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In the spirit of the holidays, tell me what is your most cherished holiday tradition?
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We make our Lefse as a family in advance of Christmas so we have some to eat at the meal, it’s a way for everyone to know how to make it and hand down the tradition.
My favourite Holiday tradition is when we drive around to see the Christmas lights and decorations as a family!
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My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve, we have a family relaxed get together with all kinds of food. The children get to open a present which is usually new pajamas. We stay up late and leave the cookies and milk for Santa, he always eats them up.
My favourite holiday tradition is going to my parents for a big holiday breakfast! My parents invite anyone and everyone and cook up all kinda of wonderfully delicious treats.
My favourite tradition has to be our annual friendly gingerbread house competition. Everyone gathers around, Christmas music is playing in the background and it just gets us in the festive mood.
I like to get a real tree to decorate as this was a dream when I was still in the Philippines. I once saw real trees in Singapore but, they were not cheap. They’re still not cheap in Asia as fir trees from North America are imported. Getting them here fresh is a real treat. Christmas is also the only time of the year that I get to take care of a real tree indoors. So, I ook forward to getting the tree and decorating it with LED lights and ornaments. At night when the lights are off or before going to bed, I like to sit and gaze at the tree with the changing LED lights. It fills me with wonder at being able to enjoy the beauty of the season and the atmosphere of having a living and aroma giving tree in my home. Gazing at the tree calms me down. I feel sad when the time comes to saw it in pieces for recycling.
My favorite tradition is all of us getting together for dinner!
I love holiday baking, and decorating the house as a family!
This would make it a very merry Christmas
My favorite tradition is having potluck dinner and trimming the Christmas Tree.
I love that I can start new traditions now that we have a child.
We have been having dinner on Christmas Eve and then enjoying left overs on Christmas Day, relaxing, playing and watching movies.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with my 2 kids while singing all the carols we know
Making a new holiday ornament with my children each year to put up on the tree.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating our Christmas tree with my kiddos!
Having our families over for the ukrainian 12 meatless dishes on christmas eve.
Decorating the tree has always been a fun tradition in our house.
My favorite holiday tradition is setting up the Christmas tree with our grand children. They all have special ornaments made or bought just for them.
on christmas eve we have a quiet dinner watch a few movies and open 1 present
My fave holiday tradition is our annual Christmas Eve get together and sing-a-long.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating my wheelchair with Christmas lights.
My favourite tradition is having the family (unfortunately we’re spread over 3 continents) around the dining table and the big turkey dinner that we eat on Christmas Day, lots and lots of trimmings and I always eat too much but I do love it.
One of our favourite family traditions is to cook dinners together and take turns playing card games.
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visiting with family and friends. thanks
We sing carols at a candlelight service every Christmas Eve, and then go home and open one present.
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Favorite holiday tradition is having christmas eve over my aunts house. We wait until midnight to open presents.
My fave is eating all the goodies
My favourite tradition is making donations in people’s name instead of buying gifts. It’s wonderful.
My family is quite small since my mom and dad passed. My three daughters and I drive the almost three hours to my sister’s house on Christmas and spend the day with her family.
Happy holidays!
My favourite holiday tradition is our family Christmas meal. As our family has grown we don’t all live in the same area anymore and we’ve changed our special day together to Boxing Day. it makes for a nice relaxed Christmas Day!
My tradition is baking Christmas cookies as gifts.
My favorite holiday tradition is dinner with the family on Christmas Eve.
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My favourite holiday tradition is going to my Mom Christmas Eve with all the family and having Moose pie and music
i like having dinner Christmas Eve then have the neighbors over on Christmas day for left overs
Singing Christmas carols on Christmas Eve and getting to open one present.
I love having Christmas cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating sugar cookies with my son.
We love to all decorate the tree together.
My favourite holiday tradition is our tree-decorating day where the family decorates the tree together with all our ornaments collected from our travels around the world and we reminisce about our adventures.
Baking cookies.
My favourite tradition is having the family (unfortunately we’re spread over 3 continents so it’s a rare occasion indeed) around the dining table, a big turkey dinner on Christmas Day, lots and lots of talking and chatting around the table, marvellous.
After we get our new christmas jammies, we all change into them and then have a dance party! It’s been so much fun starting new traditions with my little growing family.
The feast!
My favourite holiday tradition is taking my kids to the Bright Nights at Stanley Park Christmas Train!
My favorite holiday tradition is, even though the girls are adults they arrive Christmas morning in their pajamas!
for the adults we each add something to the stockings
I love making cut-out cookies every year!
Going to family get together’s at my brothers house.
eating turkey and singing
My favourite holiday tradition is going sledding and ski-dooing in the snow on Christmas Day (weather permit)!
I love the family getting together and then going to the beach after the meal
Another holiday tradition I absolutely love is the food, turkey and dressing , and maple pumpkin pie.
One of my favorite traditions is baking cookies for Santa
driving around to look at lights with hot chocolate in hand
I do love that crazy Elf on the shelf!
My favourite holiday tradition is going ski-dooing on Christmas Day with the whole family.
Decorating the tree.
My favourite holiday tradition growing up was playing Secret Santa but with silly gifts.
We always make cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning – great smells through the house! then we eat them while opening our stockings
I like decorating the tree and the house
Our favourite holiday tradition is Dec. 26 when the hustle and bustle has settled down and we all gather for “Turkey Soup Day” at my place. A huge pot of turkey soup, turkey sandwiches and holiday deserts! It’s a more relaxed day with lots of laughter throughout the house!
We love to all decorate the tree together and sing Christmas carols.
making newfie stuffing with my mom and playing board games with the family
Baking with my mom.
We play White Elephant on Christmas.
One of our favorite traditions is hot chocolate and singing carols on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is, even as adults the girls come over in their pajamas Christmas morning to start with opening the stockings.
Getting out an angel tree topper passed down to me from when I was a child…
We usually attend a midnight carol service on Christmas Eve. Then we go home and open one present.
Love baking cookies with family.
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together on Christmas eve for church
and then opening a gift after the service.
Singing in the Christmas concert (I sing in a choir) is one of my favorite Christmas traditions
Baking with my mom, grandmother , mother-in law, daughters and sister inlaws. So much fun
We watch christmas movies and eat appetizers for dinner on Christmas Eve
watching Christmas movies while we wrap presents is another one of my favourite traditions.
My favourite holiday tradition is our Christmas Eve pizza party.
favorite holiday tradition is going to my parents for a big holiday lunch
My favorite holiday tradition is to get together with family, kinsmen & friends on the eve of Christmas in our parental house. Cakes, cookies i just love to enjoy at the celebration.
Putting out our homemade wooden snow family!
Driving around to look at Christmas lights.
Our tradition is to open one present on christmas eve
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree and sipping eggnog!
I love making my great grandma’s rolls every year. No one else in my family can figure out how to make them.
Decorating the Christmas tree.
we love baking cookies as a family
Decorating the tree(s)
my favourite holiday tradition is going around looking at lights with the kids and tobogganing boxing day
Opening our stocking stuffers every year!
Favorite? I like everything! especially eating all the forbidden food.
Baking.
My favorite tradition is going to pick out new ornaments every year.
We love to decorate the tree together and sing Christmas carols.
We love to sing Christmas carols while we decorate the tree.
We always watch the holiday special, ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’ the same evening we decorate our Christmas tree. It’s our little tradition & it gets us into the holiday spirit each year.
I love our Christmas eve traditions..milk and cookies for santa, reindeer food, hanging of the special Santa Keys, reading of the T’was the night before christmas ect..
I maybe in the minority but I DO like fruitcake!
Our family get together.
Baking Christmas cookies.
Every year my Children’s school has a Christmas store, where the students can do their own Christmas shopping (everything is $1.00). All the items are donated, and students volunteer to do all the wrapping. It is always funny seeing what the kids picked out for everybody on Christmas day.
We enjoy watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on the evening we decorate our tree every year.
Family get togethers.
My favourite tradition is putting the tree up
My favorite is the BIG family gatherings!
What gets us in the spirit is watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the same night we decorate the tree, we do it every year!
opening gifts with my family
Looking at all the Christmas lights.
My favorite tradition is celebrating christmas with my famity opening gifts around the tree and watching the little ones open theirs. To be together on the holidays.
Ours is making a fun, and exciting Christmas Eve box for our toddler each year!
Watching the classic holiday special Rudolph gets us in a Christmas mood, we watch every year when we decorate the tree.
Living room campovers in front of the fireplace.
My favorite holiday tradition is that my sisters and I all exchange home made ornaments at Christmas time.
We started having Christmas dinner on Christ Eve when my kids were small.Was so tired of having to rush through Christmas morning to get the turkey in the oven.Bonus of all the lovely leftovers the next day!
I love eating fruitcake, plum pudding and gingerbread this time of year.
We always watch Rudolph every year we decorate the tree.
We have a holiday party every Christmas night.
My favourite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter (and now, also with my little granddaughter).
My favourite tradition is preparing a fresh turkey and desserts for my family and enjoying it all together.
My most cherished tradition would be decorating the tree together with the family!!
My favourite tradition is hand-painting tree ornaments with my family.
Watching that good old classic, Rudolph, the same night we hang the ornaments on the tree! It’s our tradition every year.
Checking out the Christmas light displays
Every year my son & I love going to Christmas Bazaars, he is lucky at winning raffles and I always love a good bake sale!
Every Christmas i get sloppy drunk and watch Christmas Horror movies. No better way to celebrate a made up day.
my favourite tradition is making the turkey and desserts.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to my relatives’ houses for family Christmas reunions.
I don’t really have traditions but my Christmas breakfast is always chocolate tea, homemade bread, and ham
We celebrate on Christmas Eve, just like we used to when I was a kid, in Switzerland. So opening presents after a beautiful dinner–my favourite tradition.
my favourite holiday tradition is making christmas dinner
My favorite tradition is letting the kids open one gift Christmas Eve.
My favourite tradition is having a big dinner with friends and extended family.
I love baking for christmas
I like that all my sisters and their families get together at our parents house on Christmas Eve for dinner and gift exchange every year.
Baking tons of cookies
My favourite holiday tradition is watching A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve with my mother.
getting together with family for a ‘baking bee’. thanks
We always get new pyjamas to wear on Christmas Eve so we look good for our Christmas morning pictures.
Baking cookies
Driving around town looking at all the Christmas lighss
Decorating the tree and baking
Baking cookies.
My favourite holiday tradition is making one unique Christmas ornament together. One year jt was mini penguins, this year it will be hippos!
Decorating the tree <3
Decorating the tree.
One tradition is having our holiday dinner early so we can relax in the late afternoon and evening
my favourite holiday tradition is cooking the meal for my family
My favourite holiday tradition is getting together with extended family.
My favourite holiday tradition is singing carols.
we get together for a baking ‘bee’ using family traditional recipes. at the end, we all take a portion of each home to share with our families. thanks
speaking to ghosts on an ouija board and have them celebrate xmas with me
I love making ornaments for gifts, and for our tree. One of my favourite traditions.
my favourite holiday tradition is making the christmas meal for my family and seeing them enjoy it.
My favorite is called our Light Drive. We drive around on Christmas Eve to look at all the beautiful christmas light displays.
I love Christmas time I get to see family and friends that I don’t get a chance to see very often.
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas eve we have hot chocolate and open 1 present.
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree!
my favourite tradition is making dinner for everyone
My favourite tradition is having a family get together with extended family on boxing day. We do it pot luck style and even exchange small gifts some years.
I enjoy giving gifts.
Baking cookies with my kids
My favorite holiday tradition is when my sister comes home to visit and spend Christmas with the family.
Planning on what to buy for the family
I really enjoy caroling when we get the opportunity.