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My favorite Christmas tradition is on Christmas Eve. I make a big pot of seafood gumbo in the afternoon, and all of our friends and family that want, can stop by for a bowl and some fellowship. Sometimes it ends up just being my husband and I, other times we have a house full. Either way, it is nice.

One of my favorite holiday traditions is to go and pick out our christmas tree and decorate for the holiday the day after thanksgiving.

I *love* Christmas time. This is my favorite time of year by far - especially now that my daughter is here. She's only a month old, but she'll grow up with all the traditions that my Mom & I have tried to keep going for years and years.
Picking out our tree is definitely one of my fav. Last year the guy strapped the big tree to the top of my Mom's small Mazda 3 and we had to drive with the windows down and our arms out the windows to keep it from blowing away!
This year I'm trying to take notes every day about our December, especially with it being Savannah's first, so I can journal/scrap it later.
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Decorating the tree to the movies "White Christmas" & "Holiday Inn" with Bing Crosby! It's just not Christmas in our house without those 2 movies.

My favorite is the night we put up on our tree! We each have certain ornaments we put up and each ornament tells a story in our lives. I could spend hours poring through them. They are one of my most prized possessions. I have ornaments from my whole life: baby, school, travels, getting married, first house, my children's, I LOVE ornaments!

having cheese and crackers to snack on while opening presents christmas morning -
can't open presents till the cheese and cracker platter is all set up.
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Favorite Christmas Tradition: Wow, we have several that we love:) I would have to say that my most favorite is making Gingerbread Men with my daughters. All the cookie baking is fun and Dad always pops in to snitch a taste or a cookie. Lots of flour flying around and of course, lots of giggles. I have one more week before my girls get home from college and then we will jump into this tradition of making cookies together.

My favorite Christmas tradition is all the holiday baking and spending time with family!

I would have to say that ever since I was in high school (and I am now 45) I have loved thinking about creative and wonderful ways to wrap and tag my gifts. I love it and hope they love it, too.

My favorite December tradition is lighting the first Hanukah candle and eating latkes!

Nice giveaways. My favorite Christmas tradition is going to the farm to cut down our tree. We make a day of it. It is really fun when we have a little snow to trudge through. This year we were in our tee shirts. Hope we are lucky again this year to have a spider or two in our tree...It's kind of another tradition...to look for evidence of "Our Christmas Spider"...the delicate webs glistening among the lights.

Decorating the Christmas tree, of course. :) Decorating the whole house, actually. We start today! Yay, can't wait!

My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the Christmas tree. We have a lot of special ornaments that we have collected over the years. Once the last ornament is hung, we sit back with a cup of cocoa and remember the joy, excitement, and LOVE we've shared on Christmases past.

We LOVE to watch the 25 days of Christmmas on ABC. It is just a walk down memory lane every evening!!

Fondue on Christmas Eve!

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We have started a tradition of not cooking a meal on Christmas Eve (which is also my sister's birthday)
We just all pick our favorite foods and snacks and munch around the table all day. We invite old friends and family to stop by to say Happy Birthday and have a snack with us - it has been a lot of fun.
On Christmas Day, after the meal at my husband's family, we go play basketball at the church down the street. Great fun!

Going to our cousin's house every 25th and chat all day about everything. Then if its a no work day the next day we go bargain shopping on the 26th. I just love the frenzy of scouting for great deals after Christmas...woohooo!!

Making a gingerbread house is our favorite christmas tradition

Oh, it has to be decorating the tree with my five kiddos while we listen to Christmas music playing in the background. They love to ask each other where they've placed their favorite ornaments on the tree-- like ornament Hide'n Go Seek. And then they all receive a new ornament for the year! Good times, good times.

Great giveaways! December is all about slowing down and savoring. I rush during Oct. and Nov. to make sure when Dec.1 comes I am ready for a month of relaxing and celebrating traditions.