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Christmas Poll
im putting up packing for our move so I thought I would make a poll:)
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up?
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song?
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what?
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both?
Amy
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Re: Christmas Poll
1) My favorite was opening one gift on Christmas Eve after Christmas eve service.
2) O holy night
3) We have a couple that we are starting, but are going to expand on doing one gift on Christmas Eve and making those pajamas.
4.) We go to Dh's the week before since they are in Minnesota, my family on Christmas Eve, and usually Christmas with just DH and I. This year will be different as we are moving and have to be out of our house by then but can't move till our new house till Dec. 27th so we are staying at my parents while our stuff stays in storage.
Amy
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? Stockings!
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song? IDK the name of it. It's sung in French (by three women) and my parents have it on one of my favorite Christmas CD's. Other than that, I LOVE "Christmas Time Is Here" sung by the Peanuts characters.
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what? We haven't so far. IDK how I'll feel when we have more kids than just SS.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both? Christmas is our holiday to see both families. Luckily, we only have to deal with immediate family. We don't see extended family unless they come to either place we go to.
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? On Christmas Eve, my siblings and I used to make a big, fluffy bed on the floor of our basement family room and we'd all sleep there together. I always woke up first, so I'd get everyone else up at like, 4 in the morning, and we'd go upstairs to open our stockings and see what Santa brought. We'd play with our stockings and new toys until about 5:30 until we couldn't take it and wake mom and dad up. Then, we'd eat breakfast and open our gifts. It was just perfect. I'm still the first one up on Christmas morning
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song? I couldn't pick a favorite, I don't think. I love so many of them!
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what? Abe and I are going to try to create some type of hybrid of our childhood Christmases. At his house, Santa brought ALL the presents. At my house, Santa brought the stockings and one "big" gift that was always left unwrapped under the tree. I, of course, think my way is right. Hehe. We may do three gifts from Santa wrapped in special paper (which I will buy in bulk so it's the same every year) and the stockings. I just don't know. I don't like his childhood thing at all.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both? Both. I love it
Ha! Jacqui -- we did what you did as children too. Except we didn't have a slumber party in the basement because we didn't have one. And it was my youngest brother that woke us all up.
And Shawn's dad's family does the everything is from Santa Claus thing too. HATE IT! And the other thing they do is have the kids go to bed, wake them up at MIDNIGHT to open and then they all get pissed when the kids (a)aren't excited about their gifts and/or (b) are exhausted and grumpy on Christmas Day.
I like your idea of purging the 2 traditions
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up?
Hmmm, is it sad that I don't have one? Maybe how my dad always wanted to open presents early - he's like a little kid - so we always got to do at least one on Christmas Eve.
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song?
Carol of the Bells, Chestnuts Roasting, and Mariah's All I want for Christmas.
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what?
Starting next year, we're going to try super duper hard to ALWAYS have Christmas morning at our own house, at least while Ella (and any future NDbaby) is school-age.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both?
We alternate years. One year in Indiana with mine, the next in Michigan with his two sets, and repeat.
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up?
Before my dad remarried, we always woke up Christmas morning to 1 big and 1 small unwrapped presents from Santa. When he remarried, I was excited to start the Christmas stocking tradition.
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song?
O Holy Night
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what?
Um, starting this year, we might not have Christmas without a tree. I don't want to put it up!
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both?
Mine
We arent either because we are moving..but just last night Keith said how much easier it would be if we would start that tradition...HAHA. He's not getting that lucky.
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up?
My mom played the organ and starting around the 1st of December, we'd gather around and sing Christmas carols while she played. Loved it. We'd also count the number of Christmas lights we saw driving home from Thanksgiving and every.other.time we went anywhere. My brother and I raced to see who could spot the most.
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song?
O Holy Night
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what?
I definitely want to do traditions when I have a family. I want to do homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. I started a tradition of a Christmas Open House when I moved to Louisville and became my little family of one.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both?
Mine right now, but I'm headed to his house the evening of Christmas to stay for a week. No clue what we'll do once we're married. Depends on where we're living.
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? Waking up to a mountain or wrapped presents under a lit tree (the only time it was lit overnight). We had 5 kids, so a "mountain" is not an exaggeration!
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song? Carol of the Bells... or maybe O Holy Night. Boss' Santa Clause is Coming to Town for non-religious!
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what? We're doing pj's at St. Nick's Day. Still looking for ways to incorporate other cultural traditions!
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both? Neither. We decided that we won't travel for Christmas.
Joseph Henry was born at home on March 9, 2009
Nora Mae was born at home on October 30, 2011
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? We would usually get together with my aunt and cousins on Christmas Eve, have dinner, and take a ride around town to look at Christmas lights - with us kids in the back of the station wagon. Then we'd get to open one present after church.
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song? Carol of the Bells - I like that there are so many variations, from the energetic Mannheim Steamroller and Home Alone versions to the quieter George Winston piano version.
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what? That will be interesting to see when we have kids...like Jac we'll have to figure out how to compromise between the way his family and my family did Santa gifts.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both? We alternate years between staying here with his family and flying to see mine.
1) What was your favorite Christmas tradition growing up? We always did all our presents on Christmas Eve (my mom is Austrian), and the Christkind (Christ child) would ring a bell after dinner and all the presents would be under the tree.
2.) What is your favorite Christmas song? Sleigh Ride. I also like Carol of the Bells, but it always reminds me of the movie Home Alone.
3) Will you start any new traditions? If so what? DH and I have Christmas dinner every year. It is our only *just us* tradition. We also don't exchange gifts, but plan a day to spend together, which I just love.
4) Do you celebrate Christmas with your family, DH's or both? DH's family goes to Thailand every year for Christmas, and we go with a lot of the time. It is kind of a bummer because it is the only time we can see the Thai family, but on the other hand, they don't even celebrate Christmas, and I am an only child, so that means my parents are out a Christmas pretty much every year. My consolation is that my parents are willing to celebrate Christmas pretty much anytime (we have done it mid-January before).