Showing posts with label Christmas traditions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas traditions. Show all posts
To kick off the christmassy posts for this year I thought what better than to share with you a christmas tag I saw. Perfect to get you all in the christmas spirit.
Favourite Festive Food
I love Christmas Food. Christmas Dinner is my absolute fave as is a good old homemade trifle (which I don't suppose is strictly christmas but always what we have Christmas night
Favourite Reindeer
Its got to be Rudolph. However if you have seen Santa Claus 2 I totally love Comet!
Favourite Day of Christmas
Obviously Christmas Day is awesome but I LOVE christmas eve. Tradition is we go to the Crib Service at Church at 4.30 (which is normally standing room only) and then have meat and potato pie for tea then go to Midnight Mass at 11.30pm. There is something SO special about Christmas eve that I just love, especially welcoming in Christmas at Church.
Favourite Christmas Song
In terms of Carols I love Silent Night and Oh Holy Night. In terms of normally songs it has to be the Fairytale of New York.
Favourite Christmas Present
Nows thats a hard one. I am always so grateful for any presents I receive.
Favourite Festive Film
There are Soooooooo many! I think my Number 1 has to be Miracle on 34th Street followed by Elf. We always have to watch Muppets Christmas Carol and other notable mentions for Nativity, the Santa Claus and Love Actually.
Favourite Cracker Toy
Got to be the fortune telling fish!
Favourite Cracker Joke
Totally gonna be that person now and say that cracker jokes are just too cheesy for me!!!
Favourite Christmas Decoration
When I lived at home my mum had some decorations on her tree which just reminded me so much of my childhood. One was a little white guy with a tree (who I named Geoffrey when I was little and it stuck)
Favourite Christmas Scent
Yankee do some amazing christmas scents! Christmas Cookie, Snow Flake Cookie, Christmas Memories. A particular favourite this year has been a Gingerbread Candle I picked up from Home Bargains for about £2.50
Favoutite TV Ad
Got to be the Coca Cola Truck Ad
Favourite Tradition
I am an absolute sucker for christmas tradition and I love that me and Adam have started to develop our own. I did a post way back in December 2013 about my favourite christmas traditions HERE - most of which are still standing now.
Favourite Place to spent Christmas
At Home <3
Favourite Christmas Fact
Right, I'm not going to lie and tell you I am full of Christmas knowledge... I googled... I wouldn't say I found a favourite fact on my quest however one which really confused me was that How The Grinch Stole Christmas is the highest grossing Christmas Film of all time. Now I have seen the Grinch. I didn't love it. I didn't hate it. I wouldn't put it up there in my top 5.
Favourite Snowman Accessory
Its definitely got to be the carrot nose!
I hope you enjoyed this post. Just a bit of fun for you all.
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It may only be October but the truth is, it is actually only 9 weeks until christmas!
I love christmas, I am like a child in a sweet shop and this year I am especially excited since it is mine and Adams first christmas together.
We made a detour to Trentham Garden centre on the way home when Adam picked me up from work yesterday. We knew they had started having their christmas stuff in because when we went a few weeks ago on our week off they were just starting to put the stuff out. When we went last night it was like full blown christmas!!! We had to hold ourselves not to grab a trolley and fill it with stuff! It wasn't just all the trees and decorations that got me excited, all the table decorations too! We have a 6 seater table which I love and we have decided we are going to have my mum, dad and brother around for Christmas lunch. I am looking forward to getting all the bits.
Thinking about Christmas also got me thinking about Christmas Traditions. When I lived at home we had several traditions; Its not Christmas until you have seen - Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, Muppets Christmas Carol and we always had bagels for breakfast on christmas morning. Me and mum always had a little tipple of baileys when we were making christmas lunch. Now I can't help thinking about other traditions and what traditions I would like me and Adam to start!
What Christmas traditions do you have as a family???
Also feel free to follow my Christmas board on pinterest (unloved button) - as well as my others of course!
I love christmas, I am like a child in a sweet shop and this year I am especially excited since it is mine and Adams first christmas together.
We made a detour to Trentham Garden centre on the way home when Adam picked me up from work yesterday. We knew they had started having their christmas stuff in because when we went a few weeks ago on our week off they were just starting to put the stuff out. When we went last night it was like full blown christmas!!! We had to hold ourselves not to grab a trolley and fill it with stuff! It wasn't just all the trees and decorations that got me excited, all the table decorations too! We have a 6 seater table which I love and we have decided we are going to have my mum, dad and brother around for Christmas lunch. I am looking forward to getting all the bits.
Thinking about Christmas also got me thinking about Christmas Traditions. When I lived at home we had several traditions; Its not Christmas until you have seen - Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, Muppets Christmas Carol and we always had bagels for breakfast on christmas morning. Me and mum always had a little tipple of baileys when we were making christmas lunch. Now I can't help thinking about other traditions and what traditions I would like me and Adam to start!
What Christmas traditions do you have as a family???
Also feel free to follow my Christmas board on pinterest (unloved button) - as well as my others of course!
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We all have our own little traditions as family's! It's been quite nice reading a few bloggers posts this year who have their own new families and I can't wait for the day when I can carry on traditions and start new ones with my own family some day...
Anyway I thought I would share with you a few christmas traditions or things we always get up to at the christmas period...
For me the lead up to christmas often starts around the end of October at Christmas cake making time. My nanna has always made a christmas cake at christmas and especially over the last 5 or so years I have enjoyed helping her make it.
It think like most family's we have our favourite christmas films that it is NOT christmas until we have watched! For a long time 2 firm favorites in our house hold have been Miricle on 34th street and Muppets christmas carol (which we all sat down and watched last night :D ). Over more recent years we have added to this list with the nativity! which I think is an absolutely awesome film and Elf which always makes me giggle! I always love to watch Love Actually as well and I quite like to watch the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen but these are a give or take - the others however are MUST watch!!
Our christmas tree traditionally always goes up around the 6th/7th (at some point around the weekend of this date!) the tradition is that it has to be up before my mums (and now my) work christmas party so we can have a photo in front of the tree all dressed up! We have an Angel on the top of our tree aptly called Mary - she is a knitted angel which is about 20 years old and my mum picked up at a christmas fayre when me and my brother were at playgroup. Every year since we got Mary me and my brother have taken it in turns to put Mary on the top of our tree!
On Christmas Eve, we have always had for as long as I can remember we have had meat and potato pie for tea complete with proper (homemade) pastry which I usually make. At our local church they have a service at 4.30 called the crib service which is a family orientated service. We have gone to this service as long as I can remember and I always love this service. It always feels so Christmassy with christmas carols and present giving - we always donate a present to one of the local charity's for people not lucky enough - recently a women's hospice in my local area! There is so much giving at christmas it is easy to forget that there are people out there who are not as lucky as us.
More recently ( well last year) I also added midnight mass to my christmas church going tradition. I have wanted to go to midnight mass for a long time and I am so glad I actually went and intend to go again this year and for years to come. I was actually surprised by how many people went to midnight mass and it was lovely to welcome christmas in properly in church surrounded by all my church friends.
On Christmas Day we open presents as a family (usually after being woken up by my dad who no matter how many years he says have a lie in - is always the first one up!) and then we get dressed (in a new top or something new we have had for christmas and then have bagels for breakfast. We then go down to my nanna and granddad house (who live right down the street from us) and exchange presents with them. Then we come home and have christmas lunch which my mum and me make together (and in more recent years aided with an ever so small glass of baileys). Then on Boxing Day my nanna and grandad come up for lunch and then stay usually til bed time having lots of party games and fun times!!
Most of those are traditions which have been long standing... Over more recent years a couple more have been added. Over the last 4 or so years me and my mum have made an annual trip to Manchester to the christmas market which is a trip organised through the hospital we both work at for the staff! Over the past couple of years I have also added carol singing at one of the "old people homes" around the corner from my house where I got with the people from church. I have really enjoyed this over the last couple of years and again is something I would like to carry on doing for many years.
And those are my christmas traditions! What traditions do you and your family enjoy at christmas???
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