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My favorite holiday tradition is playing games with my whole family, young and old. I remember playing “Perfection” and “Operation” around the table after dinner when I was a child. My Godfather would get startled every time the pieces jumped up in Perfection. It was so funny! My Godparents and Dad are not with us anymore but we continue the tradition of playing games after Christmas dinner. We keep their memories alive and make new memories by keeping this tradition every year. 🎄❤️
I know I’m a bit late on the contest but I wanted to share anyway! Happy New Year!
My Mom is from Germany and her holiday tradition which is now our family’s tradition is making Gluhwein on Christmas Eve. Glühwein, is a traditional hot drink (mulled wine) made with red wine and various spices, including citrus, cinnamon, star anise, and cloves. It is absolutely delicious and perfect on a cold night surrounded by family and friends.
Taking grandkids out to see lights and then out to dinner. Making memories
Drinking eggnog in honor of my dad. It is something we did every Christmas we had together.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the house, inside and out, together as a family.
Putting up decorations around the house is a nice tradition. It makes my home feel more festive!
My favorite tradition is having dinner on Christmas Eve with our extended family!
My favorite is going to an early Christmas eve mass with my family and we meet my brother and his family at mass. Afterwards, everyone comes back to my home to eat dinner and start our Christmas celebration.
I enjoy exchanging different types of foods from different ethnic backgrounds, it expands out tastes of food and items.
Favorite Tradition is to make various Christmas cookies and deliver plates of a dozen or two to each of my family and friends. This ensures a visit before Christmas to them! I have been doing this for over 15 years, usually entails at least 10 plates of cookies.
Favorite tradition is to see Santa at the zoo. My kids love going as Santa is in the wolf lodge at our zoo and next to the lodge is the reindeer…. who the zoo keeps Santa’s reindeer there all year.
Hello and Happy Holidays!
My favorite Christmas tradition probably isn’t really unique but as the family is gathered after dinner we show old slides, yes slides using a projector to show the younger family members all of their grandparents, great grandparents, and great, great grandparents that they never had the opportunity to meet.
Thank you!
Making tons of cookies for the cookie exchange
My favorite tradition is cooking and baking for my family and friends and then all of us relaxing watching Holiday Movies drinking hot chocolate (with or without marshmallows).
Getting together with family
Our favorite is a fire in the fireplace, snuggling with the kids & watching Christmas movies.
Back in the day when I was a kid we went to all my relatives houses on christmas eve , and as a kid there was a mountain of cookies at each house !
As a kid there was an endless supply! And at each house you could have as many as you wanted!
So many even Santa was only getting left overs by the time I was done! After that the numerous christmas lights through the town spquares on the long way home,with the christmas songs playing on the radi. Thats was my favorite!
I love decorating the tree and baking cookies with my kids it just warms up my soul.
Unfortunately as the kids grew older and the family spread out, our family traditions ended.
Out Family Holiday Tradition consists of watching old Home Alone movies, looking at Peanut cartoons, taking the kids to see the Christmas lights at Janes Island County Park & spending lots of time with family talking about the importance of the birth of Jesus!
Secret Santa with all my girls, advent calendars, elf on the shelf (we have three).
Before bed on Christmas Eve we drive around looking at Christmas lights
Last one up opens the first Christmas gift
We live driving around looking at light displays.
Favorite Christmas tradition is baking about 15 kinds of cookies for holiday gifts to give to friends and family.
Spending time with the family since the kids are off from school. Cooking and baking cookies for Santa.
Making gingerbread houses with the grandkids
one fairly new favorite is driving around my neighborhood at night and seeing the holiday lights and decorations
The whole family and grandkids together
We love spending time with family. Our son and his family moved back from California so we are able to drive to him in 2 hours instead of 5 hours in a plane
Cooking Special holiday dishes for the family. Stuffed Shells, Lasagna, making home made butter cookies and decorating them-with colored frosting. This is a must in my family tradition. Happy Holidays everyone!
My favorite holiday tradition is to set up the tree on November 1st, right after Halloween, while drinking hot cocoa and watching The Santa Clause, our favorite movie! I like to be able to enjoy our tree for a little longer than most people. It makes me a little more grateful to have those that are still with us to be able to celebrate the birth of our savior with! And who doesn’t love pretty lights and hot cocoa?!
My favorite holiday tradition was helping my great grandparents decorate. Helping my grandad untangle the glass lights and replace bulbs as he told stories. Helping my grandma shine the good silver and plates she used once a year while she told stories. What I wouldn’t do to hear their voices again
Putting up our outdoor decorations right after turkey day.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my sons.
There isn’t much I don’t like, but family time and adopting a family to provide Christmas for are at the top of my list.
Our family tradition is driving around different neighborhoods looking for the most outrageously awesome Christmas lights displays. We plan different routes in advance to go to any area within a two hour’s drive radius!!
All new traditions are being formed now after losing many family members and trying to leave the heartache behind! I decorated my office, but not my home. I love looking at all of the displays for inspiration! I need some happiness in my life. Blessings to you for what you do for your community!
My family Christmas tradition is that we all get together Christmas Eve and have a pot dinner and a Ugly sweater contest.
The person with the Ugliest sweater is handed the trophy for that year. this was started several year ago to the growth of family.
Christmas never was a big holiday for me growing up and not having children now hasn’t changed that all that much. However, my boyfriend’s family lives in Jacksonville, Florida and our newest tradition is to spend Christmas late morning on the beach. We’ll have something small to eat at home, then trek oceanside for brunch. Some years we have to bundle up and others we’re in t-shirts. It’s such a joy spending quiet, beautiful time with a small group of family.
Actually two favorites, decorating the tree and hours. Also, baking cookies and cakes.
Making cookies!
My mom makes a dish call pepper pot, it’s made with beef, spices and casareep (sauce made from yuca/cassava). We eat it with bread for breakfast. It’s really good. It’s something we all looks forward to, it’s the only time we can get my mom to make for us.
And of course there’s nothing like hers.
My favorite holiday tradition is spending time with my
family that I don’t usually get to see on a daily basis. ❤️
Spending time with family. We are fortunate to gather 4 generations together to celebrate. And it is also my Dad’s birthday.
Having a Christmas Eve party at my moms house every year.
My family and I are originally fromm Jamaica and during the Christmas we try to bring the Caribbean flare here. We all gather together and have a huge Christmas dinner with all the traditional food from Jamaica. The Christmas ham, oxtail, curry chicken, curry goat and so much more.. we also have Christmas cake and a drink called sorrel. We always look forward to the next Christmas dinner where we all get together.
Wow! That is amazing what a special tradition. 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition are having a lot of good foods and red wine on a table with decorative candles. Enjoying and relaxing day with family and friends in this season greeting.
I didn’t celebrate Christmas growing up. So one if my favorite things is my Christmas party I have for friends. Time for us to kick back and exchange gifts
Every weekend before Christmas I make and decorate cookies with my boys.
My favorite tradition is Christmas eve dinner with family waiting for it to turn midnight 🎅
We have a game night and spend time together.
We always get Chinese food on Christmas Eve and while we are out picking up dinner Santa comes and leaves matching Christmas jammies for all the kids! By far my favorite tradition 🙂
Leaving cookie’s and milk for Santa.
Baking cookies with my family
We bake cookies with my mom. I used to do it with my grandma as a kid and now my children do it with their grandma. Someday, I hope to do it with my grandchildren as well.
Love watching good Christmas movies.
We go to a drive through Christmas light show every year. My son lights up seeing all the twinkling lights and creative displays.
I enjoy watching Hallmark Channel and time with my grandkids!!!
Baking cookies and watching Christmas movies with family =)
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Baking German Christmas cookies with my mom!
Our tradition is putting up the tree and listening to Christmas music while decorating it. Merry Christmas 🎄
No traditions
Taking the kiddos to see Santa and the excitement at the family get together on Christmas eve!
Love doing some holiday baking. But more importantly, I love playing bingo with everyone, because it is hilarious(especially after a cocktail or two!)
My favorite is making homemade pierogis with my mom ❤️
Just being with family is the best for me no matter what we do it’s just about being together.
Doing gingerbread houses with the family
I love to shop for some toys for my nephew’s and niece at bjs.
Holiday baking and extra family time!
Baking and eating Christmas cookies!
Watching the kids open their presents!
Spending time with family on Christmas Eve!
I have a few favorites but the big one is after Thanksgiving when we decorate the house for the upcoming Christmas celebration. ❤️❤️ Thank you for doing this!
My favorite holiday tradition is spending the day
with my family. We share stories of our family members
that are no longer with us.
My favorite holiday traditions is putting all the hand made ornaments from my kids on the tree. I have also saved holiday artwork from school and we hang that around. I am a sucker for handmade gifts like that as well as decorations that have been passed down. I have my grandfathers white ceramic tree from the 80’s and my kids love getting it out and putting all the tiny lights in it!
My favorite holiday tradition is making Christmas cookies to share with those I love. I put a lot of thought into my cookie selections for the tray – flavor, color, texture, variety. It is a lot of work but people look forward to them and if that can brighten someone’s day then it will be a tradition that I do until I can’t bake anymore!
Making cookies with family
Ugly sweater contest and on the same day we bake desserts and invite neighbors.
Love ugly sweater parties with family and friends. Amazing giveaway!
The last 5 or 6 years we have been picking funny/stupid Christmas games to play on Christmas. We laugh so hard over making ourselves look foolish but it’s just so much fun! Of course cookie baking is always fun with my sister and niece but getting to eat them is the best! Merry Christmas! Thank you.
Christmas Eve, we have a huge buffet setup, you eat all day, whenever you want, lots of drinks, laughs and fun.
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up Christmas decorations with the kids and playing holiday music. We follow outdoor decorations with hot chocolate and a nice dinner!
Singing silent night while walking with baby Jesus to lay him in the manger while others carrying lighted candles.
My favorite holiday tradition is being together with family
My favorite holiday tradition lately has been going to oglebay with college friends and all our kids for 3 days over new years! It’s so much fun and we get to stay up late and no one has to drive!
Getting together with family and friends that you haven’t seen, seeing everyone happy and having fun
My favorite holiday tradition is having a holiday open house where family, friends, neighbors can stop in anytime Christmas Day and there’s plenty of food and drink.
My favorite tradition during the holidays is making hot chocolate for the family and we all hop in the car to visit our favorite spots; OC Arboretum and Watt Christmas Wonderland.
Christmas morning breakfast with family.
The best time for my crew, is loading up the car to go to Lowe’s. We pick our Christmas tree, take lots of pictures while inside Lowe’s. 😊 Than we load up and head to Starbucks for hot chocolate. When we make it home, we argue who will do the tree watering. 🌳
Fun times but it always ends up being me.
Driving around looking at the lights
The day after Christmas, my mom and I wake up really early to catch the after Christmas deals. We’ve been going ever since I was a little girl. We stock up on gift sets for the following year. The hunt is so much fun. We also leave our tree up into January to celebrate Three Kings Day.
We take the week and sit around as a family to watch all of Harry Potter’s…in costume of course. We divide into houses and change which games we play each year.
Our family tradition was to have a 🌲 tree trimming party with my Mom, Dad, my daughter & her husband & our grandchildren. To me this was the best my husband and I sharing these moments I can never get again as we lost Mom and Dad. Always remember to cherish the time together as each day can not be recreated.
Being with family and having our traditional Polish meal !
Love driving around to see Christmas lights which we now love doing with our littles!
I love decorating the Christmas tree with my 95 year old grandpa who has alzheimers. It brings him joy and sparks memories which are very rare but so cherished.
My favorite tradition is waking up early and going to my grandparents! We would open up gifts there, have an amazing breakfast, watching some awful Spanish game show. I’m 26 and just think of this regularly. Now it’s still breakfast but at my parents, grandparents are will here and still an awful corny game show 🙂 Wouldn’t have it any other way!
Giving & receiving a gift early on St. Nicholas Day!
Eating Gingerbread houses.
Baking cookies and cakes
My favorite tradition is attending Midnight mass on Christmas with my grandma!
I love waking up on the 25th and open Christmas presents with our matching pyjamas.
I love when my children and their families come to celebrate Christmas.
Eating a Christmas meal on Christmas Eve
I love all the family time the holiday brings, but my favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve get together. We play games, and have tons of food and go sledding if we can. I look forward to it every year:)
Decorating the Christmas tree with my grandchildren ❤
My husband helps at our church for Christmas Eve and I meet him for dinner.
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with my 2 little guys.
I love to watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is making and decorating the cookies for Santa with my little one.
My Family’s favorite tradition is watching Christmas Movie baking cookies and drinking egg nug
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating and baking with the kids.
Getting together with the entire family at my Aunt and Uncle’s house!
Making cookies
My favorite holiday is lunar new year, I spend a few days with my family.
Making nut rolls with my mom and girls
Making Christmas cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is wearing matching Christmas PJ’s for Christmas. Added one more to our family this year and I’m excited for her to join our matching pj tradition!!
Putting up my mom’s chriatmas tree arms spending time together throughout the holidays with the family
Sending out everyone and strangers Christmas cards with surprises!
Family reading of Luke 2!
We watch Lord of the Rings movies extended version.
My favorite tradition is going out to the Christmas tree farm and finding that perfect tree and cutting it down.
We go to my in-laws’ home on Christmas Eve and come home the day after Christmas. It’s a lovely time with my husband’s family and a time I cherish.
Making Christmas cookies!
Traditional Polish Christmas Eve Dinner!
Decorating the Christmas tree and watching “Home Alone”
Unwrapping a few new ornaments each year and adding them to the tree
When I was younger my mom would load me and my sisters in the car, and then drive down the street to pick up my grandmother at least a few nights in December to drive around a look at lights. Whenever we got to a really pretty house my grandmother would always say “ooooooh christmassss liiiigghhttsss”. Even after she passed it became a tradition with my mom and sisters and we always had to say “ooooooooh christmassss liiiiggghhhttssss” at least once. Now that I have kids Ive continued the tradition. I pick up my mom and we drive around trying to find the best houses in our neighborhood. I look forward to it every year!!
The Elf on the shelf and Advent Calendars with my children. Their faces every morning light up my day and make 6am wake ups a little easier 😉
baking cookies for Santa with my boys
Decorating with old and new decorations around the house. The old bring back good memories and the new make new memories.
Decorating the Christmas tree with my daughters is my favorite tradition.
Putting on Christmas music and having all the kids open their gifts. Then the day after we go to the mall to hit up all the clearance deals in stores.
Making cookies and Toffee for friends and family
Putting up the tree on Black Friday is my favorite tradition
Making cookies & looking at Christmas lights
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating sugar cookies.
My favorite tradition is staying up until midnight and opening gifts
Making a gingerbread house from scratch with my daughter is my favorite tradition.
Thank you for doing this every year. My grandkids always look forward to putting the decorations out they also decorate the tree.
Favorite family holiday tradition is baking cookies. Many varieties so everyone has a favorite.
Spending time with my family
Decorating a small kids tree with grandkids. Making fun memories
Gathering with family.
My favorite holiday tradition is cookie day with my family! So much fun baking and hanging out with the fam!
Baking Christmas cookies with my granddaughter
Getting our Christmas tree the weekend after Thanksgiving and decorating it with the kids. Then I wait until they go to sleep to fix all the ornaments that they clumped in one area of the tree. 😁
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the town tree lighting. After the lighting they have a horse drawn sleigh ride, a little bonfire and other activities. Such a fun start to the holiday season!
We open new Christmas pjs every year on Christmas eve. I love seeing the kiddos excited about it!
Chocolate Advent Calendars. My grandmother bought them for us every year as children then my parents did. So when I got older I kept the tradition and buy them every year and always think of my grandmother & my parents ❤️. I’m almost 40 and haven’t missed a year!
Watching polar express and drinking hot chocolate with my family.
My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating 3 kings day. For me it’s the true Christmas. The story of the 3 kings visiting baby Jesus and bringing gifts. My grandmother who passed this year use to have a huge block party to celebrate. This year we will be doing it in her honor. It’s a beautiful holiday tradition and I wish more people celebrated.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with my grandkids my grandson loves to put candy cane’s on the tree after we get done then each weekend in December till Christmas we have a Christmas movie night with popcorn and hot cocoa and we make gingerbread house and Christmas cookie cut outs
My favorite holiday tradition is going around and talking about what we are thankful for with all the family around a table for the holiday dinner. Very warm and cozy.
Baking cookies and spending time with family
Elf on the shelf. My daughter loves it so much she talks about it all year long. We have only been doing it for 4 years but every year she cries as she comes and goes.
I go above and beyond to make it fun for her every day the elf is here.
Driving around looking at the lights
My mother’s Christmas fudge is always a big hit with my family.
I enjoy making cookies with my grandkids!!
Every year we watch Christmas Vacation when we get home from Thanksgiving dinner and then the next day we put up our tree and decorations to kick off the holiday season.
Baking cookies and driving around looking at light displays
Baking and decorating Christmas cookies 🍪
Baking cookies and making fudge to hand out as extra gifts
I enjoy baking for my family during the holidays
The first decoration to go up is the family nativity set. Once that’s up, the other decorations follow.
It’s more meaningful now as I’m now the keeper of the family set ( mom and dads)
My mom passed earlier this year and dad passed 7 years ago this Christmas.
I’m so very lucky to now have it in my home.
I carried the tradition and set up the manger as the first decoration of the season
Our favorite Christmas tradition is opening up the Aldi’s chocolate Advent calendars with the kids!
Every year we wear our pj’s and go around looking at Christmas lights, I let the kids eat treats in the back seat while we drive around. I absolutely love their little faces in awe of the lights, that’s the joy of Christmas for me.
My entire family with their love ones gathers at my home on Christmas Eve, So that way the kids can stay home on Christmas and play with their toys. I have been hosting now for about 35 years since my mother had to stop hosting.
Baking and eating all the Christmas cookies!
love baking cookies for Santa !
My favorite holiday tradition is singing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus at midnight ❤️
My favorite Christmas tradition is going Christmas light looking with my mother. I’ve been doing this since I was a little kid and now that I’m a full grown adult the tradition lives on 😆
Finding the perfect tree!
My favorite holiday tradition is eating pizza and watching Bad Santa on Christmas Eve with my family 🎄🎅🏼
My favorite tradition is building gingerbread together with the kids. They love doing it and after we would watch Christmas movie together.
It’s so hard to choose a favorite tradition. Making christmas cookies, going to Bronners(if you know, you know), driving around checking our Christmas light displays, putting up the Christmas tree, speading time with my family. Really most of all, what is making all of this more special is my little boy. He is 2 now and the magic in his eyes makes everything so much more beautiful.
Christmas cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is picking a random family and my kids and I go shopping for them . It’s a family in our neighborhood it’s so nice being a Blessing .
My favorite tradition is spending the day with my family. We share memories of our family members that aren’t with us anymore.
My favorite tradition is Christmas morning mimosas
Christmas is a time for me when I can be an adult kid. I enjoy my family helping to decorate our tree and house, thread popcorn to dress our tree, bake cookies wrapping gifts and most of all thankful & grateful for everything.
My favorite holiday tradition is that on 1/1 right at midnight my family sits and shares what a goal they have set for the new year and share a goal you accomplished in the old yr.
Decorating christmas cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree and baking cookies
My favorite holiday tradition is having the Noche Buena (Christmas eve) dinner with family while staying up until midnight.
Spending time with my family! It is hard to get everyone together.
Christmas is my favorite holiday and I love absolutely everything about it! But one of my all time favorite things to do is to cuddle up on the couch surround by Christmas lights and watch Christmas movies!
My favorite tradition is building the gingerbread house with the kids. They love doing it and after we would watch Christmas movie together 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is watching Its A Wonderful Life together on Thanksgiving weekend to kick off our holidays.
Celebrating with my side of the family on Christmas Eve. Alone Christmas morning and then my husbands side after. Everyone gets their individual time with the kids and it’s two jam packed days with family.
decorating the Christmas tree with my daughter 💕💕 but this year I will be doing it with my daughter, son ,and daughter -in-law… but will be spending Christmas Day with my Patients at the hospital I work at 💕
My favorite tradition is wrapping gifts!
Where we live there are a lot of parades in various towns. But our favorite is the one that has been going on for almost 50 years. We go every year with our kids and I love to see their faces light up when they see all of the people coming down the street. It’s been a family tradition for us since I was a little kid, going to the same hometown Christmas parade 😁
Holiday baking and eating a big family dinner, pot luck style!
my favorite tradition is making chocolate croissants for santa with my little brother, as a little kid he thought santa had a more “sophisticated” palette and wanted to make him something different so we make croissants every christmas even though he’s a teenager now and every year he still wants to make them with me 💗
My favorite tradition is when me and my family go to the kiosk at the mall to get our annual ornament for our Christmas tree 🎄 🌲.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting into Christmas pjs and taking family pics!
On Christmas Eve we bake sugar cookies and watch Christmas movies. Then that evening we go to my parents house for pizza.
Decorating/setting up the tree!
My favorite holiday tradition is picking up our real Christmas tree every year.
My favorite tradition is finding our Christmas tree and decorating it together.
Clipping coupons and drinking eggnog with my family while sitting in front of the fireplace on Christmas eve
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies on Christmas Eve!