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Favorite Christmas Tradition

Whats your favorite christmas tradition with your Fi/DH?

This is our first christmas together, I'm so excited! We spent this weekend watching the old christmas classics, drinking hot chocolate and wrapping presents.
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Re: Favorite Christmas Tradition

  • Cry  we do not have one..

    I'm a chef widow during the holidays.  We open presents on xmas eve, but we do not do anything else.  We do not even have a meal on either day...






    What differentiates an average host and a great host is anticipating unexpressed needs and wants of their guests.  Just because the want/need is not expressed, doesn't mean it wouldn't be appreciated. 
  • Uh...we don't really have any traditions for the two of us yet.  He gets to eat all the fudge scraps from the batches I make for gifts?
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  • We dont really have any other than him letting me open any gifts addressed to the both of us. We ALWAYS watch scrooged at some point, but i dont know if youd call that a tradition.

    New years though, every single year we will rent movies, get drunk and eat an incredibly indulgent meal together - last year was steak, shrimp and lobster tails. Not sure what this year will be.
  • We don't have any traditions together either. Other than not getting each other gifts, lol.
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  • This will be the first one we actually spend together too.

    I guess my favorite is the massive number of cookies we bake with his family.
  • We don't have any yet either.  We have our family tradtions that we both participate in, but usually we just open our gifts to each other before we leave town for Christmas Eve and there's not much tradition in that.  Just do it when we have time or when I'm too excited to wait any longer. 
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  • We don't have any yet.  
  • Other than going from one family occasion to the next, we don't have anything major yet, as this is our first Christmas to REALLY get to be together. (We were in an LDR until August) But every year we do sit and watch holiday movies together and that sort of thing.
  • We don't really have any yet.  I like Nebb's idea for New Year's, though.  :-)
  • Getting drunk on Christmas eve, and going to 10pm mass
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  • I was sure we probably had a couple, but when I was trying to think of them, I guess we really don't.  He doesn't like to bake or watch christmas movies really and I decorated the tree by myself this year because of poor timing.  He does help with that sometimes but he's not into it.

    Christmas cookies is a huge tradition in my family so I do that.  But it's more of a girls tradition.
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  • We have gone out after the first snowfall in December to pick out and cut down our Christmas tree every year.  Then we open our gifts Christmas Eve morning, go to his mom's for Christmas Eve and get up Christmas morning and drive to Wisconsin to my parents for Christmas Day dinner and a few days.
  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_favorite-christmas-tradition?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:e1c023cb-92ee-4081-a8e9-88437d021c01Post:b458e354-f1fa-465f-ad47-fe5e5886a158">Re: Favorite Christmas Tradition</a>:
    [QUOTE]Getting drunk on Christmas eve, and going to 10pm mass
    Posted by shellydiane820[/QUOTE]

     I use to do that when I lived in the states.  Except it was midnight mass.  Then we would go to grandmas for breakfast.  Then we come to my parents home and open gifts.  My dad makes the best whiskey sours.  I miss those days.

    When I lived in St John I would bartend on xmas eve until 4am.  It was so much fun.  Everyone was out and partying.  And I mean the whole island.    I miss those days also.. <img src="http://cdn.cl9.vanillaforums.com/downloaded/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-frown.gif" border="0" alt="Frown" title="Frown" />






    What differentiates an average host and a great host is anticipating unexpressed needs and wants of their guests.  Just because the want/need is not expressed, doesn't mean it wouldn't be appreciated. 
  • You go to mass drunk?  Weird.
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  • We have the same meal for Christmas Eve dinner every year.  I suspect that this is the last year for it, though.  I'm going to have to adopt most of it for us once we move.  FI's family does the traditional seven fishes dinner for Christmas eve, so I don't know what day we'll have this menu, but we'll have to have it.
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_favorite-christmas-tradition?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:e1c023cb-92ee-4081-a8e9-88437d021c01Post:d87e0d7e-88fc-4bf9-9adf-7e5ba1d68f36">Re: Favorite Christmas Tradition</a>:
    [QUOTE]You go to mass drunk?  Weird.
    Posted by danieliza1127[/QUOTE]

    more buzzed than drunk.  But yeah.  I think most of the congregation is also.  I think it's a DE Catholic thing.






    What differentiates an average host and a great host is anticipating unexpressed needs and wants of their guests.  Just because the want/need is not expressed, doesn't mean it wouldn't be appreciated. 
  • Oh and Dani, when I was in Siapan one xmas, there was not enough room in the church.  So all these people were outside sitting on the cars like a drive-in listening to the mass.  Everyone has beer or drinks.  It was pretty funny and sad.  We could not be in the church and didn't have drinks ourselves..






    What differentiates an average host and a great host is anticipating unexpressed needs and wants of their guests.  Just because the want/need is not expressed, doesn't mean it wouldn't be appreciated. 
  • Its 10pm mass, everyone is.
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