a family on Christmas Eve. This is a wonderful way to celebrate Christ's birth.
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During the Christmas season, we make Lefse.
On Christmas Eve we go to church, then come home to our house for supper and opening of gifts. We then play board games.
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We open one gift on Christmas eve too. Then we watch a movie together. On Christmas, we cook together, play charades, open gifts, and so on.
One that got started when I was a child. We open 1 present on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning. My grandmother worked at a nursing home and sometimes she worked on Christmas so We opened one present on Christmas Eve where she could be around and the rest on Christmas morning. I have kept the tradition up with my children and now they are doing the same with their children.
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All nice traditions. I make ham every Christmas. Watch Wonderful Life and White Christmas on Christmas Eve and always fall asleep in middle. No matter how much I want to see them, I always fall asleep. Have made it thru a full one yet.
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My Christmas tradition is to hold a cookie baking party and invite friends, co-workers, trainers, family, neighbors, etc... to attend. I held this year's party this weekend. I'm now all stocked for the remainder of the holiday season...as well as everyone who attended. Pure sugar high right now...yummm.
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I don't really celebrate Christmas anymore but I will say Nov, Dec and Jan has me in the mood to watch 'Its a Wonderful Life' at least 3 times! I love James Steward, had the biggest crush on forever cuz of this film.
Also I'm just wondering if anyone is reading over the post cuz I'm gonna ask a question to something I already know and I don't want you to use a search engine to find the answer too.....There was a remake with a female version of George Bailey.
:star: 1:Does anyone no who the female cast for that part/role?
:star: 2: What the movie title was changed to, yes it was changed too?
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Re: What tradition do you keep every Christmas ,Christmas Eve is spent with the family we gather together
and eat each one bring a gift too, and on Christmas 25th everyone is at home. :thumbsup:
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With my family we have a fruit salad that is always made. With my husbands family we always have Christmas on New Years day. For when we have Christmas we try new dishes (recipes) every year & if we like that dish then it is put with the other recipes.
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During the Christmas season, we make Lefse.
On Christmas Eve we go to church, then come home to our house for supper and opening of gifts. We then play board games.
What is Lefse?
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Thanks in advance!!!
Happy Earnings.. as always!!! :thumbsup:
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Well when my 3 girls were little.. we did soo much. :bunny:
:star: We played games and watched Christmas movies.
My favorites..
White Christmas.. Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life.
:star: We would cook together...
:star: We would paint ceramics... and loom or crochet...
:star: We would drive around and look at lights.
We did so much...
Now... I long for those traditions.
My finance and do do some of these.. cook together.. well shoot thats it.
My 88yr old mother in law... we will watch the movies.
If I am able to drive I will drive her around to see the lights...
And I will crochet or loom... and I will paint... and talk to my BFF in Florida!
:heart: :heart: Merry Christmas :heart: :heart:
Happy Earnings!! :thumbsup:
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Through the years I've experienced different traditions from ex-inl aws...to my own family to a blended family. One thing that has always been consistent is the advent calendar my Mom get's each one of my kids. There was a time when I was living with my best friend, her Dad and her 2 daughters. When my kids came home each toting there advent calendars my gal pal headed out to Aldi and picked one up for her girls. They had an agreement that one kid would eat the even days and the other the odd days. Tragedy struck when one of the girls tapped into her sisters devoted days. That year for Christmas I bought them an advent calendar that could sit on there mantel. It had drawers so that more than one candy (or replacemnts) could be added throughout the month of Dec.
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Christmas Eve Service. Now that our whole family is too far away to visit, we will not be able to continue the "family" traditions. When the kids were little, we had a Piņata every Christmas and the kids would break it open on Christmas Eve. Then open gifts Christmas morning.
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last christmas was the worst, my wife and I split, I didn't even want to do it this year, don't have money for it anyway]
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We open one gift at a time while the rest of the family watches. It makes it into a 1-2 hr ceremony and we never get that "over so fast" let down feeling. It also teaches the children to have patience.
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We get together and have potluck dinner, play games and then before we open presents we read Luke 2 - the story of Jesus's birth and sing carols.
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Well, up until my grandmother passed away year before last...we always had a buffet of party food and desserts and punch and opened our christmas gifts on christmas eve. Last year and this year we did not and will not keep that tradition but next year when things are more settled with my mother we may or we may have to start brand new traditions.
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The remembrance of how Christmas came to be is the tradition I keep. I also love to have cake and ice cream, happy holidays to you. :angel11:
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My family and I make candy and pass it out to friends and other family members.
Then on Christmas eve we all go to my moms, with our children and they will open up Christmas gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.
Then normally my sister, brother and I will give our parents a gift that their grandchildren made (But we had to help! They are 2 and 3 years of age!)
Then Christmas day we will be home and wake up and open presents and let the kids play all do. And my son's Grandma and Grandpa like to come see him later during the day watching him play with all of his new toys!
I love it ;D
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Our family read Luke:2 before we open presents and it is quite neat.
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Every Christmas I make a big country breakfast/brunch of Ham, bacon, sausage gravy, homemade biscuits, eggs, coffee and juice or milk. Do you have a tradition that you do every Christmas?
I used to hve that traditional but here...Bless you all tis Christmas.... :wave: :heart: