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I am sure that all of you have a list of traditions that you do each holiday. For me, one that brings me a combination of joy and frustration are my holiday cards! I have a box filled with cards that I have saved over the years. I especially love the photo cards…I love to look and see how everyone has changed over the years!
I typically send out photo cards. I am so busy that I am not the best about putting up pictures on Facebook so this is often the only way friends and family get a current picture of the boys. Organizing that picture is a nightmare. How on Earth does it sneak up on me every single year?
Since I am often the one behind the camera, I decided to use this opportunity to get family photos made. We recently got our family photo made and I just sent them off to be made into Christmas cards. Yep, I am cutting it close this year.
Apparently I am not the only one who is running behind this year. I usually have tons more cards on my displays by now. I thought I’d show you one of my simple displays that I use. It’s a very economical option but I think it’s quite cute. Plus you can use any color ribbon to match your decor!
Displaying those cards brings me so much joy seeing all those holiday wishes! Why would I want to keep them hidden in a drawer?!
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Every year we go camping in the beginning of December and I set up a mini tree between the seats in the motorhome
writing lots of greeting cards is lots of fun and relaxing
Every year we always make a new photo ornament to hang on our tree.
Exchange a special ornament with my father
go look at Christmas lights around town
I get each of my four children an ornament and date it. An ornament that best reflects their year for their future personal Christmas Trees.
When I was a kid, my dad and I always read The Grinch, then signed and dated the book cover. We did that all the way through high school. He gave me that book when I graduated college. Best present ever!
I always take my vacation time the last two weeks of the year.
Now with Grandkids Christmas has a whole new meaning and being with them is my new tradition!
Making Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve to decorate with my boys. They each decorate a cookie and leave it out for Santa. = )
On Christmas Eve we bake baby Jesus a birthday cake.
Lots of baking using our favorite family recipes. We also like to add one new ornament or decoration. Anyone in the family can bring it, last year it was a snowman for the tree.
We open gifts at “Grandma & Grandpa’s house on Christmas Eve and have pizza and dessert.
The Glade fragrances are great when it’s over!
The big Christmas dinner is with the boys and family and see all their gifts. 🙂
Time for more Glade.
We decorate the tree together, make Christmas cookies, & take a family photo in front of the tree.
lots of recipes handed down from other generations
We have Christmas dinner on Christmas eve and not on Christmas day!
We decorate the Christmas tree together and open one gift each on Christmas Eve.
Our family makes a gingerbread house every year!
We bake cookies and cakes. As a family we decorate the christmas tree and put up lights.
Each year my family does a cookie swap!
We pull together our gift cards that we receive during the year and buy presents for the kids at our local women’s shelter. Then we help serve them dinner. This has been a blessing for us for many years. My health has gotten bad and I’m afraid I might miss it this year. That makes me sad.
Saw this post and HAD to comment. Although I love everyone’s greeting cards I hated trying to display them. BUT now we make a “Card Tree” on the wall of all the cards we get and it is very exciting!
We put a new ornament on our tree that reflects a special trip or event from the year, and we drive around looking at Christmas lights.
Mexican Hot Chocolate and cookies.
We purchase milkshakes for everyone and we drive around and look at Christmas lights while drinking the milkshakes. This is one of many, many traditions.
Annual family Christmas photo…always fun!
We have an event we call Carols and Cookies. It is essentially a cookie swap, and we sing Christmas carols with my hubby playing the guitar.
Every year after Christmas meal all the adults play UNO and board games.
Every christmas, cooking and eating lots of food (and new recipes), listening to the old tunes (bing, etc), drinking hot cider, and telling stories.
Baking cookies and wrapping presents!
I like your door! And I do the same thing, but on my cabinet doors in my kitchen.
My mom and I get together one day and make a massive amount of cookies.
Every year on Christmas Eve, we decorate Gingerbread Houses and have appetizers. It’s the best time ever.
I collect my daughters ornament project from school with her pictures starting when she was in preschool. Every year I hang each hand made ornament at the bottom part of the Christmas tree. As you look under the tree, will see her grow over the years on cutout ornament 🙂
Make cookies and drink hot chocolate while listening to Christmas music! 🙂
Every year Christmas Eve after church my husband and I give the kids and each other pjs and a new ornament (it must be something that represents a life event or character trait that year). We did this when I was a kid and when I got married my parents gifted me most of my childhood ornaments for my tree.
We bake Christmas cookies together every year!
We all pile in the car and look at Christmas lights and decorations.
Baking old family recipe cookies. Packaging them up for friends, teachers and coworkers!
We adopt a family every year and my kids (from the time they could walk) go with me to help pick out gifts for other kids that might not get Christmas presents.
Church on Christmas Eve followed by a big Mexican dinner.
We don’t have any tradition . Just everybody stay together .
Every year my boys and I make Chocolate Covered Pretzels and Christmas Cookies together.
Taking time to donate toys during the toy drive and food to the food bank.
My daughter got married this summer and moved to Oklahoma! I have missed her so but she is coming home for Christmas! It will be our first Christmas with my son-in-law so we want to make it nice! My son is decorating the outside with lights and decorations to welcome them home! We can’t wait!
Traveling to visit my husband’s family for our annual trip to Boston!
Annual Christmas photo cards to send to all our family, and a special ornament that we put on our Christmas tree every year.
Big family get together and dinner on Christmas Eve, it’s a family tradition!
Seven types of seafood on Christmas eve! Family tradition! My favorite night of the year for many reasons!
A holiday tradition we have is decorating the tree together and reminiscing how we got each ornament.
Big family get-together on Christmas Eve.
We always have Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve – that way I’m not in the kitchen all day on Christmas and I can sit around and enjoy the holiday with friends and family.
Making gingerbread houses and reindeer food. We also watch Ruldolph every year snuggled in our pj’s with hot chocolate and popcorn
Cold supper with lots of appetizers and Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve so there is no cooking after candlelight services.
We have a special meatless Christmas Eve dinner Polish style (that’s where I am from) with pierogis with different fillings. Preparation for this dinner takes me much longer than for Christmas Day dinner.
We always make forgotten cookies which is a tradition from my Mom who started it way back when. We also love to buy the holiday premade kits to make our gingerbread houses every year to make a great family together fun time.
On Christmas eve we read a Christmas letter that my grandfather wrote in 1962 to his grandchildren about the anticipation of the arrival of santa, Soon Now, Very Soon
We all get to chose one gift to open Christmas eve!
Driving around to see elaborate light displays.
We attend midnight mass every year to ring in Christmas.
3 gifts for the kids representing the 3 gifts brought to Jesus (1 for the body, 1 for the spirit, and 1 reflective something of value)
Started the tradition of elf on the shelf. We also do sugar cookie decorating for Santa and watch National Lampoons Christmas Vacation movie with hot cocoa every year
I bake lots of cookies! This year I am baking a new cookie every other day but last year it was every day! The kids love them and we share them with friends!
Christmas Eve we go out to dinner. Christmas morning we have Dunkin Donuts!
Making lots of Christmas cookies and giving a plate to my friends.
We always get in the car and drive around looking at Christmas lites and decorations, then come home for some cookies and hot chocolate.
bake a lot of cookies and cakes
Putting out Elf on the shelf which I received almost 50 years ago from my hubby when we was kiddos……lol
Christmas we eve go to dinner and look at christmas lights ont he way home.
We celebrate Christmas Eve with my family and usually Christmas Day with my husband’s. That way everyone gets to see some family around the holidays.
Taking time to ACTUALLY see people and not just give the same old “Merry Christmas” spiel.
Making pecan pies
Always bake Christmas cookies
I don’t really have any traditions. Just love getting to spend time with friends and family.
We attend church on Christmas Eve. My boys open a gift of new jammies and a movie. We watch the movie and sprinkle reindeer food on the lawn before going to bed. The next day is presents followed by a breakfast casserole and coffee while relaxing in our new pj’s all day.
We will choice one gift to open on Christmas eve
We attend Christmas Eve service followed by desserts at grandmas which normally consists of 6 different pies. Christmas Day is monkey bread for breakfast, Jesus birthday cake and communion, presents at home then off to grandmas for the rest of the day. It’s a full 24 hr celebration.
We like to display our cards on a metal Christmas tree card holder. Our number of cards received this year seems to be down a little this year, too. Maybe they will all arrive next week!
My husband and I always go to a Christmas Eve Church Service and on Christmas Night my husband, sister, and I go to a Chinese Buffet.
We go to Christmas Eve service at church, then have a late dinner at our house. The next morning, after the kids open the presents, we host a brunch.
Some of my holiday traditions are watching Christmas movies and driving around the city to look at lights and decorations.
Panettone and hot chocolate… yum!
Making raviolis for Christmas dinner. I recruit my 5 sisters 5 nieces and nephews and my mom. It takes us about 5 hours and we make about 75 dozen. They are DELICIOUS!!!!!
We bake cookies while watching National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Enjoy eating traditional Italian cookies, whether we make them ourselves, get a package of homemade ones in the mail from friends, or buy them from Publix.
My Holiday tradition is to be very, very THANKFUL for my life, family, friends, and another wonderful year I have had !
Also for not living in the cold, snowy, icy, slippery weather. What a big Blessing , that is !
Driving around looking at Christmas lights and candlelight Christmas eve service.
Gumbo at my inlaws house on Christmas Eve and watching Christmas Vacation:)
czech style christmas with fish and potatoe salad
The kids each get a new ornament every year. When they are grown, they can take their collection with them for their own tree.
Christmas Eve dinner is chili soup and Christmas Day is steak, baked potatoes and salad. Not only is it a break from all of the holiday foods but it gives us more time to spend together as family. No big prep time and no big mess to clean up.
We always hang our stockings on the mantle together and we hang all our cards around the big window in our living room.
I dont really have any traditions but I love watching all the Christmas movies on Hallmark.
Baking cookies and zucchini bread and spending Christmas day at my house or one of my kids’ houses.
I love this time of year. I bake cookies and quick breads to share with friends and family, and some gifts for neighbors.
My mom started this tradition when I was born of buying a Hallmark ornament every year for each of her children so that when we grew up, we’d already be able to cover our tree in meaningful decorations. She’s done it every year for 28 years now and she added my husband when we got married (he loves it!). It’s my favorite present to open on Christmas and it’s so special to pull out the Christmas decorations for our house and see ornaments from every period of my life.
On Christmas Eve kids are allowed to open one gift.
We watch the new year’s countdown on local TV without fail every year.
Our tradition is to share a great meal together at our home with our loved ones. We work very hard to be together one magical night during the season.
One tradition is getting to open one gift on Christmas Eve.
One of our holiday traditions to hang all the wreaths and garlands both inside and outside the house.
One of our holiday traditions is we wait until Christmas morning to gather and open our presents.
we love advent calender! Helps kids with countdown to Christmas and makes every day very special!
My husband and I use Christmas morning as a time to reflect on the year and pray for the upcoming one
We love to open presents at dawn.
We love to carol around with neighbors.
We guess what we got by shaking the box.
We love to decorate the tree.
I love to wrap gifts.
Baking cookies.
Shopping for a tree.
Spending time with everyone.
I just love to make a gingerbread house with the family.
My family decorates the tree and we have a great time listening to Christmas music.
A holiday tradition would be baking cupcakes and decorating them together.
Seeing lights
We eat breakfast and dinner together
We go to friends’ houses for Christmas breakfast.
We love baking cookies and singing carols, even if some of us are off-key.
Vanilla- Merry fun
Baking cookies for family.
Going out looking at Christmas lights and decorations and drinking hot chocolate
New onesies for all..one person hates it..haha.
Football championships!
Cutting down our tree..yup still do this.
Big feast..baking..church..angle tree..toys for tots bike run..toys for tots boat run, one new ornament every year..cultural from another countries tradition..many faves!
Mass and dinner. Going to cemetery.
We bake sand tart cookies and decorate them for the holidays.
We go see the lights that dance to music on our car so festive!