I was mixing the meat for the tourtières my mum makes for Christmas every year and I wondered, what kind or traditions do your families have for the holidays? We make little individual tourtières instead of making a giant one.
Usually on Christmas Eve my grandma, grandpa, Auntie Linda, Uncle Wayne, Auntie Susan, her three kids, Chris, Jessica, Michelle, Aaron, and their three kids come over to eat turkey, peroguies, mashed potatoes, corn, and stuffing and then we open presents and talk. Then we eat pie, talk some more and everybody leaves us with a big mess to clean up. But this year Michelle, Aaron, and their kids weren't invited. Their kids aren't very well behaved and Bella just had surgery. Plus the house isn't child-proof and last year Michelle let her kids open their presents before my mom even started handing them out. Which understandably ticked her off. My Auntie Linda isn't too happy about that so we may not have her or her husband this year. Hopefully Chris and Jess will show up but they just moved so they may be too busy unpacking. :/ I hope everybody shows up this year but it doesn't seem like they will right now. Well, I'll find out tomorrow. On Christmas day my parents, Bella, and I open our presents and socks, eat lunch, and then they go out while I play my new video games. That is significantly less family-oriented than the night before. Then for supper we eat leftover turkey and pie.
Our main tradition is to roast hotdogs in the fireplace on Christmas eve. We have the picnic-style dinner with jello, fruit, macaroni, and potato salads, chips, etc. and then the big feast type of dinner on Christmas night. We also have a breakfast casserole Christmas morning after presents.
Open 1 Present in Xmas eve when we wake up, then later at night we go to a relative house, wait till 12 am and open the rest of the presents and we return home and open what we have here
On Christmas Eve, we go to a Christmas Eve service and then have dinner at a local Chinese restaurant. We then have dessert at home consisting of various Christmas cookies and sometimes (but not this year) a Yule log, and watch a movie (usually, but not always, a Christmas one). Then, on Christmas day, we open our stockings, have a fancy breakfast, and open our presents. We eat a nice dinner often consisting primarily of chicken, and then watch another movie (generally not a Christmas one) in the evening. This year, we're watching the LOTR trilogy (like we did last year), so we're actually starting tonight with The Fellowship of the Ring, then watching The Two Towers tomorrow and The Return of the King on Christmas Day.
Well, usually my uncle and his new husband Ernesto will come by around 9am already drunk. My Grandma will spend the whole time either repeating old conversations she had in the 40's, pooping her pants or both. People with small children will show up at noon and the children will start chasing each other around screaming and hitting one another over the head with their gifts. One of the children will receive a bloody nose maybe from an adult. My cousin and some of the older boys will sneak to the bathroom after dinner for a puff of reefer only to be caught by my dad who will join them in a smoke. Usually at this time Ernesto is so loaded he forgets where he is strips off his shirt and jumps up on the table for a dance, gyrating his crotch right in my mothers face. That's when I'll say nuts to this Christmas is over and we all leave the Denny's.
Used to watch The Little Drummer Boy on Christmas Eve with my daughter every year, then set out the cookies and milk for Santa, plus a carrot for the reindeer. After that was bedtime, and waiting to get shaken awake by an excited girl. Not happening this year though. So nothing.
That's one a lot of my friends did, I tried to get my mum to agree to do the same, but she refused. Oh well. Aww. Why not?
I eat peanut butter balls until I puke. OK,so it actually only happened once,but I think about it every Christmas.
With my brother married and starting their own traditions with their kids, and my sister and her husband looking to adopt, my family's traditions are in flux. Pretty much anymore its me and my parents getting together for dinner and a movie on Eve, and then whoever comes up the next day comes up and present are opened, and the big dinner happens after snackage and drinking. And sometimes the same on the 26th if someone else comes up... I don't know if I'll have the energy for much of it this year, tho. New Years I spend with friends online. --Moony
I forgot, I do have a personal tradition - The x-e (now Dinosaur Dracula) Holiday Jukebox! Even tho it has the damn donkey song. I used to read the Advent Calendar, too, but that's changed up quite radically this year and isn't quite the story it used to be. --Moony
Nothing really, after my grandfather died many years ago, all of our Christmas traditions went with him. My grandmother was who just died a about 2 years ago basically was a scrooge around Christmas when it came to traditions. My mom and I we just sit around watch TV, will make a few phone calls, and that's about it really. We don't have a lot of family members to celebrate with either its a quiet Christmas for us.
Open the presents on Christmas Eve so my son has time to enjoy them and then take him to him mom's on Christmas Day. Don't really have one.
My mom does a lot of baking and we give out goodie platters. Every Christmas Eve, we go to our favorite Chinese restaurant.
