Special Holiday Traditions, Shared!

Baking cookies with my girls and decorating our Xmas tree. -Megan Murray-Bracamontes

Decorating the tree, reading Christmas stories, unwrapping presents, and Mommy and Daddy playing Santa! -Brittany Wills

I'm looking forward to passing on opening one gift on Christmas Eve after going to church. -Belicia Doria

I love to have my daughter Lorelei unwrap a pair of Christmas pjs on Christmas Eve that she can wear that night. It makes getting ready for bed a little more fun on a night when she'd rather stay awake! -Sarah Berger

Christmas-light looking! Every year, when I was a kid, my parents drove us around town to the best-lit neighborhoods with hot cocoa in hand, and Christmas music playing on the radio. I am so excited to share this with my 15 month old! -Heather Gifford

Bringing our one-year old son back to the James Island Festival of Lights in Charleston SC. We brought him last year when he was only 9 days old! -Joseph Calderone

Having brunch with my kids as we sip on eggnog. Maybe getting some real cheer going! -Ursula Lawson

I am looking forward to drinking hot cocoa, snuggling up and watching Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas on Christmas Eve with my son. -Tammy McBride Liverance

Watching Polar Express Christmas Eve in our Christmas jammies. -Heather Alicia Flack

We too are Christmas pj openers on Christmas Eve! But I am also excited about being able to cut down our Christmas tree this year! I haven't gotten to do it since I was a kid so it will be extra special! -Shannon Spurgeon

Sitting around the table with all my sisters and my mother making tamales. It is quality time with my family and we catch up with each other and just laugh ALOT! -Amelia Alaniz

Sitting down with my husband and four kids and making homemade paper snowflakes. We make hundreds and hang them on some ribbon all thru our house. Great memories... -Kelly Jean Carney

Giving, giving, giving! We've been donating to the food drive locally (Fill the Dome - student-led food drive in the Fargo, ND community) and so my oldest has been learning that some families aren't able to feed their children as we do. We're going to go a step further and go shopping off the Giving Tree and find other 6 and 4 year olds to buy for and talk about that as well. Maybe then their wish lists would get a little smaller! -Stephanie Winterquist

Laughing and dancing in our living room to old Frank Sinatra music baking and decorating homemade Christmas cookies and just being in the presence of the ones we love and cherish. There's absolutely nothing like seeing their faces light up and it doesn't take money. -Patterson Sarah

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