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My favorite tradition is celebrating St. Lucia Day on December 13th.

I love baking Christmas cookies with my mom - we've done it every year, and it's so nice to spend time time together and make some sweet treats for others. :)

My daughter and I have attended a full-scale production of 'The Nutcracker' for 27 years! We take the train to Chicago, go out for lunch, look at all the beautiful store windows and enjoy "the fastest two hours of the year" when the ballet begins.

My favorite holiday tradition is visiting our local 2 mile long display of Christmas Lights on the Lake with our four year old son. You drive through our park on the road that is generally used for biking/running/rollerblading that runs along side the lake. All throughout the display are various themes of lights and decorations - all animated and very colorful. You tune in your radio to a specific radio station that plays holiday music as you drive through. Our son absolutely loves it and I love it because its a chance to slow down completely, take in the view and enjoy our little family during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

One of my favorites is reading a Christmas story every night before bed.

Ooh, we have several favorite traditions, but probably my most favorite is getting together with my family (parents, siblings, etc.) and opening presents on Christmas Eve. As children, we got to open on present each night beginning 12/21, my mother's birthday. (That present was THE BEST for at least 24 hours until the next one!) On Christmas Eve, all the presents under the tree were opened, then we were thrilled with whatever Santa brought Christmas morning. So much fun and such happy memories!

Thanksgiving traditions plus getting our tree that night and decorating it. Just a special day!

One of our favorite traditions is to create a Santa's village with the Dept. 56 houses our daughter has collected for years. Decorating is not complete until the village is all a glow. Especially fun doing it together.

I think we may have started a NEW tradition this year. My almost 5 year old son is very interested in taking pictures and has captured photos of our Christmas decorating around the house. I just love how the pictures are from HIS perspective.

My favorite tradition is making a Happy Birthday, Jesus cake to end our Christmas dinner.

My favorite December tradition is our dinner on Christmas Day. We've been doing it since I was very little. We rotate between our house, and two neighbors houses. We've done it every year and all of us "kids" have grown up together. We've been at eachother's weddings and baby showers. The tradition has now expanded to include our spouses and our kids. I look forward to it every year, even at 34!

A favourite tradition? It is so hard to choose, I love them all. If I have to choose just one it would have to be watching It's A Wonderful Life. As a child, I'd watch it with my grampa and he would always cry at the end. Even though, he is no longer with us, I can watch it and remember what a wonderful person he was. That movie is very special to me and I can't imagine a Christmas without it.

My favorite tradition is driving around and looking at Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the chance!

My favorite Christmas tradition is celebrating Three Kings Day with my husband's Puerto Rican family . . . extending the Christmas season into January makes the joy last so much longer! :)

I love the practice of having an Advent wreath at home. We've done it since our first married Christmas-- I love how it keeps us in a mode of anticipation.

Going to have breakfast with Santa. My husbands work puts it on every year.

with the kids grown, we make a new tradition each year.That is we spend Christmas together somewhere fun. Such as Vegas, NYC, Florida....
We make great memories! I take lots of photos and scrap to my hearts desire.

We love to read 'Twas the night before Christmas' while we all enjoy hot cocoa.

-staying up till midnight to open presents
-playing briscola and 21(italian card games)
-eating my mom's homemade 'panata' (sicilian traditional xmas food) soooo yummm

FAVORITE December tradition is unpacking decorations and gushing over each individual piece while waiting for my husband and kids to return home after picking yet another perfect tree despite my pleas for a 'charlie brown tree this year'!

lunch at my aunt's with the entire family

Our favorite December tradition is decorating the outside of the house for the Christmas Holidays. It is fun to take out all the house decorations (some of them are very old and belonged to my in-laws since the time my husband was a little boy. On the front porch we usually do a holiday scene of a Santa's bag spilling over with toys, a small tree and a large Nutcracker soldier. We then place candy canes on the tree for visitors to help themselves.
Elaine Allen

My favorite tradition...visiting the Festival of Giving Trees and being inspired by all the cool decorated trees and stories behind them (they're donated to help raise funds for cancer research/hospice care). One of these days we hope to win one to bring home!

my newest tradition is my december daily album but my faithful standby is watching all of the holiday classic cartoons with my daughter like my mom did with me. thank you for the giveaways. rhonda

The one tradition I never fail on is filling the handmade advent calendar with chocolate for my two children. This year is my son's first at university so I put pieces of chocolate into envelopes and sent him a
Christmassy carrier of envelopes. My daughter has the whole calendar of pieces of chocolate for herself this year but had assumed I wouldn't have done anything. Whatever was she thinking?