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Well, it’s just about the middle of the month- are you ready for Christmas? Even though most of my present (CASH) goes to a teenager. I’m not ready. You see, since Gracie has reached a certain age and I REALLY can’t remember what age that was, she ONLY wants CASH. The cash, I can cover.
She has just been so sick this year and I promise I believe it is the accutane (sp) she is taking for her acne. I don’t mean a little sick too. She has been extremely sick. We are even having to go to Lebonour in Memphis to see a pulmonary DR this week. I’m not letting her take this acne medication anymore. I think it has broke down her immune system. Seriously. I dearly hope you and yours are well this Christmas!
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I like making cookies for Santa with my children
Favorite Holiday Tradition: Depending on where we celebrate Xmas, we always try to get in a day or two of post-Christmas skiing with a family ski trip when we are all together i.e. brothers, sisters, & kids.
I like watching the Grinch and Charlie Brown.
love holidays
My favorite holiday tradition is getting my family all together for dinner on Christmas night!
Looking at lights Christmas eve
I like baking cookies.
watching Its A WOnderful Life and playing the game that goes with it. Its a fun tradition
My favorite is gathering around the Christmas tree with my family.
Food, love holiday foods
I like to help my son decorate the Christmas Tree.
we watch christmas movies together for the month of december
my favorite holiday tradition is having my grandparents over for christmas breakfast
My favorite holiday tradition is having our family get together in January so everyone can be there without having to choose which family they want to spend time with.
We bake cookies on Christmas eve
We have a tradition of doing a cookie exchange with family!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching A Christmas Story over and over again right before the holiday.
having the whole family together for Christmas dinner.
My favourite Holiday tradition is spending time at each others homes
My favorite holiday tradition is having a present treasure hunt!
PUtting up the Christmas Tree is my favorite holiday tradition.
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve where we get together with family and open presents.
Making hot cocoa and driving around looking at Christmas lights with my family.
My favorite holiday tradition is driving around town looking at Christmas lights
Baking cookies!!
Going to my Dad’s on Christmas Eve, hosting here on Christmas day and New Years.
I like to bake holiday cookies.
My favorite tradition is baking cookies with the kids. This is something we skipped this year, because everyone is dieting. I missed it.
I get invited to family cookouts/dinners. It is always nice to spend time with family and friends.
Mine is baking cookies with my nieces and nephews.
Watching ” A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens on DVD is my favorite Christmas tradition!
My favorite tradition is snuggling up in new(ish) pj’s and watching the older Christmas cartoons, they’re my favorite, my son loves them now too.
My favorite tradition is giving gifts to all my friends and family. It shows how much I appreciate them.
I love decorating the tree every year
I know this is bad but we don’t put up a tree anymore. Gracie doesn’t care and we only “buy” presents for her. She only wants “money”. We do a scavenger hunt for that. So we just don’t do a tree.
We like to go to christmas eve pizza every year.
Oh neat! I’m loving all of your different foods that you eat on Christmas Eve. I really am!
My fave holiday tradition is playing games with my parents on Christmas afternoon (usually Scrabble or dominoes).
Baking and decorating sugar cookies with the kids.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking with my mom.
I love when all the kids are here. Christmas eve, everyone spends the night, even the two that no longer live at home. I get everyone toys for their stockings. They tear around the house, playing with their little brother while helping me cook. This year we stayed home the whole day on Christmas eve, just enjoying each other.
I love going back to my hometown in TN from Rhode Island. Its akways a bleasing to me to be with my family and especailly my 2 precious grandkids foe thw holidaya
My favourite holiday tradition is getting everyone together for an extended family Christmas dinner and then a secret Santa giveaway after.
My favorite tradition is decorating after our thanksgiving meal
Sitting around New Years eve munching and watching movies
OUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY TRADITION ID DECORATING THE HOUSE THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING 🙂
My favourite holiday tradition is hanging and filling stockings.
Making Christmas cookies with my kids.
My favorite traditions of the holidays from the past days to present are opening the gifts with my family and enjoying a baked ham.
watching all the holiday movies
We like watching movies.
Baking with my granddaughters has become my favorite tradition.
My favorite holiday tradition is playing board games with family on christmas eve.
my favorite holiday tradition is getting to spend more time with my friends and family. i love having the extra time off work to spend with them.
Visiting grandma in holidays!
Oh, I wish my Grandma was still here!
We love to make pumpkin rolls for everyone and pass them out at the holidays for everyone to enjoy
We always make pumpkin rolls with cream cheese and vanilla filling with pecans they are so good
That sounds VERY yummy.
Baking cookies with my mom.
My favorite tradition in our family is celebrating Christmas on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is having nanny come over and bake cookies all day with the kids! Spending time with family is the best part of the holidays
My favourite holiday tradition is trimming the tree with my family.
Love love love our Polish feast on Christmas!
I love out family togethers. My husband’s family holds a potluck reunion in early December and my family has a Chili feast in January.
A chili feast! We love chili!
Going to Christmas carol sing alongs
Baking cookies with my kids
Sounds like Gracie and her Mimi!
have to eat before opening presents
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the Christmas decorations.
We have home made spaghetti for dinner on Christmas Eve and I love it.
That sounds AWESOME! You know it’s usually ham or turkey (I mean for Christmas day), but I’ve never heard of a certain food for Christmas Eve and spaghetti is loved by EVERYONE!
I love baking and decorating Christmas cookies with my children. They always make something special for Santa.
Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve.
We normally read this special little book made especially for toddlers about Mary and Joseph and the birth of Jesus. Since the house burned, I don’t have it. We read it up until it burned. Every year.
I like spending Christmas Eve with friends.
I like baking cookies and breads to enjoy for the holidays.
One of my favorite traditions is setting up and decorating the tree together.
Our schedules are crazy and very often we are not in the same place at the same time. Over the holidays we make a point to coordinate schedules and spend time at home. We love to watch the Bowl games on TV and play board games.
Board games! We love to play games. Ours burned, I think we have one except for some card games but we do love to play games.
We spend Christmas just the four of us. Boxing Day is for the extended family.
My favorite holiday tradition is checking out all the Christmas lights in the area.
Gracie use to love that. We did it again this year!
Baking cookies with my kids is my favorite.
We have to eat before opening presents
That would irritate Gracie, lol!
I love our tradition of spending Christmas eve with family and friends. We share food and gift out gifts. It’s fun and always memorable!
I enjoy decorating the Christmas tree and making sugar cookies.
Playing the piano for my grandparents on Christmas Day.
That is one regret I have. I honestly would love to know how to play a piano. My Grandma could do it by ear. My Aunt took lessons.
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree with my family.
My favourite holiday tradition is enjoying a delicious meal and great conversation around the table with my family.
Christmas is my favorite holiday tradition, because my whole family goes to my grandma’s house for an awesome dinner 🙂
watching movies on chistmas eve
My kids dress up as Santa’s elves and we take food and presents to our local foodbank. It really is better to give than receive.
Thanks for giving.
Besos Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
Oh my goodness! That is AMAZING! I have never heard of anything like that. You have really set a standard for your kids. I’m so proud of you!
The family get together on Christmas Eve for the gift opening.
Hoping your daughter feels better soon!!!
Thank you so much, I honestly, honestly appreciate it.
I love decorating the Christmas tree.
We have a family get together, have a nice dinner and exchange presents.
My favorite holiday tradition has always been baking Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve with my family!
My favorite holiday tradition is getting together with family. My family and my husband’s family are kind of spread out, so we take the time to visit everyone. The bonus is we get to extend the holidays over several days!
Gracie has already went to went to her Grandma’s and we will do ours tomorrow!
My favorite traditions is having all the family here for the holidays.
Christmas brunch with family.
Ours is a bre
akfrast, then SNACK all day 🙂
decorating the tree.
My favorite tradition is going to my parents’ on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the chance.
My favorite tradition is driving around looking at Christmas Light & decoration displays with my 2 kids.
We kind of did that last night.
I love decorating the tree as a family.
My favourite tradition is decorating the tree with my family!
My favorite is the holiday tradition is just basically having my family and friends all under one roof. It’s nice to see all of them happy together.
Oh, it’s just us!
This is extremely nice of you to run this contest. I know I appreciate the chance to win a little extra cash and wanted to thank you for this opportunity and to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas.
Well, it will come after the holidays but if you have any bills, it ***might*** help. I sure hope so!
Hi! Happy Holidays, Sonya and family. One of my favorite traditions is baking treats and sweets. I’m looking forward to my kids getting out of school for the winter break today at lunch… we’re about to start a baking storm! 🙂 I’ve still got to make pineapple slice, lemon bars, mini meat turnovers..plus more. This is for the Christmas Eve buffet I have every year. I hope your daughter gets better soon and your holidays are back on track. 🙂
Kat from West MI.
Good luck and I bet you will have a blast!
My favorite holiday tradition is the family Christmas dinner & gift exchange.
Decorating gingerbread houses with my fiancé! This year we did one with his daughter! ?
That is SO sweet!
My favorite holiday tradition is watching my kids open their presents.
When Gracie “liked” what I bought, it was fun Ryan. Now, she is totally a teenage “girl”. She wants clothes and make-up. I do take care of the make up BUT… if you buy her clothes, she will not like them, will not wear them and will not have anything to do with them.
I give her money and she goes and buys her own clothes after Christmas. That is really our Christmas, after Christmas shopping together. We have a blast!
I felt the same way growing up, I just didn’t have a choice. I don’t blame her at all! It just gives us a nice shopping day.
my little niece and I make Christmas Cookies every year
Kenneth, that is SO sweet!
Our synagogue always has a “bring-your-own-menorah” service for kids around the last night of Hanukkah. It’s really beautiful with the hundreds of candles.
That sounds SO pretty!
I love it when the kids come over and we bake Christmas cookies and watch Christmas movies.
Gracie loves to spend the day with her Grandma and do the same thing.
I love get together with families and friends, parties, baking and cooking great food, and the putting up beautiful decorations.
I love comfort food from Christmas but I honestly LOVE the snack food. That is our family food 🙂
The family decorating the tree.
With my family and friends my favorite holiday tradition is gift exchange and dinners. With my partner it’s mistletoe. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all.
My favorite Holiday Tradition is decorating the tree with Christmas music playing.
Gracie has decided we don’t need a tree anymore. I’m kind of glad. I’m not bah-hum bug. It’s just a mess!
Good old decorating the tree as a family is my favorite tradition.
I like baking christmas cookies.
We make treats, but not always cookies anymore.
I like the Ham for Christmas
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking with my family!
My favorite tradition is getting together with my parents and sister and our families on Christmas Eve. We eat a lot of good food, play games and open presents.
Gracie and I love playing games, I need to restock our game pile!
I love our family gift exchange. It’s fun to give someone the perfect present they have been wanting!
putting up the tree with cookies baking in the oven
I like looking at Christmas lights.
My favorite is sitting by the fire with an egg nog.
Richard, I have never tried egg nog. I guess I need too. Gracie tried non-alcoholic at her Grandma’s but she didn’t like it.
We enjoy opening one gift on Christmas Eve.
I love spending time with my babies and making them both very happy!!!
I DEARLY love the time off with Gracie. With her being off from school, we get to spend so much extra time together. I love that little girl
Some of my favorite holiday traditions are trimming the tree, setting out decorations, and making sugar cookies with red and green sugar crystals with my mom!
I love the sugar crystals!
My favorite holiday tradition is getting to see family gathered together for that special time and catching up on everything that has happened throughout the year.
Decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music.
I love driving around the neighborhood to see the Christmas decorations.
Making sugar cookies with my granddaughters
I love decorating gingerbread houses with my family.
like making sugar cookies
like opening one present on Christmas Eve
My favorite are the holiday get togethers with friends and family.
If we are at my parents, we have a party on Christmas eve. If we can’t afford to go, we open one present on Christmas eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is celebrating Christmas with extended family! Thank you for the chance to win!
I love decorating cookies with my kids.
I like when we pick out the Christmas tree.
I like opening one present on Christmas Eve and then going to Midnight Mass.
Thanks for the contest.
My favorite is simply decorating the tree with my kids. 🙂
Favorite holiday tradition is everyone getting together on Christmas Eve opening presents and making memories.
We love getting our own tree and then decorating it. Also grandparens come over on Christmas eve and we spend time together playing games and watching movies
My favorite holiday tradition is baking and watching movies on the Hallmark channel.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree.
Celebrating on Christmas Eve with dinner with the family and then opening presents
My favorite is our Christmas Eve! My hubby always makes chicken stir fry, then we watch Christmas specials or movies. Then the kids open ONE gift…and it’s always holiday pj’s!
Favorite holiday tradition would be having the family dinner after gifting
Opening 1 gift on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating my wheelchair with Xmas lights.
That is an AWESOME idea!
I love baking and making goody bags to give to friends and family.
My favorite holiday tradition, is everyone pitching in to make all the holiday food. There are some dishes that we tend to make only rarely (such as deviled eggs), but the holidays are always a good excuse to make such dishes. I also love the fact that holiday meals often mean holiday leftovers for the coming days.
I love deviled eggs and I mean it. I can’t make them though. I dearly love them. They are SO awesome.
having Christmas dinner
I love baking and being around ones I love
My favorite Christmas tradition is driving around, looking at the Christmas lights on Christmas Eve with a cup of dreamcicle/7Up float.
I love watching the kids open their gifts on Christmas day
The family dinner on christmas eve is always fun.
The feasts! Stuffing myself with lots of food.
Making the gingerbread house might be my favorite tradition
Giving people presents and seeing faces light up!
My favorite tradition is opening our stockings as soon as we wake up, but having to wait sometimes hours to wake up our parents (we couldn’t wake them up to open presents until 7:30)
I love baking treats for my family.
I love making cookies!
Our favorite tradition is going to look at Christmas lights.
I love to bake!
Less common then it was, but I liked Caroling
Oh Wow!
My favorite tradition is opening gifts
My favorite tradition is watching A Christmas Story. 🙂
And of course the meals. Always the meals.
thanks!
I like baking cookies and spending time with the whole family.
I like to decorate gingerbread houses with the help of my kids.
We usually pick a day close to Christmas grab cocoa and check out the neighborhood lights.
We do drink cocoa with those little marshmallows in it.
My favorite holiday tradition is making a gingerbread house with my mom every year.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to our winter carnival to see Santa.
Watching Christmas movies!
Cutting down our Christmas tree in the mountains is a blast.
I don’t think in my entire life, I’ve ever had a real tree.
I love baking with my family
My favorite is when we all play games after holiday meals!
All of our games burned in the old house. We haven’t stocked back up yet.
My favorite holiday tradition is opening up Christmas presents early on Christmas day with the family.
I love baking cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning!
Girl, I think I could eat cinnamon rolls every day!
My favorite holiday tradition is having dinner with the whole family!
All of my family is pretty well gone. I wish I had family. I miss get togethers at Grandmas.
This is the second Christmas that we’ve had since we’ve been married. While we were dating started the tradition of going to the midnight liturgy, which has really helped with balancing family activities.
We love watching classic holiday movies
Sure, we decorate… but most importantly, eat! 😀
My favorite is decorating the tree and turning on the lights for the first time.
My favorite thing is that even though my kids are adults we all have a sleep over christmas night and we stay up and gab all night
My favorite holiday tradition is hiding the christmas pickle on the tree! {German tradition} 🙂
Our family does Mochi pounding the sunday before New Years. We have a bunch of family and friends over and eat lots.
I’m going to have to look that up. I honestly have never heard of that. I love learning new things1
I love baking cookies with my son!
The adults in the family do a secret santa exchange instead of buying gifts for adults who don’t need it. We then take the money we would have spent and donate it to a local charity or family in need.
My favorite tradition is opening gifts on Christmas morning while the breakfast casserole cooks, followed by our family Christmas brunch.
Baking Christmas cookies to give to neighbors
We did that when Gracie was little. We have moved and we don’t know any of these neighbors now.
I love eating cookies and other sweets and watching Hallmark Christmas movies with my Mom! 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve and then having a huge dinner.
My favourite holiday tradition is making gingerbread cookies with my family!
as its a holiday i read books.
We like decorating cookies as a family.
I love spending time with my family at my Grandma’s on Christmas Eve
I like lighting the menorah and eating latkes.
I have never eaten Latkes. My friend does the menorah but I’m not sure about the Latkes.
I love spending time with my kids and spending time opening gifts
One of my favorite traditions is having a big Christmas morning breakfast with my family.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating gingerbread men and women cookies with my grandsons!
Every year we make gingerbread houses and the kids (and adults too) decorate the houses and we make a big Christmas village. It is a tradition that I love.
Gracie does that at her Grandma’s
I like loading up the kids in the car, putting on Christmas music and heading out to see local light displays.
My favorite tradition is watching Elf and It’s a Wonderful Life.
My favorite holiday tradition is going cross country skiing with my family on Christmas Day.
I like making cookies and candy with my kids. Thank you
my favorite is seeing the christmas ships! i love them!
We like to drive around town looking at all the Christmas lights.
I love baking Christmas cookies with my daughter.
My favorite holiday tradition is opening one gift each on Christmas Eve.
Pam, we used to do that but Gracie just wants money now but we do a scavenger hunt for money on Christmas morning for money now. Our live just changes and goes with the flow.
i like watching movies i love holiday movies
My favorite tradition we started is each opening one special present. This present has Christmas pajamas for everyone (so we all look sort of decent for pictures in the morning). The youngest (depending on how many believe) get to open another special present that includes a new Christmas movie for all to enjoy and filled with snacks for the movie and we all watch it together.
Gracie and I get matching PJ’s and put them on Christmas morning. We were them until she goes to her Grandma’s. Michael won’t participate in this, lol!
I always get the tree the weekend after Thanksgiving, I make cookies on Christmas eve, I look forward to the Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday movie, I watch Christmas movies every weekend and on Christmas morning I always have cinnamon rolls. Love this time of year!
Watching the old Alistair Sims version of A Christmas Carol. My parents introduced me as a child and it’s just stuck.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter like I did with my mom and grandmother
Christmas Brunch- I just love the special foods , the wassail bowl and the music! It’s an event I look forward to every year.
Oh, I always make a special Christmas breakfast and we eat finger foods all day. That’s our tradition. Gracie goes to her Grandma’s after presents. So, there’s no need to cook a lot.
I love watching xmas movies and make all of the foods with my mom.
I like driving around looking at all the decorations.
oh, we use to do that!
I love baking Christmas cookies!!
We decorate sugar cookies on Christmas Eve. It’s fun!
Gracie would love that!
I love doing stockings
Love opening family gifts Christmas eve.
O like to decorate the tree and go with my friends in the city to see city lights.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to christmas eve service and then watching christmas movies afterwards.
Decorating the tree!
We don’t even do a tree since we bought this house. We are so BAD!
My favorite is to get my girls up at 5 am to open gifts and spend the day together.
When I was little, we couldn’t get up until 6. That was a strict rule.
Watching Christmas movies
Our family white elephant game.
Oh Peggy! I wish we had enough family to do that. I have wanted to do that forever!
Watching holiday movies.
We like to watch scary movies that day!
I like making sugar cookies.
We do bake some!
I love getting together with the family and opening presents, eating and playing games.
Both Michael and I don’t have any family around here. So, it’s just us. I’m jealous!