What are some traditions you have that your family does every year?
Goes to this park that has a ton of Christmas lights
Open gifts at 12am on Christmas eve. We also go to Bristol Motor Speedway for Speedway in lights.
Absolutely nothing. The women in the family would always play Boggle with my grandmother, and for whatever reason, I'd join in and just find stuff like "tits." goonish
And my grandmother would always make delicious sand tarts, but since she's gone, I'm the only person in the family that knows how to make those delicious treats and make them right.
We open some presents, then go to my grandparents, then come home, my other grandparents come up and we eat dinner, then open presents.
Since me and my sister are my parents parents only grandchildren because my mom's sister is mentally handicapped, my grandparents usually give us the big gifts like the N64 that one glorious year.
Also, christmas eve we always go to church at night, and they have beautiful candles lit and it's so nice. Then when we come home we open stockings.
Sleep.
We're going to Jamaica for christmas this year, srsly powerofone;
On a cruise ship, of course, but the 25th is the day we actually go onto the mainland of Jamaica.
Every year on the 23rd, which happens to be my aunt's birthday, we celebrate Christmas with my father's side of the family. We usually choose someone's house, and the whole family gathers there. We draw names about two weeks prior to the event, and buy a present for that person. Nothing big. We have a huge meal, and socialize with the family we haven't seen for almost a year.
On Christmas Eve, we usually open one present chosen by my parents. Then in the morning, we all raid our stockings full or random shit. Every year, my dad put a toothbrush in them. I'm not sure why, but it kind of saddens me that I won't be seeing a toothbrush in my stocking this year.
As for the rest of the day, we either stay at our house, or go to my brother's house to have a meal and open the remaining gifts after the dishes are washed and dried by my sister and I.
That's pretty much it.
We open presents on the 24th and sleep in the 25th.
We go to both sides of the families Christmas.
Quote from: Kefka on November 25, 2007, 04:40:44 PM
Open gifts at 12am on Christmas eve. We also go to Bristol Motor Speedway for Speedway in lights.
Oh, pliz take pictures and show us.
Nothing, really. My sister does have an annual tradition of bitching at everyone and complaining about how she hates the holidays, though.
Quote from: Miss Freaking Pyrate on November 25, 2007, 07:12:08 PM
Nothing, really. My sister does have an annual tradition of bitching at everyone and complaining about how she hates the holidays, though.
You guys should drug her
Go to my step-grandmas on the 24th and open gifts from her and whoever has my name in the gift exchange.
We go to church on the 24th also. smithicide;
Then just a normal Christmas of opening gifts.
Well on Thanksgiving we have a drawing, to see who gives gifts to who. Then we go to one person's house. Umm... we have food......
My Christmass sorta suck, since the other kids are 4-9 yr. olds gonk;
We eat on Christmas Eve. Then once we get tired, we open our presents (usually at about 10:30). Then on Christmas Day, we do nothing special at all.
Open presents on x-mas eve after my dad ruined x-mas two years ago.
On Christmas Eve, my mother lets both me and my sister open one or two present(s) each.
Before Christmas, my uncle usually gets a plane ride from his home in Texas to visit us and stays at my house (since I live with my grandmother/his mother)
On Christmas Day, we open all the presents between the people in our house and then visit my aunt's house where we open presents between everybody else. After presents, we just stay there and usually have a smaller Thanksgiving-like dinner.
My mother sometimes makes me go to a church on Christmas Eve, which I hate edumacate;