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June 2016 Moms
mrsschmity
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GTKY: Your Favorite Holiday Tradition
mrsschmity
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Ok so I want to know, what is your all time favorite holiday tradition?!
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I love the holidays in general - my family celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas. This time of year just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :x
Growing up, my mom always made a huge deal out of the holidays. It was always about family, holiday music would always be playing, we'd have days dedicated to making homemade perogies and cookies, cocoa by the fire etc. All that good stuff.
I think my two favorite traditions would have to be:
1. Taking the whole family out to a Christmas tree farm, picking out the perfect tree and cutting it down ourselves. H and I have continued this tradition in our own family since we've been married.
2. Going to my parents on Christmas Eve, spending the night with the family/playing games/etc, and waking up super early Christmas morning to open gifts around the tree by the fire. And yes, my sister and I STILL get up at the buttcrack of dawn on Christmas morning (like 6am). And I make H do it now too
I love the holidays in general - my family celebrates Thanksgiving and Christmas. This time of year just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :x
Growing up, my mom always made a huge deal out of the holidays. It was always about family, holiday music would always be playing, we'd have days dedicated to making homemade perogies and cookies, cocoa by the fire etc. All that good stuff.
I think my two favorite traditions would have to be:
1. Taking the whole family out to a Christmas tree farm, picking out the perfect tree and cutting it down ourselves. H and I have continued this tradition in our own family since we've been married.
2. Going to my parents on Christmas Eve, spending the night with the family/playing games/etc, and waking up super early Christmas morning to open gifts around the tree by the fire. And yes, my sister and I STILL get up at the buttcrack of dawn on Christmas morning (like 6am). And I make H do it now too
Re: GTKY: Your Favorite Holiday Tradition
My family are decorators for all big holidays (Halloween - Labor Day) so I love helping mom set up the hundreds of little pieces to her Christmas town. I love to bake and plan the cookie exchanges with coworkers. Our big family spends Christmas Eve together and Christmas Day apart, so Christmas Eve dinner is always tamales, enchiladas, beans and rice. Oddly enough, sweets are cookies and pies. Lol. I think I'm going to try my hand at making tres leches cake this year. My own little tradition is getting one new ornament for the tree and this year it's snowman couple expecting.
My favorite is definitely going to hunt the perfect tree. We bring it home and my mom would play music, and make us her homemade hot chocolate as well all decorate it together. DH and I do this as well
I also love Christmas cookie baking day!
And lastly Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Every Christmas Eve we go to church come home and open up one present ( it's always pjs to wear to open up gifts in ) and then me waking up so early going through my stocking and getting everyone else up early to open gifts!
Going to the pumpkin patch/apple orchard one Saturday in October.
Decorating the house the day after Thanksgiving. We always have a yummy breakfast on our Christmas plates and drink out of our Christmas mugs and put on a Christmas movie while putting up the tree.
When my sister and I block out an entire day before Christmas and she comes over to bake cookies with me all day long.
Christmas Day is busy but so wonderful. We wake up early to have our Christmas here, then to my parents' for brunch and presents, then to DH's grandma's, then back to my parents' for dinner. So much food and love! I'm really looking forward to it this year bc DH has a new church job this year and doesn't have to play Christmas morning mass!
Plus we'll be announcing the good news to the rest of H's extended family at Thanksgiving (my entire family already knows), so it should be extra exciting!
The only official Christmas tradition we have is going to look at holiday decorations on Christmas Eve. We broke with tradition on the meal and now go with whatever strikes our fancy that year (ribeyes, tamales, brisket, lobster...).
My favorite Thanksgiving tradition that I cannot partake on this year is my sisters and I bringing various expensive beers to the Thanksgiving meal and trying them all. Even after so many years, a mere mention of "Voodoo Doughnut beer" brings shudders to us all.
1. Getting the Christmas tree the weekend after thanksgiving
2. Christmas Eve dinner with black bean soup
3. Christmas books and movies and songs
4. Our community Christmas tree lighting
5. Every year I host an old fashioned cookie exchange.
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