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What is one of your favorite holiday traditions?
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My favorite holiday tradition is driving around on Friday nights looking at Christmas lights with my husband and 4-year old son.
I like going to buy the Chrsitmas tree, even more now when I take my daughter with me and decorate it. It's great to see her face when we switch off the lights and all the color lights on the tree show up!
heritage tradition - orange in the stocking
as a follower - I love carolling followed by a Christmas Mass - that wont be this year as our town has yet to recover from Irene.
We go to the beach on Christmas Eve with just our family (My husband, two kids and me). We eat hot chips and have a splash in the water and then come home to open the gifts for each other.
We have friends without extended family over on Christmas Eve for a prime rib and shimp dinner. It's been a 25 year tradition.
I am a happy follower!
Making sweets with my mother!
Thanks for the chance :D
I follow!
I Follow, and would love to win this yummy fabric bundle!!!
Favorite tradition? Putting out my hubby's desk sign that says, "naughty" in large bronze letters :-)
Hi, I'm a new follower- The fabric looks so pretty.
Hello again! My favorite tradition is not something you might expect. One year, when our granddaughter was a toddler, we had a sudden snow/ice storm and it was on the day we were supposed to get Christmas photos with Santa. We are so far away from a mall that I knew we would never make it. I remembered seeing something in the local freebie paper about Santa coming to the Harley Davidson dealer over by the highway. I was hesitant but thought it was our only option. It was wonderful! Santa there is the BEST. The female workers were dressed as elves. There was a bake sale for charity and the store was decorated like the North Pole. Every year now we get her picture with Santa on a Harley. She is 7 now but I don't care if she is 27, we're still going to get the photo on the Harley! What fun!
Decorating Christmas cookies with anyone I can round up. Now that the kids are grown, I don't always have someone coming home, and it's a bummer decorating cookies alone, although I've done it. :)
I'm a follower via email anyway, not sure about google connect...probably there too :)
My favorite tradition is making cookies in the kitchen with my family.
Yeeha! This bloghop is fun! And I lurve Erin Mcmorris fabrics!! My fav is reading the Christmas story from Luke's gospel around the tree, and then opening one present...all on Christmas Eve! Lots of good memories from when the kiddos were small!
I would follow you to the ends of the earth. (Are you familiar with the movie Seven Brides for Seven Brothers? Can you tell I watched it again last night? Heehee!)
On Christmas Eve, my family gathers in our living room near our tree. We have cookies and hot chocolate, and I read "Twas the Night Before Christmas." Even though our kids are grown, we still carry on this tradition.
I am a follower. By the way, I, too, am participating in the Blog Hop Party!
The making of Christmas candy and other goodies is something I do every year, even if it is just for my family and gets put in the freezer and enjoyed for the next 6 months. I made some of the same things with my mom as a child and have continued through the years. I hope my kids carry on the tradition when I get too old to do it.
I'm a follower.
We don't celebrate the Christmas holidays, but my DH loves a big Honey Ham for the weekend at this time of year - so it's kind of like another Thanksgiving around here.
I am a follower. : )
The baking does it for me, that's when I really get in the spirit!
Thank you for this lovely giveaway.
Carolyn
I'm a follower.
Carolyn
my favorite is sending my daughter a bayberry candle to burn on Christmas Eve...it is supposed to bring good luck...
My favourite is going to the midnight church service on Christmas Eve
My favorite part of Christmas is having family all together.
A FAVORITE CHRISTMAS TRADITION WE HAVE IS GOING CAROLING IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
My favorite tradition is putting up the tree. I love looking at all the wonderful decorations. I have collected decorations for years.
we eat pandoro and panettone. hugs
I am follower. I have a giveaway too. hugs
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to Church for the caroling and staying for midnight Mass. When my children were tiny, we went to an early Mass on Christmas Eve. As they got older they were the altar servers at midnight Mass. This year my daughter, who graduated from college in the spring, will be the Lector at midnight Mass.
I'm a follower. We have a Wilton cake pan that is supposed to be in the shape of a gingerbread house. Every year, we bake a pound cake in the pan and decorate it like a stable and put figures of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in front of it. It wouldn't be Christmas without "Baby Jesus" cake.
we have so many kids[6] grandkids[25] in-law-kids[5] in-law g-kids and 5 great grands soon two more will be here, that i feel blessed to see all of them and to make the money strech ove them all at christmas woodsbrbr@windstream.net
My mother and i get together and make appetizers that we will eat at Christmas. we've been doing that for about 8 years now and love it
my favorite holiday tradtion is opening presents on Xmas eve. I feel like we have our own special celebration. Love the fabric!
I'm a follower!
singing along with the Christmas music on the radio! Merry Christmas!
I love DH's family tradition of the "Snowball" - a snowman full of little gifts for everyone that is opened after dinner on Christmas day. It brings a smile to everyone.
And I am a follower.
I love all the shopping for great deals!
I'm a follower!
A favorite holiday tradition is making new ornaments for the family!!
I am a follower!!
My favorite tradition is midnight mass. It's beautiful!
I am a follower.
My parents tradition is baked eggs Christmas morning... my brother and I have a tradition of refusing them LOL!!!
I'm a follower :)
(and as per my comment above... my captcha for this one is "ovens" LOL)
Love the outside lights! We have a big wreath by our door - love the glow of it!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Enjoying the blog hop!
I love decorating gingerbread houses with my husband's family.
My favorite tradition is that we all get new jammies and we get to open them on Christmas Eve.
I am a follower and thank you for this generous giveaway!
Hello from Portland. Making stollen is my favorite holiday tradition. Come visit my blog for a really cool shoe give-away. :)
I'm a follower of your blog. :0)
Baking cookies and my famous sour cream pound cake is a favorite Christmas tradition. I have so many more. I just love this time of year! Thank you for the chance to win this purdy, purdy fabric. :0)
Thanks for the wonderful giveaway! I am a happy regular follower!
Beautiful fabrics. I don't think we really have any family traditions (does waiting till after lunch to open presents count?) but I'd like to be in the draw!
Love those fabrics! And Xmas turkey - that's what I love. :)
I love the advent calendar tradition! Everyday a new surprise!
ana
Backing and decorating the tree are the traditions I love most, the smells from the kitchen, picking up the ornaments, that all means joy and fun! Yes, I'm your follower!
To eat Fondue together at christmas eve and just spend time with family. Thanks so much for the give away!
I am a new follower and look forward to read more!
My favorite and quite new as of the last few years tradition is without a doubt the baking of gingerbread cookies and other Christmas candies with our dear friends, just such a lovely time. We listen to Christmas music, drink mulled wine and just have a lovely time.
Baking a Christmas cookies :) thx, the fabrics so lovely.
Favorite tradition is spending the holidays with family, great giveaway!
I am already a follower, thanks!
Putting up the decorations with my daughter the day she breaks up for the Christmas holidays. They never go up before then.
Also doing the prep for Christmas Day lunch on Christmas Eve while listening to Carols from Kings College on the radio.
My black cat and I are now followers!
Going to church on Christmas morning.
We always join together with my whole family, my mother, children and grandchildren and make a nice christmas meal together. Thanks for this nice give away!
I am a follower...
Putting the first ornament on the tree - it's a very special one to us. Thanks for the chance to win! VermontPines@aol.com
Checking out all the Christmas Lights at night...
I'm a new Follower :)
In Denmark (where I was born) for christmas dessert we get a rice pudding but cut up almonds- plus ONE whole almond(without the skin) and the game is getting that whole almond, then you get a present!
My favorite tradition is going on our annual drive to see the Christmas lights & decorations on Candy Cane Lane (a neighborhood in our city). I love to hear my boys so excited to see everything. :)
I'm a follower! :)
Love driving around in the evenings and looking at the christmas lights
I love when we eat the traditional Norwegian dinner on Christmas eve, 24th of December.
Making Christmas cookies with friends or family, for sure! Thanks for the cute fabric giveaway!
One longstanding tradition I love is going to the watchnight service.
I love putting out our collection of Nutcrackers. My Mom had a collection on the mantle every Christmas. After all of the kids grew up and left she stopped decorating so much so she gifted the collection to me and my sister. I love carrying on the tradition! Thanks for the chance...LOVE Erin McMorris!
I'm a new follower, too!
My father always had a big box of chocolate sitting by his chair and we loved to snag a piece. Now I try to have a box around for all the kids
I love digging out all the old decorations....I keep them all...even the little ones made at school....love the fabric you are giving away....thanks
i love meeting up with my entire family for Children's Mass on Christmas Eve...everyone looks so lovely and the kids are so excited! thanks for a chance, i love EM fabric!
I love putting the ornaments on the tree, thinking of all the memories behind each one. I also always make monkey bread Christmas morning.
I'm a follower already...grin.
I have a little artifical white tree and I decorate it with my snowman collection of ornaments. Just me, so that's my tradition. Love to win your generous fabric gift.
Diane in Eugene, Oregon
I love the family time a Christmas
My favorite tradition is new pajamas on Christmas Eve :)
I am a new follower - thanks for stopping by my blog too!
Love to have the grandkids over to make gingerbread boys and a gingerbread house. Then when they all fall asleep, my husband and I hide them all over the place.
So much fun!
Happy Holidays,
Nettie
nettiecrain@live.com
Great fabric! We love making Christmas cookies together!
I love making homemade Christmas Chocolates with my family :)
I love our tradition of heading into the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree. We bring hot chocolate to keep us warm!
Merry Christmas! My favorite tradition is driving to the mountains to get our Christmas tree.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Hi! I love to get out my Nativity set each year. I have had it for a long time and it is quite beautiful with it's handpainted figurines. :)
I love holiday baking!
Thanks for participating in the blog hop. I am a long time follower of your blog.
Regards from Western Canada,
Anna
My favorite tradition is having friends in for a tree trimming party each year. The house gets decorated and we enjoy some time with friends sharing good food,music and time together.
Thanks for participating in the blog Hop.
Regards,
Anna
Opening Presents!!!
A Christmas tradition I'm trying to hold on to is our family opening our gifts on Christmas morning. My daughter is still living at home while going to college. My son though is in the Marine Corp., married with a 1 year old. My husbands family opens gifts on Christmas Eve. So see, kids have grown older but I'm trying to still have my Christmas morning with my family and hopeully it will work out this year.
Thanks for your giveaway and a chance to win some Gorgeous fabric.
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I already follow your blog via GFC.
Thanks for a chance to win.
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I am a follower. Watching everyone open their gifts is my fav thing about Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win.
Thank you for the chance at a great giveaway! My favorite Christmas tradition is opening up and cuddling up in brand new jammies with my family on Christmas Eve. :)
Thanks for the chance - my favourite Christmas thing is buying the gifts and wrapping - love it - especially when you get just the right thing!
the "treasure hunt" for presents! It started when the kids were small, and they still want it even though they are in their 20's now !!
My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the Christmas tree. I love getting out the ornaments each year and thinking about how I got it. I don't like having to put it all away though.
Cindy
My favorite holiday tradition is hiding the pickle ornament in the tree. The pickle ornament tradition started with my grandma. She would hide the pickle in the depths of the tree and the first kid to find it received a special present. I now have that same ornament and have started that tradition myself.
My favorite tradition is having the family together and the children opening presents
Christmas breakfast
Relaxing to Xmas music and sharing time with friends and family, eating butter tarts, gifts and just having time to sew all day during the holidays.
Watching the grandkids open their presents - of course, now they want gift cards!
Favorite tradition is "First one up Christmas morning turns on the television and finds the channel that is playing the movie ""A Christmas Story""! Which we watch all day and have a blast yelling out the crazy "cool lines" ""You can't have a BB Gun, you'll shoot your eye out"" is probably the favorite line. Pretty pretty fabric thanks for the chance to win.
I am a follower and another Christmas Tradition is spending Christmas Eve night at our son's so we can enjoy Christmas morning with grandson.
We go sledding Christmas Eve day. It's become a big thing for our kids and now their own kids. We invite everyone, sled until we're cold have hot chocolate and chili in the cabin and are home around 2 to finish preparations for our Christmas Eve dinner and celebration.
I'm a follower
I love baking for the holidays. All the cookies and pies that I can then give away to others to brighten their days.
I'm a new follower. Hugs
Love the fabric. My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together with my daughters to make Christmas Cookies. In fact we are doing it tomorrow. Hugs
My favorite holiday tradition is the Christmas cookie bake off. It started with daughter and nieces, and now involves grandchildren also. We make sugar cookie cut outs, make colored frostings and decorate with all the sprinkles and dots we can find. And make graham cracker gingerbread houses using frosting for glue. Even the dogs get into the act, and end up generously dusted with flour, which is quite evident on their black fur.
We like to attend a Christmas Eve service followed by a drive around town to see other home's Christmas lights. Then home, a "hot" drink and off to bed while Santa makes his rounds!
Cute blog...I am your newest follower :)
My favorite holiday tradition is making homemade pizza on Christmas Eve
My favorite holiday traditions are getting together with family on Christmas Eve every year! Happy holidays! :)
I'm a follower! :)
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies with my younger daughter.
Kelly (at) mysimplewalk (dot) com
I am following you :-)
Thanks for the chance to win
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I've been a follower.
I don't really consider it a holiday tradition but everytime it snows we make snowcream.
I love making Christmas cookies with my two daughters. I also love making presents and also wrapping gifts.
Love our family appetizer potluck Christmas Eve.
My Great-Great Grand Mother started this she would have all the grand kids over on Christmas eve and have dinner and blackberry jam cake then we would open our gifts from them that way we could stay at home on Christmas with our family. It is still going on now with me and I hope my son will when he is a grandpa. Happy Holiday to You and Yours.
I am a new follower
I love putting up the tree with the kids!! It's always a lot of fun!!!
Merry Christmas Barbara! My favorite tradition is having breakfast with hubbys parents and eating chicken hash on biscuits!
I am your newest follower and welcome you to come visit and follow me back.
I love baking and eating cookies!
My favorite tradition would be making cookies with the kids. Now that they are grown I hope to start doing this with the grandchildren when they are older.
I'm a follower. Thanks for the giveaway.
Love our tradition of eating breakfast together (cinnamon buns and fruit) BEFORE opening our gifts. Helps to enjoy the day more slowly.
Your fabric looks awesome.
Christmas is my moms b-day, so before every Christmas we celebrate her b-day with a b-day breakfast with delicious crapes
My favorite holiday tradition is monkey bread for Christmas morning. We never make it except for major holidays, so even though it's super easy, it stays special.
I love watching Christmas movies with my family on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the chance!
I'm a follower!
Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
My favorite Christmas tradition is watching Christmas movies with my mom (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story). I am looking forward to adding my son to our club when he gets older - he's 2.
One of my favorite traditions is having all the children say/sing their little Christmas poems and songs to their grandparents and listening to the Christmas story being read before opening gifts.
I follow you. and I'm taking part in your Occupy challenge.
I am a follower :)
I really enjoy decorating the tree with my children. It always goes up in the first week of December and we all help decorating the house.
I am a new follower. Thanks for the chance, Dianne
At Christmas time before we eat lunch or dinner we remember our loved ones who aren't with us anymore and are greatful for the ones that are with us now. Thanks for the chance, Dianne
Love the bright colors of your giveaway! My MIL made the children a gorgeous log-cabin Advent tree. They love to pick the "ornament" of the day from the appropriate pocket and place it on the tree each morning. A tradition that was started when my husband was a child.....nice to continue it today.
I love baking LOTS of Christmas cookies and giving them to family and friends.
For me it wouldn't seem like Christmas without cookies! Love making them and eating them. I love fruitcake too. I make a great one that I love eating--but no citron in it just nuts and cherries and pineapple.
I'm a new follower.
On Christmas Eve, we attend evening Mass as a family. Afterwards, we join our neighbors for dessert. Love celebrating this way! Merry Christmas!
I love following your blog:)
For the past 6 years I have taken my great-nephew to some type of live theater or ballet. We added his little brother when he turned 5 and this year we added my 4 year old grandaughter. We saw a production of Oliver at a local dinner theater last night and had a wonderful time. This is one tradition I will keep going as long as I possibly can!! Merry Christmas.
We always kick off the Christmas season with a big formal dinner.
One of my favourite holiday traditions is making Christmas cookies for my kids to take to work to share with the other guys on their construction site - hopefully that makes a me a cool mom worthy of a really good nursing home when the time comes, LOLOL!
First of all, I love your blog! I too am a cat fan, I have 4 very cute kitties. I am rather new to blogging and am envious of your fantastic site! I will be following you and I am thinking I will be learning alot from you, so thanks.
My favorite Christmas tradition, is serving Christmas brunch. It is alot of work, we usually have more then a dozen family and friends, but it is very nice, we will open presents from each other after brunch. It is a nice way to start Christmas. (I do not make a big Christmas dinner, leftovers from brunch!)
my favorite tradition is decorating - putting out the nativity arrangement that my grandpa made when I was 1 years old - I am 59 now :) it is getting ancient.
Karen
We have an "everybody's favorite foods" meal for Christmas where each person gets to pick 2-3 foods they love and I put as many together as possible to make a meal. (I've had to start adding rules as submissions were usually a meat and dessert.)
love your choice for the give away !
My favorite tradition is ... drinking Champagne ! but I'm french LOL
The only tradition in our family is food: clam dip and chips while the turkey is cooking.
Our favorite holiday tradition is for all the family to gather for a mid-day dinner and exchange presents - from my mother down to the baby great grand daughters.
I am an old follower.
My favorite tradition is putting up the tree and getting my grandchildren together to decorate it. Thank you for the giveaway. Joyce--ccarter13@windstream.net
PIEROGI! marrying into a polish family certainly has its benefits, especially at Christmas...
Our favorite Holiday Tradition... is not to be so stuck on a 'something' that we fail to enjoy where and whatever we find ourselves doing for the holiday... like now... living South Africa... where it's summer (hot) and doesn't really feel like Christmas, so a huge turkey in the oven... is just not really a good idea.
the lights
My husband and I love lighting our menorah. It's in the shape of a VW bus so it's got a bit of whimsy. Thanks for the great giveaway!
My mother is in her 80's and she wants to have Christmas Eve at her house every year. Our families get together to share hugs and stories about each of us. We have lasagne, salad and pot luck. We exchange presents by sitting in a circle. Each of us gets to open 1 preseny each at once and then on to the next present until we are all done. This is what our tradition is and will always be.
I just want to extend my thanks for your generosithy in this fantastic blog hop. I wish you a Merry Christmas.
Sandi T.
sandit1@sbcglobal.net
baking cookies is my favorite tradition!
Every year I do two special things. I design and make a special ornament for our friends to take home from the annual holiday party, and I make chicken liver biscotti and send a package home with every visitor who has a dog. Perhaps the most fun is the day my dog Lady and I make the biscotti. She is glued to my side and licks every bowl!
love spending time with my family:)
I am a new follower, even though I swear I have followed you before, not sure what happened!
My favorite tradition is the pickle ornament
I have favorite food traditions. We look forward to making crab bisque on Christmas Eve and pizzelle cookies for the holidays.
Going to church service christmas Eve
I love making gingerbread houses! Thanks for the chance!
We love decorating the Christmas tree. Thanks for the giveaway chance!
Linda
http://homesweetquiltinghome.blogspot.com/
We have a list of Christmas movies that we watch together as a family every year. It's gotten harder now that my children are grown, but my husband and I still manage to watch them all.
Pulling out the decorations at Christmas season! Thanks for an opportunity to win your prize! Don't forget to check out my blog too, for our giveaway!
Merry Christmas
We don't have that many traditions in my house... but I love to decorate the tree/home !
Baking shortbread cookies.
Love watching all the cute Christmas programs with my kids that I watched as a child!
Making cookies for my family!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
My favourite tradition is pulling out the decorations especially those that have been given as gifts in previous years, as well as the special ones I have bought or made myself.
hot chocolate after opening family presents on Christmas eve!
We have a big formal dinner for the whole family on Christmas eve. The next day we have a pj party because everyone gets a pair and we watch all our new movies together!
New follower here! And we have a fair amount in common.. :-) Cats, quilting, gardening, photography... afraid I can't add cooking to the list-- I *do* cook, but it's not really a hobby that I enjoy... :-)
One of my favorite things about Christmas is our local Christmas parade! The children line the street with such excitement in their eyes, as they watch the brightly lit floats drive by-- there are usually some horses, fire trucks, Santa and Mrs. Claus, and of course, tons of candy being thrown! It's a tradition that I look forward to sharing with my new granddaughter as she grows up! Thank you for the chance to win that lovely fabric bundle! :-)
Putting all my handmade decorations (as well as those made by my very talented mother, who died last year) on the tree each year.
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