What's your favorite memory/tradition for the holidays?

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evilelf
evilelf Member Posts: 1,066
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
What's your favorite memory/tradition for the holidays?
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  • evilelf
    evilelf Member Posts: 1,066
    edited December 2007

    Making sugar cookies then icing them, eating more icing than putting on the cookieswith my grandma

    She also had a candy drawer that always had the ribbon and peanut butter filled candies...

    Also having hot chocolate with her when everyone else was asleep

    Such good memories and when she was alive I used to tell her and she would just smile and said I was always a good little girl.

    peace

     Vera

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  • Barb1953
    Barb1953 Member Posts: 479
    edited December 2007

    I remember going to my Aunts house. She would give me an orange with a pepermint stick pushed into it like a straw, to sip the orange juice !! She always had lots of ribbon candy too. All her furnature was covered in plastic. She had no children---must be why she gave me an orange with a pererment stick, instead of a glass of orange juice with a straw !!!!! Thanks for bringing this memory back-it put a smile on my face. Happy Holidays & many more happy memories.

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  • juanita63
    juanita63 Member Posts: 171
    edited December 2007

    The smell of my grandma's Christmas tree and the nativity she put under it. 

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  • barbara913
    barbara913 Member Posts: 133
    edited December 2007

    when i was little, of course the gifts would be put under the tree christmas eve by "santa" and my mother would still do that as i got older, even into my early 20's before i got married and moved out of the house.  i would go out to a christmas eve party and there would be just a few gifts under the tree, but when i got home later that night, there would be lots more, just like when i was little, just like "santa" had brought them... i loved that... and still to this day, she writes on some of the gift tags "from santa"... i love that too Smile

    barbara

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  • lvtwoqlt
    lvtwoqlt Member Posts: 6,162
    edited December 2007

    When I was small we would go to my grandparent's house Christmas eve with all the aunts, uncles, and cousins for supper and before we would hand out the packages my grandfather read the Christmas story from Luke and we would sing the carols associated with the story at the appropriate place in the story.

    When my son was little, I hid the packages at my mom's house and on Christmas eve, we would go to my sisters house for dinner and Christmas movies, when we left (usually about 11:00 pm) we would drive to an area that was always decorated up beautifully and look at the lights listening to Christmas songs. Of course Santa would deliver the presents while we were away from home but John would be so tired when we came home that he did not see the packages under the tree. Now my son is 22 and in the Navy and her children are both grown and married. But my husband and I still go to her house Christmas eve for dinner and movies and drive around the area looking at lights about midnight.

    Sheila

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited December 2007

    Lighting the advent calendar.  Celebrating the epithany and getting one more present on January 6th.  Dinner at Grandmas.

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  • CurlyKatFL
    CurlyKatFL Member Posts: 68
    edited December 2007

    When I was a littel girl in Jamaica, we would go to mass at midnight on Christmas Eve. It was always so wonderful. Everyone would dress up in their brightest colors. It was so so colorful and I don't think I have ever heard singing like that anywhere else. There would be singing and dancing that would often spill out of the church into the street. Everyone would look so happy and my mom would tell me it was the world's largest birthday party. You know Jamaicans can party.

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited December 2007

    I have so many wonderful memories, and as a family we have so many traditions.

    I will pick one that we still do, and is still fun...even for the "big" kids!

    We have a Ukranian Christmas Eve traditional dinner.  Then an adult reads the story "Twas the Night before Christmas", and as soon as we get to the end, Santa's bell is ringing and he is at the door! Santa comes with one gift for each grandchild. (Grandpa is Santa) He calls each child up and talks to them and gives them a gift. We have done this since my first nephew was born, and he is now 28!  My dad, is still willing and able to play santa at 81! 

    My children are 23, 20 and 16...and they still love sitting on "Santa's" lap!

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  • nancylee
    nancylee Member Posts: 10
    edited December 2007

    We always went to church on Christmas Eve, while we were at church, Santa came.  We opened our presents when we got home and Mom & Dad would allow us to have a glass of wine with them (7-up with about a tablespoon of wine)!!  Dad knew a family that made homemade tamales, he would pick them up in the morning and Mom would heat them after church to eat while we drank our wine.  I remember that to this day when I eat a tamale.

    Nancy

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  • Catherine
    Catherine Member Posts: 305
    edited December 2007

    We had six kids in our family and we would always have huge stacks of presents under the tree.  Plus my parents would give us money to hit the after Christmas sales.  I loved going to the sales with my mom, who was a fierce bargain hunter.  The first time my sister and I went with her to the sales she told us, "Girls forget all the good manners I taught you and watch yourselves."  One time she was at a sale when a woman slugged another woman!  It could be brutal.

    Catherine

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  • BMD
    BMD Member Posts: 1,492
    edited December 2007

    When my grandfather would sit at the head of that big long table in my aunt's basement and say the prayer before we ate dinner.

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  • ilenee
    ilenee Member Posts: 120
    edited December 2007

    I started a tradition with my 2 kids. I have a 9 yr old son and a 11 yr old daughter. They each get a pair of new jammies and 1 present from mommy. They really look forward to their new warm jammies on Christmas Eve.

    And they look cute Christmas morning.

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  • my3girls
    my3girls Member Posts: 3,766
    edited December 2007

    Awww...Ilenee.  I did the same things with my girls when they were young.  Sometimes my mom got them their new "christmas jammies". Thanks for my warm fuzzy memory!

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