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Our favourite tradition iswho puta the star on the tree ! The kids take it in turns . This year my three year old has his turn 🙂
I love carol singing!
on the 10th when i put the christmas tree up with the kids
A trip to London to see Father Christmas or a show
We start going Christmas crafts to make additional decorations for our home while spending quality time together
Ginger wine just like mum made. Managed to find it again and have made some, the memories flooded back.
We always watch movies on Christmas eve on the sofa with a hot chocolate
Christmas stockings outside the bedrooms and hearing the children checking them to know if Santa’s been
Our Christmas tradition is relaxing on Christmas eve with a hot chocolate and marshal mallows.Along with a Christmas movie. Love Christmas and family time
My favourite Christmas tradition is having a Christmas Eve box with snuggly pyjamas, hot chocolate and a dvd in to just calm everything down before the big day.
Meeting up with the whole extended family. We did it yesterday.. 46 of us took over the restaurant !
Favourite tradition is no tv on Christmas Day but play silly board games instead
Christmas Eve we have a takeaway Xmas Eve box’s and lots of films with lots of goodies
Board games with the family on Christmas Eve
We always put on christmas music and put the christmas decorations up always on the first weekend in December.
We rock around the christmas tree
We always let our little girl put the star on the tree. And it is chocolate for breakfast on Christmas Day…that s a tradition for me!
Our Christmas Eve tradition that we do every year since having children is after Tea we all go for a walk on the beach, no matter what the weathers like, we get all wrapped up and have a lovely walk, we come home for a nice hot bubble bath and new pjs. We make hot chocolate and settle down to watch a Christmas movie all toasty and warm under the throws with the fire on. Once the kiddies are in bed me and the hubby get all the magic ready and then we celebrate the evening with a glass of fizz and a cheeseboard. I love Christmas Eve just as much as the big day
Getting ready for Santa and his reindeer, mince pies, whiskey and a carrot
Opening presents at the strike of midnight on Christmas Day
Wow amazing!! Thank you for the chance to win! My favourite tradition is board games and karaoke on Christmas eve with the husband and kids we love it and look forward to it each year
My very favourite tradition is putting up the Christmas tree and seeing those lights twinkling brightly.
Having a sherry while cooking Christmas dinner
Seems to be that retched naughty elf!
new pjs on christmas eve
Favourite Christmas tradition is watching a christmas movie on christmas eve followed by some local carol singing, love Christmas!!!
Toasting the Christmas with a glass of mulled wine after we decorate it
My favourite Christmas is having everything cooked and served by the time the Queen gives her speech, by which time the tea trolley has arrived!
The kids get new p j’s to open on Christmas eve
Setting the Christmas pudding alight
Putting up the tree.
Making & baking mince pies on Christmas eve with my family
my daughter loves her Elf!
I love the Carol singers
i love that we decorate the christmas tree together as a family each year and that the children each have a bauble to hang bought for their first xmas.
Christmas Eve box, new pjs and boards games
My favourite Christmas tradition is having Christmas music on while doing the meal prep on Christmas Eve with my boyfriend
Decorating the tree to music.
Favourite tradition would have to be getting my sons new pjs to wear on Christmas Eve
Attending Carol service at local Cathedral, then begin to feel the Christmas spirit.
Reading a story while the advent candle burns each night
Our Christmas tradition is to open 1 present before lunch – I love it. (Also eating the crackling every year before it gets onto anyone’s plate.) 🙂
My daughters who are 24 and 25 have to pretend to be asleep before Santa puts their stockings on the end of their bed with a throaty ho ho ho chuck in. Then I collapse with a mug of Baileys.
Christmas pyjamas on Christmas Eve, I can’t remember a Christmas without and now it’s extended to anyone who stay over during festive period, and I’ve donated 11 pairs of kids ones to a charity that will hand them out locally to families living in poverty this Christmas, lovely to know that such a big part of Christmas for me will also be a big part of their Christmas this year
We always put the tree up 12 days before and take it down 12 days after as a family so we all get to decorate it together
Going to the crib service at church on Christmas eve
I cook the turkey Christmas Eve as my sons love to eat the legs for supper.
I love going out to get our Christmas Tree on the 12th December and decorating the tree while drinking mulled wine and hot chocolate for the kids x
Having mulled wine in the snow in Switzerland on Christmas eve
We always watch It’s A Wonderful Life every Christmas Eve 🙂
Leaving sherry, a mince pie and a carrot out for Santa and Rudolph x
I love watching the girls faces as daddy goes downstairs Christmas morning to check if Santa has been!
Scrabble game after all the festivities 🙂
Putting out the treats for Santa
I love attending the Children’s Service on Christmas Eve – it gives me a chance to reflect on the real meaning of Christmas and prepare for the days to come.
So our tradition is that every year we buy a couple of special Christmas tree decorations that mean something significant to us, or have meaning. For example, last year we bought a “Big Ben” and a red telephone box to symbolise our first time taking our son to London, the year before that we bought a platform 9 3/4 bauble to show our love of Harry Potter and this year we picked a fishing Father Christmas to represent our love of fishing as a family.
Christmas tree up with Christmas jumpers on, Christmas music on, mince pies and mulled wine. Bliss
My favourite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree! It doesn’t feel like Christmas until the decorations are up.
Christmas carols on Christmas Eve, then a wee glass of port before we go to bed to wait for the big man to arrive.
Leaving mince pie a tot of whiskey and carrots out for Santa and the reindeer yet
My favourite tradition is ice skating at the outdoor rink on Christmas Eve with my family. We have mulled wine and hot mince pies afterwards….and then a couple of cheeky g&t’s when we get home
christmas eve movie night and snacks
bucks fizz at breakfast 😀
My favourite tradition is midnight mass with my brother’s and sister.
always having a real tree
Decorating the Christmas tree, which we did this weekend. I love taking out the different decorations that we have accumulated over the years, bought in different places, as they remind me of happy memories.
Our Christmas eve buffet with all the family
Having breakfast and getting dressed before opening presents!
Our family trip to the cinema on Christmas Eve!
Church Service on Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve fun with the kids baking 🙂
We always go for a family walk after clearing up the Christmas meal. It helps us to burn off some calories and not just fall asleep in a chair!
We like going to the Church on Christmas Eve to make the Christingle candles with the children
Eating warm mince pies in my new pyjamas
Mince pies for breakfast on Christmas Day!!
Making paperchain decorations and paper giant snowflakes with the children, this year it will be with the grandchildren.
Decorating the Xmas tree
Boxing Day buffet
This is probably an unusual one but our favourite tradition is to open a few presents on Christmas Eve
fish n chips, so no cooking, on Christmas Eve
We spend christmas eve at my partners family’s, christmas day with my family and boxing day at home
I don’t have any Christmas traditions as we don’t celebrate Christmas
we always get some chestnuts and roast them ( in the oven) on Christmas eve great way to start the festivities
I love our Christmas tree walk on Christmas Eve before sprinkling reindeer dust, putting out Santa’s treat and watching a Muppet’s Christmas Carol!
Our only one really, now that the kids are grown, is a slap up Christmas Turkey dinner.
christmas eve christmas movie night
We leave a mince pie and Baileys out for Santa on Christmas Eve, the little ones don’t question why he has Baileys instead of milk!
stocking on christmas morning for the whole family
It’s gathering in the town square on Christmas Eve to sing Carols.
Have used the same santa paper sack for almost 30 years
My favourite tradition is putting the Christmas tree up with my family, obviously with Christmas music and a few drinks!
We always put the Christmas Tree up on the 1st of December on the afternoon
Singing carols whilst we all decorate the Christmas tree – using ornaments we have collected every year since I was a child – not 67
Favourite tradition is waving to Santa with the kids at 6am as he walks through our village with his elf
I like to put my nativity figures out and the Christmas tree up helped by my grandson and make homemade crackers with my own little gifts in them . Still put a sixpence in the Xmas Pud
Going out for a meal and drinks with my friends.
we always put the tree up around my birthday – been doing it since i was a little girl!
Putting up the decorations!
Mine is late night shopping in the lead up to Christmas
Dancing to Christmas music when decorating the house
My favourite Christmas tradition is baking christmas cookies and decorating them with all the kids. It’s a happy occasion.
Leaving mince pie and a glass of milk for Santa. A carrot and water for Rudolph. Then when little ones are in bed, leaving the evidence of crumbs and empty glass to show Santa had visited and enjoyed his offerings.
Our early morning Christmas walk.
Carol singing
Tradition Is Christmas Turkey Dinner Served At 2pm
Hanging the Christmas stockings, the older they get though the harder it is to get them into the bedroom without waking them. Having them on their beds gives us an extra 30 minutes sleep 🙂
I love sitting by the tree wrapping presents with a glass of wine and Michael Buble playing! We always try to wrap presents so they look like something else to keep each other guessing.
We always open our presents on Christmas evening
The opening of the Christmas Eve boxes!
A nice long walk with all the family on Christmas day after dinner.
Normally it’s the 1st Dec but this year we put it up a week early.
we always have new pjs for christmas eve we have a bath put them on and watch a christmas movie an then open one present each at midnight before bed!
We love packing up the leftovers in to a picnic and heading to the coast on Boxing Day for a walk along the coast.
New Christmas pyjamas!
My little elf that Mum bought me as a child has been placed on our family tree for the last 50 years. Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without him! 🙂 x
Secret Santa at my Dad’s Xmas Eve party. Always great fun x
Baileys hot chocolate and a Xmas film in Xmas eve! ❤️
Putting up the decorations on the first of December!
Eating bacon sandwiches in our pyjamas sitting in our bar be que hut.
Having bacon sandwiches in our artic cabin all wearing pyjamas and Santa hats.
Our Christmas eve is my favourite tradition, Church, pub, sister in laws for puled pork.
Love to meet with all my family on christmas eve for a meal
We are not a church going family but we do love to take the children to church on Christmas Eve because our local church has a beautiful carol service. That’s one of my favourite Christmas traditions.
Sitting round the tree on Christmas eve and everyone opening a tree present.
I love Christmas Dinner with all the family – cooking all day for an amazing feast!
Making marzipan fruit on Christmas Eve
My favourite Christmas tradition is kissing under the mistletoe!
We all have to gather on the upstairs landing for my Mum to check if Santa has been, even though we’re all adults now.
As a family we do something called ‘Snapdragons’ – heat some brandy, put some sultana’s in a ovenproof dish, pour heated brandy into dish and light the brandy with a match, place dish on the table, turn out the lights and pick the sultanas out with your fingers from the flames! Messy but fun.
Getting new festive pyjamas for Christmas eve.
Christmas dinner.
Looks delicious!
Having a glass of bucks fizz on Christmas morning 🙂
Not really a tradition, more a necessity… But sneaking down the stairs when the kids are asleep and setting up their presents
Letting my nieces decorate our tree.
Opening one small present on Christmas Eve
‘Santa’ ringing the bell on Christmas Eve and there just being parcels on the doorstep containing new pj’s for the kids to wear to bed!
All the family coming around for dinner on Christmas day, opening presents together and playing games after.
The only tradition we have is never to have turkey for Christmas dinner.
Putting up decorations especially with my youngest two, 3yo twins, who are very excited!!!
Listening to Christmas Carols whilst decorating the tree
My favourite tradition is cooking the turkey in the evening of Christmas Eve – as it cooks the delicious Christmassy scents waft throughout the house, and Christmas really starts there! Hubby and i always gorge ourselves on the bacon that I cover the turkey with, too, late into the night, like greedy kids!
I love to leave a sprout out for Rudolph and a mince pie and sherry for Santa on Christmas Eve.
My favourite tradition is putting the tree up and decorating it. This year we have a live tree and are trying to make our own, biodegradable ornaments.
making my own crackers
Putting up the decorations
Taking my youngest niece/nephew to see santa!
Walk on the beach Christmas morning
Having warm mince pies and cream for afters.
Having cooked red cabbage (my late mother’s recipe) with our Christmas dinner. My mother was German and this was something her mother cooked for her too.
making my own Brandy Snaps
Putting out a glass of milk and mince pie for Santa and carrots for his reindeer
I love to make an ornament for our Christmas tree every year. This year i have made a needle felted robin.
Putting up the tree and christmas decorations
all the yummy food i get to eat
Wearing the paper hats from the crackers all day. It is mandatory.
Love watching all the Christmas films
We have a game of darts on Christmas morning and a glass of bucks fizz
My favourite tradition is falling asleep after a huge meal, and missing the washing up 😉
Tradition is wearing Christmas jumpers to the pub
On Christmas Eve, we always give each other new books. It started when my grandmother gave us all books one Christmas Eve and from that, it turned into a bit of a festive family tradition
I used to love the Christmas morning dog walk, everyone was so cheerful, and most dogs had a new squeaky toy or ball.
My favourite thing is watching sentimental Christmas, and movies with the family in our new Christmas PJS under cosy throws, drinking hot chocolate with candles burning after filling our tummies with a traditional Christmas Dinner.
It involves matching pjs and watching films like home alone
We just love the turkey dinners with crackers and paper hats, silly jokes as well from the crackers
dont really have any -(
All the family going to Midnight Mass together.
Having the whole family around for dinner. 🙂
Christmas boxes on new years eave for the kids.
it would have to be Christmas eve and getting my daughter all excited for the next day, where she has her Christmas eve box with Christmas goodies!
I love making up the mulled wine and the warm Christmassy scent infusing the whole house.
Leaving a mince pie & sherry for Santa and carrots for the reindeers! x
My favourite tradition is the G&T on Christmas Morning just as the presents are being opened. What? Its Christmas!
I love the quality of the goodies in this hamper. My kind of food, drink and brands!
I love leaving out a mince pie and glass of sherry for Santa with the little ones.
Christmas carols
Christmas Eve, when everything is prepared and it’s time to relax, we always watch Polar Express and have mugs of hot chocolate.
My favourite tradition is a family Christmas movie night on Christmas Eve before putting the stockings out for Santa x
Whisky in my tea first thing in the morning goes back to when we were all so cold on Christmas morning in the 50s when I got my mum and dad up at 5am..no central heating in those days!!!!!
Christmas eve boxes with fluffy pjs and hot chocolate sets, a Christmas Story book and some treats.
Our favourite Christmas tradition is to open one present each on Christmas Eve and then enjoy a takeaway while watching a favourite movie and enjoying a glass or 3 of Bailey’s over ice.
I love putting up the tree on Dec 1st!
Every christmas eve we go to the cinema………..
Making the mince pies on Christmas Eve afternoon, used to make them with my children, now it’s the grandchildren.
Putting up the christmas tree and putting all the presents underneath.
Leave a glass of rum for Santa….And he always necks it
The tree going up and all doing it together and starting the first big box of Christmas chocolates as we decorate it.
A chistingle service in the church
Getting into our Christmas jumpers with our pug Reddington to take a family photo and baking Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve
Midnight Mass
Christmas Eve shopping with my Dad
putting up the christmas tree as a family, we all have to be there!
Cocktails on Christmas day!
Putting the presents under the tree when my kids are in bed and they are now 23 but I still do it like Santa would,
Watching the Snowman on DVD
Putting little presents inside the tree and waiting for the little ones to find them!
Having mince pies and a glass of mulled wine on Christmas eve while watching Christmas movies with my family.
we play board games and have a buffet on xmas eve
Stuffing our faces until we are fit to burst on Christmas day!!
Our tradition is new pyjamas for everyone on Christmas Eve
Carol sing around the village Christmas Tree
I love making decorations with my kids, we have so much fun and they love singing along to the christmas music in the background 🙂
Every year we get the kids a new christmas decoration so that when they leave home they have enough to decorate their own tree
It has to be in the morning when the kids open their stockings on our bed
taking it in turn to open Christmas presents
Getting the whole family together to put up and decorate the Christmas tree
New pjs and a Christmas book and DVD on Christmas eve- gets everyone excited for Christmas day.
We always put up the tree and hang up decorations on my birthday 9th December ❤️
Thank you very much for a fabulous giveaway xx
Eating mince pies!
Boxing day football
Elf on the shelf
My favourite Christmas tradition is (mock) fighting my Dad for the last helping of my Mum’s delicious, super-boozy trifle!
We always get new Christmas pyjamas for Christmas Eve so that we can all look fresh for Santa, then a Christmas movie with lots of snacks and then early to bed for the kids ready for the big day
I love to go and see the children preform The Nativity
y favourite tradition is hanging up Xmas Stockings Christmas Eve and finding them stuffed full of goodies on Christmas morning and the children come running into our bedroom and jump on the bed to open them and even my teenager joins in!
People keep telling me Im unlucky to have Insomnia but the jokes on them…
only 2 more sleeps till Christmas!
New PJs on Christmas Eve.
Christmas movie on Christmas eve with take out and tub of sweets with the kids
We all get together in our local village pub for one drink and to meet up before Xmas lunch
new pjs xmas eve
Each buying a new bauble for the tree and new pyjamas on Christmas eve
My favourite Christmas tradition has to be putting out the milk, carrots and mince pie for Father Christmas. It’s magical every year with the kids!
Putting on Christmas songs and dancing around to get in the Christmas spirit whilst decorating the tree in December
On Christmas Eve, we always spend it as just the four of us playing board games, eating party food and watching a Christmas film
The Christmas stocking, love watching the kids hang thiers with excitement
Christmas stockings 🙂
always walking the dog after stockings are opened but before breakfast and tree presents helps to burn off some energy and excitement
Drinking gin round the fire place
Wrapping up the prezzies, whilst listening to all the Christmas songs,and enjoying a glass of mulled wine – it doesn’t get more festive than that for me!
We always like to go to a pantomime. I always have my christmas cd’s playing the week before christmas.
Our now grown-up children still bring their stockings into our room to open them before we all get up.
Favourite tradition is giving our Christmas dinner guests silly table presents
preparing and drinking our secret recipe mulled wine
Two weeks before Xmas i take kids to town to see the christmas lights and then put our own ones up
Putting up the tree with a glass of port
Ours is watching it’s a wonderful life in Christmas eve.. Cue hot chocolate and blankets , cosy!
My favourite Christmas tradition is reading The Night Before Christmas just before everybody goes to bed. We have always done it since the children were small and the eldest is now 25.
Love advent Calenders, especially novelty bath and body ones and perfume ones too!!
I love that we all get new pj’s for Christmas eve x
My boys spread reindeer dust (oatmeal) in the garden on Christmas Eve so Santa knows where to land. They love putting on their wellies and going out in the dark garden in their jammies to throw oatmeal all over.
Eggnog on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve I always leave my son an early present from the Christmas elf with a letter that he has been chosen for being good . I think I will still be doing it when he is 21
When the kids leave treats out for Father Christmas.
Favourite tradition has to be the food – Turkey with all the trimmings, then my mother’s trifle at teatime, and finally a supper of leftovers with cheese and homemade chutney.
I enjoy spending time with family, eating, playing games and just having a wonderful time together.
Christmas stockings at the end of the bed. An absolute joy!
Watching muppets Christmas carol on Christmas Eve
We love to collect foliage, weave a willow wreath and decorate our own Christmas door wreath
The tradition of the Xmas pudding from the making and stir up Sunday to bringing in the pudding all lit up
we exchange xmas gifts on xmas eve
Chocolate for breakfast, Full English for lunch, Xmas dinner for tea. It started when my sister and I were kids, because we always got selection boxes from great-aunts and ate so much chocolate when we woke up that we couldn’t face breakfast until after church. These days I no longer go to church and sadly the great-aunts are no longer with us, but I buy myself chocs to eat first thing on Xmas morning.
Chestnut stuffing on toast Christmas Eve.
Kissing under the mistletoe
Our smoked salmon & scambled eggs / bucks fizz xmas morning breakfast
Bucks Fizz on Christmas morning
Leaving a lager out for Father Christmas and some carrots for the reindeer! 🙂
Bucks Fizz at breakfast!!
Going out to get the tree – we spend so much time deciding. It has to be “the one”.
Bringing out and decorating the Christmas tree with all the ornaments made by my children when they were young and now having my grandchildren helping and sharing all the stories of Christmas when their parents were their ages.
I love making/drinking mulled wine. It’s my fave Christmas ‘thing’ 🙂 XXX
I love our yearly Christmas biscuit exchange with friends!
We watch The Snowman as a family every Christmas morning whilst eating Bacon Sandwiches for breakfast
Always put the Christmas tree up on my birthday ever since i was a little girl, on the 13th December.
My kids are 20 and 13 but they still expect to have a stocking with chocolate coins in!
Decorating the Christmas tree together with the kids – that’s when the Christmas starts
We still put money in the Christmas Pudding (for tradition sake)
A family christmas eve with a takeaway and a movie and a few drinkies
having a nice long walk in the local woods on Xmas Day morning
decorating the christmas tree on the 2nd of dec every year x
Watching cheesy Christmas movies while wrapping presents on Christmas Eve
Singing Christmas Carols with family and friends.
Making my own Christmas pudding and hiding old silver sixpences and threepenny bits in it !!
Walking off the Xmas pudding with my faithful hound
We wear silly festive masks, hats and noses all day on Christmas Day for the most fun of all.
My favourite tradition in our house is having a Buck’s Fizz with Christmas Day breakfast! 🙂
Christmas eve buffet and films with family
ours has been a family tradition for generations, it it having warmed mince pies for breakfast on christmas morning. Now the current generation feel obliged to keep this tradition going even though non of us like mince pies, so every year it is a chore to find the smallest ones going, this year i have found mini mince pies!
trifle for breakfast on boxing day!
We love watching the Snowman on Christmas Eve
I love going to my parents house on Christmas day for a roast dinner cooked by my mum 🙂
My partner & I have a tradition opening one present each on Christmas Eve as that’s usually the day we finish work so it’s a lovely treat to look forward too.
My favourite Christmas tradition is the drinking of Sherry ! It is the only time I ever drink it and stems from my family always having splashed out on Sherry at Christmas 🙂
putting out mince pies and glass of beer for santa christmas eve xx
Our son’s birthday is 11th December, and that is the day that we decorate the house for Christmas, and put up the tree. We wait till evening, after tea, and then our son and daughter come round, and we turn the house into a festive winter wonderland! Our children are 36 and 33 now, but we all look forward to, and enjoy our Christmas tradition. We still put little angels on our tree that my husband and I bought 38 years ago in Woolworths for our very first Christmas as a couple, and also some little paper chains and snowflakes that our kids made when they were little. Once the house is magical, we all have some gorgeous mulled wine, hot mince pies, and listen and sing along to the fabulous Now Thats What I Call Christmas CD!! LOVE our Christmas Tradition!!
Getting the children to go up into the loft, fetch the boxes of Christmas decorations and everyone decorating the tree together.
After my kids leave out Santa’s treats they choose 1 present to open each on Christmas Eve
1st of december decorations day 😀 can’t wait
Being made to take about 1000 family photos by my mother until she gets the perfect one haha.
My favourite Christmas tradition is Gin Cocktails on Christmas Eve. I kid you not! Each person mixes a Christmas cocktail using gin. We vote on the best and the winner gets a the special Christmas bottle of Gin as a prize.
Our Turkey dinner on Christmas day! We all pull crackers before we eat so we can wear our paper party hats!
Sitting down to watch the Snowman and all the Christmas films together, its the only time of year we are all together at the same time so it truly is the most wonderful time of the year!.
Going to a Carol concert
A sprig of holly hidden in the stocking, someone always forgets we do it 😀 This is for grown ups!
Having a Bloody Mary at 11am on Christmas morning.
I love putting up my tree & all the different decorations purchased over many years whilst on holiday.
A Family charity Pub crawl,dressed as elves night before xmas eve,to riase money for local hospice x
A full English breakfast Christmas eve morning! Lovely giveaway would be over the moon to win
Wonderful giveaway, thank you.
We always have roast goose on Christmas Day.
Our family tradition is giving everyone a small gift at the dinner table before we eat Christmas Lunch. It has to be a fun inexpensive gift and gives everyone a good laugh before we enjoy lunch.
my favourite tradition is meeting up with all of my family to open our Christmas presents together
What a lovely gift.
Opening the Christmas Eve box with the kids. New pjs, hot chocolate and a film – perfect way to start our Christmas celebrations.
I like to put 5p coins in my christmas puddings. When we were kids it used to be sixpences.
Family Board Game session after lunch on Boxing Day – it has been known to go on late into the evening and has become more and more competitive each year
decorating the tree with my son
Having a terries chocolate orange as a bedtime treat xmas eve! every year without fail xx
hanging our Christmas stockings
We all wear new and matching pyjamas on Christmas Eve and have Christmas bedding!
Sprouts with Christmas lunch
Bucks Fizz for breakfast
Opening a present Christmas Eve – always new pyjamas
New PJs and a Christmas Storybook for the kids on Christmas Eve along with a bath with bath bombs!
Having our Christmas Eve dinner with lots of friends and family.
This would make Christmas that bit more special
As a child, I really enjoyed going to church on Christmas eve. I am Orthodox so, tradition is a little different but, the experience of Christmas magic is EXACTLY the same. It’s the beautiful smell of cinnamon and burning candles, the feeling of happiness and joy that I remember. This is why, my husband and I take our little ones to church on Christmas eve to keep this magical Christmas tradition alive (and they LOVE it).
Drinks with my brothers on Christmas Eve is my favourite Christmas tradition. It started when we all left home, then partners and children slowly got involved and now it feels like an bonus Christmas Day!
Decorating the tree is a family event
Buildinf a gingerbread house!
We always have to have something naughty for breakfast like chocolate croissants. And then everyone opens one present at a time, so we can all see what they’ve been given
I love taking the grandkiddies to buy a new decoration each, when they’re older and leave home they’ll have a box of decorations for their first tree and lots of happy memories attached too
Chocolate for breakfast . A tradition passed down from my parents to me now with my children…. still do it every year even though they are 26 and 22!
In my family we always make potato cakes on Christmas eve.
New PJ’s Christmas Eve with a Christmas movie
Putting up the tree and Christmas stocking
Our tree always goes up the first weekend in December , Xmas music blasting
An annual trip to a local National Trust house we get a family photo in front of their big tree
Special time with family ..
my favourite Christmas tradition is letting my son and daughter choose 1 gift to open on Christmas Eve, when we’re all together, watching Christmas films, eating Christmas snacks, and enjoying Christmas gifts. My husband and I love watching their faces as they unwrap their gifts – and they are 36 and 33 years old!
The kids all eating their selection boxes for breakfast when opening their presents x
Putting an apple, an orange and a selection box in a pillowcase at the end of the children’s beds – without being seen. (They are adults now)
going to the crib service on Christmas Eve which our daughter takes part in – and then coming home and leaving out a mince pie and milk for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph
I love decorating the Christmas tree it’s the start of all the festivities
We always go to the panto!
Every year since the children were two years old, we allowed them to choose a decoration for the Xmas tree. They now have 16 decorations each over the years that they treasure as each one represents a happy childhood Xmas. Enough to start their own tradition.
We love leaving mince pies out for Santa
I always keep a present for each family member and give it to them after Christmas dinner, usually something to play like a board game or cards, then we can play with something for the evening!
Every year we all sit around the table before Dinner and pull our Christmas Crackers with each other. It’s my fave tradition. We tell jokes and all wear our silly hats x
All of them! Putting the decorations up is probably my favourite though
Debbie
I love to make homemade Christmas Pudding in November,tastes delicious
I love decorating the tree.
Decorating ths christmas tree! I love being creative and often make my own baubles & glitter decs ☺
Always bacon sandwiches for brunch made by the younger generation
Putting up Christmas stockings and the tree
A walk after lunch before pressies and a nice glass or two of wine!
We have a homemade Christmas hat competition which is such a laugh
Making my own pigs in blankets
Christmas Eve baking with the kids ..we love it!
I bought a lot of Christmas cards showing a cat farting after eating Brussels sprouts and for many years gave the same card to my mother, sister, nephew and niece.
My favourite Christmas tradition is having Christmas dinner with my family!
The Christingle carol concert on Christmas Eve is really magical.
Love to see a Christmas stocking
On Christmas eve you have to leave out a glass of sherry and a mince pie for Santa – and a carrot for Rudolph!
Hot pork sandwiches at my neighbours on Christmas eve.
Decorating the christmas tree and going to the christmas tree farm to pick it.
Decorating the Christmas tree with my children! First Saturday of December is always tree day!!!!!
Our christmas tradition is new pyjamas in a christmas eve box for the children
Decorating our Christmas tree
Decorating the tree on Christmas eve with the kids and grandkids then sitting by the log fire with a hot choccie
Love dressing the Christmas Tree
pulling crackers and reading the santa jokes in them doh!!!!!!!
Our favourite Christmas tradition is to leave a glass of Sherry and Mince Pies for Santa, and a few carrots For Rudolph.
My favourite christmas tradition is playing board games with the children
Watching a children Nativity. It gets me every time.
My favourite tradition – everyone round at mine for Boxing Day…YAY..!
watching chirstmas movies on christmas eve with the kids!
My Christmas tradition is making Millionaires Shortbread on Christmas Eve and I get to eat some of the chocolate that I should me melting and I get to eat the first piece. Two years ago I dropped my mobile phone in the caramel as I was stirring it lol. One dead phone and a quick trip to the shop for more ingredients and had to start again.
putting up the decorations
We save one present each, as what we call a “Tree Present” to open on Boxing Day to prolong the Christmas excitement!
Christmas crackers…..
Singing Christmas songs while my girls decorate the tree. Then sit in front of a film with a yummy takeaway and a glass of fizz
We have always enjoyed a walk on Christmas morning saying ‘Good Morning’ and ‘Merry Christmas’ to perfect strangers.
No presents opened until turkey is in oven
I love our Christmas Eve tradition of going out for a family meal then coming back to let the kids open their Christmas Eve boxes
We all get to open a present on Christmas Eve x
PUTTING UP THE TREE ON DECEMBER 16TH
The Christmas stocking, still love them
Our Christmas Decorations go up the first weekend in December and our Son always gets to put the Star on the top of the tree.
Church on Christmas Eve with the family x
Our tradition is that on Christmas Eve the youngest member of the family places the star on top of the Christmas tree
The roast we have with all the trimmings and the pulling of the festive crackers.
santa leaving new pjs on the bed on crimbo eve
My favourite Christmas tradition is making a Gingerbread house with the children on Christmas Eve, I make the biscuits and stick it all together and then they decorate it, we have a lot of fun and then we all get to enjoy it!
After breakfast on Christmas morning we go for a long walk before heading back to the house to open our presents
Favourite tradition? Pouring the brandy and lighting the Christmas Pudding – watch that blue flame glow!