do you have any holiday traditions that you and your family or friends share?

every year the kids all get together at my house for homemade cocoa and cookies, holiday music, classic christmas movies and make snowflake decorations to hang in the window. my daughter and i have done this since she was little...

tonight i have sugar cookies baking, lasagne ready to go and its on!!!

festivus

My mom bakes me sugar cookies every year and she asks me what shape I would like them to be, last year was angels and snowflakes, this year is a bit different, I want them shaped like squirrels and donkeys, oh and she gets me cinnamon bear cookies every also.

We have a tradition of making and decorating cut out cookies, making buckeyes and peanut butter fudge!..yummy

Whenever anyone joins us from outside our family as we all sit at the table to begin the meal. Dad stands up and we follow suit. Company curiously joining in. Then dad thumbs his nose at the food and begins babbling nonsense in Polish and rocking back and forth like a monk in communion. We thumb our nose and rock /bow like crazy. After about 20 seconds we sit and start feeding. The look of "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!" is all over our guests faces as they sit back down is priceless. Usually within a few minutes, one of us will break and just start laughing ...then it is over.....all of us die laughing....the guests do too once they figure out we was just messin with them.

THIS???

omg buckeyes are one of my FAVSSSSSS

ok... i so love this!!! hilarious!!!

Christmas Eve tradition : we all get to my moms and start cooking junk food at 8am and dont stop till about 4pm all the family picks three fav junk foods we watch christmas movies and go looking at christmas lights :)

when my kids lived at home on halloween i stayed in and dad took them out in the rain lol... my tradition was to make some kind of desert that consisted of pumpkin.... they loved it i remember three of them.. one was pumpkin cheesecake and one was pumpkin bread the other was a roll up thing with frosting pinwheeled..

just a different tradition

the last two yrs my kids lived in my house... i had sunday monday off..

we had monday night new recipe night
my son was home every monday for dinner on time.. all excited .. it would be a more gourmet recipe.. that is where i really got into cooking...
<wasnt a holiday traditon but was a weekly one>

Beginning on my son's first Christmas, on Christmas eve, I sat him on my lap, read him 'The Night Before Christmas' from a copy my mom had put in my stocking the year before when I was pregnant and then sang 'Silent Night' to him. We did this every year, alone of with whoever was around until he moved away in his late 20's. Believe me this was an act of love on his part because I do not have a good singing voice! When he was a baby - what did he know? But later on...So now I am seeing those hallmark ads for recording yourself reading a story into a card, that might just be a way to revise the tradition but I don't think I could get through it dry eyed. Haven't seen him in 3 years do to money, distance and work schedules.