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ephemira 🎵 gucci 🪽 December 12th, 2021 9:09:25am 4,387 Posts |
BINGO!!! 3PM HP time in the games room! Alternative Activity |
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BLiTZ 🎆 hello, 2025 December 12th, 2021 5:21:25pm 6,522 Posts |
Me, the anti-religious person, loves my family's tradition of some of us going to the evening church service on Christmas Eve. It's literally the only day of the year I go, but so do a lot of others. I'll see neighbours, old teachers, etc at the church. It's also the church I went to as a child, so it's seeing adults I knew growing up too. Favourite part of is is the Christmas music in the service. When you go in they hand you a long thin candle, and the last hymn is always Silent Night. They do a "pass the flame" thing so everyone's candle gets lit, then we sing with the lights dimmed. It's SO hauntingly beautiful. Then after church we go over to my dad's best friend's house for appetizers with his family and visit with them for a few hours, before coming home. |
Gothika - SEA's ( Happy Holidays! ) December 12th, 2021 5:27:39pm 1,200 Posts |
Since my mom passed away i dont have any traditions anymore. I never have christmas or new years, they are like any other day. Before that time we used to have christmas eve every 24th of december. We would have packages under the tree and have a nice dinner and some snacks with them. I really miss that time. On the 2nd day we would have family dinner at some restaurant. A restaurant i'm hoping to get married in a few years. |
Little Wolf 🐑 Old English Sheepdogs December 12th, 2021 5:47:21pm 17 Posts |
Same here. Most of my immediate family members have all passed on so Christmas doesn't mean a whole lot to me anymore. It's just my grandmother and I so we usually bake some old family Christmas cookie recipes throughout the month and we still decorate her tree together. One thing I do look forward to is going downtown and walking through the park at night underneath the Christmas lights. |
vanity 🎀 December 12th, 2021 6:10:10pm 306 Posts |
One tradition I still try to uphold is putting up the tree with all the old ornaments on it, the past few years my stepson has helped me so it's kind of become one of our new traditions❤️ |
catt ` Needs a new layout 🙃 Nad watching December 12th, 2021 6:18:39pm 673 Posts |
Baking cookies on Christmas Eve is something my family has done since I can remember ! |
↬ JADE 🖤 shake those stars from your hair, pretty moonchild December 12th, 2021 6:45:58pm 3,849 Posts |
My SO and I watch Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) every year at least once! It's become our tradition since it came out and we loved it so much. ♥ |
SaturniaᛉContest winners announced!! December 12th, 2021 7:15:07pm 3,988 Posts |
Sats holiday tradition - opening 1 present on Christmas Eve! 🥰 and dinner at Cracker Barrel! |
lachlan fuhsaz & the finest silkens December 12th, 2021 7:16:16pm 18 Posts |
I'm from England but my boyfriend is Croatian so we have a weird mix of traditions on Christmas Eve! I've introduced him to new pyjamas and films (legit mostly the Muppets Christmas Carol and Elf) and he's brought a lot of late night salmon, homebaked bread, and opening some gifts and then we go for a walk around the neighbourhood when everyone's lights are up. A lot better than Christmas day for me I think until kids happen |
Chance -----> The Thoroughbred Factory December 12th, 2021 7:17:14pm 357 Posts |
I love buying gifts for everyone in my family. No matter how old we get, we still always buy everyone something. |
Kaonashi 〈決して家〉❀Eriskays❀ December 12th, 2021 7:45:11pm 16 Posts |
Every year me an my mom make a disgusting amount of cookies so we can make platters to give away. But we always have cookies in the freezer for like 2 months after christmas lol. I think we've made 9 different kinds so far! |
🐈~Broken Vow~❄️ December 12th, 2021 7:52:02pm 8,756 Posts |
I have to watch The Santa Clause, Elf, and The Muppets Christmas Carol at some point before Christmas Day. |
𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚌 𓆣 December 12th, 2021 8:14:59pm 1,013 Posts |
Winter tradition for my family; finding the TV channel that plays a fake fireplace on loop. We sit around chatting listening to the crackling flames while our actual furnace keeps us warm. Around Christmas we'll play a different fireplace channel that also has Christmas tunes. |
Kuwait | Not Reserving Tix | December 12th, 2021 10:15:48pm 2,970 Posts |
I'm not much into Crimbo any more, but I do keep certain traditions going. I've not lost family, but we don't talk, and mum is in a care home with Alzheimer's. To me, Christmas Day is pretty much just another day. Green tree, coloured lights and decorations. I dislike anything else. Turkey and trimmings for dinner. I have to have a bottle of Shloer (a fizzy grape drink) with my meal, with a piece of Black Forest gateau afterwards/next day. I have to have a box of Tunnock's teacakes (blobs of creamy mallow atop a soft biscuit base inside a thin chocolate shell), and a few selection boxes. For through the week. |
Binny 🦄 [blitz watching] December 12th, 2021 11:09:49pm 2,907 Posts |
The whole family (all 8 of us) get matching pjs christmas eve after dinner together ❤ |
Moorfine {Empire of Unruly Unicorns} - Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all December 12th, 2021 11:46:20pm 1,975 Posts |
One of my favorite traditions that we do is a Christmas Eve box, where we get new jammies, treats, and a new movie and we get all comfy and cozy and watch the new movie. |
Panthera Onca .:. The Night Floof 🐆 December 13th, 2021 6:44:47am 29,792 Posts |
One of my family's winter/christmas tradition is to get together to make lefse, which is a norwegian-american delicacy served at both Thanksgiving and Christmas made of potatoes, flour, and cream. Sort of the nowegian version of a tortilla haha. but then you slather it in butter and brown sugar and roll up and consuuuuuuume!! ;D
^ Pants and her fam post-lefse-making bash. xD |
Tifisati - December 13th, 2021 8:47:33am 510 Posts |
One tradition we have is our puppers have an advent calendar and I love how excited our pups get over it.
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`NEKE-A-SAURUS → up in smoke December 13th, 2021 9:57:03am 12,807 Posts |
I missed bingo so... Every single year without fail we do a sugar cookie/baking palooza. |
mouse } walers [MAIN] > one December 13th, 2021 5:32:00pm 17 Posts |
Oh goodness I'm a bit late with this one.
We don't have a lot of traditions in my family, but my friends and I generally manage to fall into step every year, and indulge in a ridiculous fruit and cheese platter and far too much champagne under the guise of helping each other plan respective work Christmas parties (we're all self employed). Christmas parties are hard, but cheese and champagne is one of the yearly highlights! |
lostcause 🎃💀🍂🍁 December 13th, 2021 6:53:45pm 203 Posts |
I bake cookies wit hmy cousins while we drink and watch Christmas movies. It gets interesting sometimes lol All the cousins play Scategories on Christmas night as well! |