Xmas Traditions

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teachercd

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Not really a tradition but I go back home...

Probably the biggest one we have...we get to open one present on Xmas eve.  This was a much bigger deal when I was a kid.

 
My family is so spread out that we get together every two years.  That has been a good tradition for quite a while.  All the grandkids are now adults, so the last two times we have gone to Steamboat skiing.  This served two purposes.  It is a hell of a lot of fun...and, it prevents my elderly mother from thinking she needs to cook for 25-30 people for a week.

On the off year, we try to have as traditional of Christmas as we can back home with the kids.  We always have soup (chili and oyster stew) Christmas eve, then a big mean Christmas day.

Oh.....and home made cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning along with home made german molasses bread with the meals.  

I love cooking for holidays.

 
I can't really think of many that my family had. My girlfriend's family has a ton (mostly revolving around food :lol: ) which I guess makes them mine now.

Christmas Eve we have crab legs and fondue

Christmas morning we have cinnamon rolls and coffee then open presents

Then we have a huge brunch: omelets, bacon, corned beef hash, fruit, etc. along with bloody Marys and mimosas

After that we just kinda hang out for a while watching movies, playing cards, walking the dogs, etc.

Then we have prime rib dinner (salmon for my gf)

Then we finally open stockings :lol:

More drinking and movies and games

It's a really great time but I definitely put on about 10 pounds each year

 
BigRedBuster said:
My family is so spread out that we get together every two years.  That has been a good tradition for quite a while.  All the grandkids are now adults, so the last two times we have gone to Steamboat skiing.  This served two purposes.  It is a hell of a lot of fun...and, it prevents my elderly mother from thinking she needs to cook for 25-30 people for a week.

On the off year, we try to have as traditional of Christmas as we can back home with the kids.  We always have soup (chili and oyster stew) Christmas eve, then a big mean Christmas day.

Oh.....and home made cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning along with home made german molasses bread with the meals.  

I love cooking for holidays.
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That is a cool idea, the every two years thing.

How many of you had to "dress up" when you were kids for Xmas?  Like, in "nice clothes" and how many of you do that today?

 
We get our kids PJs and they open them up on Christmas Eve and wear them that night. That is about all we have.

My wife is from MO and I'm from NE and we live in GA so we try to go home every couple of years.

 
I forgot a very important Christmas tradition.

Me gettin pissed off hanging Christmas lights.....then my wife and I getting in an argument about it.

OH.....and here's a new twist.  Now...my elderly parents think they want to get into hanging Christmas lights at their house.  So....guess who gets to do it with them standing there bickering about how it should be done?

I really do love Christmas and everything around it....except hanging Christmas lights.

 
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BigRedBuster said:
I forgot a very important Christmas tradition.

Me gettin pissed off hanging Christmas lights.....then my wife and I getting in an argument about it.

OH.....and here's a new twist.  Now...my elderly parents think they want to get into hanging Christmas lights at their house.  So....guess who gets to do it with them standing there bickering about how it should be done?

I really do love Christmas and everything around it....except hanging Christmas lights.
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This is why I don't hang anything that I can't reach with just a short stepladder

 
BigRedBuster said:
A step ladder prevents arguments?
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Keeps me from getting pissed off trying to put up a bunch of stuff!

But now this is making me think of the Roseanne episode where Dan tells Mark about how he tears off shingles every year when he's putting the Christmas lights so he has an excuse to get away from arguments :lol:

 
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GSG said:
Keeps me from getting pissed off trying to put up a bunch of stuff!

But now this is making me think of the Roseanne episode where Dan tells Mark about how he tears off shingles every year when he's putting the Christmas lights so he has an excuse to get away from arguments :lol:
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It's basically come down to me putting one strand of lights across the front of the house....and that's it.  I refuse to do anything else.

 
Back to the original topic on a more serious note.

I still love going to midnight mass Christmas eve.  When we go to Steamboat, the Catholic Church there is absolutely beautiful at Christmas and it's a time during the season where I'm taken totally away from the commercialism of everything.

 
BigRedBuster said:
Back to the original topic on a more serious note.

I still love going to midnight mass Christmas eve.  When we go to Steamboat, the Catholic Church there is absolutely beautiful at Christmas and it's a time during the season where I'm taken totally away from the commercialism of everything.
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Used to do midnight mass all the time.  I have not been in years but even though as a kid I sort of hated going, I realize looking back on it that it was cool.

 
teachercd said:
That is a cool idea, the every two years thing.

How many of you had to "dress up" when you were kids for Xmas?  Like, in "nice clothes" and how many of you do that today?
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I did when I was really little (I don’t remember it but I’ve seen the photos). The main holiday I remember for that is Easter. I always had an awful bonnet or sun hat to go with my dress and apparently this went on long enough for me to remember it. I remember shawls, too. 

 
Christmas has been a big deal in my family for as long as I can remember. We try to do a few things here and there throughout the month of December.

Two of my favorite things we do:

- We try to hit every light display within an hour or two from our house. There are at least 5 of them that we go to every year, and usually a few more than that. We've got our favorites, and have found some hole-in-the-wall places to eat that we usually only get that one night a year when we visit the towns for their Christmas displays. Each time we head to one, we stop in the same local grocer in town to get some of the best hot chocolate you'll ever have (or so we think).

- We also have a Saturday in December (usually 10-14 days before Christmas) where my Mom, dad, sister, grandparents, and a few cousins with their families, meet to bake Christmas cookies, and treats. There is always an absurd amount, and most of them are packaged up and given as gifts to neighbors, or members of my mom/grandma's church. It was one of my favorite days of the season as a kid. Always a real good vibe going the entire day.

 
GSG said:
Keeps me from getting pissed off trying to put up a bunch of stuff!

But now this is making me think of the Roseanne episode where Dan tells Mark about how he tears off shingles every year when he's putting the Christmas lights so he has an excuse to get away from arguments :lol:
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I thought the very same thing!

 
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