Christmas Traditions ( Archived) (3)

What Christmas traditions do you have in your family?

What is your fondest memory of Christmas?

Have you ever had a Christmas Miracle happen in your life?....do tell.


My family (my sisters and mom) always bake 3 days before Christmas and share what we make with our neighbors. This is something we have done for years. For my children and I, we have always gotten up Christmas morning and put together a gingerbread train and house after opening gifts and having homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

I remember when we were kids, we used to go with my father and cut down out Christmas tree. I miss that part of Christmas.

When I lived at home with my parents it was a tradition for my mother to bake cookies, stollen bread and coffeecake that was made in a coffee can. The cookies weren't too bad, the stollen was dry and hard and the coffeecake was awful but we all told her that everything was delicious. For decorations she had these little tiny elves that she would attach to chairs, curtains, all over the livingroom.

When I raised my daughter I continued with baking as many cookies as possible until I couldn't stand any longer.. but I bought a stollen from Entenmann's. For those not in the U.S. Entenmann's is a bakery that delivers their goodies to the supermarket. I continued with the elve tradition and attached them all over the house and made it a game that my daughter had to find them.

Now my daughter is married and she continues with baking delicious cookies. She has continued with the tradition of attaching the elves all over her livingroom, bathroom and kitchen and I have to find them. It's pretty cool and fun for both of us.

I've never had a Christmas miracle.

My fondest memory of Christmas as a child is that my parents were nice to my sister and I that day. My father made a big deal out of the socks or handkerchief I gave him and my mother "loved" the apron I gave her. After Christmas is was back to the usual crap.

I have a lot of good memories of my daughter Christmas morning but the one that stands out the most is when she was 15 I gave her a princess phone and she didn't have to pay the bill out of her allowance. The look of surprise on her face was priceless.

Merry Christmas Unique....