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I LOVE the holidays. It’s my favorite time of year because of all the family! I’m a fan of traditions too – old traditions and making new ones. Christmas for us was the one time of year that we got really dressed up. My mom would often dress us up on Christmas Eve to visit some grandparents (I think because she didn’t want to get us all dressed up after waking her up at 5am on Christmas). I loved going around and seeing all our extended family in some of my best dresses – it just felt like the holidayss, like it’s what we were supposed to do and it made our visits that much more special.
Now that I have my own kids, I love dressing them up too. How cute is my youngest in this little man outfit from Macy’s?! He actually does like wearing “handsome clothes” to visit grandparents because they fuss over how cute he looks. I love that the holidays can be a little less traditional with fun colors like these (and more likely to be approved by him).
I had found some photos of mine when getting out the Christmas decorations and it brought back all kinds of holiday memories for me. Visiting family, dressing up, dinners, plays, giving back, staying up late, baking and music during the holidays are some of my favorite childhood memories. I love being a Mom and sharing these memories and traditions with my kids.
I don’t know if it’s the tradition of getting dressed up for the holidays, or just the attention he gets when doing it, but the Christmas Eve “handsome outfit” has definitely become a tradition for us too. We also do matching Christmas jammies each year though I’m not sure how much longer that will last. Childhood is so short and quick – I just want to bottle it all up!
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I bought the kids an ornament every year. Now I have passed the collections on to them.
we go to breakfast with santa every year.
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Birthday cake and singing “Happy Birthday” on Christmas
We always made Christmas cookies together, the kids love decorating them!!
Our favorite tradition is that we wait until mid morning before opening presents. That keeps everyone in bed instead of being up at 5am.
I don’t have any kids but my family has a tradition of a family photo in front of the tree. I love these pictures every year and use them for my laptop background picture 🙂
Having a Denny’s dinner with the family after Christmas Eve mass.
Our only real tradition is to get everyone bundled up in the car and to drive around town and look at all the lights and holiday decorations 🙂 We love to admire all the beauty and hard work that people put int to their holiday decorating 🙂 I hope it’s something the kids carry on when they are older ’cause it’s a lot of fun 🙂
Tweeted 🙂 – https://twitter.com/Enter_Now/status/547524295468277760
We always made cookies for Santa, and reindeer food for the reindeer. I love going out before we go to bed to feed Rudolph!
We share oplatek ( a Polish wafer ) by breaking off a piece from each person’s wafer at the Christmas feast!
Putting up holiday lights.
Our fave tradition is doing some type of community service on christmas Day
going to midnight mass and having the service under candles! its so awesome
https://twitter.com/wblack1125/status/547592950176571393 my tweet thank you
My favorite tradition that I’ve passed on to my son is spending time with family. Thank you for the giveaway!
I tweeted–https://mobile.twitter.com/DonnaJacoby2014/status/547602436652007424.
our favorite tradition passed on is baking cookies on Christmas eve
Our tradition is to open gifts on Christmas eve which are always pajamas! kimstclair39@yahoo.com
I don’t have kids but still love my traditions. One tradition that I have shared with my husband is driving around to look at the holiday light displays on the night of Winter Solstice. I love it!
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/MsTofuFairy/status/547763611398324224
We always make Gingerbread men to decorate for Santa. I hop when they get older and married and have kids of their own they will continue this tradition.
my favorite holiday tradition that i have passed on is spending time with family
We always do a bunch of baking Christmas eve and make baskets for family and friends
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My favorite tradition is that we always go to church Christmas Eve and come home after mass and open our gifts. Santa always comes while we are at church:)
tweeted: https://twitter.com/KerryBishop/status/547854326303973376
My kids all get a new pair of PJ’s Christmas Eve.
We watch a christmas story, bake cookies for santa and build a gingerbread house
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Baking and decorating sugar cookies with my daughter.
I am hoping the tradition I have passed on to my kids is to go to mass on Christmas day or Christmas Eve.
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Thank you!
When I have kids, I would most like to pass down the tradition of opening presents with our immediate family the night of Christmas Eve.
Every year, we back Christmas cookies together. Their favorites are peanut butter with kisses.
Going to Christmas Eve service, coming home to hot chocolate and opening one present.
Thanks for the contest.
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When my children were growing up we were a military family and were never near any other family members. I’d love to be able to say that spending time with extended family was our tradition but I can’t. However, now that they are all adults we do have our family dinner and gift exchange.
The one thing that they carried over from their childhood is baking cookies. I always had cookies for the entire neighborhood. My daughter and granddaughter make so many cookies they could easily feed several families too.
Tweet – https://twitter.com/willitara/status/548022787021877249
On Christmas morning we put a lit candle in a cupcake and put it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together on Christmas Eve and opening presents, we sip hot cocoa and have snacks and everyone has a great time.
We love to get in our pajamas and drive around and look at Christmas decorations.
I tweeted about the giveaway on 12/24/14
I don’t have any children, but my family has always opened gifts on Christmas Eve night, saving Christmas Day for solely family fun and worshiping Christ. I think that’s an important tradition we’ve passed down to the kids.
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Decorating cookies together!
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My favorite tradition that I have passed on is decorating the tree with each other.