What are your family holiday traditions??
Please share your family holiday traditions...I'd love to hear them!
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Permalink Reply by Cindy O'Farrell on -
Wow...sounds like so much fun. Thank you for sharing Joie!
Joie said:We celebrate the 7 Feasts of G-d but our families celebrate the typical Christian holidays. So we do LOTS of celebrating! We are having fun in our Sukka right now, great meals, awesome music, dancing under the stars, and lots of laughter. For Thanksgiving, most likely, I'll cook most of the side dishes, my sister and Mom (who's blind) will cook the turkey and wait for me to arrive to make the gravy for them. LOL. (Neither one can seem to make gravy without it being more like porridge, so I am the official gravy-maker!LOL!!!) We troop over to Mom's house with a car full of sweet tators, green bean casserole, fruit salad, grilled squash, home made rolls, pecan pie, pumpkin pie and usually a fruit pie or ice cream depending on the temps. I have Little Critter help me with all the preps and he LOVES being able to say he made the ice cream or he helped with the rolls or did the green bean casserole. After we all eat entirely too much food, we watch old movies and visit or play in the yard with the Little Critter. The following Friday we do Shabbot and usually I cheat and we eat left overs from Thanksgiving. (red smiley face) Then on Sunday we start the Advent wreath, we do a Torah study each evening until Christmas and lite the candle for the week with a little verse that Little Critter recites. As Hannukah begins, we add the Torah portions for that to our evening studies and lite the candles for the Menorah too. We also play driedle, eat more food, and exchange little home made gifts. On Christmas Eve, we go to my mom's house for a huge dinner (again I usually cook the side dishes and Mom and Sister cook the main meat, Sister lives out of town so that makes it easier on her and I LOVE to cook!) After eating, we clean up the dishes and then gather around the tree to open gifts. We open gifts from immediate family on Christmas eve. Christmas morning we go back to Mother's and open the stockings that SIster and I have stuffed with goodies. Then DH, Little Critter and I hit the road to drive the 7 hours to in-laws house. We share a big meal when we get there, give Grandma her gifts and visit until bedtime. (It makes for a long day, but we get to share the holiday with both families!) WE then spend 3-4 days with in-laws before coming home to try to get ready for 'the real world' again. I reckon it sounds kinda frantic, and mixed up, but we get to do our own thing on the Feasts of G-d (although Dad usually joins us for parts of them) and then share with our families for the Christian holidays. We feel it's the best of both worlds! Shalom, Joie
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Permalink Reply by Kipling on -
I love the holidays! We have Thanksgiving @ our house and I love making the turkey. My boys always love to help setting the table and make pumpkin bread. We always say what we are thankful for before we eat and I love hearing what my boys say every year. Last year my four year old said he was thankful for Leggos and my seven year old said he was thankful for having such a loving family! Everyone was in tears of course!
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Permalink Reply by Cindy O'Farrell on
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I love the Holidays too!! Nice tradititon Kipling:) Thank you for sharing them with us!
Kipling said:I love the holidays! We have Thanksgiving @ our house and I love making the turkey. My boys always love to help setting the table and make pumpkin bread. We always say what we are thankful for before we eat and I love hearing what my boys say every year. Last year my four year old said he was thankful for Leggos and my seven year old said he was thankful for having such a loving family! Everyone was in tears of course!
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Permalink Reply by Kathryn Abrahams - Lazy Daisy Glass on -
It's going to be an exceptionally good time for me this year. After being with hubby for 16 years, we had our first baby last year, she is now 16 months, so until now we never really had a traditional time. We live 700 miles from our family, so 'family' times are difficult, however, this year we are spending time with in-laws and brother in Glasgow. I'm now looking forward to the future years we can now have with our daughter - she's very special. I've always loved Christmas, but now it will be even more exciting - a time where I can also act like a child once more.
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Permalink Reply by Cindy O'Farrell on
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What a beautiful blessing:) Congratulations Kathryn. All the best to you and yours:)
Kathryn Abrahams - Lazy Daisy Glass said:It's going to be an exceptionally good time for me this year. After being with hubby for 16 years, we had our first baby last year, she is now 16 months, so until now we never really had a traditional time. We live 700 miles from our family, so 'family' times are difficult, however, this year we are spending time with in-laws and brother in Glasgow. I'm now looking forward to the future years we can now have with our daughter - she's very special. I've always loved Christmas, but now it will be even more exciting - a time where I can also act like a child once more.
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Permalink Reply by ComfyMom~Stacey on -
Our traditions vary depending on where we have the holidays. My parents live 18 hours away so we visit them for a week at either Thanksgiving or Christmas
If Thanksgiving is at my mom's house I am traditionally forbidden to help with dinner. Mom just doesn't like people messing around with her meal plan. If we're home for Thanksgiving it is traditional for me to make reservations for dinner. We tend to eat early wherever we are so in the evening I make the Traditional Holiday Nachos, which involve chicken or turkey, refried beans, avocados, lots of cheese, sour cream and salsa. We also watch Santa Clause is Coming To Town to kick off the holiday viewing season.
We celebrate the Winter Solstice every year by turning off all the lights in the house and sitting in the dark, with a single candle and retelling a story about the Rebirth of the Light and the Goddess giving birth to the Son. We talk about it being the longest night of the year and make our new year's resolutions at this time. We vary the story from year to year. Then the boys get to run around the house turning on every single light while shouting Welcome Sun!. We also have a bonfire (if we are home).
Our Christmas tradition is for the whole family to decorate our tree at home together. DH & I have ornaments from our childhoods plus ones we've bought or been given over the past 20 years. We tell stories about the ornaments as we decorate the tree. Every year we pick out a new ornament to add to the collection. We read the Night Before Christmas before bedtime on Christmas Eve. If we are at my parents', ham is the traditional dinner. If we are at home I make a rib roast. Again, we tend to eat early so we always have the Traditional Holiday Nachos while watching a Christmas Story
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Permalink Reply by Cindy O'Farrell on
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Food always top any Holiday season!! Thank you for sharing this with us ComfyMom!
ComfyMom~Stacey said:Our traditions vary depending on where we have the holidays. My parents live 18 hours away so we visit them for a week at either Thanksgiving or Christmas
If Thanksgiving is at my mom's house I am traditionally forbidden to help with dinner. Mom just doesn't like people messing around with her meal plan. If we're home for Thanksgiving it is traditional for me to make reservations for dinner. We tend to eat early wherever we are so in the evening I make the Traditional Holiday Nachos, which involve chicken or turkey, refried beans, avocados, lots of cheese, sour cream and salsa. We also watch Santa Clause is Coming To Town to kick off the holiday viewing season.
We celebrate the Winter Solstice every year by turning off all the lights in the house and sitting in the dark, with a single candle and retelling a story about the Rebirth of the Light and the Goddess giving birth to the Son. We talk about it being the longest night of the year and make our new year's resolutions at this time. We vary the story from year to year. Then the boys get to run around the house turning on every single light while shouting Welcome Sun!. We also have a bonfire (if we are home).
Our Christmas tradition is for the whole family to decorate our tree at home together. DH & I have ornaments from our childhoods plus ones we've bought or been given over the past 20 years. We tell stories about the ornaments as we decorate the tree. Every year we pick out a new ornament to add to the collection. We read the Night Before Christmas before bedtime on Christmas Eve. If we are at my parents', ham is the traditional dinner. If we are at home I make a rib roast. Again, we tend to eat early so we always have the Traditional Holiday Nachos while watching a Christmas Story
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Permalink Reply by c. renee johnson tyler on -
we have 2 never skipped one is we build a haunted house every year for our kids at halloween the other is at thanksgiving we make turkeys for the tables every child gets half a grapefruit olives toothpicks midget pickles and they put them together it keeps them from under foot while we put the finishing touches on the dinner
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Permalink Reply by Mrs. Santa on -
I write personlaized letters to sant for the kids in the neighborhood. they all love it. It helps ceate joy. You can do the same thing. visit www.dear-santaclaus.net and give your child or a friend kid a personalized letter from santa
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Permalink Reply by Leandra Davidson on -
A cruise ar Christmas. I gave uo the traditional celebrations when my children hot 11 and 13. I was tired of the slaveitude Involved in the holiday and found since i dont have to cook or buy gifts it was cheaper and more enjoyable.
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Permalink Reply by Helen Onulak on
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A family tradition that's been going on since I was a little girl - the Friday after Thanksgiving, is Christmas Cookie Day! We spend the day baking a variety of Christmas Cookies. From traditional family favorites to new recipes we want to try. While cookies are in the oven, we're mixing up new batches, or playing a game of cards. The day wouldn't be complete without the traditional day-after-Thanksgiving sandwich made of Chestnut Stuffing, Cranberry & leftover Turkey.
When the boys were growing up, we carried over a tradition that I grew up with....that when you woke up in the morning, the only presents you could open before Mom & Dad were awake were those in your stocking. You could not touch anything under the tree. Then, after Mom & Dad were awake, we'd go to Church, then come home and have breakfast. Then, and only then, did we open any presents under the tree....one at a time. We all watched as each person opened the present they had. If it was a game, we'd take time to play it. This way, opening presents stretched out all day long. I remember one year, my boys had so many presents to open and we were headed to my in-laws' for Christmas dinner. We left with presents still under the tree and the boys had Christmas again on the day after Christmas.
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Permalink Reply by Lorna Darden on
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We usually go to my mother's house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes we stay with our own family and celebrate, but don't know what we are going to do this year though.
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