What tradition do you keep every Christmas?

[madeara]

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.

[jkhanson]

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.

[PGS28]

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.

[WaulML6]

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.

[kapeh12]

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.

[y2kpeaches]

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.
 
1:Does anyone no who the female cast for that part/role?

  2: What the movie title was changed to, yes it was changed too?

[jannie7]

 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. 

[Tam28]

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.

[webe4angels]

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?

 

Thanks in advance!!!

Happy Earnings.. as always!!! 
 

[webe4angels]

Well when my 3 girls were little.. we did soo much.

  We played games and watched Christmas movies.
My favorites..
White Christmas.. Miracle on 34th Street and It's a Wonderful Life.

  We would cook together...
  We would paint ceramics... and loom or crochet...
  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!

  Merry Christmas 

Happy Earnings!! 
 

[sak4kat]

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.

[alice44]

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.

[ben50]

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]

[keauhou]

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.

[constance312003]

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.