What tradition do you keep every Christmas?

[WaulML6]

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?

[6265AT99]

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.

[vmcutshall]

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.

[hlvhome]

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)

[ssliva67]

We go to my parents' house for Christmas Eve.

[lywb2168]

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.

[NeenieBear]

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. 

[cloudsoup]

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.

[dodgers16]

   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

[CHANEYLAKEGIRL]

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.

[sliebshner]

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!

[luvh8tragedy87]

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.

[StarlitNirvana]

Our Christmas tradition is watching A Christmas Story every year and we always make a ham and have a nice family dinner

[mgint]

go to christmas eve service and open presents and have diner on christmas

[mreed6]

we keep the works and never understand it.