Good morning everyone! Happy Christmas Eve Day! Yay! This time tomorrow our Christmas Day celebrations will be in full swing, at least around here they will be!
Today’s Topic: How many of you have traditions for Christmas Eve? For those who do, what are your Christmas Eve traditions? We have a few here in my household that I will tell you about today.
* Table Top Tree – We have a table top tree that goes on a special table in our dinning room. This little tree only goes up on Christmas Eve Day and gets decorated with Angel ornaments. Each Angel has a name written on him/her in memory of a family member who has passed. We do put one kitty angel ornament onto the tree to remember our sweet Miss Whitney (our cat) who passed away 8 years ago.
* Family Christmas Eve Party – We host a very intimate gathering every Christmas Eve for immediate family. We serve finger foods, appetizers and great beverages. The kids play games and the adults watch a movie together or we just all hang out together.
* Christmas Stockings – My daughter, grand daughter, mother, myself and husband all get the goodies in our stockings on Christmas Eve.
* Christmas Book – Every year on Christmas Eve I used to read a few Christmas books to our daughter. Now that she is an adult, I do this every Christmas Eve with my granddaughter. Last year I was in the hospital for Christmas and I had to read the 2 books to her over the phone. It broke my heart to do it that way but this year…you bet she will be here and sitting on my lap when I do it! Yay!
So let’s hear it…do you have any Christmas Eve Traditions? If so, we would love to hear about them!!!
I love your Christmas traditions, especially the tree on the table with each angel ornament in remembrance of a departed person. Stockings are hung up on Christmas Eve in our house and before church on Christmas day each person can open one present.
I love the table top tree in memory of your passed family members. Such a wonderful remembrance. When my son was little he used to get to open one present on Christmas Eve a couple of hours before bedtime. We spend Christmas Eve day with the family, very casual, but full of fun!
How fun! Christmas Eve is a very special day and really hits home the beauty and sentiment of the season. That’s a great idea about the tree. It really helps you remember your family and how blessed we all are. I’m sure it broke your heart to read to your granddaughter over the phone, but I bet it meant a lot to her and will be a memory she carries with her. This year will be even more precious as you can hug and hold her while you read. Do you read any particular story? Our traditions are very simple. We all open one Christmas present on Christmas Eve night. When the kids were little, we let them pick the one the other could open. This helped them think about the other person as they gave them the gift. Our other tradition is to watch National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. We are all looking forward to a quiet evening just enjoying family time. Merry Christmas!
We normally have a German Christmas celebration here. Warm German potato salad with Bratwursts to honor my heritage, then church and maybe open one gift at midnight, But this year we are mixing it up a bit and heading to a friends home for an early dinner. Church will be afterwards and then home for some time by the fire.
Merry Christmas all!
Stockings on Christmas eve? But Santa hasn’t been there yet 😛
Yup! We have always been taught that Santa doesn’t do stockings, mom & dad do them in our family 🙂