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Perfect Christmas dress bought. Tree decorated. Stocking hung. Anticipation of our 6 month old waking up to the magic of Christmas morning. That was my husband and I 8 years ago.
We packed her up and brought her to see Santa. She wasn’t happy about it but she didn’t cry. My first Christmas as a mama was so much fun! We were still tired of course because Piper was not sleeping through the night. Giving new holiday pj’s so we would be looking put together for the all important Christmas morning photo. We were still figuring things out but we started traditions that year that we still do to this day.
Like visiting the zoo the day after Christmas. We get a yearly membership since we started that tradition when Piper was was a baby and it is now something that everyone in the family looks forward too.
We still go and see Santa Claus.
Every.single.year.
We take silly Christmas morning pictures now too. Because we have silly girls. We watch Christmas movies, play with toys, play games, and eat a big Christmas morning breakfast. Who knows, the traditions you start now might even become traditions your children’s families will have as well!
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Enjoying time together.
We drive around after Christmas Eve dinner and look at all the Christmas light displays in our area, especially the really outrageous ones.
We always watch holiday movies for the month of December.
We make Christmas cookies together.
We set up a train around our Christmas tree every year. It was a present from my son’s great grandmother to him.
we like to take family Christmas pictures and make photo calendars every year
We always pick up and decorate our tree together.
We make orange cinnamon rolls from scratch for Christmas morning
We usually get together as a family on Christmas morning.
decorating the tree together
We always have cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning!
Love those silly face pics! We love babiesrus
we like caroling
We do a yankee swap every christmas eve
Watching A Christmas Story over and over on Christmas Eve!
We make the same 2 casseroles for Christmas breakfast. They are part of a southern tradition we have!
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My family gather in our pj,s for Christmas Breakfast. One year the men will cook for the family and the next year the ladies do the cooking. It’s very relaxed gathering. There will be my three grown children with their spouse and my grandchildren. My Mom always come to. We eat and open presents. The children thinks it fun wearing their pj’s to a party. The parents are grateful for a relax meal without the holiday stress.
we open only one gift on Christmas eve and the rest Christmas morning.
We all decorate the house and tree the day after thanksgiving. We also make noodle lollipops for outside.
We all open one gift on Christmas Eve
we make gingerbread houses together
We play board games after dinner
We play board games! 🙂 Thank you
One of our Christmas traditions is that we always watch A Christmas Story as a family on Christmas eve.
we open one present each on Christmas Eve.
We bake and decorate cookies while we listen to Christmas music and then we deliver them to our neighbors.
We always order Chinese food on Christmas Eve!
My son and his wife open their gift alone then we get together for breakfast.
We decorate the tree together.
we eat tamales at midnight on Christmas Eve!
We do the Elf on the Shelf & stringing popcorn as some of our traditions
One of our traditions is to let the kids open one gift each on Christmas Eve. And, we always make gingerbread men and women together!
we go to church on Christmas Eve and my parents go to leave the parents at midnight while we are at church and then when we come back its Christmas day and we open the gifts! the look on the kids face is always priceless!
We decorate the Xmas tree with ornaments from previous years, some from childhood. We also buy a new one each year.
We open one gift on Christmas Eve.
We go to the Festival of Lights and see Santa.
We put out the same decorations every year as our family tradition.
Spending time together and going to the Holiday Lights!
We have a fun tradition of bouncing back and forth about 3 separate times between grandparents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, every meal in a different place.
we get the entire family together on Christmas eve, exchange gifts and eat seafood gumbo!
We spend time together decorating the tree, wrapping presents, and baking holiday treats
We drive around town looking at all the Christmas lights
We go together to choose a Christmas tree and decorate it together. The children get to open their yearly surprise ornament and put it on the tree.
We love making and decorating cookies
Baking xmas cookies
We love to drink hot chocolate while driving around our neighborhood looking at all of the beautiful Christmas lights!
We always get together with extended family a few days before and spend the eve of with my mother and siblings.
We like baking cookies, drinking eggnog and singing christmas carols.
We always read Luke 2 Christmas morning before we open gifts.
We decorate the tree together
We all make Santa cookies Christmas eve.
We designate one night on Christmas week to donate a dinner for a deserving family that is designated by our church. We deliver all the ingredients for a full meal with sides and desserts and also buy gifts for each member of the family.
We always watch Christmas movies and have snacks on Christmas eve
We do an advent calendar for our girls. It gets them so excited for Christmas! Which reminds me – I need to get some chocolates and other small prizes for each day!
We visit the Christmas lights in a neighborhood about 20 minutes away. It has it’s own radio station to go with the lights.
We decorate the tree together.
We sing carols at a retirement home.
The only tradition we have is getting together on Christmas….but now that we have our son, we have to start our own traditions. 🙂
We do the Advent calander every year
We always have sausage biscuits and gravy for breakfast! Then we pack up and head to the family’s!
We always get a new pair of PJs for the holiday.
We make Polish traditional Pierogis and Mushroom soup. And boy do we feast!!
The family all togather for Cristmas eve dinner
pancakes on Christmas morning before opening presents
We make a gingerbread house each year!
We bake cookies for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve.
making home made chicken noodles!
We gorge on junk food and watch the Hogfather
we decorate sugar cookies and frost them and decorate them!
We don’t celebrate christmas
Decorating the Christmas tree together on the day after Thanksgiving is our tradition.
Get new pjs for christmas
We eat waffles for breakfast every Christmas morning!
we eat with the family open gifts with the family and enjoy each other company!
I put up the Christmas tree and the kids hang all the decorations on it.
We open a small gift on Christmas Eve.
we have ham at gramas on Christmas eve
We decorate the tree together and open Christmas gifts on Christmas morning!
hanging with family
I always eat crab legs with my mom.
looking at lights together decorating the tree together
We make christmas ornaments together.
We have a pajama Christmas. No one has to dress up, just wear comfy clothes and we relax all day.
we always pick out the perfect tree together on dec 1 then decorate it together!
My family all decorate their houses on the same date every year.
spending time with my family
We have hot chocolate each Christmas morning…no matter what!
Our family tradition is to open presents the night before. Santa brings the stocking Christmas day and we eat on Christmas Day.
One that we do each year is the Rudolph kiss. 🙂 During the night on Christmas eve, we put a little red lipstick dot on each kids hand. When they wake up in the morning they are so excited to look and find their Rudolph Kiss!
We like to go driving around looking at Christmas lights
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On Christmas Eve we always drive around and look at lights while sipping on hot cocoa.
Our special christmas tradition is sweet baked goods for breakfast while opening presents.
We do Christmas Eve at my in-laws, then come home and put on jammies, have some hot chocolate, watch a Christmas movie, and the kiddos get to open one gift 🙂
Every year on the Sunday before Christmas the women in the family get together and spend the day making cookies and candies. We then divide them onto trays and pass them out to loved ones, co-workers, and friends. Thanks.
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We build and decorate a gingerbread house every year.
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We spend as much time together as we can and get together with friends and extended family.
We paint ornaments every year.
We use funny aliases on gift tags we’ve done this for as long as I can recall.
Opening 1 gift on Christmas eve is another tradition I grew up with.
Pizza on chrsitmas eve
The boys are allowed to open one present on Christmas Eve and we usually watch Elf or another Christmas movie with some hot chocolate and we always go to the movie theater on Christmas Day.
We watch the same Christmas movies every year.
We read aloud a book called Santa Mouse.
We always do Christmas morning at home with new PJ’s on!
We drive around looking at all the Christmas lights.
We put out cookies and reindeer food as well as do English Crackers at dinner.
drinking hot chocolate by the xmas tree…
We put up the Christmas tree, while watching Christmas movies and making Gingerbread cookies. On Christmas Eve, we go Christams Caroling with a group of people.
Every Christmas eve we make hot chocolate and go riding around the neighborhood to look at Christmas lights.
We don’t really have a special tradition, probably putting up the tree.
We pick out a new ornament together every year
we bake cookies together in our jammies
Every Christmas morning for the last 6 years we go to my mom and grams house for breakfast and gifts.
We give one give to each other on Christmas Eve.
We have my sons great-grandfather ‘monkey-bread’ with Christmas morning breakfast.
We get new PJs on Christmas eve.
We are still searching. Both my husband and I are not near our family so we switch off every year.
giving a gift from santa
Our family is huge so on Thanksgiving we exchange secret santa names and get back together before Christmas to open gifts.
We are traditionless. But we have plenty of Chanukah traditions!
We all get together on Christmas eve for dinner and spend the evening then Christmas morning we we get together again eat our meal at noon open gifts and spend most of the day together
A big feast with turkey and tamales.
We enjoy some monkey bread for breakfast at home before opening gifts and heading to Grandma and Grandpas!
We spend Christmas Eve at my sister’s house and Christmas morning at our house. Santa bring the kids each a silver round in their stockings. I got one every year when I was a kid, now my kids do.
We take a ride around town to see the lights
We all go to church on Christmas eve and sing Silent Night while holding lighted candles, it is magical!
We always have pizza on Christmas Eve.
We put the tree up every year after Thanksgiving Dinner!
We get together for holiday meals.
We decorate our Christmas tree:) thanks!
Baking sugar cookies with my girls while watching A Charlie Brown Christmas
We make a tradition to read christmas stories and to the children and for the adults we chat and sing songs
We have a tradition of putting something special inside of a walnut shell and each person has to find their walnut on the tree.
We watch Christmas movies while we decorate the tree, and we open 1 gift each on Christmas eve
We are just starting to develop Christmas traditions of our own, and one of the things I started this year is the advent calendar. We are having a lot of fun with this! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
We play games together and win little prizes.
I always get my kids Christmas underpants.
There always has to be dancing it is a must 🙂
We always go to a tree farm to cut down a Christmas tree on the day agter Thanksgiving. Also, we always have a nice family breakfast with Christmas music playing on Christmas morning before the presents are opened.
We always open our presents on Christmas Eve
we watch A Christmas Story over and over while we open presents
We bake cookies during the holidays.
On Christmas Eve I always read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to my kids and then we let the kids open one present before they go to bed.
We bake treats to give out at family gatherings. The kids always help decorate the tree and put up lights too
We bake and decorate Christmas cookies
One of my favorite is baking for Santa. My girls choose something different to make each year. We like to bake him a cake, brownies or cupcakes, something other than cookies. Thank you!
We open all of our presents Christmas Eve – always have!
wake up early, i go get dunkin donuts and then we open gifts while we eat and have coffee while our cat plays in all the tissue paper and wrappings!
We don’t have any traditions really, other than visiting family randomly throughout the Christmas week. It’s our first year in our own place, so we’re looking forward to making our own family traditions.
I always do an advent wreath.
We do elf on the shelf.
get tree together
We always open out gifts at 12 midnight and eat our dinner then
We always decorate the tree on Christmas eve.
We read the night before christmas every christmas eve to wind the kids down
we eat shepherd’s pie for dinner instead of overindulging to try to focus on the real meaning of Christmas!
My household spends time together and reads the Bible.
I love that we go to our grandmas after the kids open their presents
Decorating the tree together
We open presents Christmas morning.
Opening the gifts in the morning.
We like to watch Christmas movies together.
We all get together and bake cookies then decorate the tree!
We like to decorate gingerbread houses.
We like to sit together and watch all the Christmas shows 🙂
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My husband and I open our gifts on Christmas Eve night.
Making christmas decorations and crafts together.
We spend time decorating the tree together
nothing special but we do love making cookies and decorating the tree together and on Christmas Day we have a big family dinner.
We just have a formal dinner on christmas eve and we each get to open one present!
Pancakes after we open presents on Christmas morning.
New pj’s for the kiddo on Christmas Eve, drinking hot cocoa, eating pop corn and watching a holiday cartoon. Maybe start a new one this year: making homemade cookies and having them for breakfast.
We drive around looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve.
On Christmas eve we bake cookies for Santa, read Twas the Night before Christmas and open a present or two then usually watch a Christmas movie before bed. Then we open the rest of our gifts Christmas morning and have family over for Christmas dinner.
we put the tree up together
We open a gift on Christmas Eve! We done it as children my children did it and now my grandsons are doing it!
My family makes sugar cookies on Christmas Eve.
we make ornaments
On Christmas morning, we put a lit candle in a cupcake, place it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
We have family talent shows.
Decorating the tree together
Decorating the tree together drinking eggnog
We get together for a big breakfast on Christmas day!
We like to go out on Christmas eve and look at the lights.
we have a big dinner
decorate the tree and sing christmas songs!
A special Christmas tradition that my family has is adopting another less fortunate family to buy gifts for every year through a local charity. It reminds all of us to realize the importance of helping others and to be grateful for what we have been given.
We decorate the Christmas tree together and play Christmas music
The Elf on the shelf stays with us the month of December, and leaves the kids treats when they are good. He gets in all sorts of trouble, then leaves a little present on Christmas eve before returning to the North Pole.
we make cookies and make dinner together
my hubby makes chicken and waffles on christmas morning!
Spend time together and play cards
We all get together on Christmas day and enjoy dinner together.
we go every year to NYC to see the tree
We always have a big family dinner on xmas eve
We make cookies the weekend before Christmas for the whole family
We have lasagna for Christmas Eve then candlelight service at church.
Picking out our tree and cutting it down.
We usually put up the tree the day after thanksgiving and let the kid pick out an ornament every year for the tree
we like to bake goodie baskets for friends ands family on christmas eve
we put up the tree
we open a present on christmas eve.
we take down the tree every year after jan.6
Every year my entire family gathers for dinner, games and presents!
Send Christmas cards
We watch movies about Christmas.
I always gave the kids a gift on Christmas eve to distract them from their Christmas excitement.
We go out on Christmas eve to look at all the light displays then home for a movie,snack,story and bed.
We decorate Gingerbread houses.
We go to my mother in laws house and play dirty santa. Thank you
on december 3rd,my birthday,we put up the tree,listen to christmas music and watch christmas movies
We all get together Christmas eve and eat a dinner of someones choice (last year we had stirfry) and then we watch a Christmas movie!
Our tradition is to open half our gifts on Christmas Eve and the other half Christmas morning
This is my first year as a mama and not living close to family, we are looking to start some new traditions. Not sure what and I don’t have any ideas yet. :/
Listening to Brenda Lee while baking snickerdoodle cookies.
We open gifts on Christmas Eve after church!
Baking cookies
We bake sugar cookies.
Christmas baking together, thanks!
We always make cookies
We buy a Hallmark ornament every year.
We all throw the wrapping paper at each other when we are done.