What is your holiday traditions?

Every year, I made Christmas Eve dinner. I make pasta with tomato sauce and american cheese, since we can't eat meat on Christmas Eve. I also make fish sticks and crab cakes if my uncle comes over. I personally don't like them lol. Then we open presents from our family. My grandma comes over and brings us her presents and my uncle. Then we go to bed to have my brother wake us up around 6:30am to open presents from Santa lol. Then we eat dinner at around 3:00pm. It depends where because Christmas is hosted by my mom one year and my grandma the next. Then we spend the rest of the night being together.

What are some of your traditions?

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Well, my family has friends over for dinner on Christmas Eve and after dinner and dessert, myself and a few other people will go for a walk around our development and look at the christmas lights. After they go home, we open our presents and then maybe watch a movie if we're not tired.

Christmas Day, My sister comes over. We open presents with her. We stuff ourselves and fall asleep infront of the TV. A Christmas Story is usually playing in the livingroom so I go into my room and sleep off the turkey or come to S.O.

Christmas Eve, I go to the movies. Then, I drive around and look at Christmas lights, get a Subway sandwhich, and bring it home and watch The Night Before Christmas (and It's a Wonderful Life if there's time before I fall asleep).

Christmas day, I get up early (like 7) and open any gifts I might have...

Beyond that, no set tradition, but those ones have been in place since I was little (except Christmas Eve, we also used to sit on my Dad's knees as he read us Christmas stories).

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We used to go every Christmas eve to my mom's side of the family and stay out really late. Then the next morning we'd open presents from "Santa" and then after a nice lunch go over to my dad's side of the family. Now, since they're divorced, it tends to happen the other way around.

On Christmas Eve my mom's brother and his family come over. We all go to church together, then come home and eat pierogis, then open gifts.

On Christmas Day, we go to my dad's brother's house and do the whole Christmas thing with his side of the family.

Last year and this year I have an added tradition though. After I do presents with my family on Christmas Eve, I go to my boyfriend's house or wherever his family is to celebrate with them and he comes with my family on Christmas Day.

On Christmas Eve my mom's brother and his family come over. We all go to church together, then come home and eat pierogis, then open gifts.

Now that's a Christmas! :D

For us we take three days to celebrate.

Christmas Eve we have the traditional dinner (fish, potatoes, sauerkraut, red borsche with mushroom stuffed pierogi) then open gifts after dinner. Go to midnight mass and go home. Then Christmas day is dinner #2, only this time we can have meat, so we usually have duck or something with our extended family. St. Stephens Day (aka Christmas Day #2 for Poles) we have another dinner, but this time we're can invite friends. The first day is resevred only for immediate family, second day for extended family, and third for anyone else who isn't directly related to us.

But that was when I was at home. This year I'm working so I'm not really celebrating. I'm still probably going to midnight mass, but no dinner/presents this year since I live alone, I'm not going to take the time to cook some huge dinner that I won't even be able to finish. I don't really care tho, now that I finally have a stable, full time job year round while going to school, that all I ever really wanted.

Now that's a Christmas! :D

For us we take three days to celebrate.

Christmas Eve we have the traditional dinner (fish, potatoes, sauerkraut, red borsche with mushroom stuffed pierogi) then open gifts after dinner. Go to midnight mass and go home. Then Christmas day is dinner #2, only this time we can have meat, so we usually have duck or something with our extended family. St. Stephens Day (aka Christmas Day #2 for Poles) we have another dinner, but this time we're can invite friends. The first day is resevred only for immediate family, second day for extended family, and third for anyone else who isn't directly related to us.

But that was when I was at home. This year I'm working so I'm not really celebrating. I'm still probably going to midnight mass, but no dinner/presents this year since I live alone, I'm not going to take the time to cook some huge dinner that I won't even be able to finish. I don't really care tho, now that I finally have a stable, full time job year round while going to school, that all I ever really wanted.

It just wouldn't be Christmas without pierogis. It's the only time of year we have them.

Every christmas eve, my sister Jessie and her family comes over and we watch some christmas movies and than they go home at about 11:30 ish. And I usually wake my parents up in the morning to open presents, I'm 19 but still a child at heart. I really need to grow up lol.

On Christmas Eve, my family goes over to my grandparents house [Mom's parents]. We open presents and my uncle gives us all scratch off lottery tickets, so we scratch those and then go eat. We usually eat beef fondue, but sometimes we have a ham. I like fondue better. We leave at around 11 because my grandparents go to midnight mass.

On Christmas morning, I wake up at 5:30 am to the song "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey. I go open my stocking, then watch music videos until my sister wakes up and wakes everyone up. We open presents, then go to my grandparents house [Dad's parents] and open gifts there. Then we have dinner after that. Then we go home and my sister and I go overboard with our gifts :lol:

On Christmas Eve, we usually have dinner at our house and then go to my aun't house for dessert. Usually our dinner is either fish or pasta. Last year though, we had dinner AND dessert and my aunt's house. This year, it'll probably be back to normal though. Then at midnight, we go to midnight mass.

On Christmas, we open presents/stockings during Christmas Morning. Then, my aunt and uncle and cousins come over, or we go there, and we spend all of Christmas together...dinner, desert, presents...ect. Presnets are usually after dinner. Usually we don't get home (or they leave) until like 12 am.