But most importantly, it's a wonderful celebration of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ, the real reason for the season.
Christmas is my favorite holiday of all and I love all of the wonderful traditions and celebrations that go along with it; including giving and receiving gifts. But for many, holiday gift-giving can end up being very costly, especially if you have children or a large family.
The cost of buying gifts for assorted family members and friends can be overwhelming and often puts quite a noticeable ding in the pocketbook. I can vouch for this personally. As a grandparent of two (soon to be 3 children any day now!) I can and have easily spent a small fortune on gifts for my family and grandchildren over the years!
Thankfully this year I decided to get a head start on all of my holiday shopping and now have most of my Christmas shopping completed. YAY! With my shopping mostly completed, I've decided to give my readers a chance to win a bit of cash to help with their holiday shopping this year! So how does $75 via PayPal sound?
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My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the Christmas Tree and of course, christmas shopping for my little man's toys :)
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My families favorite Christmas tradition is the day we decorate our tree, we listen to carols and have party foods for dinner.
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Our favorite tradition is eating lunch together and watching Christmas Cartoon specials with the kids! They love Madagascar and Shrek Holiday Special!
ReplyDeleteWe have always left cookies out for Santa to come and we let the kids put out nuts on the back patio for his reindeer. They love doing this
ReplyDeletenot many traditions for us. we just get together on christmas day and have a very nice dinner.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is the obligatory game of pictionary on Christmas day! It is always boys vs. girls and always a blast!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is everyone opening a gift on Christmas Eve, which is always pjs-robe-houseshoes, and then putting them on and watching a holiday movie together. After taking pictures of course.
ReplyDeleteMy families favorite Christmas tradition i have to say is baking and caroling. I love to do this with my kiddies as my mother did with us!
ReplyDeleteHmm, I have a few Christmas traditions I love. One is our Christmas dinner, my family is very health conscious but for Christmas dinner we go all out. We also have a family tradition of always playing scrabble after Christmas dinner.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my entire family on Christmas Eve! Great company, great food, gifts, and games! So much fun!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is setting out my remarkable Celtic creche set, either under the tree or prominent on a shef.
ReplyDeleteMy family always has Christmas dinner on Christmas eve and it is nice as it is relaxing and when the kids were really small they were all so excited about santa coming and then on Christmas day we don't have to cook as we have lots of yummy leftovers so we can just have a fun day
ReplyDeleteEvery christmas we have christmas dinner at my parents house with the whole family, and then we open gifts from each other there!
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My favorite Christmas tradition growing up was baking Chirstmas cookies with my mother and sister. Now it is wrapping present with my husband. We have a little system that works out great!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition would have to be my family gathering to watch Christmas movies together on Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteI like getting together with family and eating dinner
ReplyDeletewell, we do not have any traditions per se but, we do always simply sit in our house and stay home watch a little tv, play with our dogs, sit outside and watch the weather.
ReplyDeleteI like our family parties. My dad's side of the family is really big, and we all get together on Christmas. IT's a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteMy whole family (17 aunts and uncles, their spouses and kids) get together at an aunts house for Xmas eve
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite Christmas traditions is getting together with my family and having a cookie exchange day just before Christmas. It's a great time together!
ReplyDeleteBeing away from family during the holidays is pretty rough. 20+ years ago, my husband and I started the "Orphan's Thanksgiving." Some had no family, some had no place to go and some just didn't want to be with their family! We now have Orphan's Christmas and Easter to ensure everyone has somewhere to go. In the beginning, we made all the food. Now, everyone that can brings something. There's lots of food and no one ever goes home hungry!
ReplyDeleteEvery christmas my family gathers at my grandmother's house to have a christmas party. All the kids love having christmas parties together so we make it every year for them. We also exchange gifts and do fun games.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree and making the gingerbread house with my kids =)
ReplyDeletewe love baking cookies together as a family - and then eating them of course
ReplyDeleteMy mom always makes Danish Puff on Christmas morning. It's an almond flavored pastry covered in delicious frosting and it always makes me think of home. I've never had it anywhere except my mom's house on Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas season because all my family have time to be together. We cook and spend afternoons just talking (some fighting too! lol). I love decorating my home, this year we picked silver decorations, it looks so polished! But my favorite tradition is to bake 'Pan de Pascua' with my mother. It's a recipe from Chile, this way we can remember our roots and hopefully one day I could bake it as perfect as my mother do.
ReplyDeleteWe always play Christmas music int he background. It's just one of those things that always makes it feel like Christmas!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is visiting friends and family Christmas Eve and delivering presents to them,:)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is putting my tree up the day after Thanksgiving. I will put it all together and shape it, then the kids decorate it. I rarely help anymore because they love doing it so much.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is going to Mass at midnight and having a nice dinner at home with friends and family.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas Eve the kids get to open ONE gift. Even the older ones get excited. My 16 year old normally gets a new book, and he's always so excited to take his new read up to his room to read until he can fall asleep. Christmas day we have cinnamon buns for breakfast, the boys get to open their stockings and then we take the morning to open up gifts. I have 5 sons, so gifts take awhile. We also watch an assortment of Christmas specials in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and the boys help me decorate the tree, and cookies.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is doing the Christmas pickle and making cookies with my kids! We also love taking all the neighbors a gift on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteOur fav tradition is watching Christmas movies as a family with Hot Chocolate and goodies
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is opening one present on Christmas Eve. (the rest the next day)
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My favorite Xmas tradition is sitting at home in front of a roaring fire, drinking Great Lakes Brewing Co. Christmas Ale and avoiding malls just as I do all year round.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is going to Christmas eve mass (we go to the 5:00pm mass). My husband and I and our two sons. We meet my brother and his family (all 9 of them) at the church and we sit together. Afterwards, we come back to our home and we eat dinner together and celebrate Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is hosting the family for Christmas dinner and then enjoying holiday movies together.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter like I did with my mom and grandmother
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My favorite Christmas tradition is hopping the car and taking the kids to see the local Christmas light displays. We always put on our Mitch Miller CD.
ReplyDeletemy favorite Christmas tradition was getting to open one present on Christmas eve, and then the rest in the morning.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree together and making Christmas cookies.
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We alternate years going to my two sisters houses. That way we get some niece and nephew time from both sets.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas Tradition is getting together with family on Christmas Eve and having Christmas dinner then exchanging gifts.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is decorating the tree and eating Christmas dinner with the family.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is spending time with family, my wife, having dinner, and opening gifts in the evening.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, we spent every Christmas at my grandparent's home way out in the country. Those memories are priceless to me because they sold that home and many things have changed since then. I cherish those Christmas memories.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the Christmas tree and sitting down to have dinner with my family.
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On Christmas eve we pack up in the car with hot chocolate in our PJs and we go and look at Christmas lights.
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My favorite tradition is our Polish Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve with my Dad's family. It's a wonderful celebration and My husband and I stay the night at the house so we can wake up and have breakfast with my parents on Christmas morning.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is opening up one present on Christmas Eve. The kiddos get so excited over it, and they always end up getting pj's to wear for Santa and a small toy. I love it!
ReplyDeleteOne of our favorite traditions is making different kinds of cookies and decorating them for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is stay together with my family
ReplyDeleteMy favorite christmas tradition is having both of my brothers stay the night so we can stay up all night spending quality time then opening presents once every one else wakes up. Memories that will always be cherished.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a tradition for Christmas, however every season when they have the "Lights in the Park" we take the kids there every year. We get something to eat on the way. Then when we get in the line of cars we start the Christmas movies in the van. Because it takes over an hour to get in, they usually can watch the whole movie. The kids seem to enjoy that every year.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition in our family is the whole family getting together for a huge Christmas breakfast!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is waking up with my Husband, my Boxer/Pit Bull Terrier cross sleeping at my feet. We don't rush out of bed because it's cold out from under the covers (we keep the heat turned down because it's expensive). Our tradition is the same every day, really. We sit together on the couch under a blanket both reading; my dog and my Husband's 2 cats adding extra heat.
ReplyDeletewe always eat at a nice restaurant and then go to a candle light service on Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeleteOur favorite tradition is having the whole family over to decorate the tree - regnod(at)yahoo(d0t)com
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is going to pick out the tree. We go to a tree farm, pick it out and them come home to hot chocolate and Christmas cookies while we put it up.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is everyone meeting up at my moms house for dinner. It is a time when the whole family is together.
ReplyDeleteBaking for Santa. We spend Christmas Eve night making something yummy for Santa. My girls choose something different each year. They haven't decided what we are making this year just yet. thank you!
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One of my favorite Christmas traditions is buying a new family ornament for our tree each year. And getting our new Christmas Pajamas! :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is that we are all at home on Christmas morning. We never go anywhere until afternoon.
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My favourite Christmas tradition is baking Christmas cookies with my daughter, like my mom used to with me.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is when we go out to get our Christmas Tree each year and bring it home and we all help decorate it.
ReplyDeleteWe like to sit around and watch Christmas movies - National Lampoons Christmas Vacation and Family Man are two of our favorites
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My favorite Christmas tradition is opening up one present on Christmas Eve. I also enjoy driving around looking at Christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is opening a gift on Christmas Eve, and watching The Santa Clause. Usually accompanied by really good cocoa.
ReplyDeleteOur xmas tradition is to visit my parents on xmas eve. We have a nice dinner and then exchange gifts
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On Christmas morning, we put a lit candle in a cupcake, place it in front of the manger and sing Happy Birthday to baby Jesus.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is making cookies with my kids, listening to Christmas carols and counting our many blessings. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI like helping my sons decorate the family Christmas tree, afterwards we enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa and Christmas cookies.
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On Christmas eve the family comes over to eat dinner at our house and we exchange gifts. Christmas day is for my household family.
ReplyDeleteEvery year the kids hubby and I make special homemade christmas ornaments for the christmas tree lots of fun and lots of glitter.
ReplyDeleteour favourite tradition is christmas baking...shortbread and gingerbread houses!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is doing a yankee swap on Christmas Eve. The most we can spend is $30 and it is always a good time for everyone.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating cookies. And then eating them, of course :+)
ReplyDeleteProbably decorating! Or opening up one gift on Christmas Eve - that's the most memorable as a kid!
ReplyDeleteI love baking Christmas cookies and frosting them! I love making a variety of them!
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We have lots of favorite traditions, first we decorate the tree, then buy and wrap gifts, then make fudge and lots of cookies and then we have to watch all our favorite Christmas movies. Then it's open one gift on Christmas eve and then it's church and then Christmas morning we open the rest of the gifts and then have a nice dinner. Thanks for having this contest.
ReplyDeleteI moved away from home a year ago, so I'll have to make some new Christmas traditions every other year. But when I do visit home, my favorite tradition is eating Oyster Stew for breakfast!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is making cookies for Santa and reindeer food with my son and daughter.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is gathering around the tree with the kids and handing out presents. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
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