Christmas Traditions

[DangerousDan85]

What are some of your Christmas traditions????????????

[hotforscott]

My Mom and I always eat chocolate covered cherries and wrap presents. Even though I moved out a long time ago and live 2 1/2 hours away, we still do it. It's fun to learn to love the little things.

[TeriB19]

That's so nice Carrie. Great to continue on with traditions even after you leave the house. We always go to Mass on Christmas Eve and then come home and unwrap one gift. Then Christmas morning we rip all the stuff apart and have a big breakfast and a big turkey dinner with all the same trimmings that we have on Thanksgiving. Can't wait to start decorating!

[luvscott4ever]

Me too...going to be doing that today...cleaned my house yesterday to get ready for today!! Can't have a messy house with all that great x-mas stuff!!

[TeriB19]

I have to wait until December to decorate. It's all I can do to get the energy to take down my Thanksgiving decorations after eating that big meal. I usually start decorating the first week in Dec. but we won't put our tree up until around the 20th.

[Steve]

Open presents X-mas eve, watch The Christmas Story on X-mas day, have a big breakfast at home and a big dinner at night at my Aunt/Uncle house. That's about it really.

[luvscott4ever]

That's so cool when people have family traditions!! I don't really have any traditions, but always spend the holidays with the people I love the most...MY FAMILY!! Unfortunately, my mom usually works, but thankfully, this year she finally has x-mas off!! That's the drag of working in a casino...they NEVER CLOSE!! But atleast for the next couple of years she'll have it, being as her days off are Wed, Thurs and Fri!! I'm soooo HAPPY!! Finally get to spend x-mas day with my mommy!! :bounce: :dancing:

[hotforscott]

Originally posted by TeriB19
That's so nice Carrie. Great to continue on with traditions even after you leave the house. We always go to Mass on Christmas Eve and then come home and unwrap one gift. Then Christmas morning we rip all the stuff apart and have a big breakfast and a big turkey dinner with all the same trimmings that we have on Thanksgiving. Can't wait to start decorating!


That is nice, we always do the same food as well. I am such a fan of the Holidays that I had my tree up about a week before Thanksgiving, my kids love to decorate as well.

[hotforscott]

Originally posted by luvscott4ever
That's so cool when people have family traditions!!  I don't really have any traditions, but always spend the holidays with the people I love the most...MY FAMILY!!  Unfortunately, my mom usually works, but thankfully, this year she finally has x-mas off!!  That's the drag of working in a casino...they NEVER CLOSE!!  But atleast for the next couple of years she'll have it, being as her days off are Wed, Thurs and Fri!!  I'm soooo HAPPY!!  Finally get to spend x-mas day with my mommy!!  :bounce:  :dancing:

That's so great. Have a wonderful Holiday!

[Dogstar]

Originally posted by TeriB19
That's so nice Carrie. Great to continue on with traditions even after you leave the house. We always go to Mass on Christmas Eve and then come home and unwrap one gift. Then Christmas morning we rip all the stuff apart and have a big breakfast and a big turkey dinner with all the same trimmings that we have on Thanksgiving. Can't wait to start decorating!

That is exactly what we do minus the big breakfast. Mom usually puts out homemade candy and some Swedish brownies in the morning. But then there's the turkey dinner later on! I live far away now, but my parents send me my gifts if I can't get home for Christmas and I still open one on Christmas Eve and then call them after Mass to tell them which one I opened!

[TeriB19]

That's so nice. It must be hard to be away from your family around the holidays. You know you have extended family a little closer this year, don't you?

[krzycreedbabe]

Shanna's Christmas Tradtions
by Shanna

On the Christmas holidays, we go to my grandmothers house on my moms side on Christmas Eve and open any presents from aunts/uncles/cousins and eat dinner. Then, on the following morning (Christmas Day) my brother and I open our presents from mom and dad :D and then my grandmom on my moms side comes over OUR house and we open presents from them. Later that day, we head on over to my grandparents house on my dads side and open any presents from uncles/aunts/cousins/grandparents there and have dinner. Finally, while we are there we have just started doing this (this will be the second year we do it, and this year my cousin and I are in on it too) we get gag gifts (or nice gifts) under $15 and wrap them and pick numbers out of hats and pick the presents randomly so that u dont know what present ur gonna get and anyone who goes after you can trade for your present without your consent, if after you open it they see it to their liking. Its pretty fun lol.

[DangerousDan85]

We put up our tree and decorations today. We always have a family gift exchange and exchange on christmas eve. I picked my dog this year. :lol: :lol:

[Dogstar]

Originally posted by TeriB19
That's so nice. It must be hard to be away from your family around the holidays. You know you have extended family a little closer this year, don't you?

Awwwww, you are too kind. Thank you soooooo much! :)
Actually, this year, I might even have the day off. The schedule comes out next week, so I should find out. It's on a Wednesday, and I have Monday and Tuesday off, so I could get a three-day weekend out of it! If so, I definitely will be home for the holidays. It'll be the first time in about three years!

[GoodGodGirl23]

Originally posted by DangerousDan85
We put up our tree and decorations today. We always have a family gift exchange and exchange on christmas eve. I picked my dog this year. :lol: :lol:

Speaking of Dogs..My dog Dewy has his own lil Christmas stocking we put out each year, init is some dried up doggie poop!!:) :rolleyes: :D kinna funny!!:eek: :dancing: :dancing:

[DangerousDan85]

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[GoodGodGirl23]

Originally posted by DangerousDan85
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[DangerousDan85]

this is my signature smilie response

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[GoodGodGirl23]

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[DangerousDan85]

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[GoodGodGirl23]

:bounce: :bounce:

[hayley]

Well this is what happens in my house on Christmas Day:

I wake up usually at around 6am every Xmas morning, go and have a look at the pressies under the tree, then me and my brother watch Christmas cartoons on tv while mum and dad are having their shower, then we open all of the presents, :dancing: then for the rest of the morning we are just usually playing board games and doin family stuff, then sometimes i help my mum get CHristmas dinner (YUM!!) then that is usually ready at about 1.30pm, we have that, then we all lounge around for the rest of the afternoon cauze our tummies feel like they are gonna BURST!!!!!!:eek:

[DangerousDan85]

:lol: We used to get up really early, but my mom makesus wait till like 8:00 or 9:00 now.

[hayley]

yeah...every single christmas since i can remember we have had to wait until my mum and dad have had their shower, THEN we can open our presents.:lol:

[DangerousDan85]

me too, they let us go through our stockings while we wait.

[hayley]

that's cool...i don't have stockings:( don't know why, we just never had, well apart from when we were little.:)

[DangerousDan85]

they'll probably have to wake me up considering how late I've been staying up.

[hayley]

lol yeah man you do stay up late...but well i mean you have to right, cauze you can't get to sleep?

[DangerousDan85]

plus we only have one phone line so my mom doesn't want me on the internet during the day.

[hayley]

yeah true, that's what it used to be like with me, but now we have another phone line...and it is so much easier and very handy.

[DangerousDan85]

yeah we need one, I think when we move we'll have one

[hayley]

yeah i was reading ur profile before and you said you were movin to Tenesse, is it? cool!

[DangerousDan85]

yeah in about a month, I don't mind moving, but I'll miss my friends. SJack5802 is my best friend, we've known each other for 10 years. We lived in the same neighborhood in South Bend, IN. We kept in touch when I moved to Indianapolis, then St. Louis, then back to South Bend. We'll still get to do stuff in the summer and hopefully go to a Creed show.

[hayley]

wow 10 years! that's amazing...but yeah when i did the big move it was awful moving away from my best friend but now i have moved on, unfortunatly we don't keep in touch now, but i have heaps of friends here and i'm very happy!! but yeah you will make more friends, and yeah i hope ur's and Scott's friendship will live on!

oh yeah and yes i hope you do go to a creed show too! i will get to see creed in around 2 years cauze that's when they are comin back to New Zealand but yeah i know it's ages but it'll be worth it!:dancing:

[DangerousDan85]

yeah we'll keep in touch. 2 yrs. that's a long time, but cool that there coming. It'll be hard to keep in touch when we go off to college though.

[hayley]

yeah i know 2yrs is ageeeees! yeah ur right, we are very lucky that they are comin back!! it's gonna be awesome, my first Creed concert! yaye! me and faceless kiwi are gonna go together.:P tit's gonna be wicked!
but yeah well ur prolly right, it will be hard when you both go off to college but you can always ring each other and then there is the weekends and holidays:)

[DangerousDan85]

true, how close do you and faceless live to one another.

[hayley]

well unfortunatly we live about 9 hours away from one another, but we are very very close, and we have promised that whenever creed comes back and no matter where they are gonna play we are going together, no matter what, and gonna spend time with each other too...yeah we can't wait!

well dan i have to go now, so i will talk to ya tomorra?
good night!:P

[DangerousDan85]

good night

[GoodGodGirl23]

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[krzycreedbabe]

WAKE UP WAKE UP ITS CHRISTMAS!!!!!! lol sry couldnt resist, this being the christmas thread n all lol :D :bounce: ;)

[hayley]

really is it Christmas? man i am dum to the dayz i thought it was Easter! :doh:

[DangerousDan85]

I got a lot of cool stuff this year because I was a good boy! :lol:

[hayley]

yeah same cauze i was a good girl...lol:roll:

[DangerousDan85]

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[hayley]

lol man do the chicken dance....:chic: :chic: :chic: :roll:

[DangerousDan85]

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Have you seen the movie EDtv with Matthew Mconahay (sp)

[DangerousDan85]

he has a chicken dance he does it's funny

[hayley]

no i haven't seen that movie, is it really good?

[DangerousDan85]

it's ok it would be worth renting for the chicken dance

[hayley]

LOL or i can always just watch the lil scott one dancing away on this computer;)

[DangerousDan85]

:lol: look at my response in the one word thread

[hayley]

k i will:P