Christmas Traditions

Taualumna · #1 12-24-2006, 11:42 PM

For those of us who celebrate:

What do you do?

We usually go out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It's usually a multicourse set dinner (we're too lazy to cook...and it's also my mom's birthday). Since we don't really do anything unti the evening, my family and I usually go to a movie. This year, we're seeing Dreamgirls.

AKA_Monet · #2 12-25-2006, 12:11 AM

My parents usually have a Christmas Breakfast that starts ~9ish AM and lasts time 2 PM or 3 PM...

Since I live far from my folks now, I am making an Exotic Meat Breakfast for my Husband: This year it is Wild Boar Bacon... And my husband will eat a Poche's Crawfish Stuffed Chicken for dinner.

Last year, I prepared Alligator Snapping Turtle Stew...

I have made 3 pecan pies and will eat my usual vegetarian fare.

The only reason why we wouldn't go out is because the police are ticket happy and out in force...

And that we live in the PacNW, our power can still go out again due to the windstorm and rain/snow. Driving is useless when the weather is crap.

Dionysus · #3 12-25-2006, 12:15 AM

We each are allowed to open up our smallest gift on Christmas Eve.

We have our Christmas dinner around noon, and then open up gifts.

We usually go to movies in the evening too, we also are watching Dreamgirls.

AznSAE · #4 12-25-2006, 01:33 AM

we hop from one house to the next since i have a big family (christmas morning/afternoon at one house and then dinner at another house).

PhoenixAzul · #5 12-25-2006, 03:49 PM

We do Xmas eve with my boyfriend's family. Usually I go to his house, he and I exchange presents, then we go to his aunt's house for dinner, where we do a potchki (sp?) and then have pierogi and fish and all that goodness, go to mass, go back to aunt's for his cousin's birthday cake, go to friend's house for more goodies.

Xmas day we had my brother and his fiance over to open presents and have breakfast, then we had soup and watched TV, now were' all getting dressed to go to my aunts and have xmas dinner.

Lady Pi Phi · #6 12-29-2006, 10:10 AM

Up until this year, we always had Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day. We would open presents in the morning (always starting with our stocking). Then we would have a full English Breakfast (sausage, bacon, eggs, beans, toast, etc.). Then we would have family over around 4 and dinner was usually at 7pm, consisting of turkey, roast potatoes, veggies, cranberry sauce, Lanttulaatikko (with is a Finnish dish, it's Rutabaga and Carrot casserole), Puula (Finnish Coffee bread). For dessert we will always have a fruit salad, cookies, tarts, maybe a pie or cheesecake, and Vatkattu Marjapuuro (it's cranberry mousse, another Finnish Dish).

This year I spent Christmas Day with Mr. Pi Phi's family, so we had the same dinner on Christmas Eve, and we opened presents at midnight.

honeychile · #7 12-29-2006, 12:46 PM

Ours are going to change after this year! Nobody even inkled what they wanted until the week before, so I had to do the Christmas shopping & wrapping for six people, in the name of three different people (who were otherwise impaired). A beautiful, formal dinner (which took roughly 2 days to make) was destroyed by an out-of-control doberman in five minutes. A 150- year old platter bit the dust because of that mangy beast. After begging to play some board games, one person had to take out a calculator to tally somebody else's score, because he didn't believe the score. I was never so glad that I knew I had lost early on!

Next year, it's gift cards and dinner at a restaurant - and I don't particularly care if the place has Golden Arches!