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Tell Us Tuesday
What is your favorite holiday tradition?
ETA - to clarify, it can be ANY holiday, not just Christmas.
Re: Tell Us Tuesday
On Christmas day, us kids would wake up super early and sit and stare at the lit-up tree with all the presents underneath from Santa. Then we'd always send one kid up to wake up Mom/Dad and open presents.
We'd get all of our big presents in the morning, then after lunch we were allowed to look in our stockings. After dinner we would get to open our "tree presents". When we were busy playing during the day my parents would hide one or two little presents each in the tree.
It made the whole day fun and full of endless anticipation. Plus it was so cozy to stay in your pjs most of the day, playing with new toys and if there was snow we'd usually head outside to play too.
When I was a kid, we'd always go to my grandparents house in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. We'd exchange presents with that side of the family and have a dinner of sandwiches and other light stuff. Then we'd go to the family Christmas Eve service at my church. When we got home we opened up the presents that were already under the tree, which we understood to be from our parents. I always loved that we got to open things on Christmas Eve, because it certainly wasn't the norm. It was what my Mom and her family always did growing up though, so that's why we did it that way.
On Christmas morning my brothers would usually wake me up and we're tear downstairs to see what Santa brought. This was always our "big" present. We'd get to look in our stockings too. In the afternoon my grandparents would come over for Christmas dinner and we all had fun showing them what we got. Ahhhh.... memories.
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
My favorite memory was going to Christmas Eve mass and eating together as a family. If my Grandma was in town, she'd come over for dinner too. My brother and I would exchange our gifts to each other and we'd all read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" before heading off to bed. Every year we got better at reciting it from memory - or at least we'd try! We'd usually get stuck about halfway through and have to cheat and look in the book.
Random Christmas Eve memory: my dad was sick one year so we'd just planned on picking something up for dinner rather than my mom cooking. Apparently it was up to my brother and I to choose something, so we wanted Taco Bell (fancy!) We drove up to the nearest Taco Bell after mass only to discover that it wasn't open on Christmas Eve. Woops. Every other place was closed too so we went home and ate cereal for dinner.
I don't really have any traditions for Christmas Eve/Day, but I do have to watch "A Christmas Carol" each year. It has to be the George C. Scott version, since that's what CBS always played each year on the tv growing up.
If I don't watch that version, I watch the Muppet version.
The Muppet Christmas Carol is my FAVORITE Christmas movie! I've seriously watched it every year since I was a kid.
And when we were young we would go to midnight mass, go home, go to sleep. As we got older (high school+) we would go to midnight mass, come home and open gifts at 1-1:30 in the morning and then all sleep in on Christmas morning until it was time to get ready to go to our grandparents. [:
Well for starts my favorite holiday is Christmas. Baking has become my tradition and I am looking forward to it. I cook all the time but rarely ever bake. But each year around the holidays I find a few recipes of some of my old favs and make homemade cookies. Dozens upon Dozens. I am Italian and also even though my grandma is not here with us anymore ( she is in spirit) - I love to make "arancini".... Italian rice balls. They take alot of time to prepare! Alot of work goes into them ( in my opinion) but it is not Christmas unless I make them around the holiday season!...
This year in addition to the baking I am hoping to start a new holiday tradition with my family and make an ornament with the year and my daughters hand prints to add to our tree every year