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Favorite Holiday Tradition?
Okay, it's been a little slow lately... so let's see if we can get things going 
Whats your absolute favorite holiday tradition- one that it just wouldn't feel like the holidays without?
Re: Favorite Holiday Tradition?
My favorite holiday tradition is a toss up.
My dad is one of the most sentimental guys you will ever meet in your life. Every year he has a special gift and a card just for me (and one for my sister). It's my favorite thing to look forward to every year because it's always something special understood just from me to him.
(I'm a total daddy's girl, and my dad is like the most awesomest if I do say so myself)
That is really sweet Jenn
First-My folks host a Christmas eve party every year, with almost all the same people coming for years. Same food, same goofy games, somehow never gets old!
Second-on the 23rd, which we've dubbed 'Christmas Adam' (Adam came before Eve lol) we do dinner with just our family and try to go look at lights (this part doesn't always happen)
Third-this is sort of a new-old tradition, is this ancient bamboo nativity set that was lost for years and I just found. It was my favorite part of decorating as a kid and I love setting it up.
I could do more favs, but I think that would be going overboard :P
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Our favorite tradition is mimosas and cinnamon rolls Christmas morning. It's something my hubby and I started 3 years ago and we look forward to every year
And now that we are living here near my family my husband looks forward to Christmas dinner at my parents because my mom makes him his favorite dinner- honey baked ham, mashed potatoes, corn and gravy with cherry pie to finish it out! LOL
Well this year is going to be interesting as my parent's are living here and we aren't going to Seattle for Christmas. Normally, we have a big dinner and it's one thing DH looks forward to each year. We have prime rib, potatoes, salad, veg, etc. DH loves prime rib, especially how my mom makes it (I can't seem to get it right). We open presents in the morning and are just lazy all day.
My mom has gift traditions. Each year we get a stocking. Inside we always get: a toothbrush, a chocolate orange, a pack of gum, something personalized (like a pencil with our name on it), a magazine, a calendar, a pair of socks, and whatever else thing my mom finds that she likes. We each always receive a clothing item. A shirt, a pair of pants, whatever.
At my grandparent's house, my Grandma reads us The Gift of the Magi. And there is always a Scrabble game going (although that's just a general family thing we do at every get together).
I think the holidays are the holidays when you spend it with people you love. That's my only real tradition. I've had to work, and I refuse to do it.
Im not really looking forward to Christmas this year to be honest. The boys will all be back in NH with their dad. It'll be Carl, Will and myself.
But usually... we would go to Jim and Marys (Carl's step-dads family) for a big party on Xmas eve. It was just so much fun and Im pretty sad that I am going to miss it.
Also, i always had a Christmas party at my house the weekend before Xmas with my whole family (and when I met Carl, his family would come). I used to refuse to go anywhere on Christmas because it's not fair to the boys to drag them around and around so that was our way of doing Christmas with our family....
*sigh* It's going to be sad this year!
Shell Christmas Adam cracked me up. Love it.
As for us, my family tradition is to always do one big event during the month of December. We've gone to see The Christmas Carol, done the Luminarias at the Desert Botanical Garden. It was kind of our way of having something special as a family after we left all our extended family when we moved to AZ.