Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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With just 20 days left before Christmas, what are some of your holiday traditions? Mine start with Black Friday shopping. Then I just HAVE to watch Rudolph (or it just isn't Christmas). Of course, there's all the baking and our neighborhood Christmas party. What are some of your holiday traditions/preparations leading up to Christmas?
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My family never really gets into the shopping. But it's not christmas until we get the tree. Since jordan is home, we're getting our tree on Saturday. Our biggest tradition is baking. We spend every weekend until christmas day baking cookies,caramels,hard candies,and truffles. :)
ReplyDeleteElf and The Grinch must be watched. My brother and I put up our Christmas decorations after we get the tree on Thanksgiving weekend. Then everything else consists of ice fishing up until the moment we have to leave for Christmas with my family. At my Christmas we have Haluski every year and it is the greatest food on planet earth.
ReplyDeleteI personally think watching The Grinch and Elf everyday for two weeks before Christmas is obviously pretty necessary. If someone is going to celebrate the Holiday season the right way, though, you just HAVE to go to Irvine park and see the Christmas lights in Chippewa while listening to some nice Christmas music and drinking a coffee. That is having very nice Christmas spirit. :)
ReplyDeleteEach year a group of the family gets together and bakes all day. We have enough cookies and candies to last us through New Years. This year to accomidate to some family members we are having two baking days. Also with having little children in the family agian we watch different christmas cartoons. I really like the Christmas shopping, its not Christmas if I do not get a day to shop by myself for family and friends.
ReplyDeleteWell, I live with my dad and we are honestly probably the most anti-Christmas people on earth. We don't put up any Christmas decorations at all. No tree, no lights, nothing. We try to avoid it as much as possible. Some years I might help my mom decorate the tree, but it doesn't happen often. Christmas is gross.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest we do not have Christmas, but we have a New Year Eve which is exactly the same as Christmas. The main difference is that New Year Eve is usually Dec,31.
ReplyDeleteWe spend much enough time to prepare for this holiday. Firstly we have to decorate New year tree. Secondly we cook scores of Delicious food, probably as much as you cook for Thanksgiving. As well as this we start packing presents for each member of family.
When Dec 31 come, we usually sit around the table, every member of family should present, when it is 11;59 p.m we turn on the Tv and watch our president perfomance and how he tells about the main achievement of our country. At 00;00 we make a wish and start celebrating the New Year!
After half an hour me and my brother usually go outside to the main square of our city and meet our friends, we give them some presents and wish all the best wishes. But the main tradition of this holiday is that everyone should make a phone call to a random number( it has to be a person whom you do not know and probably will never know) and say" Hello, you do not know me, i do not know you, but i just wanna say Happy New Year". The main reason why we do it is that we might get at a person who is upset or have no one to celebrate with New year, so we might make some people happy. ( there are also some people who yell at us, but majority of people are friendly enough). I am really sorry that i will not be able to be with my family in this year, but at the same time i'm very excited to see that Christmas is!
I don't really know what I do for traditions. We get our tree and then me and my sister decorate it, but I don't even like it. We also decorate the house, and I still don't like it. On Christmas eve, my family either hosts the family christmas or it is at my grandmas house. I don't like that either. I don't like being around people. When I was little me and my sister always were the first people up and we would go down stairs and look at the presents, but now I like to sleep in.
ReplyDeleteEvery year, when my family decorates the Christmas tree, we have to watch the cartoon Grinch! My mom is a snowman lover, she collects them and always puts their snowmen all around the house. On my moms side of the family, it is always necessary to have one or two pans of cheesy potatoes. All of you people out there who think there grandma's cheesy potatoes are the best, well hunny, MY grandma's are the best, so you better watch your mouth!
ReplyDeleteI dont really know what my family does as a tradition. We decorate our tree and that usually makes it feel like it is a lot more like christmas, but for the most part we don't have too many traditions. My mom makes carmel pop corn and chexs mix and that is the thing I love most about this time of year.
ReplyDeleteWell for the past 4 years, my famiy has tried to live up to the Griswold family Christmas tree tradition. The first time my mom didn't go with to get the tree was a big mistake on her part, because my sister and brother came back with one of the biggest trees I have ever seen. From then on, us kids keep saying a little bigger each year! My dad gets mad at this because we literally spend an hour just trying to get it though the door. (I'm not exaggerating when I say this.) Then we have to take about another hour tying strings everywhere to make sure the tree doesn't fall over and kill someone. It's always a pretty comical thing to be apart of.
ReplyDeleteI do a lot of things for Christmas! We always decorate our tree and the house together to make it in the holiday spirit! We always have so many different parties that we have to go to! it first starts off at my aunt Mary's house where we go on sleigh rides and santa comes to visit! We always have lots of food there. And we also have potatoe dumplings with my grandpa Dick a few days before Christmas, and Christmas Eve we go to my grandma Diane's and eat, and Christmas day we go to my grandma Julie's and have breakfast food for breakfast, and then meatballs and potatoes for lunch, and beef and dumpling soup for supper! I am starting to get really excited for Christmas! I love food, family and presents!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all our family goes out to find a tree in our backyard and cut it down. It takes awhile for us to actually get the tree because we mess around so much, as in throwing my mom in to the snowbank with my brother and the obvious snowball fight. We have our family christmas on christmas morning. Later that day we go to the chistmas with the whole Secraw family. We usually watch some sort of christmas movie leading up to christmas day as well.
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas traditions are: Black friday shopping, making lefse, working as much as I can to get lots of money and using my pto, shopping, wrapping and being an elf, maybe wrapping for other people, so let me know if you would like me to be your elf and wrap for you. Unlike an elf I am not free of charge. Then when Christmas comes I have a lot of Christmas'. Last year was my record high with five. Hopefully this year is less!
ReplyDeleteI dont have much for tradition. I thought of one. I think it is a tradition to go to my grandparents house every Christmas day. The day before christmas we will normally go to my other grandmas.We always get a real Chrismas tree the last sunday of deer season and then decorate it. My mom and sister decorate the rest of the house and make cookies for us.But I dont like to help much so I just eat the cookies so that they have to make more. Christmas is always a good time.
ReplyDeleteSome traditions my family has is setting our tree up together a few days after Thanksgiving. My mom and sister bake cookies while my dad, brother, and I set up the Christmas light. I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!
ReplyDeleteWell we decorate the house with hundreds of i don't even whats but we have boxes full of them. Then we put up our little FAKE tree, i like the real ones but whatever. Then we cover it in some crappy ordainments that my sister and made in second grade. Finally we bake cookies for christmas and by that i mean eating (taste testing) them and that about it.
ReplyDeleteWe need to decorate the house and go christmas shopping. We always go sledding and ice skating if there's enough snow and ice. I love ice skating. The funnest part is when we go to my great grandma's house and spend an entire day baking cookies and making krumkake, lefse, and rosettes. We just started this tradition a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteMy family isbig on the traditions. It starts as soon as we see santa in the Macy's Day Parade. After that we play Christmas music for the first time as we finish our cooking and prepare for Black Friday shopping.A full day of shopping, and then come home and decorate the house. Every year we have a different themed Christmas that decides what we wear, decorations, wrapping pper, and how we decorate the tree, this year is goody goody gum drop. On Christmas Eve we go to church service and around to see the lights and head home. we all sleep up in my room, the eldest reads the Night Before Christmas and we watch the Polar Express.
ReplyDeleteWe always go and pick out a Christmas tree. We put up lights and decorate it with a bunch of ornaments either given to us by friends, or that we made our self. We also make cookies with this cookie press contraption that used to belong to my grandma.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas my family has a bake off. Everyone that would like to participate must make some sort of dessert and when the whole family is together we have our judges (whoever didn't make something for the bake off) taste test everything and score them accordingly. Brett, my youngest brother has one for the past two years by entering the same thing over and over again. This year we have a new rule to prevent this though. You can't renter a dessert and you can't make something that someone else had already done. However, bribery is allowed.
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas traditions begin when the christmas music begins to play on the radio, which is usually in the middle of november. Then, during deer hunting weekend my mom and I go to the cities and have a christmasy weekend while the guys hunt. When we get back and the hunters are gone, we plan out our decorations for the year and start putting some things around the house. Next, after Thanksgiving we go black friday shopping and get a tree that weekend. I usually decorate it the most. We set the table with fancy centerpieces and dishes, and then we watch christmas movies on every weekend until it is actually christmas. On christmas eve we go to church and then come home and have oyster soup and set out cookies and milk for santa. Finally, on christmas morning, we wake up and exchange gifts and then go to my grandparents for lunch and supper and have a good time.
ReplyDeleteWe don't really have a lot of leading up to Christmas traditions. If anything, I overlisten to christmas songs (not the usual, but hair metal christmas stuff primarily) and then Heading to New Lisbon on Christmas. Afterwards, I have been making a tradition out of seeing lots of friends from around the state at a 3-day reunion every year from December 27-29. THis year it's in Green Bay which I'm excited fro because I've never been to GB!
ReplyDeleteChristmas? Havent celebrated since my grandpa died. I think last year i spent christmas with my "second family". But i dont hear from them much anymore. So I will be spending christmas at work. Like usual. I wish I had the holiday spirit, but i dont. When i think of christmas i think about making paper chains with my grandpa. Made a mess and grandma didnt like it, so that made us want to make them even more. We put them ALL over the house. But i havent has christmas or a tree in a very long time. Get presents and money, but i usually end up wrapping my own presents and my brothers, pretending to be suprised.
ReplyDeleteI miss my grandpa so much. Holidays are not holidays anymore.