Christmas day is at greatgrandma's and then at my mom's house and she usually cooks up a turkey and some variants of her thanksgiving meal. Not sure if she'll be doing it this year, but I do look forward to her turkey!
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Christmas eve at MILs house, where everyone exchanges presents. The big meal is ham (which I am not a fan of), macaroni salad (again not a fan of), baked beans
(which I am a fan of!), and other small side dishes.
Christmas day is at greatgrandma's and then at my mom's house and she usually cooks up a turkey and some variants of her thanksgiving meal. Not sure if she'll be doing it this year, but I do look forward to her turkey! |
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I am of Polish descent and the Christmas holiday is very important in the Polish Catholic faith. Although my family does not celebrate most of the Polish
Catholic traditions, there is one we have not let slip away. We share a Christmas wafer before dinner which is usually done on Christmas Eve but since we do
not do the Eve dinner, we do it on Christmas day.
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Dommy |
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What beautiful and wonderful traditions...
I'm so excited this year because it is P.'s and mine's first Christmas with my family... We also celebrate on Chrismas Eve (Noche Buena) and spend a few days before making Tamales! --Dommy! |
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yankeerose2 |
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Penta g, my family is also Polish and we always share the wafers on Christmas eve. During our meal, we have no meat, fish is fine. We have exactly 11 items,
each one represents someone or some animal present at Christ's birth. My mom sends me the oplatek every year from PA, since we now live in SC and finding
a Polish, Catholic church here is a bit tricky. Since our families are in PA we have introduced our Christmas eve tradition to alot of friends here. Every
year we have around 20-30 at our table. Everyone loves it. This year we will be in PA, so we'll get to share the oplatek with our family members
again...I can't wait!!! After eveyone goes home, we allow our kids to open 1 gift...ALWAYS jammies. When the kids are asleep, me and DH put their gifts
under the tree and we open ours to each other. This has always been a special time for DH and me, Xmas morn was always so hectic (4 kids...no further
explaining necessary), that we really love opening our gifts late on Xmas eve, its quiet and still clean
. Christmas day is lots of gifts, followed by dinner at a friends house. Then
we come home and play games for hours. I love Christmas!
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eiluj1973 |
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We celebrate with DH's family as mine live too far away and DH usually works Christmas eve so travel is out of the question.
This year however, is the first year in our 15 Christmasses together that he isn't working, so i am extra excited! Friends of ours have introduced us to a new tradition - spend the day at a water park (remember it's summer here!) and wear the kids out so that they will actually go to bed before midnight. We open presents as a family when the kids wake up, and around 1pm the rest of the family will come over to open theirs as Christmas Day is being held at my house this year. Despite the weather we always have a traditional hot dinner - roast turkey, honey glazed ham, roast potato, pumpkin, green beans and gravy. For dessert, there's plum pudding with brandy custard, fruit salad and pavlova and lemon continental cheesecake. Before and after will be water gun fights in the pool. Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult
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ShariBaby |
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I guess my family tradition is just to eat ourselves silly! We celebrate Hannukah and Christmas but Christmas Eve was always the most special. Homemade
Perogi and Kuldunai (meat filled perogi basically) and stuffed cabbage are on the table along with lots of bacon, onion and everything must swim in butter and
sour cream. Tons of homemade Christmas cookies of course. Always homemade sugar cookies with royal icing, rum balls, thumbprint cookies, fudge. My grandma
would make these wonderful apricot roll cookies and Potica of course. We always went to Midnight mass after opening presents one by one. Christmas day is the
more traditional Christmas dinner which is usually very close to being a repeat of Thanksgiving. New Years eve is more Perogi and Kuldunai (cause we can't
get enough of that stuff!)
I love the holidays!
Happily and gratefully committed to not cluttering my life with any new makeup, skincare,
or body products in 2008.
"Lowfat milk is like telling God that He's stupid." -The Food Dude |
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nenebird |
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Christmas Eve is usually watching a Christmas Carol on tv together and a light healthy dinner.
Christmas dinner is a prime rib. I started doing this a couple of years ago. I would always do turkey with the all the fixins but its too much work. We have a custom butcher type shop here that gets aged prime rib that you can cut with a fork!!! Its very expensive but well worth the price once a year. You have to preorder. So we have prime rib, mashed potatoes, salad and a veggie. Dessert is pie. I bake so there are always lots of cookies around. We open present, watch football and veg. Its lovely. |
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