Share Your Holiday Traditions!

As we spend the week reminiscing over the crumpled wrapping paper and left over cookies, we think about how special it is to enjoy holiday traditions in your home. Every family has its traditions for the holidays – the annual photo of “the kids”, traditional Christmas Eve dinners, or the untraditional like eating Chinese food and going to the movies on Christmas Day.

We took a completely unofficial poll, and found some of the most popular holiday traditions. How did you spend your holidays this year? What are some of your family's New Year traditions? We're wishing everyone a blessed year ahead!

1. Sitting by the fire, sipping hot cocoa and telling stories from years past
2. Baking cookies / cupcakes / gingerbread men from secret family recipe book
3. Lighting the menorah together
4. A new tree ornament or decoration every year
5. Singing Christmas carols
6. Watching holiday parades
7.  Picking Pollyannas for Christmas / Hanukkah
8.  Opening one present on Christmas Eve
9. Video chatting with relatives who are far away for the holidays
10. Staying in your PJs all day on Christmas
11. Going to Midnight mass / services on Christmas Eve
12. Letting the youngest (or oldest) member of the family open presents first
13. Playing family games like bingo, charades, or Pictionary
14. Lying under the Christmas tree when the lights are on
15. Bringing treats or gifts to those who have to work the holidays (nurses, firefighters) 
16. Watching favorite holiday movies snuggled together on the couch
17. Lighting luminarias on the front porch
18. Hiding one present for each child