Tell us about your Holiday traditions!

[kyorae]

Since moving out of my parents' house, my traditions included waiting too long to put up decorations, making way too many cookies, swearing I'll give most of the cookies away, eating all of the cookies, forgetting to wrap the presents, and exchanging the presents which were never wrapped while eating junk food all day.

This year, though, is our second Christmas with our son (first Christmas with our son where I feel like a functioning human), so we're trying out a bunch of new things that will hopefully become traditions that he will love for years to come. This year we're doing a Christmas Eve exchange of pajamas (my family used to do this when I was little), a breakfast casserole that I'm going to prepare the night before, a crock pot roast, and sledding after we open presents. My son's Nana and Papa (my in-laws) did a 12 days of Christmas thing for all the grandkids this year and I hope they're going to keep doing it every year, but they tend to be a bit flaky so I won't be surprised if they never do it again. We also let my son pick out his own ornament, he picked out a blue plastic balloon which he LOVES. Last year, I picked out his ornament. By the time he's grown and moves out, he'll have a nice collection or ornaments and memories to go along with them. Oh, and we're keeping the "make too many cookies" tradition!!

Next year, we're going to do an advent calendar with treats and things for every day of December. It should be fun!

I wish our Christmas involved visiting relatives, but we live in a different state from ALL of our family. We talk to them on the phone on Christmas, but it's just not the same. I miss big family gatherings and hanging out with my cousins. Both of my son's cousins live in different states so they don't get to see each other at all. They're only 1-2 years old so they don't really care right now, but it would still be nice for them to get to know each other. Someday, hopefully, we can afford to travel more and get the cousins together as often as possible. So, to anyone who's dreading their "boring" family get together, just remember that spending the holidays with your family is much better than spending it without them.

[linnbergg]

On Christmas we always get up early.and open the.pressents then we.eat coffee cake and do nothing.for.most.of the day, but on Christmas eve we have a bunch of.people.over and.open one present.then we.go to bed.
So basically we.don't.do too much XD

[walter white]

On Christmas eve, I'm always at my mom's house. I usually stay up till 2 in the morning, thinking how spoiled i am and that tomorrow is christmas. I wake up at 5 or 6 in the morning (only 4 hours of sleep XD) and go on instagram and chicken smoothie to wish people a merry christmas. When my mom wakes up, she makes herself breakfast because i'm usually never hungry in the morning. after she is done eating, I open all of my christmas presents. Then either my mom drives me to my dads, or my dad picks me up from my moms to go to his house! It takes about 45 minutes of driving, and we finally arrive there. I open up my presents there, then we wait till about 4-5 pm and then go to my aunts and uncles. We have a big family dinner, although there are only 5 of us there. My Aunt usually makes a turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, casseroles, basically the same as an american thanksgiving dinner. After that, we open up our presents there! Its fun because we all put on christmas hats and sit around the christmas tree. I take presents from under the tree and deliver them to each one of my family members. Then we all rip into our presents! Usually after that, I immediately fall asleep at about 8 pm

Happy Holidays everyone!

[*LunaPuppy*]

Well we wait until everyone is awake then we open presents.

[aurora_smith]

I visit my very extended family

[fgd21]

mom and dad would bundle us up in the car and we drive around looking at christmas lights till we pass out but not before visiting this place http://www.lightsofthevalley.com/Proper ... l.asp?i=96

[namie]

In my country, we are opening the presents on evening 24th, after eating big family dinner. It is also tradition not to eat much that day, the best is to eat nothing, because the dinner is really big. The dinner is kind of wafer with honey(... google translate... if you wanna see what it really is, search term "oblátky s medom" ), then we eat "soup" made of sour cabbage with sausages in it (i know it sounds kinda disgusting, but it is delicious), then fried carp with potatoes (or kinda potato mixture) .. and cakes of course and these things...
Then we open our presents and soo... ^^
Sometimes we go to our grandparents' house to give them their presents and you know XD

(Hope you understand my english XDD)

[allu]

I wake up like 2 hours early so I try to avoid looking at the stocking and then when my parents wake up we open presents and then we eat breakfast at 11:00 and go to my grandparents for the rest of the day and have Christmas dinner there, but I moved so we are going to have are first Christmas away from the grandparents

[ela123]

I hangout with family! and eat food lots of food

[Delta Dawn]

My sister between 1:30-4:30 then we go to our little Christmas tree (I'm taller then it and I'm pretty short) and figure out what gift is for who and then we tear of the wrapping paper. We then grab our stockings from off the wall and loot those. Then we unbox everything and if something needs to be set up (like a console) we move all our stuff into my sisters room and eat candy while trying to read a set up manual and get everything where its meant to be. While this all happens me and my sister discus what we will do with any money we receive either later that day when we have a family gathering or that we already received. Once we have completed the set up we often will play on what we just set up or we play with something else. When its 6-8am our dad will wake up and we will have breakfast with what little appetite we have left from eating so much candy. My dad then opens his gift and we all get changed and brush our teeth and hair and go over to my aunt's around 11am to meet the rest of the family and we have a Christmas lunch and dinner and go back home around 7pm. When we get back home me and my sister watch a movie then go to bed around 11pm.