Christmas Eve Family Traditions

For many families…Christmas Eve is a time for them to spend together and to enjoy one another’s company. My family is like many of the families across the nation who get together on Christmas Eve to enjoy a nice sit-down dinner together.

After we are done with dinner we give the kids a small gift that they can open and enjoy before Santa Claus makes his visit later that night.

We also enjoy playing a game or two together and then my husband will read “The Night Before Christmas” book to all of the kids. Once that has been completed…my grand daughter gets Santa his plate of cookies ready and his glass of milk. They head home and hopefully are into bed shortly thereafter.

Once all of the hoopla is done for the evening my husband and I love to sit down and watch a Christmas theme’d movie together. He has quite the collection of movies and he always surprises me which one it will be. We snack on appetizers and enjoy a glass of wine before heading to bed.

That has been our Christmas Eve routine for the past 30 years! For the first 24 years it was our daughter who was the focus of attention and then for the past 6 years…our grand daughter. This year though…we’ve added a little grandson too! We are so very blessed!!!

Do you and your family have any Christmas eve traditions? If not…what about a routine? Do you do the same thing over and over, year after year or do you try to incorporate something new? I would love to hear about it!