What are your Christmas traditions?

[OxfordJack]

We always watching Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve

 

[OxfordJack]

...and we go and feed the ducks on the Thames boxing Day morning

 

[OxfordJack]

I’m Jewish so Asian food and movies!

Perfect!

 

[OxfordJack]

Especially love to hear traditions from other countries

 

[OxfordJack]

It kind of is. So many of my goyim friends are jealous

I can imagine.....get away from all the brouhaha

 

[Dribble]

The elves come every Christmas Eve leaving pajamas and slippers. It helps knowing that if the elves can find us....that Santa will too.

 

[Esslemont]

Wake up and get the fire started with some Christmas music.
Put the turkey on and get the ham ready.

Grab a coffee and pray. Being thankful for what the day means.

Watch the family start to file out, open presents and then all of the guys go for a skate.

Come back, eat, the guys clean everything up and then we loosen the waistbands. Ha!

My favourite day.

 

[OxfordJack]

Wake up and get the fire started with some Christmas music.
Put the turkey on and get the ham ready.

Grab a coffee and pray. Being thankful for what the day means.

Watch the family start to file out, open presents and then all of the guys go for a skate.

Come back, eat, the guys clean everything up and then we loosen the waistbands. Ha!

My favourite day.

I'd love to skate on Christmas day!

 

[Jada59]

I don't have any. Used to be that I forgot to take down a decoration. But now I barely decorate.

 

[Drinkmein]

We have a big buffet of appetizers for Christmas Eve with my ( now grown but 1 14 year old) children and my parents. There must always be shrimp cocktail and those little smokies.

 

[AmberLGreen]

Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Wake up Christmas Day and do stockings first, then open presents. Play board games and whatever else the boy wants to do for the day.

 

[Anastasia1999]

It’s a food fest here. Turkey and goose and mince pies and baked apples and Christmas Stollen. A combination of Irish and German traditions. Christmas carols playing in the background.

Another older tradition - getting jolly on pints of Guinness with my sisters in a Dublin pub on Christmas Eve. The craic was mighty!


Nowadays, I love flying to Ireland and seeing my parents.

 

[OxfordJack]

It’s a food fest here. Turkey and goose and mince pies and baked apples and Christmas Stollen. A combination of Irish and German traditions. Christmas carols playing in the background.

Another older tradition - getting jolly on pints of Guinness with my sisters in a Dublin pub on Christmas Eve. The craic was mighty!


Nowadays, I love flying to Ireland and seeing my parents.

I love stollen - I work my way through a box on the lead up to Christmas!

 

[Anastasia1999]

I love stollen - I work my way through a box on the lead up to Christmas!

The best Stollen is made with butter and comes from Dresden, it is absolutely wonderful. I have it with a big dollop of freshly whipped cream. It is heaven on a plate.

My mum has made mince pies with homemade mince meat. This time tomorrow I will be sitting in her kitchen eating my way through them. I feel incredibly blessed that I can fly.

@Amber, we used to do Christmas stockings too, the excitement was incredible!!

 

[Fingerfuxs]

We do our gift exchanges the Sunday before Christmas at our Christmas party. * we take turns at who's house we celebrate at. As divorced parents we started it so the kids would have a Christmas with everyone in their life present and to fit everyone’s other holiday commitments. Co-parenting at its best. For the small ones Santa always comes in the mornings at their own house , as does everyone else’s gift giving to their immediate families. So we kinda get two Christmas gift giving events.

Our kids are adults now but we still have the gathering and gift giving that includes ex’s , new spouses , strays we have picked up along the way that don’t have local family. Christmas mornings and day we spent with those living under our own roof. Being empty nesters that’s just us. Lots of neighbors are always outside as the day gets going. We don’t have a giant Christmas meal with everyone.

 

[JustAnotherFlower]

Christmas Eve dinner is always chicken and dumplings at my grandmother's house. She always has too many appetizers, so there's always left over food.. When I was you get, we would spend the night and wake to Santa having visited and leftovers for breakfast.

 

[OxfordJack]

It's great hearing all these...thanks folks!