Dec 08 2009
Greener Christmas giveaway (12/14) — CLOSED
It’s giveaway day here on Mashup Mom! Up next: A Greener Christmas
Why am I giving this away? This was my grab bag gift at my book club party… and, we don’t celebrate Christmas, so I have no need for it. It’s so pretty, though, that I thought that one of you would really love it!
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Comment on this post with your favorite holiday tradition through 11:59 CST on 12/14/09. One entry per comment; one comment per person. U.S. only, please.
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I’ll pick a winner on 12/15/09 using the random number generator on random.org.
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We give gifts of pajamas on Christmas Eve so everyone wakes up Christmas morning in new pj’s.
We used to do the pj thing too! My favorite, though, is the Christmas sugar cookies. My mom makes the best, and we always have fun decorating them!
We do a grab bag with my cousins for a $5 unique gift picked up from a resale or thrift shop.
saraelizabeth2216 at yahoo.com
I love decorating the tree every year. The ornaments tell a story of where we’ve been and where we’re going. Thanks!
My favorite tradition is my mom and dad’s amazing Christmas Eve dinner. Italian cooking at it’s finest…I cannot duplicate their meatballs for the life of me! I look forward to them every year!
We retell the Christmas story using an activity set for the children.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to church at 11pm on Christmas Eve. We end with the lights turned low, singing “Silent Night” and passing a candle flame to one another until every candle in the church is lit. It’s a beautiful moment that stays with me.
We have a 19 month old and we’ve started the tradition of opening the advent calendar that we keep on the mantle everyday with her. She looks forward to it all day long! Now that we have another one on the way (day after Christmas), we’ll have to figure out how to share that with him too!
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating gingerbread houses. We started this tradition when we moved to our new home 4 years ago. My 2 daughters were missing their old friends terribly, so I got some gingerbread houses and invited their friends to a get together.
Everybody had so much fun! We’ve had a gingerbread house decorating party yearly since then, and every year it gets bigger and the guestlist keeps getting longer…We’ve also ask that friends bring toys or pantry goods for donations to make it more meaningful.
My favorite is our annual family photo…we have about 30 people and growing!!
Hmm, my favorite…I have so many! We buy an ornament every year for each of our kids that describes them for the year (Elmo for my daughter’s 2nd Christmas for example) and then I take a picture of the ornament and explain why we picked that particular ornament for the year. We also go to Come to Bethlehem every year at the Salvation Army in Norridge and LOVE it! And of course, going to chop down our own Christmas tree. I told you it was hard for me to pick just one!
My favorite Christmas tradition is the christmas pickle . the pickle is ornamnetwe hide in the tree for the 1st person to find get a gift . It an old german tradition for young kids.
My favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve gathering. We have always gather on Christmas Eve with all of our family for a traditional Italian dinner – yum!!! We follow that with a grab bag gift exchange of home gifts or something you can do for someone else.
We do where you open one present on Christmas Eve and it’s usually a game of some sort so that everyone can play it and not want more presents earlier!
My favorite is making gingerbread houses with my kids. Neighborhood kids are not joining in the fun each year. My house is quite filthy by the time everyone leaves completely overloaded on SUGAR. They take the house with them, and are so very proud of their work. The smiles make it worth the effort!
I like to remember a favorite childhood traditon of hopping in the car on the evening of the 24th to look at all the holiday lights. When we got back to the house, Santa had magically dropped off all the gifts under our tree! My parents explained this early delivery as something Santa had to do to get all the gifts delivered in time around the world!
My favorite is decorating the tree with my family. Its so much fun.
It is hard to choose just one, but one of my favorite tradition is when I spend the weekend with my 2 boys and help them make small crafts to give for presents to all their grandparents and aunts and uncles.
All the siblings, grand-kids, and grandparents always go Christmas tree cutting on the Saturday after Christmas! So much fun!
My favorite Christmas tradition is bundling my kids up the week before Christmas; putting them in the car and driving around to see the neighborhood lights. My husband and I loved doing this before we had kids and are looking forward to doing this as the kids grow…
Every year on Christmas Eve, my mom and dad come over. After dinner, we all sit in the family room and my mom reads from the Bible the store of Jesus’ birth. What an amazing and wonderful event. And that is truely what CHRISTmas is all about.
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating sugar cookies with the kids. My mom did it with us growing up and I love being able to do it with my kids as well. We also have friends over with their kids to make cookies, the kids have so much fun together.
Making grandma’s christmas cookies on christmas eve and new pjs every year for the whole family!
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to downtown Chicago with my husband and reliving the moment he proposed to me on a horse and carriage ride on Michigan Avenue, Then we go over to Daley Plaza for the Christkindle market and then go look at the windows at Macys.
My favorite tradition is driving around looking at Christmas lights. Now that my son is 4, I’m especially looking forward to it!
i would love to win this book!!!!!
my fav tradition,well i have 2…I enjoy going around nearby towns and looking at christmas decorations with the grandkids and making cookies afterwards.
I really love making homemade items and handcrafted ornaments and stockings with the kids and this year i have started a new one!Making the ornaments and stockings with the sunday school class using items we already have..recycle recycle!
merry christmas and thank you!
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I enjoy being with my loud family and playing our own silly games
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree. Always makes it feel like xmas!
My favorite holiday tradition would be having the kids put up the ornaments on the tree. It’s great to see their expressions and hear their comments about some of the ornaments they made, etc…. I also like going sledding with them every winter.
Caroling!
My favorite tradition is eating popcorn and drinking hot cocoa while decorating the tree. The kids get a new ornament every year and they put them on themselves. This year, we are going to paint our own ornaments.
Our favorite tradition is the Christmas Eve candlelight church service.
Just the time spent in an unhurried fashion with family – it doesn’t get much better than that!
Getting together with family is my all time favorite, so blessed that family is close by…
thank you
sara
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My favorite tradition actually takes place the day after thanksgiving. It’s one of the only times both my brother and I are at our parents’ house, so we all go to the cut-your-own-xmas tree farm and make a day of it. We tailgate with a picnic and wine, then spend hours deliberating over the perfect tree. I get the honor of cutting it down (because we’ve learned I’m the only one who can saw straight!).