Holiday Songs and Traditions

[Ion Kenshin]

Happy Holidays all. With the holiday season in full swing I was curious to know what are some holiday traditions that you do every year. What holiday do you celebrate? Dinner with the family? Midnight Mass? Do you open presents on Christmas Eve or wait till Christmas Day? How about holiday music or movies? Is there anything you must watch or listen to to make the season official? Share with us.

Happy ChristmaHanuKwanzaka to all
and of course
Happy Festivus for the rest of us​

 

[Logan's Lady]

Well, our tradition is to go to a Christmas Eve service and then come home and read the Christmas story out of the Bible.

We open all the presents on Christamas Morning.

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Aww that's really cute. In my house right before Christmas Eve mass the kids can open one present. Then we go to church and come home and wait for family members to come by singing Carribean carols and such. Then it's bedtime for those waiting for Santa

 

[Erzengel]

It's changed since my family moved to Florida and that Erzette sometimes works Christmas Eve, but there is usually a Christmas Dinner and opening up the gifts and then me going off to play whatever video game I just got.

 

[Manic]

It used to be lights all over the house, a big tree in the living room (that I almost always decorated by myself), and everyone wore those red and white santa hats all the time. For the past few years, however, we've been putting less effort into Christmas. Now I'm the only one buying gifts, and I don't even know if I'm gonna wrap them.

I still love Christmas, though. Just last night I heard Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby" on the radio (sexiest Christmas song ever made, by the way), and it made my night complete. I need to listen to that song at least once every year, along with the one by the Chipmunks.

 

[Shemtov]

See Chanukah thread for mine....

 

[Watson]

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Christmas films:

Die Hard
The Godfather
Little Women
Miracle on 34th Street
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Nightmare Before Christmas
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol (1951)

I'm pretty low key tradition wise. We always watch A Christmas Carol Christmas eve, and spend all day Christmas watching the movies that we got for Christmas. I'll usually try and go see a movie on Christmas Day as well.

 

[Kelly]

We use to get together with family and friends on Christmas Eve, my mom would invite, neighbors...we would just order in Pizza so that no one would have to cook. My nieces and I all sing, and we would put together a little show, and just enjoy family and friends.

When my mom passed away right before Christmas 1999, that tradition stopped. But, it looks like my niece will be bringing it back this year, so it should be fun.

As far as favorite Christmas Song: I would have to say, "Don't Save It All For Christmas Day"

My favorite Christmas movie: The Polar Express

My family also all go and see a movie on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. I think our Christmas Day movie this year is going to be "Sherlock Holmes", if I have anything to do with it....I usually don't, I normally don't care what we go and see, I just like being with my family.

 

[Bat Attack]

My family used to hide a pickle in the tree, why they did it I don't know. We had to stop though after my dog ate it one year and got sick.

 

[Watson]

My family used to hide a pickle in the tree, why they did it I don't know. We had to stop though after my dog ate it one year and got sick.

It's a German tradition. Back in the day, whoever found it got a prize/gift. My family has pickle ornaments we put on the tree, but we never put a real one on lol. My dog does get sick from the pine needles sometimes though .

 

[Bat Attack]

It's a German tradition. Back in the day, whoever found it got a prize/gift. My family has pickle ornaments we put on the tree, but we never put a real one on lol. My dog does get sick from the pine needles sometimes though .

Wow, my family isn't even German, hahaha. We never got a prize either, just a nasty old dry pickle. My family is a bunch of nutjobs.

 

[Watson]

I'm sure the tradition got dispersed over time. It is odd though lol

 

[Erzengel]

Love Actually has kinda risen up the ranks as one of my favorite Christmas movies.

Of course the standards of Scrooged and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation are my favorites.

My favorite cartoon is Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

My favorite song is Christmas Eve Sarajevo.

 

[Logan's Lady]

Every year my mom would bake "Portugese Sweet Bread" and when me and my brothers woke up Christmas morning we would wake mom and dad up. Mom would make us wait till she got the coffee made, the bread heated up and some homemade hot chocolate for us.

Then we would open presents white drinking hot chocolate and eating the bread for breakfast.

I now make the same bread for my family every year and we have it in the mornings while we open presents.

Another tradition is having fudge around Christmas time. Mom always used to make it 2-3 weeks ahead of time and there would be fudge around almost all of December.
I just made my batch yesterday... and i'm hoping it won't be gone before Christmas Day

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Responses are great guys. Some of my fav songs are O Holy Night (Josh Groban and *NSYNC Version), listening to *NSYNC's, Christina Aguilera's, Nat King Cole's, Barbara Streisand's, and Frank Sinatra's Christmas albums are pretty much guarenteed. And of course no one else sings White Christmas like Mr. Bing Crosby. I got to decorate the front of my house with stuff for the first time ever now that I have a my own place. So excited. And tommorow we get snow!!! So excited!!

 

[Prison Mike]

I sit in the dark and stare at a wall. It's a Christmas tradition!

 

[Ion Kenshin]

Awww poor little Jack Horner.

 

[VampElvis]

When I was growing up we had a huge extended family that all lived within 25 miles of each other and we'd always get together on both the night of Christmas Eve at one of my Great Aunts then again on Christmas Day for lunch at my Grandmothers. But you had to be careful answering the phone on Christmas Eve. Family members would call each other through the day and try to be the first one on the call to say "Christmas Eve Gift". If you said it first, whether you answered or placed the call, the other person had to give you a gift on Christmas Eve instead of Christmas Day. CallerID pretty much killed the game.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

While I've got family traditions, a tradition with my friends is my favorite. Every year a week or week and a half before Christmas, we all dress up as Santa and do a pub crawl along the South Side St. Paddy's Day parade route in Chicago, a nice long stretch of 12 or 13 bars. Tomorrow is actually the day of this year's crawl, ho ho ho!