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Family christmas traditionWhats your family Christmas tradition? everyone has one; Ours are numerous,  as you would expect from a crazy family. Christmas eve - my Dad has to wear his Santa hat all day.  Christmas eve - we open the special Christmas eve present - a tradition started by my grandparents (mom's side) to get the to go to bed - liked that a lot as a child nearly always an annual. Christmas eve - go to church  everyone except my Dad who does not go to church. Christmas morning - boiled egg and toast for breakfast.
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When we were kids - we would get up really early. Dad would do cooked breakfast whilst the xmas songs were playing. We'd all get dressed, then sit & open our prezzies. Now we just "do our own thing" we like to do.... what we want / when we want, so we usually have Christmas at home - just the 4 of us. We visit both sets of parents at some point during the day (they are all in the same village ) |
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As children..it was always midnight mass Christmas Eve and my uncle and aunt would come back for a tot of whiskey and my uncle always had a cigar (this is the uncle who's funeral I went to recently  )On Christmas day we would get up really early to open our pressies. Dad always cooked Christmas dinner Now each year is different in someway really. The only tradition that stands is that we have to have had our dinner over and done with so that my mum can sit down in peace to watch the Queen's speech |
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Being Polish, we do Christmas on Christmas Eve. Dinner is fish-based with multiple courses. There is always a spare place set incase a stranger happens to come by and needs to be fed (age-old tradition). Originally dinner starts with the sharing of a blessed communion wafer when the first star appears in the sky. This year it will start at about 5pm to allow for the fact that Domi needs to be in bed by about 8!! Much vodka and herring is consumed; discussions and arguements rage into the night and I adore it as much now as I did when I was a child. I just wish my Dad was still here to preside over the evening's events; stir the proverbial and generally be the genial host he always was. |
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In Denmark we also celebrate christmas eve (if that's the 24.) We always watch "The Disney Show" at 4 pm. Usually I had christmas with both my mum and dad on christmas eve, but since my mum got married 6 or 7 years ago, I celebrate christmas with my brother and dad and then my brother and I go to my mum's the day after. So now I watch the Disney Show all by myself.. Well its a tradition...  The duck and the pork roast (I dont do turkey, it always got dry) is put in the oven just before the show, so I can sit and relax... Apart from that, I dont think there are any other things we do each year.. Well apart from me runing around looking like a lunatic, to make sure everything is okay... |
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We play cards for pennies on Christmas night. No TV, probably music playing and there we are, sitting round the table, glass of something, playing 'Nap'. It runs with a kitty and always seems that the last kitty takes for ever to come out so we can pack up and go to bed. It just goes on and on. Sometimes it feels like you have played for eternity - and you check your funds and find you have spent 4 hours 'earning' 17pence!  |
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No real traditions for me  |
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Donna a tradition is something you start, something like having a specific thing you do at christmas like DM and nap we do charades  well you know "book,tv,film" type of thing give us a clue. '' Traditions are nice - reassuring Karen |
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Every Christmas the kids stockings are put up with the decs and tree but on xmas eve "santa" fills them and puts them on the bottom of the kids beds so they have some little pressies to open in their beds (or normally mine as they come in and leave all the wrappers for me to clear up) in the morning. Does that count?????????? |
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