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Holiday Traditions
So the Holidays are coming up. Does anyone else think this year has flown by? Anyhow, so this our first holiday season in our own house ( yes!) and I was just wondering if ya'll have any holiday traditions. Maybe you had some as a kid that you miss. Whatever they may be please share. I do know that we plan on going to a tree farm every year for our Christmas tree. This year since we will be in our own house we are going to do Thanksgiving at our place.
Re: Holiday Traditions
The usual, we put on Christmas Music and decorate one night asap after T'giving.
Watch Home Alone w/ the In-Laws, it's one of their family traditions
We wrap all the christmas gifts together, have a big wrapping day one saturday w/ christmas music.
Have one night where we get dinner and do most of our shopping.
Thanksgiving we spend w/ my folks, we have a long visit since most of the time we're rushed.
Christmas my family has a big get together every christmas eve so we go home for a couple nights go to that and then come back to spend Christmas day w/ the In Laws
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Hmm...no real holiday "traditions". When we lived at home, my brother and I had our respective sides of the room we would sit on when opening our gifts. And I was pretty much always the Santa who passed out all the non-Santa gifts.
As for things we pretty much always do (but I don't really consider them "traditions" yet...), Brandon and I alternate holiday time with family...so like this year will be my mom's year for us to have Thanksgiving with her, and we will do Christmas as Brandon's mom's (it is sad that our dad's pretty much get left out of everything, but unless I am in Dothan, I won't see my dad, and B's dad lives in NC....ah the joy of split families).
We always watch "A Christmas Story" on TBS at some point Christmas Eve or Day. Just depends on when we catch it.
My tree is decorated with about a million ornaments that my mom collected for me through the years. Some of them are things that I made as a kid...some are ornaments she bought for me...it just depends. But when I got old enough to be considered "on my own", I got the boxes full of my ornaments. She has done the same for my brother. It is always neat to look through them every year...
We don't really have our own traditions. Nothing has changed since I was a kid and we've been doing the same thing for as long as I can remember. I know last year we talked a little about doing our own thing on Christmas Eve because, don't get me wrong I love my dad's side of the family, but some of them are just snotty and wierd. But I didn't know last year that the family would be getting a new baby and even though he'll still be too small to enjoy it, it'll be fun to have them there since I love babies so much.
I have a feeling things will change whenever we move and if/when we have kids.
We have a few traditions. We always buy an ornament when we travel and then every year who ever pulls out each of the "travel" ornaments has to tell their favorite memory from the trip.
We decorate the tree while listening to Christmas music and then watch how the Grinch stole Christmas (the cartoon not the Jim Carey version). I used to do it as a kid and just never grew out of it.
Dh's family reads the Christmas story and then everyone goes around and tells what they are thankful for. I think this is such a neat tradition. I was a little intimidated when we were dating, but now I really enjoy it.
ohhh...i forgot my FAVORITE thing.... i always watch a charlie brown christmas story as many times as possible during the holidays....i have it on dvd as well... LOL
the soundtrack is my favorite christmas music...."christmas tiiiiime is heeeerrrre...."
Because our families are in different states we also have to alternate holidays. We'll spend Thanksgiving with DH's, who rent a lake cabin every year, and then we'll spend Christmas with my family.
I don't think we'll ever spend a holiday at home, at least not until our parents are gone or too old to host the holidays.
Some of my favorite "traditions".... getting up on Thanksgiving morning to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade while going through the newspaper sale clippings. Going shopping in the early morning the day after thanksgiving.
On Christmas Eve my mom always makes Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes and gravy and we have "lefse" to honor our Scandinavian heritage. It is something that I definitely will carry on with our kids. We then go to church after our big dinner!
Oh yes! I have a "can't miss" list for Christmas specials and that is one of them! A Christmas Story is another one. As well as Rudolph, Frosty, and the Grinch!!
Not many now but I remember fondly all those Christmas traditions of the past.
Thanksgiving we spend with my family b/c Christmas we go to DH side.
Thanksgiving day I watch the parade, then we always eat a HUGE dinner then go through the sale papers for Black Friday ads. I love shopping the day after Thanksgiving!!!!
I decorate for Christmas while listening to Christmas music. I love to watch all the movies already listed plus the Santa Clause. I also love baking a few weeks before Christmas. It puts me in the spirit. I try to fix baskets and take to elderly people.