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What's your favorite thing about the holidays?
What's your quirky holiday fave? A certain pine scented candle? A silly tradition?
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Re: What's your favorite thing about the holidays?
Growing up my brother and I would wake up Christmas morning and get our stockings down off the fireplace and take them to Mom & Dad's room. We'd open our stockings while sitting on the bed in our PJs with them. Then Daddy would get up and make a HUGE Christmas breakfast and we'd all sit down to eat together with the Christmas china and best silver (we only used this one set on Christmas) before we'd open our presents. I loved the anticipation of it all and I loved that it made us apprecaite the real meaning of Christmas and spending time with family over presents.
I hope to keep that tradition going with my family, as well as opening one present on Christmas Eve (which will always be new PJs to wear that night and the next morning!).
One of my favorite holiday traditions has been that my family recognizes our scandinavian heritage on Christmas Eve. My mom makes swedish meatballs and potatoes and we have Lefse, which is a Norwegian flatbread type tortilla that is wrapped up with butter, sugar and cinnamon. After Christmas Eve dinner we always go to church.
It's a tradition that's been doing on in our family since my great-grandparents immigrated from Norway and something that I hope we'll always do.
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I have always loved Thanksgiving. Always. I just enjoyed spending time with my extended family, plus DH and I met on Thanksgiving 10 years ago. I haven't really experienced any "traditions" (I know sad), but I'm looking forward to starting some of my own, opening up new PJ's on Christmas Eve being oneof them.
Oh, and my Grandmother and I do have a little Thanksgiving/Christmas secret. I always make 2 pecan pies...one for the family and one for her to keep herself w/o sharing. And she does the same for me with the sweet potato pies...I always get my own to take home!
I love Thanksgiving for the simple fact that we spend the whole day together, and I love how we look at the black Friday ads and plot our plans for the next day
Also love that us cousins get out in the side yard at my parents house and play touch football...we've been doing this for probably 20 years!
My favorite Christmas tradition was always playing board games in the afternoon. I have so many memories of my parents and my brother and I playing Monopoly, Yahtzee, Clue, and Sorry
And Rook too...love that game! When my brother got married we had to move our family Christmas celebration to Christmas Eve...and we still have it on Christmas Eve and we still play games in the afternoon. I even got my in laws to start doing it when we go over there for Christmas afternoon and evening.