Christmas Eve Family Traditions

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!!!