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need Christmas help
Okay, background...
This will be our first christmas in our house here in CA. Normally, we are at the ILs, down the street or in NC.
DH's family traditions are that they get together Christmas Eve at one of Grandma's kid's houses and we exchange gifts, eat, etc. Then Christmas Day we GTG at my ILs house and do the same thing all over again.
My family: We GTG Christmas Eve for dinner, singing, church, and Santa stops by to talk to the kids. The Christmas morning we open presents, see what Santa brought, eat blueberry muffins, lounge around and eat leftovers from the night before for lunch.
My family will be here for Christmas so it will be 7 in our house plus all DH's family for a total of 13. This year my SIL was going to do the Christmas eve stuff but now they decided they cannot afford it and do not have the seating for everyone. DH and I are doing Christmas Day lunch and everyone is coming for presents here so I do not want to do Eve as well.
I would like to start some traditions on our own for Christmas Eve but I am so much at a loss as to what to do. I need help figuring out what I can do with 7 people here on Christmas eve if we do not do a big dinner. Any ideas?
HELP!
Re: need Christmas help
My mom and sisters are going to do that a few days before.
My grandmother always made hamburgers on Christmas Eve - because it was simple and she had spent/will spend so much time on the actual Christmas meal. We opened one present (pajamas, every year) on Christmas Eve, and then would drive around and look at the lights.
Grandma's gone now, but I know that all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins still do the same thing on Christmas Eve.
If you are christian - I would say you should find a Christmas Eve service or mass. Christmas Eve Church is one of my favorite traditions.
I also LOVE the PP's suggestion to drive around an do a tour of all the christmas lights.
Watch a christmas movie together, serve snacks/appetizers. Maybe do pizza?
Go to a local event, or to a christmas eve service.
Read twas the night before Christmas and the Bible for Jesus's birth.
Open up christmas pjs to wear that night to bed
Like many of my fellow nesties, we also opened one gift for Christmas Eve, (which was always pajamas). We would all watch a Christmas related movie in our new PJ's, drink hot chocolate or apple cider, eat popcorn, and then go for a drive to look at Christmas lights. Last year we had a bonfire prior to going light-seeing and made smores, watched movies, drank hot chocolate, and made cookies...all in our new pajamas.
It was fun, festive, and super stress free!!