All you have to do is post on this thread and say what your favorite holiday tradition is. On Friday night by 8pm est I will randomly pick one winner to recieve all 15 of the holiday card templates.
All you have to do is post on this thread and say what your favorite holiday tradition is. On Friday night by 8pm est I will randomly pick one winner to recieve all 15 of the holiday card templates.
hmmm….favorite holiday tradition…..probably getting in our new xmas pj’s and cuddling up while listening to “Twas the night before christmas”
Since we celebrate Hanukkah, my favorite tradition is to light our menorahs, enjoy homemade potato latkes and open our gifts together as a family.
My favorite Holiday Tradition is arranging the Hanukkah gifts up in a row separated by each kid and letting them pick the one they want to open each night.
I don’t know if it’s a tradition, but I have done it every year since I was a kid… But, I always have to lay underneath the Christmas tree and look up through it at night when it’s all lit up.
My favorite tradition is going to get hot chocolate and drive around and look at Christmas lights.
My favorite holiday tradition has to be putting up the xmas tree & decorating the house!
Hey Kelly! My fave holiday tradition was always getting to open our new jammies on Christmas Eve. I now continue that tradition with my kids.
Going to my parents, and letting our children sleep upstairs with their cousins. It is the same thing we used to do at my grandmother’s house when I was growing up.
My husband was killed in a car accident on my daughters first Christmas…so I try to make Christmas a big deal for her to keep the magic there so when she’s old enough she isn’t saddened by Christmas…This will be her third Christmas, but I’ve already started traditions…she was his “baby girl” so I am buying her an American Girl Doll every Christmas so she can have an awesome “baby girl” collection…We do the Christmas Eve Service at church with the candle light Silent Night as that was one of the last things we got to do as a family…We make Birthday Cake for Jesus because Daddy’s at his birthday party every year…There’s a lot more that I am planning on…I just want to make sure that Christmas is special for her and not a sadiversary for her…
Having wrapping parties. Love those bows and ribbons and pretties!
We have so many, how to choose!! I think my very favorite is our visiting angel. She brings the pieces of our manger scene, one at a time, over a few weeks. Baby Jesus arrives Christmas morning!
A favoriet tradition was driving around looking at Christmas lights while Santa left gifts at my grandmother’s house on Christmas Eve. Can’t wait to do that with my little one!
For as long as I can remember, every year we all bundled up in the car and drove around looking at all the Christmas lights. When we got home, we were each allowed to pick out one present to open. I am continuing on the tradition now with my children.
We celebrate with my parents on Christmas Eve every year. She always gives everyone (even adults) a pair of PJ’s. We all where them to bed and to open presents on Christmas morning.
My favorite tradition started when I was a little girl, longer than I can remember. Every year, on Christmas Eve, the whole family would get together for a Christmas Eve party. Aunts, uncles, cousins, granparents…eveyone. Everyone brought one gift for the person whose name they drew out of the hat the Christmas before. That would be the one gift we got to open early. I remember always being so excited to get to open that one gift. It was almost like it was taboo, because gifts weren’t supposed to opened until Christmas morning. It’s a tradition I do with my children now.
I buy t shirts for each of the kids to go with their pj bottoms, and then I iron on their current favorite saying… my sons are in that really weird 8-11 yr old stage, and would walk around the house saying.. “I like cheese”, so that went on the shirt. My daughters get their sayings, like..”oh no you dih-n’t” (the pre-teen) or “I heart Edward”… it becomes the family joke all year…
I have too many to pick one…. I love Christmas… Reading the Christams story to the kids, wrapping presents, making dough ornaments, gingerbread houses, looking at Christmas lights…I love it all!
When I was growing up we celebrated Christmas with our extended family on Christmas Eve. After eating our feast, we would open our beautifully wrapped presents and play Christmas bingo where we hand out all sorts of gag gifts to the winner. Then, most importantly, we go to midnight Mass at church. Everyone holds a candle and the lights are so dimmed all you can see if the candle light, while the children sit ever so still as a manger scene. Then we sing silent night. I get chills thinking about it. Such a beautiful moment that I now do with my children.
Each year we string old Christmas photos up a ribbon going up the stairs. My kids have a blast looking at their aunt and me as little kids. Thanks for the chance!
Decorating the tree. We put on our favorite Christmas CD’s and go to town. I love pulling out all the ornaments – it’s like greeting old friends again. Each one has its own special history.
hmmm – well – since i’m dying to get all of these templates – I couldn’t miss out on an opportunity to comment. Honestly – my favorite holiday tradition is taking my ‘little sis’ (from Big Brothers Big Sisters) to the nursing home where my mother works. For the past 2 years we’ve gone up there during Christmas and Ariel (my little sis) plays Santa photographer w/a Polaroid. She captures moments of the residents w/ Santa – and she loves it b/c THANKFULLY – she still ‘believes’.
Afterwards she and I read ’twas the night before christmas’ so some of the residents who are bed ridden. She’s struggling w/ her reading skills but these residents at the home are super patient w/ her.
They love seeing she and I – and we love seeing santa! And Ariel learns more than she realizes while she’s there. Can’t wait for this year!
Jenny that sounds like a really nice tradition.
Carrie it sounds like your daughter is going to have some very sweet Christmas’ in honor of her daddy.
OK, I have two. I’l start by saying that we live 3000 miles from any family so it’s been just the two of us for many many years (now the 3 of us). First, on Christmas eve we go to Costco and have a slice of pizza for dinner, and are the last customers out, wishing all the staff a happy holiday (we’ve been doing this for 10 years). We have close connections to the company and it’ became sort of like “being home”. Our other tradition is our Christmas dinner. It’s NACHOS! We spent so many years just the two of us with no family that the whole big dinner thing seemed crazy. And lets face it, who doesn’t love fantastic nachos with all the trimmings? So that’s what we make for Christmas dinner and it’s the absolute best!
We take a family trip every year either for Christmas or right after Christmas. My husband is so busy during the school year that there are many weeks where he doesn’t see the kids. So, that is one of the times that we disconnect from our daily lives and reconnect as a family.