Holiday Traditions

[buckeygoldstar]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

Mom' Pecan Pie - Halloween- Thanksgiving- Christmas - Whenever

 

[PDGinther]

Thank you for being out there, can't be easy.

Hey Gruntdoc….. where at?…. I just retired from 36 years as paramedic/fire officer here in FL…. Guessing from your screen name, you might have been a corpsman too?

 

[ScatPack]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

We travel to our in-laws on Christmas Eve and open some.presemts at midnight. On Christmas morning we drive back home amd do gifts at our house. Our son lives in MI, so if it's our year to travel to him, we do it all at his place in MI. Luckily he's here this year.

 

[Bendinggrass]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

Christmas Day my brothers and sisters and Mother get together and share a lovely cooked meal together. It is very sweet. There are not many left in my family now as we are getting older. Thanks Giving is also sweet in a similar way.
Personally I also love Easter for its spiritual quality.

 

[Roadworn]

The Phoenix AZ area does not present a traditional Christmas atmosphere as most know it so after our morning of opening gifts with the family my wife and I go to our other home in the White Mountains. At 7000' elevation we get our fix for snow.

 

[Belugawhaleman]

On Christmas Eve we have our big dinner.
Afterwards, we have Coffee, cake/pie conversion,
we play Canasta. Before bed we open our presents.
On Christmas morning, a nice breakfast and a day
of rest and calm. Later we have another big dinner.

 

[rspect]

Our whole family gets together on Christmas Day. Used to be my favorite day of the year, but I hate it now. Would just rather be off by myself.

 

[Edbert]

The entire family, sometimes extended family, get together sometime around Thanksgiving and Christmas and process white-tailed deer like an assembly line.

Once, with the whole crew, took nine deer from hanging complete to ground/sliced/chopped/fileted/weighed/wrapped and packaged for the freezer in a day.

 

[durangod]

no tradition here. Used to when lived close to sons, but now its just another day.

 

[kevin]

Mom would buy and cook a steak just for our dog Butch, half Shepherd half husky, on Christmas day.
I still enjoy watching " A Charlie Brown Christmas ".

 

[Down Time]

no tradition here. Used to when lived close to sons, but now its just another day.

Well, ya got us

 

[GCB]

For me, it's family time: decorating a Xmas tree, cooking a nice meal, etc.. all together with the kids.
Then, after diner, opening presents and spending the evening having fun and good time.
On the 25th morning, waking up late and having a nice brunch.

 

[Andy the Sheep]

No traditon for me. Too many christmas days spent at work to create a family tradition.

 

[Down Time]

Funny this thread hits today, I happen to be wearing my Grinch t-shirt.....

 

[dorrdon]

We setup a G-Scale train under the tree.

 

[SMUTCO]

putting on the " the Christmas story" movie Christmas eve and it runs all through the night and all day on Christmas. that's our background "noise".

 

[Arkgene]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you have tree decorating night? Let's share and get to know each other more.

We are both in our 80's so the grands come to us for either Thanksgiving or Christmas and our son lives with us so for one of them it is just the three of us. For New Years it had been years since we have been up to see it arrive. I think the last time we were up it was with Guy Lombardo, that ring a bell with you?

 

[GaryG64]

Thanksgiving and Christmas have always been a big part for our families to come together.
Thanksgiving afternoon, the air is filled with the wonderful smells wafting from the kitchen. While the rooms are filled with the chatter and laughter, and a day filled with college football games.
Christmas is kind of a continuation from where we left off at Thanksgiving, but with gifts and the movie A Christmas Story playing in the background.
It doesn't usually get too cold here in Houston on those two holidays, so we wear summer attire with ugly Christmas sweaters.

 

[Cold War USAF guy]

Christmas day I cook the dinner and usually would have drunk a bottle of bucksfizz time that's done, my kids are over every other Christmas day as they live with their mum but my girlfriend will be here, then movies and see who falls asleep on the sofa first lol
In the uk we have boxing day (26th) and the whole family will meet at my mums for dinner. Most people won't go back to work till about the 2nd January so it's a nice break.

What part of the UK are you in? I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 1976-1979.

 

[Grah.]

Our family tradition is a fairly simple routine of gathering together or visiting as many surviving family members as possible, and feeling thankful for the good times in the last 12 months