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 Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 8:17 am
Merry Christmas all!!
i was wondering what you guys do for Christmas/Christmas Eve traditions..
like for me we always open up one present on Christmas Eve just before going to bed. its always pajama's or a robe or slippers or something that.. but its cool!
and when im with my dad we always have a Christmas Eve picnic. we cook tons of fingr foods. and all sit around the tree and have a big picnic around the tree. and then we open our one present.
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:56 pm
im like 1/4 hawaiin so we do this thing called tutu (grandmother) christmas and we put on a play and exchange gifts and stuff
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 10:49 pm
CA and I are just developing our traditions out of what we have done in our seperate families as we grew up. We've thought of a couple others of our own, out of the blue, too.
Like - Every Christmas our family adds a link onto the Family Christmas Ribbon Chain. Right now, it will be really small, just two links. But in 25 years, it'll be large enough to drape around wherever we want it.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:06 pm
We get to open one gift on Christmas Eve... this year it was the ones my baby bro sent from Italy where he is serving. We all opened ours and read a letter he asked us to save for Christmas and BAWLED.
I also really like to play the Nativity video (used to be sold individually and we gave it out as missionaries. Now on the end of a DVD from Distribution Center called Stories of Christmas) but turn off the sound and instead turn on the song Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant. it Syncs PERFECTLY and is BEAUTIFUL.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:11 pm
We have the same dinner each year - it's the only time we have it and we always read Luke 2.
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 10:20 pm
Christmas Eve I always spend with my dad and his best friend's family. We go over to there house and have a steak and crab dinner (traditional, right? :p ). Then we hang out for awhile after everybody is finished eating, and then open presents.
Then for Christmas, we usually go to my mom and stepdad's house, and open presents, but this year theyr'e coming here. And then we go to my stepdad's mom's house and eat dinner with the whole family there (like 50+ people).
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:14 am
Our family reads polar express on christmas eve. We used to act out the nativity, but now we've gotten bored with it so we don't. (Dad was a stickler about how it had to be just so and we wanted to have fun with it. So to stop the clashings of heads, we stopped. It was for the little kids anyway.)
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:47 am
I'm half Itallian so me and my family have some interesting traditions.
We wake up both Christmas Eve Morning and Christmas Day to my uncles homemade hot coco, family reciepe thats teh best in teh world, buttered toast and linguini (itallian sausage), *drool*. Then we spend a few hours playing games, then all the women and some of teh older guys help in the kitchen, making homemade pizza from teh reciepe my great nani(grandmother) brought over from Italy. We also make raviollis, salad, lassagnia, and speengies (fried dough). When all the cookings done, we set up teh tables (Keneoko - i know exactly what your talking about when it comes to haveing a lot of people around th table). Then all teh people who helped make the food yell "Manjia(sp? - meaning come to the table) " to the others and we eat as a family then useually watch a christmas movie, and light a candle in memory of my nani and nano(grandfather) who have left this world. Christmas morning we wake up to more coco and toast and left overs and eat. When everyones done weall gather in teh family room around teh tree and hand out gifts and then play games like Crummy Rummy and Black jack. Then we have dinner, turkey included this time, and sit down and talk quite loudly until late. Its awesome!!
Loud but awesome. And my cousin ( and I this year) make traditional cookies to bring with us which we devour liek no tomarrow.
(Sorry guys, reciepes not included. They been kept in teh family for years and have never been given away to anyone, not ever. My family would kill me if i gave them away.)
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