Christmas Traditions!

[rocklobster]

What are your Christmas Traditions? Here is mine: Every year, we go to my Momma's house and have Christmas Dinner. Then we go home and open our own presents and sing carols.

[Atria35]

Well, up until my aunt and uncle became snowbirds last year our traditions were to go to a movie on Xmas eve, go out for dinner (usually pizza, but as we grew older we preferred to just head home, put a frozen pizza in the oven, heat up hot chocolate and open presents), and then on Xmas pack up for the 2-hour drive to my aunt and uncle's house and have Xmas dinner there.

We're still in the process of making new traditions since we can't go to my aunt and uncle's on Xmas now. Which feels really wierd since we did it for the first 20 years of my life.

[FllMtl Novelist]

Well we used to have an Advent wreath when I was younger, with the three purple (plus one pink) candles. The task of lighting the candle before dinner every night was typically given to one of the kids. Naturally, because my siblings and I were kids, we fought over who'd get to light the match. Some years, Mom would just give each of the [then] four of us one whole week to light the candles. (And of course, there was haggling over who got to light on the weeks where there would be the most lighting to be done.) Some years, the wreath got thrown out. It's completely gone now, and I'm sure the lack of having a church to go to didn't help, but I hope we manage to return to it sometime.

Christmas Eve, Mom makes a mushroom soup and perogis. It's a Slovak tradition from Mom's side. We also have these thin colored wafers with honey. I forget what they're called, and if it's a Slovak thing. XD

Christmas day, people tend to get up early enough so they don't sleep away too much of the morning but late enough that they don't get in trouble. And basically everyone kills the day. In years past we'd go to a Christmas service, but not this year.

Also, being homeschooled, we tend to get a week off from schoolwork. That tradition is also awesome. :3

[Htom Sirveaux]

At some point during the week or so before Christmas day, my family goes for an after-dark drive around town to see the lights and decorations on houses.

My personal traditions include watching MST3K's Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

[ShiroiHikari]

At some point during the week or so before Christmas day, my family goes for an after-dark drive around town to see the lights and decorations on houses.

My husband and I do this every year. It's one of the only traditions we have.

[Furen]

We also have these thin colored wafers with honey.

Like baklava? They aren't usually with wafers, but it could seem like it is, maybe

For my family, we change it up usually, but my sisters always try to con my family to letting them get something from their stockings early. I end up going to lots of Christmases, one on each side of the family, and one for us, our really good family friends and then a Christmas party from my dad's work. This year I have to go to two Christmases on the 25 (not that two of them are a problem XD)

[ShiroiHikari]

I'm supposed to go to three different houses tomorrow, but I may just end up skipping out on one of them. Three houses in one day is just too stressful for me.

[Furen]

For Christmas gatherings with family?

[FllMtl Novelist]

Like baklava? They aren't usually with wafers, but it could seem like it is, maybe

It isn't. I finally asked what on earth it was, and what the point was. Mom told me what they're called (which I promptly forgot) but wasn't entirely sure of the significance. Luckily, we have Wikipedia!

And now shall enter 2011 a wiser person...