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QOTW - Christmas Edition!

post #1 of 17
12/22/08 at 11:12am
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Ok, we haven't had a QOTW lately, but I thought a Christmas question would be nice!

What traditions will you be observing this Holiday season? Is there anything that's a family thing that you will be doing? It can be anything holiday tradition related.

Can't wait to hear!!
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post #2 of 17
12/22/08 at 11:31am
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I will be working Christmas Eve.... bah humbug.

We will be doing the usual Christmas day stuff.... except the huge dinner. DH & I are doing filet mignon's & trimmings. MIL will be doing a dinner Saturday for all back in Michigan.... looking "forward" to that trip....
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post #3 of 17
12/22/08 at 11:50am

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I have to work Christmas eve too. Then we will go to church and the girls will come home and pig out on their christmas goodie bags. Then off to bed. Christmas morning they can open thier gifts then around noon its off to the ILS for the day.
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post #4 of 17
12/22/08 at 12:09pm

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Christmas Eve we go to church for 5 then have Christmas Eve at our house with appetizers, hot and cold, friends and family. Not a lot of people. The kids play and we sit around and talk. Christmas day we open presents in the morning and then I make prime rib in the rotisserre (sp???). We eat early around 11 am b/c I leave for the airport around 1:30 for Florida. Christmas day I have my aunt, uncle, grown cousin, other aunt, mil and fil over. Sometimes my sil, bil niece, nephew other nephew his wife and their two kids--that family is kind of unpredictable.
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post #5 of 17
12/22/08 at 12:22pm

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This year my mom had her family Christmas party a bit early. It was Saturday. Tuesday night we open presents at my inlaws. Christmas Eve is church and family dinner at Den's grandma's house.
Christmas Day we open presents in the morning. Then go to my mom's around 12 for presents and lunch. Then we go to to Den's other grandma's when we leave my parents.
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post #6 of 17
12/22/08 at 1:08pm

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We're starting a new tradition this year and I hope it isn't awful. MIL wants to video chat while we open presents. My kids have been such a handful and dh has been in a bad mood. I'll just be glad when it's over.
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post #7 of 17
12/22/08 at 1:14pm

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^ that actually sounds like a cute idea!
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post #8 of 17
12/22/08 at 1:25pm

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Hopefully my mil can learn how to turn the volume on her speakers down this time.
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post #9 of 17
12/23/08 at 6:44am

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We have lots of little traditions around here (Jim and I are big on the whole spirit of Christmas etc...)
We will be baking cookies today or tomorrow...
Tomorrow evening we will go to the CHristmas Eve service at church, and then drive around and look at Christmas lights. We do this every Christmas Eve... While we are gone Mrs. Claus will sneak in and leave new Christmas Jammies for everyone as thanks for all the toys the girls donate to the needy.
Then after they get on their Jammies, they will open one present... We will read the Nativity Story and light the advent wreath. Talk again about why we celebrate Christmas...
They leave out milk and cookies, and carrots for the Reindeer.
Then they crawl into bed and we read them the Night Before Christmas...
Christmas morning they are allowed to open stockings only before we get up.
Then it's Orange Sweet Rolls for breakfast, Christmas Carols on the Walkman and present time.
I'm going to teach Tessa how to make a ham for Christmas and she is gonna help make dinner. That's pretty much it.
Oh and we sleep under the Christmas tree one night each year (Jim and I already did our grown up night) and the girls will get to sleep there tonight (if they are good).
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post #10 of 17
12/23/08 at 9:53am

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Wow, Heather! I want to come to your house for Christmas! You have got it going on!

Tomorrow morning or afternoon, I will prepare the breakfast casserole that we eat every Christmas morning. It will go in the fridge until Christmas morning.
Tomorrow night we will go to Kyle's aunt and uncle's house and have Christmas with his family. We usually have a light dinner (not a big holiday dinner) there. This year we will have appetizers like chips and homemade dips and then beef stew and cornbread. Only the kids will get presents. The adults to a $10 generic gift exchange thing.
Christmas morning, the kids will get up, see what all Santa brought them, I'll put the breakfast casserole and my stuffed french toast in the oven to cook. Then we will open the presents we all bought for each other. Around 4:00, we'll go back over to Kyle's aunt and uncle's house for dinner. We'll have ham and turkey and a few casseroles.
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post #11 of 17
12/23/08 at 10:27am

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No big traditions here...everything kind of went to you know where since my parents passed away. My siblings and I already did our cookie exchange. Steve and I will exchange presents Christmas morning. Steve and I spend Christmas afternoon with Steve's side of the family. Christmas has been bittersweet for me since 2006. I still get into the holiday spirit though (put up the tree, decorate my desk at work, etc). It's just that I don't get as excited about Christmas anymore. I do look forward to giving my nieces and nephews their gifts though. They are the only kids in my life so they are very important to me.
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post #12 of 17
12/23/08 at 12:11pm

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I have lots of little traditions as well, like allowing the kids to sleep in my bed that night. One I'm starting this year. The last gift they open on Christmas morning will be a gift for the whole family and we will discuss our love, appreciation and sharing with one another
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post #13 of 17
12/23/08 at 2:48pm

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Logan and i are going to bake cookies for santa tomorrow
going to church with my brothers family (this is new)
take a drive to look at all of the lights
open one present before bed, usually christmas pj's
open presents in the morning, have a nice big breakfast
watch some movies then have a nice dinner

this is the year my parents are away, so it is very simple. when they are here we usually go to their house for dinner and they come over for breakfast
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post #14 of 17
12/23/08 at 5:14pm

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Tammy... Since we are never around family for the holidays (the whole military thing) we try hard to make them special. All of our rituals are things Jim and I just decided to do (minus the sweet rolls, that one is from my family) when we had Tessa. We have a huge extended family, but never get to be with them... and I want the holidays to be good memories (there really aren't that many for me from my childhood) so we go a little overboard (compared to most people we know). But baking goodies, looking at Christmas lights etc... these are the things that I hope the girls will always remember and treasure when they are grown. The one thing I can remember with some fondness from my childhood was baking and decorating Christmas Cookies for Santa...
The Christmas Jammies from Mrs. Claus started when Tessa was about 4... We went through all of her toys right after Thanksgiving and she donated a bunch of them to charity (A couple of trash bags full). She did it with a happy heart for the kids who would have toys now, so we wanted to reward her. It stuck.
But... as for the coming to my house, hop a plane... You are welcome
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post #15 of 17
12/23/08 at 7:00pm

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Heather, I think everything you do is great, and I am sure your girls will remember it all and know that they have great parents. I am going to borrow some of your ideas for next year. I wish I could hop a plane! I would--but I don't have a passport!
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post #16 of 17
12/23/08 at 9:40pm

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We are going to be soooo rushed. Christmas eve day we both have to work. Then I have to come home, make a lemon meringue pie and rush off to our friends house for dinner at 6pm....then we have to leave at 8:30 for mass.....and then come home and get the kids off to bed, finish wrapping any presents and then off to bed. Christmas day we are doing a dinner here with some other friends of ours so it won't be as rushed (ok not as rushed in a different way)
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post #17 of 17
12/30/08 at 12:04am

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We make lasagna Xmas eve and invite family and friends. they are welcome to bring anyone who doesn't have family or other plans. We go to look at lights. We make cookies the week before to give to neighbors and friends (not much this year tho).
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