What's your favorite Holiday Tradition?

When I was still living at home with my parents we would have homemade lasagna, spaghetti or chili for supper on Christmas Eve. After supper we played games. Just before bed we would gather around the tree with Christmas music playing softly.

Then we would each open one present and I would always get pajamas or a nightgown to wear to bed that night. Dad and I also had a traditional "argument" about the song "The Day before the Night before Christmas. " One of us would insist it meant December 23rd and the other would insist it meant December 24th.

Whoever started it would pick one day and the other would automatically choose the other day.

Making cookies for Santa with my son. He is all about trains right now so we even have train cookie cutters. Then we frost them to look like Thomas the Tank Engine.

My favorite family tradition for Christmas is Christmas eve. I take my children to Mass at 3 pm and then I go pick up Popeye's Fried Chicken for dinner. My kids love chicken from popeye's but it is just too expensive for me so I do it once a year on Christmas Eve.

During dinner we eat in the livingroom watching a Christmas movie, then we listen to Christmas music. I love it because I see the excitement in them and even my two teens are babies again. Of course the night would not be complete without my annual statement of "Santa never comes to a filthy house".

Merry Christmas everyone.

I actually enjoy Valentine's Day! I guess it's because I'm with someone on V-day so it's not a day of gloom!

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