What's your Christmas Eve traditions?
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What's your Christmas Eve traditions?
| Tue, 12-19-2006 - 12:45pm |
What do you do on Christmas Eve?
This is our first Christmas Eve that we will not be around family and I'm trying to figure out what we can do. We will probably let the kids open one present but I want to make it fun too. We have always gone to my parents for on that night and now we are just going to stay home and go down to visit a couple of days later.
I'm just wanting to get some ideas to make this a fun day & night.

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Well, being a miitary family it's hard to be with family on a regular basis on the holidays! I bring the tradition of Mexican Food to the table on Christmas eve (from my south texas roots). If DH's parents are here we go to Christmas Mass. Otherwise we usually watch A Christmas Story (DH's brought in tradition) and maybe go driving to look at the lights. We don't usually open a gift that evening but there are exceptions to the rule!
Denise
Edited 12/19/2006 6:00 pm ET by 2boyz4us
LOL what a great question. We sit around eating pizza watching down-to-the-wire-Dan (dh) run around like a lunatic making wreaths, wrapping gifts, decorating, etc.
Then we hang the stockings, read the kids a Christmas story, leave out the cookies and eggnog for Santa and send them off to bed so we can put the gifts under the tree.
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Since I have to work Christmas Eve, we will head to my parents house when I get off.
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Oh those all gave me some great ideas! Here's what I've come up with so far,
I have bought some new board games and I need to decide what we will eat still. But I also got DH some Christmas movies, the old Rudolph & Frosty and Peanuts, and I may let him open them that night and then watch them. I'm thinking we will drive aroung looking at lights. We have always read The Night Before Christmas and The Cajun Night Before Christmas (DH's touch) but this year it will not be so late since we will not be going to my parents.
Thanks for the ideas everyone.
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