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My giveaway is 8 Green Batik FQs from my stash plus a SURPRISE!!
To enter, tell me your family's most unique Christmas Tradition...
Our unique tradition is that our kids stay in their rooms when they wake up. My wife and I come down and prepare breakfast, enjoying some time together, just the two of us before we invite them to join us. We then eat breakfast together, we often eat supper together, but rarely do we eat breakfast together. Presents wait until after breakfast.
Until Next Time,
Paul
I don't have any unique traditions but every Christmas morning I wake up at the crack of dawn to make homemade cinnamon rolls so that when the kids are done opening they can eat them hot. My daughter's favorite thing about Christmas day (except pressies of course).
ReplyDeleteGlad you see you here. Our tradition is to have dinner with friends on Christmas Eve. Prime rib and shimp. It's been a 25 year old one now. I never tire of them or the food! :-)
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you!
Driving around on Christmas Eve looking at all the lights. Then later at home running outside as the local fire truck came down our street with Santa sitting on top throwing out candy to the kids.
ReplyDeleteMy family's most unique tradition is our special Jesse Tree, which I made with help from the kids. I've never seen another like it, and we love it.
ReplyDeleteI don't know that it's all that unique, but my favorite tradition is a nativity set that the kids play with all month long--without the baby Jesus. On Christmas morning it's set up in front of the tree and the baby Jesus is there. I love that.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition isn't really unique. We're scattered around the country, so it's wonderful when we can all get together at Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteNothing unique really, except we always go to church on Christmas eve for the candlelight service.
ReplyDeleteEvery year on Christmas Eve, we get to open 1 present and it is always Christmas pajamas to wear to bed so the pictures in the morning look great. :)
ReplyDeleteMary
iammaryburke @ gmail.com
nothing unique from me - I do make the same coffee cake every single year which involves picking up a piece of jelly roll fashioned dough which takes two people normally and about 4 hands sometimes an extra set gets in the mix as well and we are lucky to land it in the bundt pan for baking.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you, sounds like a good prize.
Karen
I coook dinner on Christmas Eve and we eat the leftover on Christmas!
ReplyDeleteOur traditional Christmas Breakfast
ReplyDeleteOur most unique family Christmas tradition is to have funnel cakes for Christmas breakfast, then open gifts going around the group (7 of us) only 1 person opening 1 gift at a time. Usually it takes us well over an hour to open gifts! Thanks for the chance!! Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteoh, I love yours! Our unique tradition is to do a family date with friends we met through the kids' high school band program - we eat dinner together, then drive to DeFuniak Springs to walk around their lake light display. It's wonderful - this perfectly round lake encircled by a park - about 100 yards deep all around - filled with light displays the entire way (a one-mile circuit). The other side of the street is lined with Victorian mansions that are decorated beautifully, too. It's all in a rural town about 45 minutes away, and I'll miss it terribly next year after we move!
ReplyDeleteI like unique things but nothing is unique about my Christmas traditions with the family. But how about a funny Christmas story? When I was about 10 or so my eccentric maternal grandmother gave me a feathered boa (not a snake but the other kind of boa!). Anyway, my mom gave me a cassette player that came with some music. Well, she did not know it but one of the songs was "The Stripper" by David Rose. Well, I spent the whole day pretending I was a stripper! My mother was horrified much to my delight.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
my daughter and I were just talking about this while out shopping. For years now I have always had green, red & white gum drops in my van at Christmas time. The kids love them when they are frozen. Great treat after shopping for hours. Since everyone is so excited Christmas morning we usally just have sugar donuts, cinnamon buns, juice, coffee, etc all on the coffee table and eat when you want to!
ReplyDeleteOur unique tradition is that on the festive table should be 12 different types of food) Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI like that, I don't know that we have a unique tradition. When they got up older and money was not too much of an issue, we always go to the movies Christmas eve and out to dinner.
ReplyDeleteLove the Batik green giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWith very young children, we gave up a proper breakfast and lunch on Christmas morning for brunch mid-way through the present extravaganza. That helps us pace ourselves and keeps the children from spinning out of control.
Enchiladas on Christmas Eve is a tradition that started by accident in our house. I fixed them once, and the kids loved them, so the next year they insisted that it was a new tradition! Thanks for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteEvery year on Christmas morning I make Carmelized French Toast for the family for breakfast - it's like having a meal of DESSERT so I only make it once a year :D
ReplyDeleteEvery year on Christmas Eve my husband makes his awesome Hot Chocolate complete with marshmallows...it's death by chocolate!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Toni
www.lifeinapinkbunnysuit.com
Hey Paul, I wouldn't say it's "Unique" but we like to make snowcream every time it snows.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition has always been our Christmas tree, but only recently I realized that we have ornaments from 5 generations.
ReplyDeleteIce cream for breakfast
ReplyDeleterhaun@clear.net
On Christmas Eve, we break open pinatas. There is usually a small gift for each person present as well as candy.
ReplyDeleteFound you from your comment on my blog giveaway!
I think our favorite tradition as a family has to be our Christmas stockings. They are the last thing we open whether me get together on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Our traditions were different when the kids were young but now we are just happy if we can all gather on the same day. Doesn't always happen with work schedules and such. I would love to win your green batiks. They would have a nice home amongst my batiks I am collecting for a quilt project for next summer. :-)
ReplyDeleteOoooo--love those batiks!
ReplyDeleteOur unique tradition each year, before the empty nest, was to spend a night in Salt Lake City, across the street from Temple Square. The Square is covered with light displays at Christmas time, along with a life-size nativity with scriptural narration over a loudspeaker. It feels like a magical place. We would tour the visitors center with the large Christus statue that my youngest son called the "big Jesus". We usually took in one or two other things, did some shopping, had the hotel's breakfast buffet and then headed home. We did that for about 18 years.
We started a new tradition last year. Everyone brings a $1 instant scratch-off lottery ticket and throughout the day we scratch them off and depending on the winnings we either go reinvest in more of if the pot is big enough we divide it by # of families.
ReplyDeleteWe don't eat turkey on Christmas day - we have fillet steak instead. Would love to win the batik FQ's. Thanks for the chance to win Paul.
ReplyDeleteOur unique Christmas tradition is that my brothers feel that they need to weigh everybody on the scale and compare weights. Nothing gets recorded. It makes me feel awful some years.
ReplyDeleteWe used to make our kids wait in their rooms too. It always prolonged the agony for them, but the fun for us. Now that it's just the two of us, I guess we'll be looking for new traditions. I love your blog. I'm a new visitor. Think I'll take a look around.
ReplyDeleteI dont think we do anything unique either, but we do have a second Christmas Day - my 2 sisters and I and however many family members want to come along. Sometimes there are just us and our partners, and sometimes we have various nieces and nephews. But however many come along, there is always something under the tree for them. Strangely, no one ever misses out, even if they drop in unexpectedly. Thats cool.
ReplyDeleteMy husband and and I arrived at my mom's around
ReplyDelete6:00 p.m. The rest of the family members start arriving soon after, We have lasagna, salad and whatevcr potluck surprises. There is time to eat and time to chat. Then cones the exchanges of presents. Everyone, usually 10 of us, sit in a circle in the den. My neice is the one that passes out all of the presents. Each one of us opens 1 present all together. We continue to do this until all of the presents are unwrapped. This is our Mom's tradition. This way she can see whatever receives. It takes a while to open all the presents from everyone, but it makes Mom happy.
Thank you for the chance to win the green batik fat quarters and a surprise. Yeah!
Sandi T.
sandit1@sbcglobal.net
Smoked Salmon and Scrambled Eggs for breakfast and a glass or 2 of Buck's Fizz before the cooking starts. Those greens at gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI really ADORE batiks! I hand-quilted my first quilt made of batiks and then learned that probably wasn't the easiest of ideas!
ReplyDeleteWe honestly have no unusual things we do at Christmas. We are the only family that lives away from the rest of our family so for 24 years of marriage we have never spent Christmas Eve night in our own beds. Is that unusual? We choose to be with family and the coordinate to that is that Santa brought very small presents for several years!
We always had a Christmas treasure hunt when our son was small. Now that's he's too old for that, we will have to wait for grandkids so we can do it again.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have anything unique either, but something new we do is have several sugar-free desserts on the holidays. Most of us in the family are trying to stay away from sugar, some due to diabetes and other health issues, so we have incorporated sugar-free desserts. Last Thanksgiving the regular sugared pie was barely eaten, and the sugar-free pie and cakes were all gone! Thanks for the giveaway chance!
ReplyDeleteLinda
http://homesweetquiltinghome.blogspot.com
Our new traditions revolve around food. Christmas Eve we send guys to pick up hot wings to go at Hooters (a gift to them). Our main Christmas meal is "everybody's favorites". Each person picks 2-3 foods they love and I include as many as possible. We end up with odd combos like: Prime Rib - crab legs - artichokes - cheesecake or Jumbo Shrimp Alfredo and butternut squash.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition was with me and my brother growing up. We'd wake up super early, go downstairs, and were allowed to open our stockings. We'd play with whatever was in there and watch A Christmas Story 2 or 3 times until sunrise. Then, we'd make coffee and cut up a homemade coffee cake, cover some cookie sheets in Christmas tea towels, and serve my parents breakfast in bed. We'd all sit and talk on their bed until they were out of coffee, then we'd go downstairs for presents. It was always my favorite morning! Now, my hubby and I enjoy watching our 2 dogs and 2 cats try to get through the paper we wrap their presents with. It's so cute!!
ReplyDeleteWe make our kids (now young adults) sit at the top of the stairs until I call them down. This stems from my own childhood when we all had to wait at the top of the stairs until my parents called us down because Dad was getting the old motion camera ready; the kind with blinding "mickey mouse ear" lights. All our home movies are of us squinting and dodging out of the light as we scramble over the top of each other to get to the stockings. I don't video my kids anymore, but I still drag out the wait! (Gives me time to get my coffee made.) The batiks are lovely--thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteSandy
www.quiltingfortherestofus.com
Love the batiks! We're not Swedish, but at some point my brother and I read about the Santa Lucia festival. I don't dress up with candles, but we make Santa Lucia buns (and he now cooks up a storm) for the rest of the family for Christmas breakfast.
ReplyDeleteI'm danish, I love to eat Marzipan for christmas, and for dessert for christmas as a family growing up in DK, we had rice pudding with slivered almonds, plus one WHOLE almond, the game was to get the WHOLE almond and get a present if you got it
ReplyDeletewe always have new pjs for all the family from the tree fairy, so we're all nice and clean for Santa, open up a tree present and leave the mince pie, whiskey and a carrot for the reindeers on xmas eve.
ReplyDeleteWe always have to travel for Christmas to be with family, so we have always had Christmas early for us and our kids. They always loved getting to open their gifts early. We then have a favorite supper complete with the traditional decorated butter cookies.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition may be celebrated by many, but on Christmas Eve the kids get to pick one gift to open, any one of their choice. Then the rest are opened Christmas morn.
ReplyDeleteThanks or a winning opportunity, a great giveaway! Merry Christmas!
We don't have an unique tradition but we love to set up the tree together. Thanks so much!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fabrics. Hm. Unique. We open our gifts on Christmas Eve, but that's as unique as it gets. We are all a little strange, however. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is how we open our gifts. Dad starts by picking one for each one of us. Then we all open that one and ooh and ahhh. Then someone else will volunteer to pick one for each, and so on.
ReplyDeleteAt the end we find a box to empty out our stocking, usually full of fun and crazy things!
I don't know how unique this is, but I know it drives my mother crazy. I like the kids to all open their gifts one at a time so everyone can see what they got and they can enjoy it before going on to the next gift. Makes the occasion last a little bit longer.
ReplyDeleteUnique traditions...we open one gift on Christmas Eve but have to wait till The Day for the rest!
ReplyDeleteWe do the one gift Christmas eve, and the rest in the morning. We always have my mom's punch too.
ReplyDeleteOur traditions aren't unique. Christmas Eve at my parents house and Christmas Day at our house. I really can't think of anything, unique. ;->
ReplyDeleteI make a pavlova for Christmas, every year. Decorated with kiwifruit and strawberries!
ReplyDeleteThe most unusual is that stockings are opened before breakfast and presents are opened after breakfast.
ReplyDeleteWe go to our cousins' house down the street a few days ahead for a dinner of Moros Y Christianos (Cuban black beans & rice, although none of us are cuban). Bonfire in the back yard & s'mores for dessert.
ReplyDeleteI hope I still get an entry, even though I have no Christmas story. Although I don't celebrate Christmas, I do enjoy hearing others' stories about it.
ReplyDeleteChristmas Eve is now an outdoor seafood supper at my brother and SIL's with her immediate and extended family. Sometimes it is held in the barn, or in their yard, and we get to see in-laws we've known for a long time. How many people spend Christmas Eve with the in-laws?
ReplyDeleteInstead of leaving out milk and cookies for santa, my nieces and nephews and I throw peanuts on our roof for his reindeer.
ReplyDeleteNothing specials.. We will countdown on Christmas eve while watching movies or play games. After that, we go to sleep.
ReplyDeleteWe get up and fix breakfast. Making every breakfast food known to mankind. We have pancakes, waffles, sausage, bacon, eggs, baked breakfast casserole, french toast, toast and bagels and english muffins and morning glory muffins. That is a lot of food for 6 people but it is fun to fix it all together.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas tradition is spending the day alone with only my husband, not waiting on my extended family.
ReplyDeletethank you for the chance to win. Hmmmm we each take a turn opening a gift...it takes a while but it is fun
ReplyDeletelove your fabric give away we normally have a quiet one and have a barbeque .beverley
ReplyDeleteLovely greens you have there! My favorite Christmas tradition is hanging up the Christmas curtains, and doing a special winter clean-up. You never know what you'll find!
ReplyDeleteWe have to visit every nursery and farm in the county before we can decide on a tree. Then we get one which is too big and have to trim the top and saw off the bottom!
ReplyDeleteHi! What a beautiful fabrics! Our tradition is creamy riceporridge with cinnamon and sugar at lunchtime in 24.12.
ReplyDeleteYou "had me" at batiks ;)!! Favourite tradition - we first do our "stockings" then have breakfast - I do a "cranberry braid bread" before the big day, that we all have some of and then to the presents! Thanks for the giveaway
ReplyDeleteMy family tradition is that each year whoever says "Christmas Eve Gift" to another family member first gets to open one gift under the tree on Christmas Eve. Now that many of us live far away, we are mindful to answer the phone on Christmas Eve with "Christmas Eve Gift!" no matter who it is so that you "win". :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous fabrics!!!! Our most unique tradition is finding the tiny pickle ornament on the tree.
ReplyDeleteAs a child I always got a puzzle for Christmas, I got to open it on Christmas Eve and I would stay up until I had it finished. The final year this happened I ended up falling asleep on the floor with my legs spread open, like in the splits, and I had face planted into the puzzle sound asleep. 'Santa' had given me such a big puzzle, it conquered me!
ReplyDeleteNo so unique but I love to do the 12 Days of Christmas. We used to pick 2 or 3 families and give them useful items, like a bottle of pears for partridge in a pear tree, and slippers for the whole family for ladies dancing. Now we changed to doing Christmas jars, leaving a jar of money on the doorstep. It's easier, less hassle,less stress, but not as much fun. Tradeoff and still good. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteMy little family (Husband,Son and Self) Exchange ornaments with each other so that we have something to open Christmas Eve! The catch? Each ornament has to represent something from the year..eg: Son's first year at college so I purchased an ornament from his university bookstore.(sssshhhhhh don't tell!)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas family tradicion is not unique but it is an old croatian christmas tradicion and rearly ever is doing that: slepping under the christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteI still get up before everyone to leave presents at the tree (we all grown up now lol)
ReplyDeleteunique... maybe not... but when we lived in GA we always loved to go see the lights at Callaway Gardens. Now, we live in SC and this is something I miss.
ReplyDeleteDesi
weeshareblog@gmail.com
Our tradition is that we are total Christmas slackers! We never put up a tree, we eat out and at other people's houses, we don't exchange gifts, and we don't decorate. However, we love seeing our families and that is the real joy of Christmas! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMy husband always makes pizza from scratch on Christmas Eve and we enjoy it with a bottle of Proseco! I have some very funny pictures of our black labrador retriever trying to be good while watching the pizza making. It's one of her favorite "people food" treats.
ReplyDeleteMost unique Christmas tradition: go have a drive after lunch to see the lights by Niagara Falls, Ontario, close to where we live.
ReplyDeleteLove the fabrics. Thanks for a chance to win. My sons (ages 34 and 38 now) always got Hot Wheels in their stockings, and still do.
ReplyDeleteBonnie in Iowa
browne426@hotmail.com
Everyone gets new pajamas for Christmas. After church on Christmas eve we go home and open one present. The pajamas! In the morning all meet in the living room, we put on Christmas music (on the Yule Log TV station) put the egg casserole in the oven, and everyone looks great for their pictures as they are in brand spanking new PJs. At that point we open the gifts.
ReplyDeletenothing too much--we don't do a lot of the whole Christmas celebrating--we go to Church Christmas day and that's about it, unless we manage to get to one of our families' places for dinner/lunch.
ReplyDeleteHey Paul, thats a cool tradition! We are just starting our first tradition, which is using an advent calendar. Not "unique" per se, but it is our only (at the moment)!
ReplyDeleteHi, well our unique tradition is that every Christmas eve we take all the kids and now grandkids and drive around to see the christmas lights in peoples houses, we stop also first to get coffee for us and hot chocolate for the boys... thank you for sharing yours and giving me a chance to enter your giveaway..
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a unique tradition. Never have really.
ReplyDeleteMy grandkids would never be able to wait....grin. Nothing out of the ordinary for our family growing up except my DH was a fireman and sometimes our Christmas was the day before or after.....drove the neighbors kids crazy.
ReplyDeleteEvery Christmas Eve my first grade teacher has an open house for people to come visit and catch up with her. It is really nice. This year will be sad, it will be their last open house. Thankfully I am able to fly in to be there for the last one.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition as a child was getting to open one present on Christmas eve but my husband didn't like that so we didn't do it with our kids.
ReplyDeleteI sneak into the kids' room before they are awake and tuck a candy cane into their sleeper - at the collar. Got that idea from the cartoon version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas - when the Grinch went in and took all the kids' candy canes.
ReplyDeleteHello,..nice to meet you and your family. We did basically the same as you when the boys were home...they got their stockings and stayed put in one room together; so they could chat up a storm...after breakfast things were opened..now it's just the 2 of us...til 2pm; then the whole family arrives for dinner.....3 sons; wives; and 5 grandchildren,,loud and lots of fun!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, we really don't do Christmas around my house (mother in law is a Jehovah's Witness and lives with us)but my husband and I just spend most of the morning by ourselves locked in our bedroom. It gives us a chance at some us time and we can talk
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is just now old enough to get excited. This year we will see what tradition we set!
ReplyDeleteWe always go together for dinner in a restaurant. Just us together, very romantic!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great giveaway Paul! We do a White Elephant exchange for the adults as there are so many of us anymore. It is actually more fun than traditional gifts!
ReplyDeletenothing unique here... But I do donate to nursing homes, ill children and children in need all year and especially during the holiday season, I just hope that one day my kids and grandkids will do the same.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably not unique, but we love to drive around Xmas eve and look at all the lights in everyone's yards.
ReplyDeleteOur special tradition is on Christmas Eve. We sit around the lit tree and enjoy special gourmet appetizers that my husbands chooses and prepares. Then we watch a Christmas move together. This year it will be Elf again.
ReplyDeleteWe have a quiet Christmas, my hubby and I and my elderly mother. Mom and I come out in our robes while my husband arrives dressed and done to enjoy our stockings and breakfast!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway of batiks. Christmas tradition in our family is to attend the xmas musical at church and phone family far away.
ReplyDeleteWe buy presents and stocking stuffers for our pets, and they are very much part of our family. Wouldn't have it any other way.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is waffles before presents.. Can't open presents on an empty stomache now can we? thank you for the chance.
ReplyDeleteWe really don't have a unique tradition, except for maybe the homemade cranberries my mom makes every year for the last 25 and no-one eats. LOL..
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win. WOnderfull batiks!
we've no long standing traditions ... and for years, i've not been at home for the season. but, wherever, we like to drive out to see the lights.
ReplyDeleteI guess our unique Christmas tradition is letting our twin boys choose what they want to eat for lunch on Christmas Day, even if they ask for two minute noodles - which they have done and including what they want for desert - last year a different desert for each of them!
ReplyDeleteOne of my unique Christmas traditions is vacuuming the tops of all the cabinets so I can display my nativity collection up there without them getting all cobwebby. *grin*
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to win those gorgeous fabrics! :)
sarita0818 at comcast dot net
What a good tradition you have. When my girls were little they would always lose their hair brushes so I started buying them a brush and comb set for Christmas. Now it has become a tradition.
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is my husband and I - even though we have no children - go and pick a fresh Christmas tree every year. Wonderful giveaway and thanks
ReplyDeleteGREAT giveaway, sure hope I win and thank you! Our unique tradition, I guess, would be that we put a tree up in every room. All different sizes and decorated differently and each person does their own. Although, one year, we drew names and you had to decorate THAT person's room/tree, what fun that was!
ReplyDeleteNow that my kids are grown and have kids of their own, I don't do anything that is unique for Christmas. We do get together Christmas night for a supper. Thank you for the giveaway. Those fabrics are my favorite color! Joyce-ccarter13@windstream.net
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is to make homemade bread Xmas morning! There's something so wonderful about the smell...
ReplyDeleteMy mother makes her secret recipe cranberry fudge for Christmas Eve. She only makes this fudge for Christmas Eve and it's the most delicious thing ever. Thank you for the lovely giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLovely fabrics, thanks! We are dancing around the christmastree, while we are sining christmassongs ☺
ReplyDeleteI´ll sign in as a follower to your blog, AND I love followers too *lol*
Our most unique tradition is that we have tried the traveling brunch. We go from house to house to eat a different thing. It's not as much fun now that we have a 4-year old. Maybe in a few years we will start doing it again.
ReplyDeleteOur unique tradition is that we never did a 'traditional' Christmas. We always traveled together as a family to a fun destination. We often spent Christmas flying, or on a cruise ship, or, one year hiking in Sedona. it was fantastic.
ReplyDeleteOur traditions have changed now that we're empty nesters, it's great to have our kids together whenever we can. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteWe have breakfast burritos for after present openings!
ReplyDeleteWe make gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteMy family comes for breakfast on Christmas morning too & we open presents after the dishes are done - the kids have to do the dishes & boy do they get done fast! Great giveaway - thanks for the chance to win.
ReplyDeleteWe get together with another family the week before Christmas and make and decorate loads of Christmas cookies. Thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeletekessilari (at) gmail (dot)com
We do an "It's the thought that counts" gift exchange ... the gifts are extravagant things that you would buy the person if money were no object. Usually it's a print out of a picture of the thing, for example, a Tuscan villa :) Thanks for the giveaway!!
ReplyDeleteOur family also make gingerbread houses. Have for nearly 20 years now.
ReplyDeleteWe always put elves around the house on Dec. elves are watching. My kids had a great time with this and are carrying it on with their own kids now.
ReplyDeleteEach Grandchild is given a Magical elf the day after Thanksgiving. Each Elf has a name. The children are told that they are Santa's helpers and let Santa know if they are naughty or nice. We have a had lot of fun with this over the years. The oldest is 13 and I wasn't sure if he would want an Elf this year but to my surprise he asked me who his Elf was going to be this year. Hugs and Merry Christmas
ReplyDeleteMy most unique tradition is making gingerbread houses. Not sure it's that unique. lnb1191(at)aol(dot)com
ReplyDeleteJust getting together at Christmas is now hard - children live overseas. That would be enough for me if we can celebrate together.
ReplyDeleteAs a child, we always opened gifts in our pajamas. Even if we showered and got ready for the day, we put our new "Christmas" pajamas back on.
ReplyDeleteOur traditions include making several after-dark rides to enjoy Christmas lights.
ReplyDeleteI love your unique tradition! we have traditions but I don't think they're unique! My favourite is going to the midnight church service on Christmas Eve and then having mince pies and mulled wine after!
ReplyDeleteWe have a candlelit clam chowder dinner on Christmas Eve. Every year. Even though clam chowder and I are in a fight.
ReplyDeleteSince our children were born, my husband and I don't put any gifts under the tree until after the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve. We also try our hardest to stay at home and not do any travelling on Christmas day so the kids can enjoy their presents.
ReplyDeleteI'm 24 now, but my sister and I share a Christmas tradition. Our parents would never let us go to the living room to look at gifts until they were awake. Naturally, the suspense nearly killed us when we were little. So, for as long as I could remember, I would go wake Breeann up and together we would give our parents "first warning." It was usually pretty early in the morning, so we gave them fifteen more minutes to sleep. While we were waiting, we went to my bedroom and I read Luke's version of Jesus' birth and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to my sister. We then woke our parents a second time and they took pictures as we went to the living room to see our gifts. :)
ReplyDeleteHow do you POSSIBLY get your kids to stay in their rooms?! Good for you. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is to listen to the NPR broadcast of the service of Lessons and Carols from England on Christmas Eve as we're busy with happy preparations for the following day.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
winterwrens at gmail dot com
Greetings from Hungary. Thanks for playing!
ReplyDeleteI want to win. Beautiful fabrics, sew it on pillows.
Our Christmas dinner will be fish juice. It is an ancient tradition.
I am amazed that you kids are so disciplined! WHen ours were younger, they had to come to our room as soon as they woke up. Then we all went to the tree together to see what had been left there the night before. I don't think they ever took a detour first....
ReplyDeleteThe fabric you are offering is amazing - thanks for the chance to win!
Santa still visits all my children even though they are still adults. He will stop when they have children of their own. Thanks for the great give away
ReplyDeleteWe attend the Christmas eve candlelight service at our church and then wake up Christmas morning to cinnamon rolls!
ReplyDeletebeth(dot)sebastian(at)gmail(dot)com
My son is only 2 so we haven't had time to develop any interesting Christmas traditions. We'll have to see what develops over the next few years. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeletekario66@hotmail.com
We did something similar when our girls were little. They have grown up and come either for lunch or dinner, somethimes both on Christmas Day. I suppose we will have new traditions when they have little ones! Thanks for the chance, Dianne
ReplyDeleteMy goodness the batik FQ are beautiful! Thanks for a chance to win. My parents had 5 children. Each Christmas we still all try to go home to "Papo and Gran's" and eat, drink, and open gifts on Christmas Eve with all our kids and grandkids. We are so lucky to still have our parents who are nearing age 90!
ReplyDeleteNot sure if my last comment gave you the correct email so I am re-commenting and I would still love to win, LOL
ReplyDeleteOur traditional menu is Chicken ala King on Bisquick biscuits, jello with fruit in a Christmas tree mold (like the mold shape, not the jello), cranberry relish salad, peas, green beans, lefse, and Cranberry Cake with Hot Butter sauce for dessert. YUM!! When I got married, my husband didn't like Chicken ala King, so we added meatballs and gravy to the menu. He now likes the Chicken ala King, but the meatballs are now part of the tradition!!
ReplyDeleteWe decorate an outside tree full of goodies for the local wildlife.
ReplyDeletelovelydomesticdiva (at) gmail (dot) com
We read the Christmas story from Luke 2 of the Bible every Christmas eve.
ReplyDeleteWhat a treare this will be for some lucky winner!
ReplyDeleteMy family has a tradition of playing Dirty Santa at my Mom & Dad's Christmas gathering. You never know WHAT will show up! We have a $10 price range-- and we all like to start planning and shopping for our gifts well in advance of Christmas... There are usually a few hilarious gifts that get passed around, a few delicious ones, and some REALLY NICE $10 items-- some people can surely stretch a ten dollar bill a l-o-n-g way! :-) Thank you so much for the chance to win! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen my children were younger (they are now 26 and 23) we tied a red ribbon across the top of the stairs and they were not allowed to come down and see their presents until the ribbon was cut with a scissors and we declared "Christmas has now begun."
ReplyDeleteHow cool is that!! We did a similar thing when our children were little. We would cook breakfast, and everyone would eat. Then the children would line up in the hallway while Dad and I went into the living room. Then when we said okay, they would all come in and see the presents. Such sweet memories.
ReplyDeleteCan't think of anything particularely unique but we also always eat breakfast first.
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Unfortunately, we don't have any traditions so to speak. We do the usual stuff. Go to my son's house an hour away abd watch the granddaughters open tgeur gifts and cook dinner for all.
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I don't know if you can call this a unique tradition, but we open presents at two places. Our house and my parent's house. Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteOur tradition is we always take a holiday hike -somewhere different every year. Fun! thanks!
ReplyDeleteOooh very nice, I love the greens!! Hubby and I are generally more excited than the kids, so we get up at a reasonable time (8am or so) and then wait, and wait, and wait for the kids to wake up!! Finally around 9ish we give up and start making lots of noise (often involving the ringing of large bells), and eventually they wake up and stumble out to see what Santa has brought! Our kids are definitely not morning people :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition is picking a family in need and buying gifts for them. Even now when things are tight I wouldn't give this one up.
ReplyDeleteThis year, I began what I hope will become a tradition by having a family craft night to make our own stockings. They look gorgeous and it turns out my hubby is a pro with the sewing machine.
ReplyDeleteI dont know if it is unique but each year we would break bread before eating, wishing each other a Merry Christmas, one by one. With 30 plus people that took a while and we were all hungry.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you.
Karaoke with my family on Christmas eve.
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We have a special pickle ornament that is hidden in the tree after everyone else has gone to bed on Christmas Eve. The first person to find it on Christmas morning gets a special gift. The gift is usually something fun and funky or candy but it's cute to watch my husband and the kids battle it out over the pickle.
ReplyDeleteOn Christmas morning we start exchanging gifts one gift at a time. My husband picks the first gift for one of us to open, then that person picks a present for someone else, and so on. That way we get to see everyone open each of their gifts and it makes the morning last :-)
ReplyDeleteYour FQ selection is fanatastic! Thank you for giving me the chance to win!
On Christmas we have pie crust coolis for breakfast.
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All of my old traditions went down the tubes when I went thru a divorce and moved to Florida.
ReplyDeleteI miss Penna. very much and Christmas is missing something here in Florida. I wish it
would snow. Thanks for joining the giveaways and I hope I win as I need green batiks.
I hope you have a lovely Christmas.
Our traditions are changing- our son has moved across the country and so we will be having a different kind of Christmas. I think we will have a nice time together - my beloved and I.
ReplyDeleteWhat beautiful batiks you are giving away.
Warmest regards,
Anna
Our favorite tradition is to go to Woodstock to see Santa arrive into town, always a different way thought up by the fire department, and watch the kids received their stockings from him.
ReplyDeleteWe have an appetizer meal on Christmas Eve with extended family. It's a fun totally different kind of meal. Thanks for a chance to win this beautiful fabric! :)
ReplyDeleteThe fabric is so lovely, we can always use more batik greens.
ReplyDeleteWe love to go for a sleigh ride and toboggan with the kids. Lots of hot chocolate.
I love your batiks. I don't have any yet, but have wanted them for a long time.
ReplyDeleteWe don't really have any special tradition. Since the "kids" aren't little anymore, gifts are fewer, so there may be a scavenger hunt involved & trick questions. We usually watch a couple of movies and play games & cards with food throughout the day.
Thanks for this opportunity!
Love your batiks...our most unusual tradition is that the Nisse lady come to visit the children and brings gifts and joy. We celebrate this tradition with our Norwegian friends a week before Christmas. Thanks
ReplyDeleteOur family tradition is to have chicken hash over hot biscuits for breakfast at my mother in laws... Then we come back for dinner... Her hash is out of this world!
ReplyDeleteLOVE those green batiks! They would play so well in my stash... but they might not remain stash very long!
On Christmas morning I make home-made cinnamon rolls and my husband makes a platter of delicious sausage balls. We enjoy these special treats while we drink our coffee and open presents. Thanks for a chance to win.
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I don't have any tradition that is unique. This is the first year I haven't worked around Christmas time (newly retired) so maybe the most unique thing about it will be that I'm organized and ready. Thanks for the great giveaway chance. Never can get enough of the greens. Merry Christmas from Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteOh I love batiks in any color.
ReplyDeleteI can't say that we have a unique tradition. The only thing I can think of that might be unique is that everyone that comes in gets a hug.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, my family has no "unique" traditions either. When the children were younger and all wound up on Christmas Eve, we would sometimes give in and let everyone in the family open one small gift, just to get the ball rolling. All the other gifts were opened on Christmas morning.
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Pam
That's a fun tradition! We always eat, then read the Christmas story, sing and thank God for our blessings before we open gifts.
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We watch a Little Women while making Christmas gifts.
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Well....I don't know that what we do is unique....I make monkey bread Christmas morning and we wait till it's done before opening any presents! Thanks for the opportunity!
ReplyDeleteI really can't say our tradition is very unique other than the details about it might be. My tradition started when I was very young when my parents took the family to our local tree farm. I continued the tradition and also went to our local tree farm with my own children for their entire childhood. And now one of my children who still live in the area is now continuing that tradition with his new family. The unique part of this would be that the tree farm has always (and still is)been run by the same family with it being passed from generation to generation since I first went to that tree farm. This is the same tree farm I have now gone to for over 50 yrs with it still being owned by the same family and the children of the owners when I was a child and used to run around out there with them when my parents would take us there are now the ones running the farm while now teaching their own children who are my own children's ages how to run the farm so they can take over in a few more years. I suppose the length of time and that my own family has continued going to the same tree farm for three generations as well now is possibly unique.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the great giveaway. And I hope that you and your family have a wonderful holiday season.