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Does anybody have Christmas traditions?????
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 6:39 pm
by BUD
Since I have a wife and our daughter just turned seven last Thursday, On Christmas Eve the three of us go my Uncle and Aunts for a little party then to my Parents. Usually we go to my Mother In Law's on Christmas Day, but she is going to Georgia to my Brother In Laws we will go to my Parents. When she returns we will have Christmas with her. Both days we open presents.My wifes sister and kids are coming after Christmas.
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 8:04 pm
by Bobbie Lee
Traditions... yes.
My husband is worse than a little kid at Christmas time, ready to open everything NOW. Since his parents and sister live nearby, we've always gathered with them on the 25th, and Ken and I have our personal gift exchange on the 24th. One year we started at 4 in the afternoon!
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 9:25 pm
by Lindaloo
Every Christmas Eve my entire family gets together for a family party. All of us have to "fess up" to something we did in the past. They are still waiting to find out what happened to my parents car when I was 16. LOL!!
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2006 10:04 pm
by george_r_1961
Lindaloo wrote:Every Christmas Eve my entire family gets together for a family party. All of us have to "fess up" to something we did in the past. They are still waiting to find out what happened to my parents car when I was 16. LOL!!
Linda I thought u were an angel
When I was a kid we had a huge dinner xmas eve when we stayed home..or at my grandparents house when we went to PA. Presents were opened around 10 or so Xmas eve or whenever my parents got tired of me asking if Santa came yet lol. Xmas day was a quiet one..with me playing with my presents and my parents sleeping late.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:28 am
by AussieMark
Lindaloo wrote:Every Christmas Eve my entire family gets together for a family party. All of us have to "fess up" to something we did in the past. They are still waiting to find out what happened to my parents car when I was 16. LOL!!
so about that
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:59 am
by Brent
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 12:16 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Nothing now...how do you have "traditions" when the family isn't there? Used to have lots of cool stuff we did though.
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:28 pm
by Dee Bee
Ever since "Das Boot" ("The Boat") became available on DVD in the mid-1980s, my husband has always put it on while he struggled with the lights on the Christmas tree.
Of course, now that we have an artificial, pre-lit tree, he doesn't have to pump the volume as much as he used to (to drown out the cuss words!). We laugh that the soundtrack is one of our favorite Christmas songs.
No matter where we've lived, we've always driven around town after the Christmas Eve service at church to check out home light displays. And since we've been here in SoFla, we also stop at the beach to listen to Nature's "Carol of the Ocean" that night.
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:45 am
by angelwing
Used to, but since parents are dead hubby doesn't go for the traditional Christmas eve things that we did
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:51 am
by Lindaloo
GalvestonDuck wrote:Nothing now...how do you have "traditions" when the family isn't there? Used to have lots of cool stuff we did though.
((((HUGS))))
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 10:32 am
by NEWeatherguy
I go over to my dad's side of the family Christmas Eve, have a little "Christmas" Christmas morning at home, and then go over to my mom's side of the family in the afternoon.
The tradition I am glad has been broken is working at grocery store!
I quit that job in July and now work as a freelance writer for my college's newspaper.
