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What are your Christmas traditions....and Merry Christmas...

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We always spend Christmas eve at moms...
and have a traditional german dinner...and a nice cold german beer
and we let my daughter open 1 gift....
I am usually up first on Christmas morning....have a bowl of cereal
and watch the Three Godfathers with John Wayne....
The wife and Daughter love to sleep late....9ish...and then we open gifts...
Later that afternoon the entire family...inlaws...friends and neighbors stop by
for christmas dinner...for the traditional turkey dinner and this huge
beef tenderloin slow cooked an the BBQ....I bet I gain 5 pounds Christmas day...
and the next day I usually go hunting...

I just want to wish all you guys a Very Merry Christmas...
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I have 10 kids and a grandchild. It is difficult to keep any tradition. Consistency is tough to obtain with this crowd. Everyone will pitch in and have their job to do. I even give them all the day off for the 24th! Happy Holidays!
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We do Christmas Eve at our house for both mine and my wife's family. Then Christmas dinner at my brother's house with his extended family. In between in presents, gluttony, and general holiday revelry.


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Growing up we didn't go anywhere for Christmas Eve of Christmas. Our relatives lived too far away. Now, we go to the MIL's for Christmas Eve and Christmas is a free for all. Also growing up we did go shooting some guns during the Christmas holiday.

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We are STILL trying to work out traditions with blended family, grandkids, etc. Nobody ever does the same thing twice in a row.
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Open family gifts christmas eve and santas gifts christmas morning then have a prime rib dinner. danny
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Collecting and messing with Christmas Music. Other than that & church it's pretty much a typical day.
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Steak dinner and open presents with my immediate family on Christmas Eve. Breakfast and presents with extended family at my grandparents' house on Christmas morning, then lunch at my aunt's. Since I got married we do every other Christmas in New Mexico with my wife's family. Headed that way after she gets off work today.
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We alternate Christmas and Thanksgiving between my wife's family in Reno and my family in Northern California. This year we're in Reno so we'll stop at Cabela's on the way up then stay at her parents' place. Tomorrow, we'll head over to Sparks to see her sister and BIL, then go walking in the hills, snow permitting. We usually spend Christmas morning there with everyone then head back to her parents for dinner and Mass.

Sunday will be spent visiting some friends in Reno and Virginia City, then we head home on Monday.

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We'd either stay up and go to Mass at midnight, or go to the early Shepherd's Mass in the morning. Only after that did we open gifts, eat breakfast, go back to bed (pretty much in that order.)
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We have no real tradition, but just do the same thing every year. :D :D
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Sounds like most "traditions" are similar, so I will share one unique tradition...Christmas morning milk punch!

It's tradition that after the gifts are opened on Christmas morning, and the adults have all fully awakened, the men in the family would share a glass of milk punch to toast the holidays. The recipe for it is simple...4ozs of whole milk, 4ozs of bourbon, 2 heaping teaspoons of powdered confectioners sugar, and a few sprinkles of nutmeg. Shake in a closed container and serve over an ice cube or two in a wide-brimmed glass (e.g., brandy snifter, red wine glass, etc.). Makes two servings. Repeat as necessary!
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Our Tradition...We divide the insanity between Thanksgiving and Christmas ... Thanksgiving with my wife’s family... Christmas with mine.. the prize for the most dysfunction going to my family Christmas Eve. We have an agreement to open the gifts in a contemplative and thoughtful round robin fashion, so everyone can see who got what from whom.... But no.. that always breaks down by about the second gift....I guess overzealous consumption of coffee and the pre and post Christmas Dinner sweets turns it into a twitching sugar induced mass adult ADD frenzy ...Luckily, its always been a happy mayhem.... It’s a din of glitter strewn excited utterances amongst sounds of yanked ribbon popping, and tearing gift wrap... a seeming contest to see who can tear through and process their gifts the fastest... and therefore be the first to get back over to the choicest morsels remaining of Christmas Dinner.....
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Christmas eve at my house. Day at my fathers' house. All of the old ethnic food and 4 generations! :D
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Every Christmas eve my wife, daughter and I go out to dinner with my mother. This year is chinese food. It is usually chinese food (mom's favorite). Christmas day I get out on the water, kayak, canoe or just wading for an hour or two of fishing. Christmas dinner is beef tenderloin and fresh fish.
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7 years later....and the tradition lives on!
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Our tradition for Christmas Eve has settled on sparkling apple juice and Ro-Tel/Velveeta dip while watching Christmas movies on DVD. We open gifts on Christmas morning while eating monkey bread. We then go to our friends house where they have a big get together every year. Friends and family, lots of food, and a great time every year. Working retail as I do, some years my name is drawn out of the hat to work on Christmas.
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The families would gather at my grandmother's house and Christmas morning and after the gifts were open the men and older boys would go quail hunting, the women cooked (none of them hunted) then we had dinner and good conversation.
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RIHMFIRE wrote: Sun Dec 24, 2017 8:47 pm 7 years later....and the tradition lives on!
You're lucky; usually changing ages and relocations change everything before long.

As a kid our Christmases were Courier-and-Ives affairs, with the host families post-WW2 success stories hosting their elders and tons of baby-boomer kids who were slathered with toys galore.

Then the boomers mostly headed for greener pastures and at one point the only ones left in flyover country were the surviving former hosts, all frail with walkers or oxygen, and in their 80's, and my pregnant wife, with 2, 4, and 6 year old kids and my mother (with Alzheimer's) and me, all living in a 900 square foot space with one bedroom which was my mom's since the bathroom was off the bedroom and she needed easy access. The rest of us were sleeping on the floor in the future living room (I was building house slower than my wife was building babies). That year we realized the relatives who would usually host Christmas were out of town, so at the last minute, in a blizzard, we headed out to collect old-people, praying none would slip and break a hip, or have chest pain and need a nitro. We hadn't prepared, so a couple store-bought punkin pies and some macaroni and cheese with bacon bits was the fare, along with some homemade bread.

Still, it was a memory generating evening; some of the last times the kids would see their grandparent's generation.

Now that generation is gone, and get-togethers much smaller, with me and my brother taking turns hosting, and we eat venison and wonderful things our spouses make. My son got the Christmas dinner deer with my Marlin 1894 when he was 13, but in years since he insists that a) real men hunt with bows, and b) leverguns aren't accurate enough to hunt with (...of course he also insists that his dad has too many guns....but always wants to borrow them... :lol: )
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It`s just Norma and I at home most every year, we cook a nice meal and shut the phone off.
Woke up this morn 5AM and the outdoor stove went out, -15 outside and 45 inside :roll: so out we went and started it .
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Turkey is in the oven, pumpkin and pecan pie already on the sideboard. I've been to the garage to adjust an oven shelf. Had to get a bigger hammer. MIL and her new husband here. We opened gifts earlier so I'm wearing a new sweater. I'll make cornbread dressing with lots of sage and water chestnuts later. The kids are really quiet playing with their new gifts and dogs everywhere. 8 year old got a new puppy, German Shepherd and I think Husky. She makes 4 dogs in the house. We'll have cranberry sauce and candied yams as part of the feast.

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After my mom passed my eldest sister stepped into the void. So holidays are at her house with as many of the family as can gather. My nephew and his wife from Atlanta are here this year (a couple of days late as they were due to fly out the day of the fire). But my youngest sister is still recovering from neck surgery and won't make it. Hence her kids and grandkids are staying with her.

Add some cousins and their families and as many close friends as can be there and we usually have a crowd. Headed that way shortly (waiting on the wife to get ready :roll: ).
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Not being a big drinker, I always have something on Christmas in memory of my Grandfather. This being the 1st Christmas since Dad passed I decided to have one in their memory. I happened to find a bottle of VSOP way back in the cabinet. This bottle is probably as old as I am(48) or older! When I popped the cork half of it stuck in the neck, wasn't much left so I finished it in memory of Dad & Pop!
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Starting over here too. We've both lost our Mom's in the last year and a half. Yesterday was a tough one but my beautiful wife went all out and we all had a wonderful day. We're pretty spread out across the country but my wife's boys and significant others were here along with my sister who's just moved home from Australia. It looks like our place will be the gathering point from here on but that's great with me. :D

Hope everyone had a great day!

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One of the things I would do at Christmas time when visiting the folks was to clean and oil my fathers guns. He did not use them much. One year I went to use one and they had some surface rust, that started the tradition. They were kept up stairs in the farm house spare bedroom. I would sit up their with my father away from some of the Christmas chaos and clean guns and talk. We come back down stairs smelling like Hoppes. He has been gone for 2 years now and his guns are now in my locker. They get regular attention but I still take them out and oil them over the Christmas holiday.
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My Christmas traditions died with family. Now it's just another day. :cry:


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Christmas eve at my Mom's. Lots of Christmas activities with the family throughout the season. Each week between Christmas and New Year's my family and my brother's family go out to a local Japanese hibachi place (kind of our own take on "A Christmas Story".

We go to Mass Christmas Eve before the party at my Mom's. Christmas day is reserved to staying in our PJ's, opening gifts, eating pretty-much non-stop, and just being together as a family. The last is my favorite part... :D
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I think I may have to adjust out Christmas Day traditions.....
WAY TOO MUCH GOOD FOOD....REALLY GOOD FOOD TOO!
bet I gained a few pounds.....HAHA!
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