I hope you all had a jolly holly weekend! I got some new furniture and went to Holiday in the park at Six Flags, so mine was a very busy one indeed. Now that I am done with school for a month or so, things will start to slow down and I can have more of a relaxing holiday! Well, fingers crossed ;-)
For those of you who are wanting to order any Close To My Heart as Christmas presents for yourself or someone else, orders will need to be placed by today to get it delivered before Christmas. Orders placed after today will not be guaranteed for delivery before the Christmas holiday.
Today I am starting a week of giveaways just in time for Christmas! Make sure you check in with me everyday this week to see what I am giving away! I will be drawing winners on Sunday.
The first giveaway of the week is a Sweater Weather cartridge.
To win:
1) Leave a comment below telling me of your favorite Holiday traditions. 2) Subscribe or follow the blog.
That's it! Winner to be announced on Sunday, December 18, 2011.
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391 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 391 of 391My favourite Christmas tradition. Is when we as a family make Christmas cookies. I love the look of their face when they get to put the colored sugar on the cookies and see it come to life.
What a fun weekend you had!! One of our traditions since I was young is that Christmas Eve you get brand new jammies, even now with my girls 17, they still look forward to their new jammies!!
My favorite holiday tradition is sledding with my brother on Christmas Eve --- I just love getting out in the snow and acting like I am a kid again!
One of our traditions is we let the kids open 1 gift on Christmas eve. We always tell them No even though we all know we are going to let them.... LOL!!!! It always good for some laughs....
Baking goodies for the next door neighbors!
Enjoy your holiday and family!
One of our family traditions is a round robin candy exchange, where everyone brings a wrapped candy gift and we do a round robin, so you never know what you'll end up with. Always lots of giggles and belly laughs!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is going to our daughters house and because she hates making cut-out cookies I do it for her and then our daughter, son-in-law and two grandkids and my hubby decorate them. Our dog and grandpuppy are never far away as they are hoping one falls off the table. I truely enjoy following your blog. You give us all so many awesome incentive.
LindaB in WI
My favorite Christmas tradition is Family time and decorations. Thanks for the oppurtunity.
Tammy
Favorite holiday tradition is a birthday party for Jesus on Christmas Eve before we go to church.
slrdowney at hotmail dot com
We gather with my husband's family to have a dinner, gift exchange, and a dice game where every time you roll a double, you pick a prize from the pile in the middle. There's always a few items that everyone wants to get their hands on!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Favorite tradition is the candlelight service at my church on Christmas eve! TFS!
I just love give-a-ways even if I dont get picked... LOL!
Our favorite holiday tradition is baking and decorating cookies for Santa and our getting ready for Santa scavenger hunt... My 5 yr old loves finding little things that help him get to bed like pjs' toothbrush, a book, a movie. We started it when he was two. My niece who is 4 also joined in the fun when she turned two. We have a blast. They know that when they find the movie that the next one is the book. They watch the movie then their books are read and lights go off to allow Santa plenty of time to come....
Thanks for the opportunity!
Wanda
My favorite tradition is one Christmas Eve everyone opens 1 gift.....always christmas pj's
We have so many traditions with some starting in October when everyone that is present must stir the Christmas pudding for luck before it is put into a cloth and boiled to Boxing day spent at the beach to recover from Christmas day. It is summer here in Australia.
When my children were little we would set the table in the living room near the Christmas tree and have a "fancy" dinner by candlelight. They are all grown with families of their own now.
My personal tradition is hanging ornaments on my tree that belonged to my mother and grandmother. One is a santa that was on my mom and dads first tree. Others are from the 2nd w.war era when there was no metal to be had and the tops of the ornaments are made of paper. I also still hang one by one the old icicles-yes they have lead in them but at least they don't cling to everything :) and to top it off or I should say bottom--an old village made of cardboard always goes under the tree along with the old bottle brush trees. My nativity is my mothers and is also from the 30's 40's era. It is all made from the old paper mache. Prices still on the bottoms ---15 to 29 cents.
vintageladyplayingwithpaper
My husband and I start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. One of my favorite traditions is getting out ornaments...especially ones we have picked up from places we have traveled....what nice memories to reflect on each year!
Lothringen from Michigan
Sounds like a fun weekend. Enjoy your holiday.
Michelle
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I always make sure my kids have their favorite candy in their stockings every Christmas. My son's is Creme Savers and My daughters is Snow Caps.
My favorite tradition is on Christmas Eve. We bake sugar cookies and decorate them. We try to have some for Santa but sometimes that is hard to do. We then read The Night Before Christmas and finish with the Christmas story from the Bible. It is so awesome to watch my children as they create these traditions with their children.
I love decorating our xmas trees w/ my daughter.
-- dalis
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My favorite tradition is having the family all together.
sekala45@roadrunner.com
My favorite Christmas tradition is playing games and watching movies and just being together all Christmas day. We stay in our pajamas and each special snacks/appetizers that I only make on Christmas day. Dana@papermemories4u@ yahoo.com
i'm already a follower. my favorite tradition is baking christmas cookies with my grandkids.
Enjoy your time! You surely have earned it! I/we hope you DO make time for YOU! Even if its just for a pedi, sit under a warm blankie w/ a good short story & cuppa cocoa, a long hot soak or a peri-holiday massage!! We love you & want to see you able to enjoy this time for/with crafting, family, baking & LOVE!!! My fave tradition is sitting w/ DH/DD for Christmas cards being sent. A warm slice of apple berry pie ala mode & some gold & silver pens. Thanks for the giveaways & good luck to all who enter!!!! Chelle
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Sounds like you had a good time ! We love to sing Christmas songs and go look at Christmas lights as a family.
Anna
ann2236@juno.com
Opening gifts on Christmas Eve. I have always loved it being dark outside with the Christmas tree all lit up. Makes for a cozy warm evening of fun!
I think the most favorite tradition for our family is putting up all of the Christmas decorations, inside and outside. The whold neighborhood really decorates the outside of their homes and so we enjoy just walking around looking at everyone's yards.
My favorite holiday tradition is going to Pea Ridge Forest Tree Farm in Hermann, MO, and cut down a fresh Christmas tree. Then we go the the Stone Hill Winery for lunch. Everything is beautiful!
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My favorite tradition is to decorate the tree the day after Thanksgiving. It is so enjoyable to have another day with the family.
I enjoy baking cookies with my husband. It's the only time of the year that we make something in the kitchen together. And decorating the tree is a close second. Thanks for giving away this cool cartridge!!
Every year my mom, sister and I drive around the neighborhoods to see all the christmas lights. I love that.
Its a tradition that my sisters and their families come to my house. I make party foods and we all hang out and enjoy being together.
My favorite tradition is kind of a new one.... I just met my adopted Sister and her family last year and we had our first Christmas together. I make a large dinner with all the fixins and our family all enjoy the food and lots of remembering the year. Also, I purchase an ornament each year for my children since they were born and I look forward to opening up the big box and going though them to decorate the tree. This year we get to add 2 more ornaments becasue both of my children were married this year. So, I guess you could say FAMILY is MY FAVORITE TRADITION!
One of my fondest memories and traditions was when we went to bed on Christmas Eve, of course not before sneaking into my parents' bedroom and setting their clock ahead so we could get up just that much earlier Christmas mornIng (hee hee), and once we were snuggled into bed, we'd place our stockIngs at the foot of our beds. Because the English tradition is this, once asleep Father Christmas (better known as mommy) would fill our stockings with all sorts of goodies; and always mandarins oranges and Lindt chocolate. Then we'd try really hard to fall asleep but it was impossible. With our eyes shut tight while faking asleep, we'd hear Father Christmas slip into our room and take our stockings then return shortly. I could feel the weight of the stockings once returned and the crinkling son's of an over stuffed stocking. I would carefully reach down and feel the fullness of the stocking all the while being very careful not to alert Father Christmas that I was peaking. Oh the excitement the anticipation of openning the stocking was draining which soon led to slumber. But not for long. I'd wake hourly checking the clock "Is it time yet?!" and when the clock reached 4:30 which on my parent's altered click as 5:30 then we were aloud to get up. And so we did bursting into our parents bedroom with stockings n hand- "WAKE UP WAKE UP CONE ON SANTA CAME!"- Nothing like it; nothing better!
All of our family always got together on Christmas eve for dinner and gifts. That was my favorite time!
One of our family traditions started about 25 yrs ago. My sons and I were new to Philadelphia and I was entering the world of single mom's. A friend sent the boys $20. They decided to go out for Christmas Eve dinner and have pizza. Long story short, the place we found was having an employee party and invited us to join them and we had a great and memorable time for the $20 (the boys ate more than $20 of pizzas and drinks. Since that Christmas Eve, we've continued with pizza on Christmas Eve. My youngest son, now 35, has changed it up a bit and his family makes pizzas at home. This year my oldest is flying me out to California and I'm looking forward to continuing with the pizza tradition.
Thanks again for the chance at awesome blog candy.
Hugs, CyndiU
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My fave tradition is the family getting together!!!
My favorite tradition is going to Village Lights in German Village. It is a beautiful old section near downtown Columbus, Ohio where they line the streets with luminaries. It is quite beautiful and all the small shops are amazing. You can always find the unique gifts you are looking for.
thanks for the chance to win.
Michelle C
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A favorite holiday tradition in my home is decorating the tree together with a plate full of cookies- we talk about the ornaments and why we are putting them on the tree and share the cookies while we decorate.
Oh my goodness, what a cute cartridge, would love to win and would also love to see some ideas made with these designs!
Stockings, stocking on Christmas Eve!! All the goodies in them and the looks on the kids faces. Hopefully I'll have a cart or two in mine!
Carol D
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What fun!! One of my favorite traditions with our kids is making a gingerbread house, so much fun as a family to do.
This would be a great cartridge to win .. thank you!!
This looks like a fun cartridge would love to win!! Favorite tradition is Christmas morning breakfast with all my children and now their children too, I love all my babies!! Thanks Courtney
Our holiday tradition is decorating the house, making yummy desserts and having my family over on Christmas Day!
My favorite holiday tradition is making popcorn balls with my grandpa. As a 30 something mother of two its something that I want my children to experience with me and their great grandpa together. It gives us time to talk and bond together as a family.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the Christmas Eve church service and coming home to find pajamas under the tree for everyone. Our little grandkids love it. Lillian
My favorite Christmas tradition is actually at my work. I work with the elderly and every year we have a big Christmas party with all our clients. Presents that have been donated by the community are handed out by Santa and we have special snacks and treats. I love watching the joy in their eyes when they open their presents. It's like watching kids open their presents! It's very rewarding since many of our clients are not used to receiving gifts like that anymore.
I love checking my email every morning and seeing what you've come up with! This cartridge is definitely on my wish list this year! I love all the designs on it! Thanks for your giveaways and your time! It is greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
my favorite tradition is going to my sisters for Christmas day she always tried a new recipe for us always fabulous
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to church on Christmas eve's candle light service. Singing carols, and being with my church family on such a special night. Even better when my children are home from their travels to join me.
this cartridge is so fun!! I love to open presents up on Christmas Eve with my family!!!
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Our holiday tradition is... we all pile into the car and drive around looking at houses decorated with lights.
I have seen some projects made with this cart and love it. Such a cozy, homemade feel.
My favorite tradition is spending Christmas Eve with family who we only see once or twice a year. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome cartridge!
I love decorating. Now my grandson helps with the tree.
Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite tradition is just being with my family. I'd sure love to bevthe winner of this cartridge. Thanks for the opportunity.
Barb--schafe18@aol.com
So glad you are enjoying your time off with your FAMILY!To me that is what Christmas is about FAMILY TIME!Thanks for a chance this is on my wish list they stop selling them here?(cricut lites)
Our Family tradition is to go see the Chritmas Lights at 12:00 midnight on Christmas Eve!A big subdivision has each house all done up for Christmas & each house out does each other. You begain with just your parking lights & at the end you give food or money for the needy.
We love to watch "Christmas Vacation" as a family while we decorate. It is always a fun time. Thanks for a chance.
Julie
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my favorite family tradition the exchange of home ornaments. I make a new and different one for each family member every year and they just love it. Hope you have a Merry Christmas.
later tater,
laney
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting new ornaments for the kids each year. My parents did that for my sister and I growing up and now I have lots of ornaments that we could put on our tree that are from when I was a kid. Thanks for the chance!
Thanks for a chance to win the Sweater Weather cartridge. One of my favorite tradition is making cookies and giving them to family and friends as gifts
Kathy
kahook1 @ Verizon.net
My favorite holiday tradition is a party with my scrap booking friends. We make something for each member and even though we don't spend much money, it is always something fabulous!
I love making cards and cookies with my daughter.
Fabulous giveaway! My favorite tradition is spending time with my girls and grandkids!
Merry Christmas!
Great looking cartridge! We like to put up the tree will drinking eggnog and singing cmas carols! not exciting but it works for us as we don't have any young kids and it it just my husband and I at home. We love spending time together.
Angela Young
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Love this cartridge! My favorite Christmas tradition is going to and singing at Christmas Eve Service. There's nothing like the feeling of seeing the church dim with the greenery and lights and seeing that last advent candle lit, remembering the most special gift ever given.
busWe have Christmas eve dinner at my sisters and we exhange gifts. My children and grandchildren also come and share the joy of christmas.
My favorite tradition is after the grand kids and I decorate the tree, I put my parents first set of ornaments on the tree. They are birds and have been used over 50yrs.
plese.cathy at yahoo dot com
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My favorite holiday tradition as a kid was always watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special, now that I am older, my favorite tradition is just getting together with family and talking and enjoying each other's company. :) AND making Christmas cards!!
Thanks for a chance to win. My favorite tradition is to get all my shopping for my family done in one day!!
bdcampers@msn.com
I love to make holiday cookies with my MIL and SIL. I also love to read the Christmas story with my family. I have a special book that I read as well, written by a friend of mine. We pull out our Little People Preschool nativity for my son to play with. He loves to hear the music. Thanks for the giveaway!
Our favorite holiday traditions include our Christmas tree (I can see it from where I sit typing now, and some of the ornaments just make me smile!), going to mass on Christmas Eve, setting out milk and cookies for Santa, and enjoying family time in our PJ's on Christmas Day!
My favorite tradition is going out on Christmas Eve to look at all the lights.
One of my fav Christmas traditions is making Christmas cookies, Pizzelles, & fudge. I made my 1st batch of cookies yesterday. Mailed some of the cookies in pkgs to family in FL. Thanks for giveaway chance.
Melissa
"Sunshine HoneyBee"
http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com
I love the Christmas carols and family get togethers.
I love the family gathering together every Christmas Eve!
Barbara
too many traditions to choose one. but Christmas Eve is family dinner at our house then Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. Peaceful...truly the reason for the season.
so many great traditions. Love Christmas Eve Candlelight church service...peace...truly the reason for the season
Our favorite family tradition is celebrating my oldest daughter's birthday on Dec 24. We usually go to Fargo's Old Fashioned Pizza place here in Colorado Springs to play and eat.We also enjoy checking out the light displays. Would love to win this cartridge- looks like a super one.
My favorite Christmas tradition is to get together with my family (parents, siblings and their families) on Christmas Eve for a potluck meal, card games, etc. and cap it all off with photos of each family.
I love it all really but I guess one of my favorites is going to look at all the lights.
Tina
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One of my favorite holiday traditions is to turn off all the light in the house, flip on the Christmas tree light and watch Christmas cartoons that I grew up on like Rudolph, Frosty the Snow Man, etc.
Our favorite tradition is to purchase my girls a new Christmas ornament every year. They love picking out their new ornament and putting it on the tree.
April
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would love to win this cart. love it. thanks for the chance to win. glad you will be slowing down for the holiday. happy holidays to you and your family
My favorite Christmas tradition is Christmas Eve services. It reminds us of the real meaning of Christmas and puts things in the right perspective.
It's been fun reading through everyone's favorite traditions. I love our tradition of sledding on Christmas Eve and coming home to a homemade soup supper - usually 3 kinds of soup and one of them has to be turkey wild rice. The broth for this soup is made from the Thanksgiving turkey and frozen until Christmas eve when it's made into soup.
Super fun! My favorite tradition is making chocolate covered pretzels for my family and friends! Already a follower! TFS! abusybee24@cox.net
What a cute cartridge! Thanks so much for offering giveaways this week.... You know I'll be here with or without them! :O) I hope you enjoy your holiday break! Our family tradition is buying a new Hallmark ornament for each of us. I've been doing this, since the oldest was a baby and he's now 18! So he has plenty to start his own tree! :O)
Theresa
What a great giveaway. Love this cartridge and would buy it if I could but right now money is going else where. Thanks.
My favorite tradition is hosting Christmas Eve at my house and making Gingerbread houses. Everyone gets in on the fun. This year I have a foot injury and am in a boot as of today so I'm trying to figure out how I will be able to host my family get together with limited mobility :(.
So many traditions to choose from. I think that my favorite is making gifts for family and friends! Thanks so much!
I would so love having this cartridge! Thanks for a chance to win it. Edwina Brown edwinabrown@comcast.net
My favorite holiday tradition is when we decorate our tree! We have such fun with carols playing and remembering each ornament as it's placed on the tree!
Kris in Alaska
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Our family tradition is that we all get together for Christmas Eve because its my mom's birthday, so everybody show up at my mom's every year!
One of our holiday traditions is that each of us gets to open a small gift on Christmas eve.
We don't have any particular traditions. If this counts, we always have a little bible study about the birth of Jesus before gifts are opened.
I have to say that one of my favorite Holiday traditions is going to the tree lot with my Husband's brother's family to pick out our Christmas Trees. It is a very "intense" process, with much discussion! One child wants a medium, fat tree, one wants a tree with long needles, mom wants a short, short tree, dad wants a tall tree and the 5 year old wants the tallest tree on the lot! It is ALWAYS entertaining--and makes great scrap book pages!
My favorite Christmas tradition is when my grandson and I grab a Friday night, by ourselves, and watch Christmas Vacation... with lots of snacks & goodies. Hard to believe how much we laugh after doing this for the last 8 years. His Mother has told me that if it comes on TV he leaves the room saying "I only watch that with Grandma". Now THAT's the making of wonderful memories!!
Thank you for the opportunity to win this cute cart. I am already a follower.
Merry Christmas,
Carrol
asuno1 at msn dot com
One of our favorite traditions is to go out on Christmas Eve and look at all the lights. We take hot chocolate and crank up the Christmas tunes!
amyis300 AT hotmail DOT com
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On the 24th we all get together as a family and make Turkey with a all sorts of side dishes. By 11 we all have our hot chocolate with Tamles and wait till 12 am to open our stockings!!! On the morning of the 25th (after we wake up) we open gifts Santa brought us over night :)
Hope your time off is relaxing for you! The only tradition that I can think of is that me, my husband, our kids and grandkids get together at our house Christmas Eve, go to Christmas Mass and then on Christmas Day, the whole family gets together at my Mom & Dads house. It's nice when everyone can make it! Have a very, merry Christmas to you and yours!
sherri_braun@hotmail.com
My fav has to be getting together with my sibs. There is 8 of us so we don't get everyone in the same place that often so that has to be my fav.
DMcardmaker (email follower)
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is when my two daughters and I sit down together and make stuffed paper bag ornaments. It gives them a chance to paint and create and adds a little sparkle to the tree. We have done it since they were old enough to hold a paint brush.
Thanks for the chance to win this cartridge. It reminds me of all the cross stitch projects my grandmother used to do. Merry Christmas.
Thanks for the giveaway, would love to win this cart! My favorite holiday tradition is going through the neighborhoods looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights & also watching Christmas movies each evening.
anndiehl@centurytel.net
I live 3 1/2 hours from my family. Every Christmas Eve we head to Chicago early in the day and spend the entire day/evening with them and get back home around midnight. It is so much fun, crazy, silly things that we do, but it's time with family!
My favorite tradition.......hmmm, it has to be putting the lights and wreaths up the day after Thanksgiving. As soon as the red bows go on the wreaths.......it is Christmas and the fun times begin with new memories made.
Great item - hmm fav holiday traditions? I think baking cookies and crafting run neck and neck!
I am loving the elf on the shelf tradition I have started with my boys. My 6 year old is getting to the point where his faith is wavering (due to the mean kids on my street who told him elf was just a stuffed toy). I love the innocence of its all.
Would love to win this cartridge!!
What a fun weekend. One of our favorite traditions is to attend Christmas eve candle lit service. A wonderful time to reflect on the past year and be reminded of the true meaning of Christmas. Thankyou for a wonderful give away. Teachermom5@gmail.com
I already subscribe to your blog through gfc!
My favorite holiday tradition is eating shepherd's pie with my family on Christmas Eve!
I usually do a lot of baking and candy making and take to different friends and businesses around town.
So many traditions but one of my favorites is decorating my house for Christmas
Thanks for the chance to win
Glad you can kind of relax, before Christmas is here.
When my children were young, they always asked to open one present on Christmas Eve, but I got to pick out which one it was. (I knew to pick out something they really wanted.lol) Now, with grandchildren, it seems to be mass confusion when they all want to open everything at once. Thanks for a chance to win. This cart reminds me of all the sweaters I and my kids wore 'back then'.
My favorite ties two holidays together. I love Thanksgiving because its about the family being all together at least once a year. After the food is put away and everyone has watched football or taken a nap with pull all the christmas buckets out of the attic. I love to hear my kids say Mom I remember this, I remember that, we decorate the tree the next day and that sets the tone for the christmas season for us. I dont always have my kids and grandkids all together at christmas so thats why thanksgiving is so special.Mindy1qc@msn.com
Holiday Traditions....Black Friday shopping at Midnight with family!
Shirelle
Favorite Holiday Tradition: One of them, we just started a few years ago when our family started expanding. We now have Christmas day at our house with just our 4 children, their spouses and our 7 young grandbabies. Instead of running here and there we have everyone over stating with brunch. While waiting for everyone to arrive, everyone eats as they get here, then once everyone has eaten its on tho the gist opening! I hope we can carry this on and make it a long time tradition.
Pat
When I was a child, St Nicholas visited on his feast day, December 6, and filled our stockings with treats. I have continued that tradition with my children. It's a fun way to enter the Christmas season AND an opportunity to talk about the original Santa Claus - and what we can do to show his spirit of generosity in our lives.
As corny as it sounds we've been going to the movies the past three years on Christmas Day and really enjoy it. There are always a group of young women who show up dressed to the nines and they even bring a photographer with them! It's a hoot and has become a great holiday tradition for us!
My favorite holiday tradition is church Christmas Eve and then going to my MIL's open house. Thanks for the "cool" giveaway!
My favorite tradition at Christmas is on Christmas eve all my children and my husbands parents go to church services and then back to one of our homes for pizza. When my children where little we were eating and the children happened to see Santa going into a house across the street. They were so excited and ready to go home and go to bed!
I accidentally put my traditions comment on your 2nd day post about favorite dishes. One of our traditions is to get party poppers and wear the paper crowns in them at dinner. As for favorite dish, I would have to say THE PIES!!!
My favorite tradition is attending Christmas Eve church services, then coming home to enjoy a light buffet while Christmas music plays in the background. And then after we've relaxed, the mad rush to wrap all the gifts begins...
Thanks for the chance to win!
Thanks for the giveaway!! My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve dinner at my aunt's house where my aunt's family, my mom's family and my uncle's family all get together - over 50 people!! Wish our grandparents were still here to see us all!
My family tradition is getting together at my parents house and make tamales.
Veronica
mommyscraftycreations.blogspot.com
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Thank you for all the great ideas. Love them all. Rosemary at hudak4@zoominternet.net
My favorite tradition is going to my moms on Christmas day and just spending time with our family. We talk, play games and just be silly.
Becka
scrapperbecka at yahoo dot com
My favorite tradition is going to my Moms house and seeing the nieces and nephews! Love those kids!
What fun! I enjoy baking Christmas cookies each Christmas to share with friends and family!
debz831 at hot mail dot com
my fave tradition is putting out all the treats on a little table in the lounge and baking the cookies and mince pies too xx
Enjoy your new furniture and your time off!
One of my favorite Christmas traditions began when I was only 3 or 4. Mom & I would go to Grandma's and she would teach me to bake Christmas cookies and pastries from "the old country". We did this every year until Grandma passed away. My mom and I have continued the tradition. And now, I am finally a grandma myself. This is little Em's first Christmas. In a few years, I'll begin to pass this tradition on to her!
Melanie, thanks so much for the give-away, but thanks, too for the opportunity to share my story! I see a new scrapbook layout coming! :)
Happy Holidays!
Luvs2scrap at aol dot com
wow, so many traditions which do I share. One of my favorites is setting our the Nativity scene that is a tradition. I put it out before putting up the tree. What would Christmas be if not for the birth of Jesus. My daughter in law knew I collected Boyds Bears so she purchased a Boyds Bear nativity set for me a few years ago. With 27 grandchildren this one is perfect. It is made from stuffed bears that can be handled many times over year after year and not damage it. That is just one of my traditions. I enjoyed reading all the other comments and making memories is great.
I love going home for the holidays and spending time with my family. We live 12 hours from my parents and siblings. I love listening to my dad's deep voice as he reads the Christmas story from the Bible. We then open our gifts to each other. I can't wait to get there! Thanks for a chance to win a great cartridge. :D
My favorite holiday tradition is when I went to my sister and 6 in the morning my nephews would wake us up and we would sit by the tree and we open presents up.
My favorite is Breakfast with Santa. We have gone to the same one since my kids were small, and now take the kids and the grandchildren. So much fun! I also love Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, which we go to as a family. And I love this Sweater Weather cartridge! Thanks for the chance to win it!
Christmas Eve service is my favorite tradition - no matter which branch of our family we're with, we always attend.
Thanks for the chance to win this cute cartridge!
Ann
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That is such a cute cartridge. Thank you for the chance to win it.
My favorite dishes for the holiday are turkey and dressing with cranberry marshmellow salad yum!
one of my favourite holiday tradition, is making this western omelet, in a slow cooker for breakfast, they just LOVE it, and I only make it for Christmas morning, so they look so forward to it, I think it makes it very special...
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My favorite Christmas tradition is doing absolutely nothing! We have a wonderful big breakfast, open our gifts very, very slowly in front of the fire and watch our favorite holiday movies ALL DAY LONG!!! I love not having the stress of having to go somewhere. Makes the holidays more joyous,restful and memorable. And of course we can't forgot our traditional read of the True Christmas Story when our savior Jesus Christ was born.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
I love sweater weather. It reminds me so much of the Nordic traditional inmages. My family does a traditinal smoked cod, fried scallops and eggs ala goldenrod on toast. Then one of our daughter makes donuts that are better than Krispy Kremes. We all open presents and have fun being together. Carjo in southern Utah
A favorite tradition is getting together with family and friends to have a day of fun and games.
Our favorite tradition is having my oldest daughter put the Angel on top of the tree after we decorate it. She always gets on her dad's shoulders to do that, but I think this might be the last year:). They had a little trouble. She is 13 and about 5'4. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
yolanda_2468@yahoo.com
fav holiday tradition is decorating the tree.. I love looking at all the ornaments.. my fam has all sorts of different homemade ones that my grandma, mom & aunts all made together and they are great super crafty I love looking at them... they take me back to being a kid looking at them :D
-jamie
babyblueangel_30@yahoo.com
My favorite holiday tradition - well there are two that I've carried over to my family. one is putting up the tree on my birthday or Thanksgiving whichever comes first and the second one is having spaghetti for Christmas eve dinner.
Our tradition is making candy & cookies with my son and grandson.
Sue
rolfe974@prodigy.net
This is going to sound rather lame, but it really is just getting together with family. My sister comes down with her husband and three kids, my Gma comes, my aunts come and we all meet in Austin. This doesn't happen every year, but it is happening this year!!!
A tradition we started since moving to Florida is to go to the beach on Christams day. If we have company, they are from the northern states and usually have left cold and snow behind, so for them it is a very nice day.
One tradition we have is always to have pizza for dinner on Christmas eve, which works well because it is quick and easy on a busy day!
This is such a fun and original cart! Great giveaway. My favorite yearly tradition is lighting votives outside to outline our property on Christmas Eve. Our whole neighborhood does it . . . lighting the way for Santa's sleigh.
My favorite holiday tradition started 32 years ago ~ every year I make a Christmas photo ornament of my children ~ and now my grandchildren. Our tree is now loaded with priceless photos from over the years.
SusanJ in Atlanta
We would have a buffet and could pick what we wanted that lasted until noon. And every one that stopped in had to get something to eat from the buffet.
my favorite holiday traditions are decorating and setting up the tree with family and going to christmas eve service at church.
My favorite tradition is our stockings on Christmas morning! We may be in our mid-40's but hubby & I love to fill stockings for each other. There is always fun gifts in stocking like funky socks, cool ink pens, etc. I even sneak over to the nursing home my mother is in and make sure she wakes up to a full stocking!
We love to go out and look at the lights. It has been great fun. agent3547 at aol dot com
My favorite holiday tradition is my annual Christmas party where I can spend time with all my friends.
Wow I sooo want that cart. Our annual tradition is driving around the neighborhood to view the holiday lights. Smooches... Felicia - frankleecrafts [at] gmail [dot] com
My favorite tradition is our day of baking cookies!
~Tracy
blue.tacs at yahoo dot com
My favorite holiday tradition is finding the perfect Christmas Eve book and ornament for each of my children. They open these on the 24th and we read their new books in front of the fire.
We go every year to see the 8th floor Macy's Holiday display. It has been the same theme th last few years, but the kids don't remember and it's always fun, plus we stop to see Santa after we've finished the display. My parents brought my brothers and me, and now my husband and I bring our boys. Thanks for the chance to win!
We go every year to see the 8th floor Macy's Holiday display. It has been the same theme th last few years, but the kids don't remember and it's always fun, plus we stop to see Santa after we've finished the display. My parents brought my brothers and me, and now my husband and I bring our boys. Thanks for the chance to win!
We go every year to see the 8th floor Macy's Holiday display. It has been the same theme th last few years, but the kids don't remember and it's always fun, plus we stop to see Santa after we've finished the display. My parents brought my brothers and me, and now my husband and I bring our boys. Thanks for the chance to win!
Just all of us being together on christmas eve, Its the only time my hole family sits down to catch up and meet the new little one!
Our tradition is that we all get into our Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve and pick out one my present to open before we go to sleep.
what a great cartridge...our favorite tradition is going to our daughters house early Christmas morning before the kids wake up to be able to watch them come down and open presents! Thanks for the chance to win
Corinne
ronnieandcorinne@sbcglobal.net
My favorite traditions as a kid were midnight mass and then dinner in the middle of the night after church!!! I don't get home for many Christmases anymore so I really cherish the ones I do get :)
I have so many, how do I choose - its so fun starting traditions with our boys! My most favorite is when we decorate the tree and as we unwrap the ornaments, we talk about each one and why its special! Thanks for the chance to win!
Christmas eve with my 7 siblings.
DMcardmaker (email follower)
Every year for Christmas, my husband and I take our favorite photo of us from that year, frame it in a frame ornament and hang it on our tree. One day, our tree will be packed will family photos!
We travel to hubby's 91 mom who refuses to give up cooking Christmas supper. My favorite food is stuffing. This is a tresured time to spend with family.
I love this cartridge. I'm hoping Santa brings it to me.
Our tradition is to put up our tree as a family. Even though my kids are 27 and 25, they still come home to help put up the tree along with my son-in-law and granddaughter. I hope this doesn't change for quite a while.
My favorite tradition is one my husband & I started just afew years ago, now that our girls are out on thier own. We start the Holiday Season off by going to see a Christmas musical at our church.
Hi Melanie!
My favorite family tradition during the holidays is decorating our Christmas tree. Every Christmas since my two boys were born, (they're now 15 & 13) we'd find an ornament which represented something significant that happened that year. We would make sure that it was dated with the year...very important :) As we decorate our tree, we tell the stories behind each ornament from the past years. I love how our tree is filled with many wonderful memories of our family.
Have a wonderful holiday season!
Suzanne
suzwatanabe@yahoo.com
What a great giveaway! This isn't my favorite tradition but one that I just shared with my daughter's this year. When I was growing up we always had a few metal tins of holiday popcorn under the tree and got it to eat it all month long. They love it so far!
sweetheartcopper at msn dot com
Every Christmas eve the family would meet down at my papaws house and have a Christmas dinner and let the kids open presents. This will be the first year without that tradition because my papaw has passed away but I am hopping to make new traditions with my husband and our families.
Dressing up my two boys as Santa and his little helper and giving presents to everybody!!
My favorite holiday tradition is buying a new ornament every year.
My favorite tradition is putting on Mitch Miller and the Gang while opening presents. We had this album when I was young (in the early 60's) and I played the cassette for my kids in the 80's. My son wants the CD for his children now. :)
We always have breakfast on Christmas morning together. Then we open presents and spend the day together.
Had fun at Temple Square in SLC Utah on the weekend! Love to do that every year with the family! We started when we moved here 6 years ago! TFS CallyAnn
We've never really had any holiday traditions in my family, but my in-laws started one a couple years ago. When you arrive at their house, they give you a brand new pair of PJ's to put on. That way you are comfortable all day and the PJ's are yours to keep.
my favorite holiday tradition is decorating the christmas tree and the house and taking the kids to see santa.
My family has always stuffed stockings, even for the adults. Great gifts can come in these things. I found a pair of diamond earrings in the toe!
My favourite holiday tradition is going to church with my family and my parents and then going to their house for a drink and conversation. No better way to spend Christmas Eve than with Grandma and Grandpa!!!!!!
TeacherMom
Our favorite tradition is sitting by the fire and listening to my daughter play the piano - relaxing with family.
delgador at bellsouth dot net
We bundle up and drive to santas wonderland in college station Texas. Millions and millions of lights. This year we chose the hayride. After the hayride, there is
Santas village with s'mores over an outdoor pit, hot chocolate, pics with Santa as well as singalongs.
I just enjoy spending time with family. I love when I get to go back to my hometown and catch up with family that I don't get to see very often. I'm going home this year, yeah!!!
I love the images on Sweater Weather cartridge!
I can't wait to get Victorian Romance!
I love getting the house ready for our son to come home to; he lives out of state and very far away from us so he only gets home maybe 2x a year, but misses home so it is a joy to have the lights and sounds and smells of Christmas throughout the house when he opens the door.
We really don't have many traditions in my family but, one that we just recently started doing was everyone gathers at my Nanny's house on Christmas Eve for dinner.... and one of the older guys at the house calls my sisters cellphone and they talk to my nephew like they are Santa.... shortly after that...he's ready for bed!!!
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
Michelle
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http://peanutbutterandjellydesigns.blogspot.com
my fave... burning last year's tree trunk while we decorate this year's tree... with hot chocolate and popcorn for snacks. so warm and cozy, and family together. lisa (charligirl88@yahoo.com)
spending time with family and caroling
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