What's your favorite holiday activity/tradition?

ecoppins · December 2011

There are so many fun and special things to do this time of year. What is your favorite and what are you making a tradition in your family?

When I was a kid, some of my favorite memories include my mom taking us to high tea at a hotel downtown. It wasn't a christmas thing, just a special treat. As a kid, I also liked going to the historic old department store and seeing the doll windows. So with my girls, we go down and look at the holiday windows and then go to high tea all dressed up in christmas dresses. It is also a great way to practice table manners, because only people who (sit up straight, stay in their chair, chew with mouth closed, name your basic table manner) can go to the fancy hotel for high tea.

cecee36 · December 2011

Sounds like fun! I hope you and your daughters enjoy it.

We don't really have any real traditions yet. My daughter is 4 so I feel this is the time where we can really have her be involved more and participate in anything; whether it be baking cookies or watching Christmas shows or decorating the tree, being older and having her more actively involved starts now. She's kinda wishy-washy though; she'll watch 5 minutes of "Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown" (or whatever cartoon is on) and then go in her room. She really enjoyed decorating the tree and I think she'll like baking the cookies we'll make next week. That will probably be something that we'll continue to do as she gets older.

KL777 · December 2011

-Christmas Eve service at church

-Decorating the family tree

-Opening gifts with family on Christmas morning

VTbride05 · December 2011

We make cinnamon rolls every Christmas morning. We make maple popcorn for our neighbors every Christmas Eve (My mom and I did this too!). And we put together a gingerbread house every Christmas day. We have also gone snowshoeing every Christmas day, but so far we dont have any snow!

Love all the ideas!