Christmas Traditions

DitaBombita

We randomly have home made sausagerolls and coffee for breakfast. Was something my Gran did and my Mam still does, and I carry it on.

Got us a fiver Lidl Lobster this year and think I may incorporate this into a Xmas Eve tradition and have it for tea.

Beki

bigsmoke wrote: »

but when she puts the mix together we all take a go with wooden spoon and make a wish for the coming year while we stir the ingredients

us kids have lived away from home for years now, but she always rings us up and stirs-by-proxy for us so that we can make a wish over the phone!

i think that's probably the loveliest thing i've read for a long time :grinheart

Beki

since i was a child we've always -

* open a pressie of new pj's, socks and slippers on xmas eve
* opened a distant relative's pressie on xmas eve
* opened stockings in bed on xmas morning
* had a cooked breakfast, got dressed and washed etc
* open 'main' pressies (and a couple of small ones) after the above
* have dinner about 3pm
* take the dogs for a walk on the beach for half an hour (last year it snowed!)
* watch tv/fall asleep/let the kids run havoc til about 6/7pm
* open the 'tree' presents (usually 2 or 3 each) after the above
* save at least one present for the kids to open on boxing day

And will be starting a few little new traditions myself this year, like reindeer food, xmas eve hampers etc :beer:

jembie

I used to love Christmas eve with the kids when they were little. Now it is not so easy so a couple of years ago I started a Christmas eve tradition of going to the cinema to see a Christmas film then on to KFC or Maccy Dees for supper. Then home for Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows while the kids are allowed to open 1 present each (Usually from their school friends)

Like sammy_kaye I leave wrapping the kids pressies until Christmas eve when they are in bed. Now they are teens this could mean 1am LOL.
I like to put on The nightmare before Christmas (Because I am weird like that) and have a nice big glass of Baileys while I wrap the presents and fill the stockings.

I always put an Apple and Orange in the bottom of the stockings followed by some chocolate coins and little gifts wrapped up and labelled from Santa.

On Christmas morning we get up and take it in turns to open presents. Then I cook a big breakfast and the children go through their stockings.

We usually don't have Christmas dinner until about 4pm. Most of the afternoon is taken up by us playing on games and working out how to make stuff work or chasing round the local shops trying to get batteries LOL!

Beki

Ooooh yes, we always take it in turns to open pressies! There's going to be 6 adults and two children this year so it could take some time!!! LOL

fletty

I loooooooove xmas!
My husband always takes our kids to pick the tree about the 8th Dec and then I complain its far to big (which it always is and needs a foot cutting off the bottom) the kids then get to open a special gift - this years bauble which they then hang on the tree to the sounds of our favourite xmas cd which then gets transfered to the car and thats all we listen to till the festive season has finished!!!
on the weekend before xmas we go on the santa special at tynedale railway which is fantastic - we've done this since our oldest was 6 months and it's soooo xmassy.
On xmas eve whille kids are being bathed my husband makes lots of noise in the loft and I tell them to go down stairs and see what the noise was and low and behold Santa has dropped a pressie down the chimmney (we only have a gap where the fire was) all wrapped up of pj's and a special xmas story.
When the kids are ready to go to bed they write there thankyou letters (all saved for future blackmail) go outside and sprinkle reindeer food and leave sherry and a mince pie for Santa and carrots and a parsnip (comet dosen't like carrots) for the reindeer.
Then me and hubby cuddle up on the sofa with a baileys and watch A wonderfull Life.

I can't wait but I'm dreading when they'll be too old for these traditions to be so uncool
x

Beki

Any more? I'm loving reading these

piratess

Im reading these and thinking how lovely they are but dont really have many of our own
* Our tree goes up on the 1st of Dec or as near as possible
*We always go out to a local cafe for hot choccy watch the world go by
* The kids get a new bauble each yr for the tree (this gets added to their stockings)
* Christmas Eve they all have their new jammies slippers.
* We have a buffet tea on Christmas eve lots of lovely picky bits, carpet picnic with a Xmasy dvd on
* I spend a couple of evenings wrapping pressies, glass of baileys,xmas lights on and music playing in background.
* We always go late night shopping just to soak up the atmosphere.

Christmas Day The kids get up and bring their stockins into our room and we sit on the bed and watch them open them up... We all come downstairs have a cuppa and some breaky (i love watching their faces so eager to dive in to the pressies lol)
the kids all sit round the tree and our eldest passes out the pressies one each and we watch each of them open (takes longer this way)
We have dinner at a relatives house and alternate it one year here in Hampshire and the next in Cornwall so we share ourselves out fairly between parents and grandparents lol ...
In cornwall after lunch we always have a xmas day walk .. this yr will be with the dog on the beach.
then by 9.30pm im always in bed shattered! LOL

This year im starting a Xmas Eve hamper thanks to you all on here ... snowman soup, cookie mix, xmas dvd, popcorn and marshmellows! .. so buffet will probably be for late lunch! ............ xxx

vwcampervan72

Ive loved reading this thread, we OH 14 yr and 12 yr old DD's always go for a hot chocolate to Stratford Upon Avon and watch the world go by and listen to the carol singers outside shakespeare theatre, cant beat it to get in the festive spirit,

When they were little we were NEVER allowed a fire incase Santa burned his bum coming down the chimney LOL

Merry Christmas everyone

( saw 5 houses with decorations up today )

Lucyxx

We also let the children choose a new decoration for the tree each year, nothing co ordinated about our tree, just the way I like them

I'm going to have to write on them the year though as our oldest is 5 and I am already struggling to remember which was which already!!! I did try taking a photo each year aswell, but as I havn't put photos in an album for 3 years that they've got muddled aswell!

I can't wait to look at it in say 15 years time and see all the different ones they have chosen over the years!!!