Comments on: Fantastically Unique Christmas Eve Traditions

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:40:28 +0000

In reply to Jackie. We always watched a Christmas Story on TV too!

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:40:05 +0000

In reply to Helen Reynolds. I love it!!

By: Katelyn Fagan

Katelyn Fagan — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 03:39:36 +0000

In reply to Lisa. I love all of these so much!!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 06:02:15 +0000

My family always has a warm soup & some homemade bread/rolls/bread bowls on Christmas Eve. This year we’re having my fav, Creamy chicken & wild rice soup & breadsticks. Then when it is time, we gather in the living room where the tree is. With the christmas lights on and other lights off, we read by flashlight the Christmas story from Luke 2. Then, we each get to pick a Christmas hymn to sing as a family. (My parents have 3 grown children and none are married or have kids……so we seem to be shrinking… we would love for it to grow.) My sister sleeps-over (she has her own house 30 minutes away) and we would go to bed, bust since we are all grown we have turned into special Elves that help Santa put out the presents and fill the stockings and eat cookies left out (sometimes). Then, in the morning no one looks as we all gather, then go into the tree room at the same time. After looking at our stockings, we start breakfast which has always been orange rolls (not a cinnamon roll variety, but a different biscuit type covered in orange sauce). Last two years we also make Hootenanny which is a fav for me and my bro (Hootenanny is a german eggy pancake). Then we open presents if any have been “wrapped” [(one christmas I wrapped a box and said we could re use it for next Christmas, so then they had me wrap about 15-20 boxes we store in the craft room closet and it has been tradition ever since…..until a couple years ago. We started not wrapping the presents which we switched from giving to each other to things we needed and could use and just setting them out by our stockings (traditionally on the couches in the tree room)]. So some of our traditions have changed now that we are grown and some traditions we continue because we love them still, but the main thing with our family is that we are together for Christmas.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:22:11 +0000

In reply to Helen Reynolds. I LOVE these ideas! Totally sounds like something that we would enjoy and could begin to do.

By: Madeline Walker

Madeline Walker — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 12:33:50 +0000

Our family gathers together at my sister’s home for eating and fellowship.

By: Helen Reynolds

Helen Reynolds — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 06:01:58 +0000

Throughput pur married life, on Christmas Eve we would have a simple supper of soups with different “embellusments.” Then we would go sit in the living room with all of the lights off except the tree lights. We would let the youngest child pick a Carol and we would sing, working our way up to my husband. One time, my oldest son asked if we were going to “sing to the tree?” That is what we have called it ever since. Now our kids are adults and there are 22 of us when we are all together. But we still all take a turn and sing that many carols! There is a good mix, starting with the young ones of fun songs and then the spiritual ones. My husband always chooses “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” or “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem.” We are starting to sound pretty good as our family choir grows. . After we have finished, we all kneel for family prayer. The Spirit is always warm a d strong. Then the children head off to bed with their stockings because at our house Santa always puts stockings at the foot of the beds so that in the morning kids can get into them together while mom and Dad sleep a little longer! These are my favorite Christmas traditions.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 02:28:23 +0000

We spend Christmas Eve at my parents’ house. It’s usually a smaller group than on Christmas Day (I have six siblings and 20 nieces/nephews). When we get home, I prep the overnight french toast casserole (that cooks while we are opening gifts in the morning). After the casserole is in the fridge, we watch A Christmas Story on tv.