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Perhaps you like the snow and cold, but still want a holiday? Do you like to ski, snowshoe or just make snow angels in the white, powdery stuff?
And when it does come time to celebrate the holidays with your family and friends, tell me, what is your most very favourite tradition to keep up every year? What do you enjoy most about this time of the year?
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My favorite christmas tradition is decorating the tree!! a close 2nd is when the kids bugger off the to the ODR on christmas eve and leave me to drink my wine in peace 🙂 hahhah
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the tree and cooking yummy food with my mother
We get together as one big family here on Christmas eve. It is my fave tradition 🙂
My favorite to do is prepare turkey dinner for the family. It is always nice when family are all together.
We have Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve!
Having a fire outside.
My favorite holiday tradition is that my family makes tamales for Christmas.
My favorite holiday tradition has been baking cookies with my nieces and nephews and now I do it with their kids.
I love Christmas baking with my kids! We also spend Christmas eve at my moms with our whole family, and that’s always fun too
My favourite thing is being able to get together with our two kids, they live far away now.
I would love to have a White Christmas! I have never had one.
My favorite tradition is putting up the tree!
My favorite tradition is to drive around on Christmas Eve to see all the neighborhood lights. It kills time!
I enjoy watching Christmas movies with the family while baking and decorating Christmas cookies.
Fav thing is seeing how excited my kids get!
I love to watch It’s A Wonderful Life with family and friends.It just wouldn’t be Christmas with out it.
My favorite part of the holidays is the decorations and the family events.
Since my mom passed away unexpectedly two years ago I have made a point to cart on her traditions such as listening to Christmas music, with the fire going while decorating the tree with my two children. When I was little she always had on Christmas music as we should decorate the tree and so the tradition has been passed on with me to my children.
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Let us know what you favorite holiday tradition is,
listening to christmas is all i ever do anymore..i ..thats just me
I love decorating the tree with my family!
I love seeing all the houses lit up and decorated for Christmas.
making my cinnamon bread
Our family favorite is to make hot cocoa from scratch and watch the snow fall, snuggled up with cozy blankets and good books.
I live in a hot climate so that’s always my holidays. I would love to see real snow lol my favorite tradition is wrapping the presents for my boys in their own paper. That way they know which is which.
Family christmas tradition is being with all of my children.
cutting down our own Christmas tree
buying 2 new orniments every year then trimming the tree
I’ve started a new tradition with my family. New years ever the kids get new pjs, movie, books, hot chocolate and popcorn. It’s a fun relaxing night from all the craziness that Xmas brings.
My favorite thing about the holidays was to see how happy my mom was to have everybody together for a meal!
My favourite thing to do is the family and friend open house we have every Christmas Eve. It’s about the only time everyone is together as our lives are so busy.
I love watching the grandkids tare into the presents
Ride around and enjoy the holiday lights.
I love our Christmas Eve! My hubby always makes a yummy chicken stir fry, then we watch holiday programs. The kids are allowed to open ONE gift…and it’s always Christmas pajamas!
Watching the Macy’s Day Parade, cooking, baking, wrapping gifts
My favorite thing about the holidays is seeing my kids faces light up when they open their gifts.
Fav tradition is videotaping my happy kids
My favorite — seeing the joy on the grandkids faces (and gathering those hugs after gift giving is over).
I love just spending old fashion quality time with family and friends, but most of all family!
Favorite thing about the holidays is being with family that I don’t get to visit very often.
My favorite holiday tradition is singing in the Holiday concerts
my favorite thing about the holiday are,the the joy love and happiness it bring
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around with my family and looking at the Christmas lights. So much fun.
My favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm, picking out the best tree, cutting it down then decorating it with the family as we watch classic Holiday movies
I love my manger scene, I have added pieces over the years. My grandchildren love it too.
My favourite is the delicious holiday food, especially Christmas cookies!
A favorite tradition is that our family opens presents one at a time so everyone can share in the excitement.
My favorite holiday tradition is something my family started just 5 or 6 years ago. We all spend the night at one of my sister’s houses! The WHOLE family stays. We stay up late drinking egg nog and playing board games. Then on Christmas morning we get up and open presents and count our blessings! God bless and Happy Holidays to everyone!
My favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm and cutting down the our Christmas tree
I love visiting friends and family during the Christmas holidays.
My favorite thing about the holiday is getting the whole family together.
We open a “Family Box” that our Elf leaves us on Christmas Eve, filled with pjs, slippers, mugs, snacks, a movie, and sometimes a blanket. It is a nice way to unwind on Christmas Eve before our daughter has to get in bed, and Santa has to get busy.
We love opening gifts on Christmas Eve.
I love decorating the tree and getting the dinner ready for the family. We then spend the afternoon and evening opening presents and talking.
Our favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm with the family, picking out the best tree, cutting it down then decorating it while watching our favourite Holiday movies
My favorite thing about the holidays is going to church on Christmas Eve for candlelight service with my family, then going to our favorite Chinese restaurant for dinner.
I love making a new decoration and baking with my kiddos
One of my favorite holiday traditions is hiding the pickle in the tree. We don’t do it like normal people I hide it and the first person in finds it then picks from a grab bag of stuff, then they re-hide it for the next person who does the same and so on. The bag is usually stuff the “adult kids” can use like toothpaste, deodorant, etc. but we make sure there’s pretty hairbows for the little girls. Then when it’s all done my bachelor son takes the rest of everything in the bag and claims it as his.
My favorite thing about Christmas is all of my sons and their families come home and we are all together.
I love the big family dinners.
My favourite holiday tradition is going to get out tree at the tree farm, love going to pick it out, cutting it down then decorating it with the family..love it
It is wonderful to have everyone home. And family game time is the highlight of that return. Three live in new cities. One returns from college. Another will start college in the fall, he hopes in Washington, D.C. The last enters high school. This is the brief respite before spouses and grandchildren. Likewise, there’ve been no hard farewells. Our hearts are open for expansion, but it is nice, just for one last time, to be the “us” of so many years.
One of my favorite holiday traditions is to let the kids open their stockings first. They are allowed to go to the tree when they wake up and open everything in their stocking before waking us up. It works great sometimes they get to showing each other their stocking stuff and checking it out for a while before waking us up!
My favorite tradition my family has on the holidays is, after the main meal we all gather around the living room with our coffee and desserts, children running around & playing. My uncle pulls his guitar out of it’s case and he starts to sing our traditional Colombian songs from church & Christmas. Some sing along and others just mingle and catch up with relatives we haven’t seen all year.
My favorite thing about the holidays is spending time with my family!
Our favourite holiday tradition is getting our tree at the tree farm, cutting it down then decorating it
My favorite holiday tradition is to drive around at night and look at the decorated houses.
My favorite holiday tradition is a Filipino tradition called “simbang gabi.” “Simbang gabi” literally means “evening mass,” but the masses are actually held at dawn.
I love dinner with the family on Christmas day.
My favourite holiday tradition has to be decorating our Christmas tree after cutting it down at the tree farm
I love the holiday foods!
Our favourite holiday tradition is going to cut down our tree at the tree farm..the biggest tree (just like Christmas vacation 🙂 )
I love being close to family during the holidays the best!
I love making ornaments with the kids every year.
I like the yummy holiday foods.
My favourite holiday tradition is getting our tree, going to the tree farm, cutting down the biggest tree then decorating it with the family
I LOVE SNOW SHOEING WITH MY SWEETHEART DURING THE HOLIDAYS. IT IS SO PEACEFUL IN THE BUSH TRAILS
We have many holiday traditions but my favourite is going to the tree farm, cutting down the biggest tree and then decorating it
ANOTHER TRADITION IS TO HAVE ASUPPER ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
I love spending time with loved ones!
My favourite thing about the holidays is the music.
I love the delicious holiday baked treats.
Favourite holiday tradition is the Christmas tree
– going to the tree farm
– cutting it down
– decorating while watching Classic Christmas movies
I really love to give gifts. Love seeing the happiness in peoples faces.
One of the things that I look forward to during Christmas is attending the midnight mass on Christmas Eve and sharing a sumptuous dinner with the whole family.
My favorite part of Christmas is spending Christmas Eve with all of my 5 children at home.
I love decorating our Christmas tree…my #1 holiday tradition
My favorite part of the holidays is giving gifts.
Could use this to buy some nice gifts for my family this christmas!
My fav thing about the holidays is seeing all the lights on peoples houses
My favorite holiday tradition is making gingerbread houses with my grandkids.
My favorite thing about the holidays is getting together with my family.
My favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm and finding the perfect tree, cutting it down then decorating the tree while watching our favourite Christmas movies
What a great giveaway!
I like the Christmas lights on houses.
My favourite holiday tradition is our Christmas tree
going to the tree farm and cutting down the best tree
decorating it while watching our favourite Christmas movies
My favourite holiday tradition is decorating our Christmas tree
My favorite thing about the holidays is being with family!
I love getting our tree..it’s my favourite tradition..going today!!!
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My favorite thing about the holidays is playing board games with my family.
Fav holiday tradition is making a wreath and hanging it.
Decorating our tree after going to the tree farm and cutting it down
A favorite tradition is Cookie Baking Day with my 3rd daughter.
My favourite holiday tradition is cutting down our tree then decorating it while watching our favourite Christmas movies
making home made meat pies, the french canadian way, (wild game meat moose or deer, pork, veal ground up with cinnamon consume soup) a tradition from my grandmother and enjoying it with friends
Love the holidays for the quality time with the family. We travel to see each other. Take time to bake xmas goodies and make meatpies. I have many fond memories and more to come.
I love the yummy holiday desserts.
Our favourite family Christmas tradition is the getting our tree and decorating it
I love spending just time with family.
We all love the tradition of going to the tree farm and cutting down the tree then decorating it
My favorite is the big family dinner Christmas Day and all the kids running around playing with their presents
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My favorite holiday tradition is my family all meeting at my uncle’s all 40 of us for christmas Eve. Where we drink and drink and eat and enjoy each other’s company!
I love the family dinners.
Another favorite item is listening to all of the different Christmas music.
My favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm, cutting down our tree and decorating it with the family while watching our favourite Christmas movies
I love the delicious holiday foods.
My favourite holiday tradition (well one of my favourites) is going to the tree farm, cutting down our tree then decorating it
I love decorating our Christmas tree with my family
My favorite tradition is baking cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve with my granddaughter.
Decorating our Christmas tree is my favourite holiday tradition
Favorite thing about the holidays is just being with family that we don’t see very often – 5 chilidren, 11 grandchildren, brother, sister,extended family and friends.
One of my favourite holiday tradition is going to the tree farm and cutting down our tree then decorating it with the family
My favourite holiday tradition is watching the cheesy holiday movies that start playing on television on Nov 1 until Dec 31. It’s a great way to unwind!
My favourite tradition that we do as a family is going to the tree farm picking out the best tree, cutting it down then decorating it while watching our favourite Christmas movies
The absolute best thing about the holidays is having family together all in one room. W also have a tradition of finding someone in need of a good meal and bringing them to our place and having them join us for dinner, it is so rewarding to give back. happy holidays to you and your family
Most favourite Christmas tradition is going to the tree farm and cutting down our tree
My favorite holiday tradition is taking the kids on Christmas Eve to look at all the Christmas lights and than we come home to Hot Chocolate and a Christmas movie 🙂