Super excited to be teaming up with Babiekins Magazine and Orbit Baby to bring our first holiday hot product giveaway! We had the chance to review Orbit Baby’s line at the ABC Kids Expo last month and I must say we are very much in love! As well Priscila Barros founder of Babiekins Magazine, loves sporting her new Baby Cruz around in the Orbit Baby G2! Not only is it the perfect stroller but car seat too….all in one, it makes life so much easier for a mama on the go! One of you lucky mama’s will have the chance to win one of your very own…please follow the raffle copter entry below…Good Luck!
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1. please enter using the raffle copter below, including leaving a comment below sharing with us your favorite childhood holiday memory! Each item is NOT mandatory…but doing so will increase your points and possible chances for winning!
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3. Contest end at 11:59 pm MST November 20th. Winner announced by Thursday the 22nd.
My favorite holiday childhood tradition was making cannoli’s with my Nonna on Christmas Eve! We would leave them out for Santa and wake in the morning to see how many he ate. Then of course, open presents!
My favorite holiday tradition as a child was getting together with my mom aunt cousins and brothers to all make tamales. We would make an assembly line and all have a part to do in the making of the tamales. We were all together helping each other talking and sharing memories
My favorite holiday tradition as a child was getting cookies and milk ready with my sister and mon
My family is Scandinavian, and I always loved our family tradition of visiting the graves of family members who are no longer with us on Christmas Eve. We would light luminaries and leave them at the cemetery, spend a few quiet moments and sing some meaningful christmas songs. The night always ended warming our blue toes back home with soup and hot chocolate!
Cookies!
Opening presents at midnight! A tradition we did when I was a kid. We go to “sleep” at our usual bedtime but wake up at midnight. No one really sleeps because everyone’s excited for Santa. My mom always had someone play Santa and we’d watch from our room as he placed gifts under the tree! She still won’t tell us who played Santa, she says it really was him 🙂 I love to do this with my kids now!
going to a tree farm and cutting down our tree the Saturday after thanksgiving!
My favorite holiday tradition as a kid (and now) is every Christmas Eve my Grandma reads a book that was written by my Great Great Grandma. My cousin just recently illustrated it and my grandma had a copy made for each of us. It’s a story of two little kids named Tommy and Rosy that rode to the North Pole in Santa’s Pocket because Santa forgot to bring Rosy’s doll on Christmas night. It is a simple little story but my it has been read every Christmas Eve since my dad and his siblings were little kids. I love that I have a copy to share with my family now.
My favorite holiday tradition was decorating a train cart for a huge train track we had running through our living room. This gorgeous tradition will be passed onto my 2 month old this Christmas. 🙂
Favorite holiday memory is the feeling of seeing Santa eating our cookies and drinking the milk we left out for him. Nothing beats the joy at that moment!
My favorite holiday memory is of when my dad dressing up as Santa Claus he tried walking up the stairs but his pants fell off!
Christmas Eve service, dinner, and we’d open a present…every year it would be pjs so we looked cute for pictures the next day:)
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My favorite childhood holiday memory is opening our English holiday crackers at my grandmothers house. We would all wear our crowns and tell the joke inside the cracker while eating our Christmas dinner.
Decorating the family tree after thanksgiving
My favorite holiday memory was the christmas eve we knew it was going to be our grandmother’s last christmas and we sat all night making red velvet bows for our tree while she told us stories of her childhood. Our tradition ever since has been to put those bows up each year on our own trees.
Thanks so much for this awesome giveaway. Favorite holiday tradition is going into NYC on Christmas Eve with my sister and parents to see the tree, go to Radio City to see the Rockettes and eat at Carmine’s! Now that I have a newborn, he will be joining us for his very first Christmas 🙂
Love the holidays! Especially cooking with my mom and sister in our pjs.
I love the holidays! Every ear my grandparents arrange a family weekend. There is nothing better than sitting together with my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins whom I haven’t seen that often and catching up… for a whole weekend.
excited for this great giveaway just in time for christmas!
Each year my brother my parents and myself go to pick out a Christmas tree at the same store. My dad wears the same jacket and gloves. My brother and I always pick out the tree together. As we’ve gotten older we always wait to make sure everyone is available and have expanded to significant other. Now my husband comes along every year and though he didn’t grow up celebrating Christmas he won’t let us go without him.
my favorite childhood memory is baking with my mom and sister and we still bake together every year!
My favorite childhood memory is updating the advent calendar each evening.
My favorite Holiday tradition was going to watch the Holidazzle parade (a night time winter parade) and driving around with my Grandpa and Grandma looking at all of the Christmas lights.
My favorite childhood holiday memory is running downstairs on Christmas morning and opening stockings with my sister. We savored every moment of it, trying not to finish too quickly. We wanted that part of Christmas morning to last forever. When our stockings were emptied we sat staring at the presents under the tree and daring each other to wake up the grown ups.
I loved opening our Christmas pajamas on Christmas eve. A fun tradition I get to enjoy with my own kids.
My favorite holiday memory is picking a name of one of my siblings and getting to go shopping specifically for that person. It was really personal and we had to really work to figure out what that person was really wanting that year for Christmas.
My family was all about the traditions, especially during the holidays. If I had to pick my favorite tradition it would have to be opening the gifts my brother and I got each other on Christmas Eve. It made the gifts we got each other very special and made us even more excited for the morning. My brother and I still uphold this tradition! We don’t always live near each other so we use Skype. 🙂 I can’t wait till my kiddos are old enough to adopt this tradition!
My favorite childhood holiday memory is our thanksgiving dinner. Having all my family there and enjoying our company while eating delicious food. Getting dressed up and taking our Christmas pictures 🙂
My favourite childhood memory is making gingerbread cookies with my grandma. Many life lessons learned.
My favourite holiday tradition was drinking my moms home made apple cider and sitting by the fire while listening to Christmas music once all thedecorations were up.
Favorite tradition? Def making cookies Christmas eve with my sisters. We don’t live close anymore and we still follow this tradition every Christmas after all those years!
My favorite memory is helping my family make tamales for Christmas. I was always the “olive girl” but I got fired half way through for eating them all.
We got to visit my grandma in PA (all the way across the country from us) and she would make her famous pasta sauce & meat balls and took us shopping!!!
I love baking pumpkin bread with my mom for all our neighbors.
My favorite childhood holiday tradition was opening one gift on Christmas eve. It was the same gift every year (New Christmas Pjs)!
My favorite childhood holiday tradition was being able to open a gift on Christmas Eve.
My favorite holiday tradition is acting cinnamon rolls and watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! It is the official kickoff to the holidays in our family and I look forward to it every year!
Our Family Christmas party. So many cousins, so many laughs, maybe a few injuries from games, and lots of love!
My favorite holiday is Christmas. I loved that my family would open presents Christmas Eve around 8pm. Something about being around the tree at that time always made it special.
Christmas Eve dinner & midnight mass, christmas music and carols, the first dusting of snow, family, laughs, and of course the smell of the tree and cookies baking!
My favorite Christmas memory was going out and chopping down our Christmas tree!
my favorite christmas tradition as a kid and grown up is looking at christmas lights and singing christmas songs while doing so.
My fave childhood family tradition was getting up on Christmas morning and going to church as a family and feeling all of the excitement all day to get home that evening and open presents!
My family gave pjs from Santa every Christmas Eve. This is my daughters 2nd Christmas so it will be the first time she really knows whats happening and I am so excited to see her reaction!
Fav tradition of the holidays was having all my family gather at my grandmas for a large dinner, exchanging presents with each other, waiting for Santa to come by on the firetruck and then off to Christmas Eve service
My favorite holiday tradition from my childhood was going out as a family to pick out the perfect christmas tree then bringing it home to decorate it as a family. <3
My favorite holiday tradition is waking up to Mom’s homemade waffles and hot chocolate. My husband is stationed at Fort Bragg, and we can’t go home this year because of my due date. I hope to continue her tradition here for us! 🙂
Growing up we would always go out and cut our own tree down for Christmas and decorate it with the ornaments we had made over the years and the ones my Grandma had from her childhood. Miss it very much now but try and let my boys decorate our tree with all the ornaments they have made themselves throughout the past years as well as one new ornament they’ve picked out each year.
My favorite holiday memory was every christmas my mother would try to make homemade cinnamon rolls but they never turned out. She killed yeast for 18 years. But we would still eat the dense little rolls and pretend we loved them! I do love my mother very much!
My favorite Christmas memory from my childhood is decorating cookies with my Grandmother every year for my December 21st birthday.
Growing up we’d always leave one grandmothers and go to the others in Christmas Eve. On the way, my dad would always tell my sisters and I that the “red lights”(from some factory) in the sky were Santa and his reindeer. It always made me so excited!
My favorite holiday memory is just spending time with my loved ones. My husband, parents, siblings, grandparents, nieces and nephews and soon to be our baby. I can’t wait to make new traditions with our baby.
My favorite holiday tradition is cursing around to see Christmas lights
I have so many wonderful Christmas traditions growing up an hope to share them with my girls now but the best one that stands out to me is putting up the tree in the picture window with the whole family and blaring Rockin’ Around the Christmas tree! There was nothing better
my favorite tradition was searching the entire house for my “big” present that christmas, my siblings and i went crazy looking all over the house until we found each others gifts.
My favorite holiday memory from childhood would have to be our annual cookie decorating party. My mom and her best friends had kids all around the same age, so we all grew up together and got together every year to decorate a ton of sugar cookies. We still do it to this day with all of us and our kids!
My favourite holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my family. There is always fun Christmas music playing and lots of baked goods 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition was our family’s Christmas Eve celebration. We would have a big dinner with extended family every Christmas Eve, and we would read stories of Jesus’ birth in the scriptures. Before bed we would open a gift, always pajamas, and something else too! I loved this and looked forward to it all year long!
As a kid I always looked forward to Christmas lunch with all of my extended family, and our traditional family cricket match that would follow. To this very day my cousins, brother, sister, Aunties and Uncles and parents still play that game of cricket after lunch. No one ever knows who wins as the teams chop and change throughout the game, but we always have fun 🙂
Christmas in Australia is a little different to the rest of the world!
my favorite Christmas memory is every year my family chooses a different country and we celebrate christmas the way they would! sounds a little bit crazy, but we all the family – we make whichever country we are celebrating – their food, play their games, read about their history! it always makes for something fun and different and a great way to learn about the rest of the world and the unique traditions of christmas. it is something we all look forward too!
My favorite holiday memory is baking Christmas sugar cookies with my mom and sister and the anticipation of Christmas morning. There is still nothing like it…such excitement!!
trying to find the presents my parents hid 🙂
We never celebrated holidays when I was growing up, but we spent every summer (December in the Southern Hemisphere) on Ile Maurice in the Indian Ocean. My favorite memories are diving and swimming in the crystal ocean!
My favorite childhood tradition was every Christmas Eve my whole family would do a gift exchange, sing Christmas carols, and then have a bonfire. I so wish we still did that. So many beautiful memories. Thank you for the opportunity of this amazing giveaway!
My favorite Christmas memory was when there was a big ice storm and our power went out. I was just a kid and thought it was so fun for us all to sleep in the same room (where the heater was). It brought us all closer together – and Santa still found our house. 🙂
My favorite childhood holiday memory is spending Christmas at church with my family honoring Jesus– the reason for the season I love that my parents taught me and my brothers what the true meaning of Christmas is. My husband and I have continued the tradition of going to church for a few hours on Christmas with my 3 year old and will have another little babe next Christmas (2014) to join us. New baby will be 10 months come next Christams.
My favorite childhood holiday memory is spending Christmas at church with my family honoring Jesus– the reason for the season I love that my parents taught me and my brothers what the true meaning of Christmas is. My husband and I have continued the tradition of going to church for a few hours on Christmas with my 3 year old and will have another little babe next Christmas (2014) to join us. New baby will be 10 months come next Christmas.
Out of all the traditions my family had another one I remember is getting to help with the church’s special Christmas service. I would sing with the choir and would get to act in all the plays that my mom and dad directed.
My favorite childhood family tradition was when my mom would take my brother and I to look at all the christmas lights on christmas eve. It gave my dad time to wrap all the presents so that we couldn’t see!
Opening Christmas PJ’s on Christmas Eve!
My most favorite Christmas tradition would have to be delivering chocolate covered oranges anonymously to people in need of a little extra love during the holidays. I can’t wait to share this experience with my baby that is on it’s way!
My favorite childhood memory was helping my parents set up all the lights for Christmas. Though I am already 21 it still is my favorite thing to do because at age 4 my dad surprised me with a 20 foot tree made out of all lights right in the front of my yard at home. We still make the tree every year.
My favorite holiday memory has got to be my oldest son’s first Christmas. He was 25 days old and it was absolutely perfect.
Planting our live Christmas tree in our yard after Christmas. We always bought a young potted tree from the local nursery so we could save the memories for after the holidays and beyond.
My favorite tradition growing up was listening to the same Cd of classical Christmas music as we opened the gifts and also recorded every year on the video camera so that we can go back and re-live whatever Christmas year we wanted! I am continuing this tradition with my kids now (9 year old and newborn)
My favorite holiday tradition was celebrating Christmas Eve with my brother and sister. Every year, we would exchange gifts the night before Christmas. By giving it a special time of it’s own, we were really able to appreciate the thoughtfulness that went into each gift.
making huge amounts of christmas cookies!
My favorite childhood tradition was to help my mom make dinner and feed the older people in the community that were not able to travel or did not have family.
Christmas in the Park
I loved opening our stockings! My mom always put them together with a theme, it was great!!
My favorite memory today was one of the worst things back then! The adults would always make sure they had had enough coffee before us kids were allowed to open the gifts! It was so painful waiting, but worth the wait, and looking back it makes me smile, and I’m sure I’ll be that horrible to my own kids someday 🙂
Going to mass on Christmas Eve, leaving cookies out for Santa, and waking up early to see what surprises Santa left under the tree.
We used to go to my grandparents house in San fransisco every year for Christmas. One of their neighbors was a Christmas fanatic, every inch of her house and yard was always completely lit up around the holidays. I never knew the woman, but after she passed away, her husband still decorated the house every year in her honor. And every year he would add something new to the display. It was so magical, and my favorite house to drive by on Christmas.
My favorite childhood holiday memory was getting my first Cabbage patch kid. They were sold out so my mom gave me a handmade cabbage patch kid as a consolation gift on Christmas Eve. Our neighbor worked at Target and was able to get my mom a genuine cabbage patch kid off the truck just in time for Christmas Day. I loved both dolls equally and still have them to this day!
My favorite tradition is putting up the tree on Thanksgiving night. We also like to bake and decorate cookies for Santa.
My favorite tradition was making graham cracker “gingerbread houses” and decorating them with candy and more candy. They were displayed on the mantle until Christmas Eve at which point we were allowed to tear into them, stale and all.
Going to my grandparents house and eat my Grandma’s food!!
Christmas Eve candle light service
Cutting down the Christmas tree, and baking Christmas cookies were my favorite Holiday traditions! I’ve started a new one with my family, having the kids open Christmas PJ’s on Christmas Eve, and making a handmade ornament each year for a keepsake. Sooo much fun! 🙂
Putting up the Christmas tree which also meant a new ornament! I love how they look all lit up.
My favorite childhood tradition is actually sticking up the little window clings on my bedroom window. It seemed so important when I was 5 or 6 to get them all stuck up there. I remember one year I was sick and my grandmother tried to keep me bedridden, but I was still so determined to get my frosty the snowman on the window.
Going caroling with my cousins around our neighborhood.
My fav childhood holiday tradition was trimming the tree to the tune of Nsync christmas while eating sugar cookies and drinking cider with my brother.
I love being in the kitchen baking for my family.
My favorite tradition as a child was each of my cousins and I picking a family member to christmas shop for and surprise 🙂
My favourite Christmas memory is my whole family gathering for a beautiful feast that my dad made. I cherish all memories with my dad (he passed away), but especially Christmas because he would light up seeing his whole family together.
My favorite memory from Christmas time when I was growing up would have to be when my older brother came into my bedroom at like 5AM dressed in his new clothes from “Santa” asking me if I liked them all–and then him taking them all off and rewrapping them so my parents wouldn’t know!
My favorite childhood holiday memory would definitely be a family get together every year on Christmas day. I would get to see all my cousins, uncles, aunties, grandma etc. We would all have dinner & share a ton of presents 🙂
My favorite child hood memory is my father taking my tobaganing every winter Sunday.
My favorite Childhood tradition was during Christmas, we would do what is called a pesebre which is like a mini village that tells the story of Jesus’s birth. Basically you start with his parents and end with the three kings coming to visit, this takes days and children visit everyday, eat cookies and milk, other holiday deserts and they sing and the story gets told day by day. it was super fun and i was always excited to go everyday. 😀
There are so many wonderful memories associated with Christmas! One of my favorites growing up was gradually decorating the Christmas tree every week of Advent. On Christmas Eve, we’d put up the star and after midnight Mass open one gift and leave cookies for Santa.
It’s a tie between two of my favoirte Christmas tradition. My mom, dad, sister and I would always go driving through our town looking at all the Christmas lights. We always knew were the best houses where and made sure we went by them, some even had music playing with them. Going back 20 some years ago that was pretty impressive. The second one is my family would always go to our Christmas Eve service at our church, come home and have a nice Christmas dinner, and then open our gifts from our mom and dad. Christmas day was for Santa’s gifts. Both traditions I am carrying on with my children today.
My favorite childhood holiday was always Christmas. Bright lights, smell or oranges and nuts, and of-course celebrating with food and fellowship.
My favorite Christmas memory was going over to my Grandmas house to bake Christmas cookies. She had matching aprons for her and the children and we wore them with delight. She would also play the best Christmas music as we baked and decorated all the cookies. Such great times!
My favorite memory is spending time with my family that we were only able to see once a year 🙂
Favorite holiday memory is lighting the menorah
Building Snowman outside in the snow
My favorite holiday memory has now become a family tradition, which we would dare not change. All the children would be fast asleep in their individual rooms, and once the clock struck 5:30am… My sweet older brother would run to the kitchen to get a pot and spoon ready to go! We would all then dash to our parents bedroom, jump on the bed, begin to bang on the pot, and then simultaneously yell “wake up! Santa came and we never heard him.. AGAIN!!” We were aloud to open our stocking goodies, but never unwrap any presents… UNTIL after we got home from breakfast at meme and pups (grandparents) house! Now that I’m older, I really cherish the memories created at our annual Christmas Breakfast!!! I can’t wait to create new, life changing memories with our little one!
My favworite memory and making tamales with my Abuelita. Wish she was still her to meet Isabella.
My favorite childhood holiday tradition would have to be putting reindeer food out on the lawn (an oats and glitter homemade combo) and all other ‘prepping for Santa’ work, and of course the cinnamon rolls for breakfast!
My favorite childhood holiday memory was the Christmas Eve that my sister pulled my loose tooth out, and I was so excited that Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy would finally meet!
My favorite childhood holiday tradition was leaving cookies and milk out for Santa. Waking up the next morning and seeing the were gone, knowing Santa had come.
My favorite childhood holiday tradition is decorating the tree with my siblings. After we came to be a certain age our parents left the decorating up to Us and we loved it!
My favorite memory is driving around looking at Christmas lights with my family.
My favorite holiday tradition as a child was when my siblings and I would all sleep in the same bedroom on Christmas eve. It’s something that my older sister would have never allowed if it wasn’t Christmas!
My favorite Christmas memory is going to church with my family Christmas Eve & then celebrating early at my grandparent’s house following the service.
My favorite Christmas memory is having my brother wake us up early to open presents. Then we would get to have his birthday party after lunch since it was his birthday, too.
My Fav. christmas tradition is hearing Santa Sleight bells before bed. I have even asked my parents about it recently and they says they had nothing to do with it! I can’t wait to make memories like that with my little one!
My favorite holiday tradition as a child was to open one present on Christmas Eve. I always waited for this special time. Also, I would try to sneak earlier then everyone and shake my gifts in order to know which one to open. I love Christmas. And I would love to win.
MY FAVE HOLIDAY TRADITION WAS OPENING ONE PRESENT ON CHRISTMAS EVE. WE WOULD PICK THE BEST LOOKING ONE AND WOULD BE SO EXCITED!!
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with all of our family and having dinner and singing Christmas carols together.
My favorite tradition is driving around to see the Christmas lights.
My favorite holiday tradition is just spending time with family. We usually decorate the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. I love doing that with my kids <3
My favorite holiday memory is Christmas Eve going to church, getting home late and baking cookies for Santa. We would then sit down and read the Christmas story and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. It was so fun just to sit and relax and enjoy family!
my favorite thing as a child was to drive around and look at christmas lights with hot cocoa. I do this with my littles now and we look forward to it every year!!
My favorite holiday memory is decorating the Christmas tree with my family. We always have such fun. Each ornament holds a special story.
Opening presents ar midnight!
My favorite childhood holiday tradition was baking and decorating Christmas cookies the day after Thanksgiving at my granny’s house. I had 30+ cousins, so there were tons and tons of cookies!
Putting the Christmas tree and decorations up.
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I loved putting up the Christmas tree with my dad every year!
Fave tradition is decorating the Christmas tree after Thanksgiving dinner.
The Christmas tree decorating!!
My favorite holiday memory was always decorating the house for Christmas. Our home was completely transformed from room to room with my mom’s traditional and antique decorations and tinsel for the tree. It was nice to pull out those familiar decorations year after year my whole childhood.
My favorite childhood holiday memory was leaving out soft baked cookies and milk for Santa Claus. I would wake up early in the morning the next day and find cookie crumbs on the plate and the glass of milk finished. Santa would leave me a note, thanking me for the delicious cookies and the glass of milk and tell me to check what’s under the Christmas tree, I checked and I would find more presents!
My favourite childhood memory was decorating the Christmas tree and waiting anxiously for Christmas Day to open up our gifts !
My favorite holiday childhood memory was getting new PJs on Christmas Eve!
My favorite tradition always came Christmas morning. My parents would leave oranges in the toes of our stockings as a sweet treat. It rounded out the toe of our hanging stockings and had been done throughout my family since they came to the US two generations ago.
My favorite holiday tradition is before opening Christmas presents we all go around hug and say Merry Christmas to each other.
My favorite childhood tradition would have to be waking up early to make tamales so they would be ready for Christmas morning…I wish I could go back and spend one more Xmas with my family specially my dad! I miss him so much……
My favorite childhood Christmas tradition, was making Christmas ornaments to give as gifts to my grandparents, parents, cousins, aunts & uncles. Each year my mom would pull out her glorious craft box that was FILLED with sequins, buttons, GLITTER, and she would let us go wild! We could create anything we wanted. Each year when I visit my family members homes I still look at all the ornaments I have created over the years. I want to continue this with my child through the years. Such a fun memory.
My favorite holiday tradition was on December 23rd, my fathers whole side of the family would rent out the same restaurant for a huge dinner and we would exchange ornaments picked special.
My favorite holiday tradition was seeing my grandparents and family members. My new favorite tradition will start this year with the birth of my first baby, Samuel 🙂 Christmas will now be a birthday celebration for him in the years to come with my family 😀
My favorite tradition is baking cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa with my children.
My favorite childhood holiday is when our family gathered for Eid Fitri back in our grandma’s house where we enjoyed playing together while watching and waiting the elders to bake local festive delicacies. And of course on the morning of the Eid, we are all excited to wear new clothes- ‘Baju Raya’ and visiting the relatives.
My favorite holiday memory was opening up one gift on Christmas Eve right before bed. It was usually some sort of stuffed animal that I would snuggle with until Christmas morning!
My favorite childhood holiday memory was being ankle to pick out one gift from under the tree on Christmas Eve.
Favorite tradition was homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning.
My favorite tradition was the look in the eyes of my little sisters and brothers, when the opening one of there presents. <3
My favorite tradition was leaving out cookies and carrots for Santa and the reindeer. We would wake up and see that they were all half eaten. My parents worked hard to make us believe for a very long time.
I loved traveling to my extended family during the holiday and laughing at all of the speeding tickets my dad got!
My favorite childhood holiday memory was sitting with my mom and dad and stringing popcorn and cranberries onto thread for the tree!
My favorite holiday tradition was watching Rudolph eat his special reindeer food we’d put out in the backyard before bedtime on Christmas eve. My dad was secretly always Rudolph and we continue this tradition still with the grandchildren!
We always have appetizers on christmas eve after mass. Lots of snacks and dips and I love it!
My favorite childhood holiday memory is waking up to my dads famous breakfast pancakes and bacon! Waking up with 3 sisters we would race to see who could get ready the fastest to eat and then open presents 🙂
I love being with family on the holidays!
Opening one present at 7pm on Christmas Eve 🙂 I will continue the tradition with my daughter
Caroling!
My favorite childhood memory was helping my Mom make all of her Christmas candies and cookies. My Mom always took a week off of work to make all different kinds of cookies, candies and fudge to give to friends and family for the holidays. While my Mom is no longer with us I try to carry on this tradition with my children. (I don’t make near the amount of goodies she made) but its something my kids enjoy and I especially enjoy giving the treats to others:)
My most favorite childhood holiday memory was baking with my Aunt as a yearly tradition! We would bake everything from peanut brittle to English toffee. One of myost favorite bake goods was snicker doodles and sugar cookies! yhey were to die for! by the time we were done I would have eaten dozens of cookies and candy!! After a night full of baking we would pack little bags and get them ready to give to family and friends for Christmas! Everyone would always be so excited and look forward to receiving a goodie bag with all kinds of traditional bake goods!
what a lovely memory thanks so much for sharing!
I don’t have a childhood Christmas memory since my family don’t celebrate Christmas. But now I have my daughter and it will be her first Christmas, I would like to for her to have some kind memory. I just don’t know what yet.
how fun you can now create whatever memories you would like with your little one for Christmas 🙂
My fave holiday tradition was driving to my grandmas near the brag the day before cmas eve and on cmas eve we would
All go see a movie, come home eat a big roast dinner, go to the candlelight church service and then all the littles go to
Bed while the adults wrapped presents. (Really us kids were upstairs trying to peek, and convincing each other we heard the sleigh bells on the roof ;)… Now I get to
Wrap presents with the adults for my
Kids!!!)
My favorite childhood Christmas memory was on Christmas Eve when my family would dress up as shepherds and eat what we thought that Mary and Joseph would eat. We bake bread all day and made other things we imagined they would eat. We put towels on our heads and ate by candle light while my dad read the Christmas story from the Bible. We still do this actually and we have child of our own!
What a fun tradition…love it!
My FAVORITE holiday tradition is picking out a real tree with my dad, then bringing it home and decorating it with my mom!
I loved Christmas morning breakfast at my grandparents every year!
My favorite childhood holiday memory is gathering with the extended family on Christmas Eve. We were so excited because we were able to open one present on that night and then rush home before Santa came. I will always remember looking in the sky to see if I could see Santa and his reindeers in the sky! Oh to be a child again!
My favorite childhood holiday memory is decorating the tree and the warm feelings of being surrounded by family. I loved watching my parents open my teeny little gift to them that I probably made at school, and their reaction!
So many favorite holiday memories…our annual Christmas Eve party probably takes the cake. Such a fun time with family and close friends.
My favorite holiday memory is sneaking out my bedroom in the middle of the night to see if Santa Clause had made it to my house yet and counting all of my presents under the tree and seeing that he had eaten my cookies!
sounds magical! 🙂
Christmas at Grandma and Grandpas house, not many presents but lots of unconditional love.
My favorite Christmas memory has to be baking homemade sugar cookies with my mom and sister. My mom kept an old vintage baking recipe book that belonged to my grandma that had the BEST sugar cookie recipe. We would bake batches and use christmas tree and snowmen cookie cutters and then decorate with red and green frosting and sprinkles. My mom ended up giving me the recipe book. It has been a year since my grandma passed away and I cherish that keepsake and I can’t wait til my kids are able to carry on that tradition! 🙂
My most favorite Christmas memories are going to the midnight service at church on Christmas Eve, singing the Hallelujah Chorus and lighting hand-held candles outside afterwards! Such a beautiful feeling!
My parents going to the trouble of having my uncle come dressed as santa claus in the middle of the night… and us kids being soo sleepy we didn’t remember!
My favorite childhood memory is coming back from Christmas Eve service in our sunday best and baking up a storm while we waited for the Christmas carolers to stop by our house. Most of the time is was snowing during this time =)
My sister and I would always ask for a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson movie for Christmas. We would watch it 3 or 4 times on Christmas day, in between going outside to play in the snow 🙂
I always loved big family get-togethers! We’d play with our cousins, open gifts, read a Christmas book together, and be so exhausted from the festivities my dad had to make 4 trips into the house with sleeping girls to get us all from the car to our beds! Christmas morning he would always head downstairs first and tell us Santa forgot to come while we all worried about what line-up order mom would put us in this year…and we’d cap off the entire holiday fun by watching White Christmas more times than we could count.
My favorite and most cherished holiday tradition & memory was waiting up until midnight (bags under eyes yet uberly giddy!) to be able to open just one gift from under the tree. Then, waking up in the morning, rushing downstairs, and opening all of our gifts while Dad made his famous and very scrumptious Colombian bunuelos and hot cocoa! Now my sweet baby girl gets to experience those same magical moments with us 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition growing up was waking up to more Christmas presents in the morning that Santa brought! I loved Santa and I love being Santa even more!
My favorite Christmas tradition growing up was going to the Christmas tree farm with the entire family & cutting down our Christmas tree every year.
WAKING UP AT 6AM AND JUMPING ON MY PARENTS BED IN ORDER TO WAKE THEM UP ON CHRISTMAS DAY WOULD HAVE TO BE MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD HOLIDAY MEMORY!!!
Christmas morning growing up always consisted of Elvis’ Christmas album (my mom’s absolute favorite) and hot chocolate by the tree! Our parents would tell us if we got up in the middle of the night Santa wouldn’t come, removing the alarm clocks from our rooms (pre iphones!). My sister and I had a quick solution for that … 3 glasses of water before bed! Natural alarm system!!
I can’t wait to make Christmas memories with our baby girl, Sloan!
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Favorite holiday tradition was making cookies for santa and leaving carrots out for the reindeer.
Favorite memory would be spending the summer days outside on the farm doing whatever we could find to do! Make mud pies, jump on the trampoline with the sprinkler, walk to grandma’s for lunch…. 🙂