Christmas Traditions

pipkin71

We go to a panto once a year to start the festivities, we cuddle up in bed to watch dvd's I have bought especially for christmas, the girls have new pj's, they have a small gift for christmas eve and boxing day, on christmas eve, we sing carols in front of the christmas tree, my favourite:

on christmas eve evening the girls put a lovebird ornament each on the christmas tree and make a wish for a happy christmas day. I bought the lovebirds for their first christmas each and we've always had a happy christmas day.

Pipkin xxxx

pipkin71

haylibo wrote: »

Hobbesy
You must have had a very special Grandad to be remembered so strongly. We had a good friend lose her father very suddenly to lung cancer last year, in fact within two weeks of diagnosis. When she talks of missing him and feeling sad that her children will never know their grandad (she has no children yet) I think of how like her dad my friend is and I see that her kids *will* know their grandad. Maybe not directly but my friend wouldn't be the person she is without having her dad bring her up and so her children will get the mum they will get because of the father her dad was (if that makes sense).
Maybe a part of you is like your grandad? That's the part of your grandad your kids will know :-) How lucky he was to have been so loved.
BW
Hayles

That was a lovely post to write haylibo

Pipkin xxxx

hobbesy_2

pipkin71 wrote: »

That was a lovely post to write haylibo

Pipkin xxxx

It absolutely was. I would have replied earlier but I'd just got in with the shopping and you made me cry! No fair!

I do know there is a lot of my grandad in me. My sense of humour for one. He definitely was a special man, and is in fact the reason my husband took my surname when we got married. My dad was an only child meaning my grandad's fairly unusual name wasn't going to be passed on. But now there's two more little Spring's and they're no less bonkers than the original!


Back to topic, I shall think of some more traditions to add in the morning

Night all

Keri -x-

haylibo

Hobbesy your post was a touching reminder that christmas traditions are the meaningful part of christmas. x
Now...one tradition I'm going to try to miss this year, wrapping presents to the sound of carols coming from the TV at midnight on Christmas eve. This year all will be done and I'll be sat with dh and a bailey's. Yeah right:-)
Hayles

BrandNewDay

Here's a tradition my mom had that I may use, someday:

She would giftwrap all the presents ahead of time, and they'd be under the tree, looking lovely and tantalizing. In order to make it harder for us to poke and squeeze and shake, she put numbered tags on them and kept the "master list" in a little notebook. I can still remember her little notebook. Anyway, we'd take turns selecting a parcel and reading out the number and my mom would consult her list and tell who it was for. We'd all watch that gift be unwrapped, comment on it and all that, then pick another. It made the present part last longer.

When my kids are older, we'll do that, too.

beachbeth

I have two teenage daughters and we have always put the decorations and tree up at the beginning of December and I have to have Christmas film on while we do it, such as Miracle on 34th Street or Mixed Nuts (with Steve Martin). My hubby and I peel all the veg for the dinner the next day on Christmas Eve so that we don't have so much to do on the actual morning.

We all choose a present from a relative from under the tree on Christmas Eve to open too and we all just love watching all the Christmassy programmes to put us in a festive mood. Even though my daughters are late teens they still have to have a stocking with little bits and pieces in - a new pen in a case, tubes of smarties/fruit pastilles, chocolate coins and maybe some earrings. Their main presents are always downstairs in the lounge and I love watching them open them all even now!!!

HORSEWAGON

it has been fantastic to read eveybodys christmas traditions,and heartwarming that it is all about family and friends being together......i am hoping my children will remember/carry on/make thier own traditions and realise that the good things in life really are free.:A

(i think i get more excited than the children)

geekgirl

My Christmas is going to be very different this year. I now have 2 married children and a grandson.
We always read night before christmas on christmas eve. And all presents were laid out downstairs in the living room in a section for each of my children. Their stocking was left for them upstairs which gave us a little extra time asleep.
So this year is going to probably be me reading night before christmas on my own. Packaging up pressies for kids and grandson when they come round. Older two are still insisting on a stocking even though they don't live at home anymore.
At least they are all coming to us for chrissy dinner. I would miss the hubbub otherwise.

Horace

When I was little I was bought a pear decoration to go on the tree (it looks like a real pear). Christmas didn't start until I put my decoration on the tree and my mum still does it to this day (I am now 46!). It doesn't matter when I go to visit in the run up to Christmas (or even on Christmas Day) my pear is the last decoration to go on the tree on its own reserved branch.

Smickan

We've just started a new one tonight

We've never had bucks fizz before and happened to be walking down the Tesco wine aisle when we saw it and there were two bottles - £1.50 and £1.99 I think - could have been a little more.

The cheaper one is made with concentrate orange and the other is made with fresh orange juice. We picked a bottle of the fresh orange juice one up to 'test' as we fancied having some on Christmas morning and wanted to know how it tasted.

It is... guh. it's so lovely! We truly recomend it! Bucks Fizz for everyone ^_^



This is the concentrated orange juice one. The one you want is 'Premium Bucks Fizz' with a black cork cover and gold and black label - right next to the orange one ^^. Absolutely beautiful