What are your Christmas Traditions?

Little_Otter

Ahh, its lovely reading all your traditions.
I havent left home yet so still involved in all of Mums traditions, but me and my boyfriend like to take the day off together on Christmas eve and go to Castleton (in the High Peak) they decorate the entire village with lights and Christmas trees and beautiful, we go for lunch in the Castle pub which is so nice.... all traditional fires and wooden beamed ceiling.
On xmas day, we wake up, open presents, our family friends come round and my g'ma, we head off down to the local pub for a couple of hours, come home for about 3, have dinner (always prawn cocktail starter and roast Turkey main) then slob out infront on TV. I LOVE xmas!!! x x

Shevs

It's mine and BF's first christmas in our flat together so have no traditions as such but we are both bringing ones from our families.

The tree will go up on the 14th Dec, weekend before the last week of school (when I was in school)
I will still go to the garden centres with my mum and look at there decorations and pick a few up.
Me & BF have always had a weekend in December where we went to the Europian market in manchester, went out for a meal, picked up a few pressies and watched xmas films together we will still be doing that this year.
Me and bf always spent xmas eve together but this year he is working till 8 :-(, I finish work on the 19th and dont go back till the 5th of Jan so I am going to make him some lovely tea's to come home to the three days he is in

roosterbean

I have quite a few traditions already but my friend has just told me of one that I want to do this year too. She cuts out a template of her husbands shoe and dusts around it a few times with icing sugar to make Santa's snowprints from the tree to the chimney.

She has assured me that it hoovers up well!!!

JoolzS

One tradition from my childhood that I would definitely have continued if I'd had children was a lollipop tree. Every year on xmas eve my mum would get me to plant a small twig in a pot. Overnight this would grow into a beautiful silver lollipop tree. It was basically just a very large twig with lots of branches that she covered in silver foil and then hung lots of lollipops from the branches.

Julie

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ben500

roosterbean wrote: »

I have quite a few traditions already but my friend has just told me of one that I want to do this year too. She cuts out a template of her husbands shoe and dusts around it a few times with icing sugar to make Santa's snowprints from the tree to the chimney.

She has assured me that it hoovers up well!!!

I'd use flower if I were you it's not as sticky if there is any moisture in the air.

Little_Otter

roosterbean wrote: »

I have quite a few traditions already but my friend has just told me of one that I want to do this year too. She cuts out a template of her husbands shoe and dusts around it a few times with icing sugar to make Santa's snowprints from the tree to the chimney.

She has assured me that it hoovers up well!!!

That is such a lovely thing to do!!!!!
I get so excited for xmas!!!! I get my 2 christmas albumns out on 1st Dec and play them in the car all dec, everyone gets sick of them.
My mum decorates our tree, and there is all handmade decorations from me my sister and brother from over the years..... we decorate the hall stairs and landing so its christmassy when we walk in the door x x

jamtart6

ahh all your traditions are great!! I've just thought of another one - I have to wear red on Xmas day - its very strange (and frustrating when red isn't in fashion as the shops don't stock anything red!) but it makes me feel all festive!!

Another tradition I hope to start when I have kids is having an xmas sleepover in the living room watching dvds and sleeping downstairs in sleeping bags -like camping but warmer! I just think that would be so cosy!!!

DaisyFlower

* Takeout xmas eve so no cooking or washing up :rotfl:
* New Pj's for our little one
* Cookie for santa and a bottle of coke and a carrot for Rudolph (santa doesnt like sherry or mince pies here lol)
* Lots of xmas dvds in the run up to xmas day
* Huge lunch and plenty of chocolate

... and the best one of all, shopping. Love xmas shopping although do most of it on the net. Spend a couple of nice evenings wrapping everything whilst watching some funny tv/dvd.

Shevs

Jamtart6 your christmas sleepover idea is really good. I can just imangine it, big stack of christmassy dvd's, pop corn, hot chocolate and christmassy treats all nice and cosy in your sleeping bags. I might try to persuade BF to do that. If think he will agree to it apart from the sleeping bags, he'll prob want his bed.

Daisy flower I love christmas shopping too. I love wrapping the presents with some christmas songs on or a christmas film in the back ground