Christmas Traditions
to anxiously await Santa’s arrival. The getting up super early has thankfully gotten later with age but Christmas morning we open gifts and they head off for a sea-swim, I haven’t given in to that part...yet! Irish Coffee for breakfast. All the family plays ‘frienemies’. We each bring in a funny present (or a really cool one to guarantee chaos) and names gets picked out of a hat. The first person selects whatever present they want, but whoever is next has the change to keep the present they picked up OR change it with someone else...... Ideally you keep hoping you are the last one as you can choose whichever present you want !! Family meal on Christmas eve followed by Mass. The young members of the family prepare the Christmas Tree, mother prepare the foods that will all have at Christmas lunch. And sometimes we all stay together and chop finely ingredients for beef salad and prepare the festive cakes. And hoping that during this time children will visit us and sing Christmas song for sweets. Candles on the tree. We have mimosas on Christmas morning and the girls in my family wear matching pyjamas and recreate a photo taken years ago.
Watching Elf on Xmas eve :) Mulled wine after mass with the whole extended family. About 40 of us crammed into one living room. Goal Mile Every Christmas Morning. Early dinner, quizzes, bingo (for money) and kitchen disco afterwards. Famiy dinner, visiting relatives, Christmas movies. Christmas pyjamas party. Getting me to make breakfast.... Wearing matching PJs. Pub on Xmas eve after mass. My cousins come to my house for dinner. All our traditions are changing this year. Don’t know if I like it very much. I’ll just have to wait and see. My step-daughters come up on Christmas Eve, we get take-away, play a few rounds of darts, watch a christmas movie and then head to bed
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