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12-18-2012 at 4:03 PM
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GTKY- Favorite Holiday Tradition-

Let's get in the holiday mood!


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12-18-2012 at 4:03 PM
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Mine is our Christmas Eve ornament exchange. Every year on Thanksgiving our huge family draws a name. On Christmas Eve we give that person an ornament, wither handmade or store bought. We have been doing this for years, and all of our trees are filled with ornaments that represent us in that year. When DH and I got together, he was involved, and now we have so much fun remembering why we received that particular ornament.

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12-18-2012 at 4:08 PM
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Growing up, we always got to open a present on Xmas Eve. Still my fav. Others - we also had a nativity, and baby Jesus traveled around the house a few weeks before Xmas, and on Xmas he made it to the nativity.

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12-18-2012 at 4:09 PM
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Every year we make eggs benedict and have momosas for Christmas morning breakfest....yum!

And when I'm with my side of the family (which we will be this year) we ALWAYS get a good family poker game going.


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12-18-2012 at 4:16 PM
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kistjenn@yahoo.com:

Every year we make eggs benedict and have momosas for Christmas morning breakfest....yum!

And when I'm with my side of the family (which we will be this year) we ALWAYS get a good family poker game going.

I want to go to your xmas!! 


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12-18-2012 at 4:45 PM
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kistjenn@yahoo.com:

Every year we make eggs benedict and have momosas for Christmas morning breakfest....yum!

And when I'm with my side of the family (which we will be this year) we ALWAYS get a good family poker game going.

Me too!!!

We always (and now DH does it too) sing Happy Birthday to Jesus on Christmas morning and blow out a candle.


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12-18-2012 at 6:32 PM
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Every year we make eggs benedict and have momosas for Christmas morning breakfest....yum!


And when I'm with my side of the family (which we will be this year) we ALWAYS get a good family poker game going.

Me too!!!

We always (and now DH does it too) sing Happy Birthday to Jesus on Christmas morning and blow out a candle.



We do a similar thing. We make a baby jesus cake and eat it on christmas. It is really just a birthday cake for him. Since I was born we have always gotten christmas pajamas on xmas eve. We also do an ornament every year to represent the major milestone for that year. I am sure I am missing some!

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12-18-2012 at 7:06 PM
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Growing up every Christmas Eve my mom would make "Santa Claus meatloaf" for dinner. It's a meatloaf shaped like a Santa head and hat, with mashed potatoes and ketchup and vegetables to complete the picture. It's not as odd as it sounds.

Now, we alternate visits with my family and his. I don't know if I'd call them traditions, but every holiday does tend to end up with us doing the same things as previous years.


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12-19-2012 at 10:51 AM
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We also open ornaments on Christmas Eve. This year, we'll be joining an odd tradtion on DH's side of the family, which includes Santa visiting DH's uncle's house to personally deliver a gift to him. DH's aunt and uncle started doing it when they got grandkids and have continued doing it for their grandkids' kids and the cousins' kids. Santa even comes with his own elf to help out.

It sounds sweet, but there are usually babies screaming, the one child is autistic, so he's stemming around the living room, and his twin sister is terrified of Santa, so she's hiding in a closet screaming as well. I can't wait for Micah to join this joyous tradition. Pass the eggnog and mimosas.



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12-19-2012 at 11:09 AM
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SteelCity44:

We also open ornaments on Christmas Eve. This year, we'll be joining an odd tradtion on DH's side of the family, which includes Santa visiting DH's uncle's house to personally deliver a gift to him. DH's aunt and uncle started doing it when they got grandkids and have continued doing it for their grandkids' kids and the cousins' kids. Santa even comes with his own elf to help out.

It sounds sweet, but there are usually babies screaming, the one child is autistic, so he's stemming around the living room, and his twin sister is terrified of Santa, so she's hiding in a closet screaming as well. I can't wait for Micah to join this joyous tradition. Pass the eggnog and mimosas.

Such a sweet gesture but that sounds exhausting!


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12-19-2012 at 1:41 PM
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My side of the family watches A Christmas Story for the entire 24 hours it is on tv.  We all love it!

This year the IL's are coming to our house for Christmas SIL HATES that movie so we'll see how that goes!

 
12-19-2012 at 2:28 PM
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KristenS09:

My side of the family watches A Christmas Story for the entire 24 hours it is on tv.  We all love it!

This year the IL's are coming to our house for Christmas SIL HATES that movie so we'll see how that goes!

I'm with your SIL. I've never understood the appeal of that movie.


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