Favorite Holiday Tradition's

[zach_wilson]

What is your favorite holiday tradition? Is it the usual "ugly sweater party", or something a bit more like going to some place in particular every year? My personal favorite is it is the one day a year that you get to sit at the dinner table and discuss how the year went and how you hope the next year goes with those you love. Happy holidays to all of you!

 

xoxo zach wilson

[josephga]

I haven't really done anything for Christmas in a long time. tonight I gave a 1 hr massage then watched the dark knight blu ray.

[gallahadesquire]

I miss my childhood Christmas season activity: Taking the Chicago "L" to Marshall Fields, then going up to the 7th floor and having Breakfast Under the Tree in the Walnut room. The room where the tree was was three stories tall.

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

Watching Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas.

[bigvalboy]

Christmas eve with family and then up early Christmas Day to watch all the nieces and nephews open presents. This year however, I left the Christmas Eve party early and headed to WEHO to meet a forum member for drinks. Ran into one of my favorite bartenders of all time and then while strolling back up the boulevard toward the car, we saw this hunky kid bar tending at a small bar that had just changed hands. He told us that his name was Matthew, he was 24 years old and had just purchased the bar and had secured his own liquor license. The bar is called the "Bayou" and he was sitting home on Christmas Eve and thought to himself, "Hell I am not doing anything, why don't I go open the bar for awhile" we had a delightful time chatting with him and listening to this young entrepreneur talk about how he planned on turning this place around, and ya know what, he was spot on in his analysis of the place....made my night!!

[Steven_Draker]

My ancestors used to have a tradition of fasting, starting 40 days before Christmas, abstaining from any meat and animal products. It's similar to Lent, 40 days preceding Easter. When the first star appears on Christmas Eve, the ancestors would break their fast with a celebratory meal. Christmas Day was usually a recovery day. That tradition is losing bit by bit its religious aspect and is fading away nowadays. I don't know anyone in my 'entourage' who observes fasting.

 

Christmas has always been a family holiday for me. We get together for a traditional Christmas Eve meal followed by a feast on Christmas Day.

[jawjateck]

My family celebrates two days. Over Christmas eve and Christmas, we hop from house to house, enjoying each other's company, feasting at every stop, awash in decorations and lights, giving gifts to the children. I hosted family and friends last evening, and today, I will make 3 stops. I have only begun to eat.

 

Merry Christmas!