DVD Giveaway – Modern Family Best Holiday Tradition

December 11, 2009 by admin
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In the spirit of the holidays, we want to hear about your family’s best holiday tradition.

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  • Melanie
    Every year, after Thanksgiving we go over to my Sisters to decorate her tree.
    Its really just all of us sitting on the couch telling my frustrated sister where she should hang all of her ornaments.
  • lisaray56
    Reading "A Christmas Carol" aloud. (My daughter now recites key passages as I come to them.)
  • MajaMeza79
    We sing carols after dinner and look at our old photos of past Christmases and reminisce. We exchange presents on Christmas Eve and for the kids, my Dad dresses up as Santa and they a blast.
  • anthkris
    Every year we have a holiday party on Christmas Eve. My father started this tradition when I was a young child. There are lots of games, prizes, food, and fun. All of the adults and the children have so much fun.
  • tjfirth
    My holiday tradition is We all decroate the tree togrther and use the samr star that has been in our household as long as I can remember
  • susansmoaks
    we exchange homemade gifts with extended family each holiday, we make one gift and then do the chinese gift exchange
  • johnferris
    The kids will like this.
  • Roxann
    A family traditon ever since I was little is making butter cookies at Christmas. We use many different shaped cookie cutters and icings. We always have a good time and make good memories.
  • kerri69
    We go to my sisters and and celebrate we have a big dinner then all the kids open their presents then they go play and the adults open theirs we all bring a dish of something to eat its alot of fun
  • amy delong
    We watch christmas story all day christmas day every year!

    ardelong2(at)gmail(dot)com
  • NAUfrogger
    Our favorite Christmas tradition is loading our two cats into the car and driving around on Christmas Eve to look at the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. This "family" outing has been a tradition now for seven years!
  • Birdie S.
    Our favorite family tradition is to open one gift of each persons choice at the stroke of midnight as it is officially Christmas then we all have a glass of champagne .......
  • Swtlilchick
    Every year on Christmas eve ,we all pile in the car and ride around looking at the
    beautiful lights and decorations.We sing Christmas carols and have fun.When we arrive back we put in the Christmas Story DVD,which we love to watch every year.
  • garrettsambo
    Our "best holiday tradition" is making fudge the night before Christmas. It is a tradition that our parents started. Everyone gets involved. It is a time for everyone to spend time together and to wrap up the last minute gifts. Everyone always wraps up a surprise for Christmas morning. garrettsambo@aol.com
  • Amy d
    watching Christmas story.thanks
  • Pat B
    We always have snack food on Christmas eve and then go to church, followed by opening 1 gift before going to bed.
  • Jennifer Jozwiak
    we would open our gifts after midnight mass then have a late night breakfast!
  • chastidy
    All the kids in the family, decorate and bake cookies for Santa :)
  • gkran
    Making Christmas cookies with my kids :)
  • nesta67
    My favorite tradition is our Christmas Eve Feast. Everyone gets to choose their favorite foods and we have them all. The old standards that we have every year are: Beef Jerky, cheese in a can (aka Squirt Cheese), Chik'n in a Biscuit Crackers, oysters from a tin, hot dogs cut in little circles and fried in butter (this was my sister's favorite as a kid and she doesn't even like it any more, but we still have it because of tradition). We then have a lot of current favorites leaning heavy on the appetizers - mini tacos, chicken fingers, onion rings etc. I know it sounds really disgusting (and maybe it is) but we enjoy it and it's TRADITION!
  • Ula Longtin
    Every year we always light a candle for each departed loved one. My grandmother had a special candle this year as she has just passed. Now, our new tradition is to try and make the big christmas meal just like she did! Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year Everyone!
  • dvice
    My best tradition is our big family dinner
  • kngmckellar
    Our Christmas tradition is everyone in my family (sisters, brother and their kids) gets dressed up warm and goes caroling in the neighborhood! We started this a couple of years ago and everyone had so much fun that we kept doing it!
    Afterwards we go to my house and have a potluck. Sounds kind of old fashioned but it's neat.

    kngmckellar@hotmail.com
  • singermagic1
    The lighting of the candles each night. I set out all the Hanukkah presents and my daughters get to choose which one the want to open each night
    singermagic1(at)yahoo(dot)com
  • jillianv
    we always do the 'yankee swap' where everyone wraps up a gift below $10 and play a game for everyone to each get a gift
  • susitravl
    Eat lasagne, then go bowling or go to a movie. Traditions we started when our kids became teens - it's fun!
  • shirley
    My favorite Christmas tradition is...all of my family gathering at my dads on Christmas Eve we all bring potluck dishes and just have a great time. Christmas and Thanksgving is the only times during the yr..that all of our family is actually together
  • sottovoce
    Well, I can't top the "pickle in the tree" story, but we do have family traditions....just not so unique. On Christmas morning I light a fire and then put the Christmas quiche in the oven as I brew coffee. The children are gnashing their teeth as mom does this! We all gather around the tree, sing carols, and open gifts. Not exactly as exciting as the "pickle" hunt, but we enjoy the quiet, family Christmas.
    Thank you.:-)
  • Diane Baum
    My fave is going out for Chinese food on Christmas Eve
  • kristinwilkinson
    My favorite holiday tradition is gathering with my aunts, uncles, and cousins at my grandparents' house on Christmas Eve. It is a long day and evening filled with Christmas music, lots of food (and beverages!), laughing, catching up...and then presents. It is, without question, the best day of the year. Christmas Eve is non-negotiable, not that anyone in the family would ever consider doing something else.
  • degood
    We make sugar cookies as a family the weekend before christmas and invite friends to a deocrating party at our house. We have prizes for the weirdest, silliest, beautiful and most creative cookies. Then we have a bbq dinner with all our friends.
  • Ed Nemmers
    As part of our Polish tradition, we share oplatek ( Christmas wafer ) by breaking it with each other before the Christmas Eve meal.
  • tinareynolds
    My favorite holiday tradition is every year we write a page in a family journal and the next year we see how things have changed for everyone. It is always funny seeing my brothers new girlfriend because he has a new one every year and he always declares in the journal post his love for which ever girlfriend is that year. We all get a kick out of that. The new girlfriend is always ticked. He never learns. He makes it up to her by declaring his love for her and the cycle continues.
  • denyse_g
    We don't do anything too exciting. We just make Christmas cookies on Christmas Eve for Santa!
  • Karen Gonyea
    My fav holiday tradition is just spending time with family.

    ktgonyea at gmail.com
  • gaylemorgan
    By decorating for the holidaysd together.
  • kk
    Our best holiday tradition is enjoying a festive meal together. Thank you for the opportunity to share this happy memory.
  • My favorite Christmas tradition is our Christmas Eve feast. We have been doing it as long as I can remember. We have a bunch of appetizers like potato skins,shrimp, cheese sticks etc. We sit around the fire and pig out. Then after we eat we open one present and light these really old candles and read The Night Before Christmas.
  • 1Jamie
    We eat potato latkes and light the menorah. Being separated by many miles now, we can synchronize lighting our menorahs and singing the blessings together with family via cell phone speakers. When the kids were younger, we played dreidel games using chocolate chips and other little candies as prizes.
  • krob47
    After an evening of Christmas movies on Christmas Eve, we stay up until midnight and can open one gift before bed. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
  • krob47
    After an evening of Christmas movies on Christmas Eve, we stay up until midnight and can open one gift before bed. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
  • johnrasmussen
    picking a menu, and having all the cooks in one big kitchen at the same time
  • turboterp
    Our best holiday tradition involves baking sugar cookies, icing them with yummy frosting, then eating so many, no one wants to LOOK at a cookie again until sometime around March.
    I am currently at the "no cookie" stage after a major feeding frenzy earlier in the week...
  • fcsdave
    When I was little, we didn't set up the nativity scene each year. Santa would bring it one piece at a time, or so my sister and I thought. Beginning on Saint Nicholas Day morning, the manger would appear. Then each morning my sister and I would wake to find another figure - angel, shepherd, magi, etc. - ending with the baby Jesus on Christmas morning. Then on the Feast of the Three Kings, the nativity set would disappear for another year, presumably taken by Santa back to the North Pole. When my sister and I were older, we discovered it was our mother, and not Santa, who added one figure to the nativity scene each night and the nativity set was stored in the attic, not at Santa's workshop. My mother continues this tradition with her grandchildren.
  • Erica G
    We like to use the piece of the bottom of the Christmas tree that you cut off as an ornament. It gets decorated and takes center stage on the Christmas tree. When we look back at ictures, we always know what year it is.
  • Really nice post...Modern Family Best Holiday Tradition is nice topic and nice words,,, Thanks for sharing...
  • ky2here
    We like to have a nice sit-down dinner on a different date than the gift exchange. It's a great excuse to get out the nicer linen, flatware and china. We do a standing rib roast (looks more difficult than it is) and some nicer sides. The younger children are bored but who cares? They get to be the center of attention at the gift exchange.
  • Mike
    I like to go to zoo lights at our local zoo.
  • Jewie09
    My best holiday tradition is making Mrs. Maynes cookies with my mom at Christmas. I never really thought that our family had any "secret recipies" or traditional family recipes. This recipe was passed down from my grandma to my mom and is a family favourite. This is something I look forward to every year and will enjoy sharing with my children one day.
  • jasonnickolay
    Our tradition is one I started just a few years ago and only works when we have White Christmas. We like to all pitch in and make a snowman complete with the clothes and the button eyes. Then we hollow out a big area in the center of the snowman and pack it full of fireworks. We put a delayed fuse on and celebrate Christmas Eve with a bang! Everyone loves it!

    jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
  • noelle cagle
    Our favorite tradition is to give honor to God first Christmas morning before we do anything else.
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  • Our family tradition is to open one present on Christmas eve in preparation for the present-opening bonanza the next day. Everyone takes time to choose carefully: do you pick the large present or the smallest box? The one that's obviously a book or the mystery box? It's a lot of fun for everyone.
  • ckassing
    thanks
  • kelloggss
    Married With Children..great show!
  • Hurdler4eva
    My best holiday tradition is baking gingerbread cookies with the kids for Santa. And then hubby and I get to eat them and drink the milk at night when the kids go to bed ;)
  • mverno
    cooking with the family mverno@roarunner.com
  • dglitter
    The best holiday tradition was born of necessity, because I work most Christmas Eves. We always make pizza for Christmas Eve dinner, to make it simple. Thanks!
  • george ashmore
    My family lives along the Gulf Coast and every member that lives in the area gathers together at my wife's brother's house in Mobile ,Alabama. We eat dinner, catch up with one another and then bundle up warmly. We go to the famous Bellingrath Gardens and walk thru their winter lights display. The azaleas are dormant but the light displays are beautiful & inspiring. It makes us feel happier, closer and warmer to be together.
  • ianheimbigner
    Unfortuneately my tradition will still gon on but my grandma started it. She would play the christmas songs that were funny. She didnt even know they were the funny ones cause her hearing wasnt so good anymore. Every year we would go to her house she would play the same station. we are going to keep that tradition alive in the years to come.
  • katrina f.
    Our best family Christmas tradition is centered around the birth of Jesus. We attend our church's Christmas service, read "The Christmas Story" by Rhona Davies, and bake a birthday cake for and sing "Happy Birthday" to Jesus. It is a great way to keep our focus on the meaning of the season.
  • We have the elf on the shelf. The last page in the book lists our family name and the year we began the tradition. The elf comes out on St. Nick Day every year and watches kids to report to Santa. Every morning the elf is in a different location in our house.
  • mogrill
    Best Holiday tradition is opening PJ's on Christmas eve. Putting them on, than driving around in PJ's looking at lights.
  • rico
    Deleted since does not fir the rules of the giveaway
  • Naty Espitia
    Best holiday tradition. Eat Tamales and burn año viejos. Right Sofia??
  • Cheryl W
    One of my favorite Christmas family traditions is "Find the Pickle". We have a huge tree and before we decorate Granny hides the pickle ornament somewhere within the Christmas tree branches. All the kids (Adult) start in a line and then make a mad dash for the Christmas tree to find the prized pickle ornament. Who ever finds it, win $100! This is the most hilarious thing ever to watch. We are family, so any pushing or prodding is intensified x10. So much fun. Then we re-hide the pickle ornament and let the next group (the grandkids) do a run, and the winner gets $50. By the end the tree is nearly demolished, but salvageable to decorate. So much fun, we will carry it on forever.
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