Endless Wishes
Christmas
Blog Candy!
I have an unused, retired Endless Wishes stamp set to give away!
To be entered to win this gift, just leave me a comment on this blog post and tell me a fun family tradition you are enjoying this Christmas!
I will do a random drawing on Saturday morning, Dec. 28 and will announce the winner that day here on my blog!
This set was available for a short time this holiday season from Stampin' Up! but it sold out and is no longer available. This is a photopolymer stamp set and you will need to provide your own clear blocks to use the set.
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas!
On Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, we are having homemade clam chowder. I got the recipe from out East when I lived in PEI and Nova Scotia for 14 years, and brought the tradition of clam chowder back home to Ontario with me. Thank you for the chance to win this gorgeous stamp set.
Opening Christmas Jammie’s on Christmas Eve, having my mother her to visit, ham dinner with cheesy potatoes and green been casserole. Yummy! Merry Christmas everyone!
Looking at years past Christmas pictures and all the fond memories
Merry Christmas Patty . . . Our Christmas tradition is a family Christmas breakfast we get together and watch the children open their presents and have our breakfast before they go to other families to share Christmas day. Enjoy your Christmas Day too!
Diane
Thanks for the chance to win these great stamps. This Christmas I am enjoying making cards with a friend.
Merry Christmas patty, thanks for your inspiration!!
Merry Christmas and thank you for all your great crafting ideas. I hope I win. 😉
Open presents, lounge around and then get the big dinner going. The biggest tradition for me is that I always got to put the Santa or Angel or Star on top of the Christmas tree. Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!
Merry Christmas Patty! My family (extended too) loves to have a get together with friends on Christmas Eve. We each have our favorite finger food and share. It is a cocktail party atmosphere with friends coming and going and the buffet stocked with ham biscuits, shrimp, lots of olives, pepperoni rolls, etc. Also there are a jillion kinds of cookies. We eat and visit and laugh and everyone gets a special surprise handmade gift. This year it is gift tags. My “rubber” (stamping) room is a favorite gathering place and we spend lots of time there during the year. Hope your family has a lovely holiday. xoxo April et al
Enjoyed opening gifts with grandkids on Christmas Eve. Now it is a relaxed day with family and friends.
Now that my children are grown, we’ve added a small white elephant gift exchange to our usual Christmas traditions, with a twist. Each white elephant gift must relate to someone famous and be from that famous person…….ie: a jar of pigs feet from Ms. Piggy! It has been so funny to see the creativity and funny looks on our faces!
Merry Christmas Patty!
I hope that you day is filled with happy family time! I have my tradition of the Christmas butterfly that I had written you about. She is now perched on the Christmas tree – her destination each year. :<) Hugs, Barbara Diane
Every year, my husband and I get together with my family to share Christmas dinner. This year, we are going to my folks who live 3 hrs away. Unfortunately, my children are not able to join us as they live on the east coast. Missing them a lot.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Patty!
Patty, before I tell you my Christmas tradition, I want to thank you for all the wonderful ideas and projects you have posted on your blog. I can’ t even imagine the time and effort you put into making your followers enjoy the Stampin’ Up experience. Keep up the great posts.
On Christmas morning I put homemade cinnamon rolls in the oven and the smell permeates the house, causing everyone to get up and start the day.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Patty !! You have inspired me all year !! Our biggest tradition didn’t happen this year ~~ a Christmas tree !! We have two Border Collie puppies and could very clearly see what would happen if we put a tree up. So we are just enjoying our Christmas gifts of 2 sweet, smart and very energetic puppies !!
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas. Each year our family gets a new ornament for the tree, something that represents something that happened to them, an interest, or love of the year. Each year when we decorate the tree we spend hours reminiscing about the events in our lives that prompted the ornament!
We get together as a family and enjoy the Swiss kaekli my daughter makes. We always made these with my mother but she has since passed away.
Merry Christmas Patty. Having both my sons and their family home for Christmas and all 10 of us sitting at a dinner table made for 6. Thanks for the chance to win blog candy.
Merry Christmas Patty, we always hide the Christmas pickle on our tree and whoever finds it gets to open the first gift. They go crazy with thing.
buying a special ornament for my son each year so when he is on his own his first tree won’t be bare. And fruitcake and eggnog! merry Christmas patty & family!
Merry Christmas I am spending it with family and friends. I spent last evening at my church for Christmas eve service to celebrate Jesus’s birthday. We had standing room only.
We have driving around in our Pajama’s and looking at all the Christmas lights and decorations. It was so much fun to see how excited our 2 small children loved it!
Merry Christmas Patty and your family. We always since I was a little girl have Zchristmas crackers at the dinner table and yes we wear the silly hats.
We play the dice game for “white elephant” prizes every year. It’s a ton of fun when someone slips in a couple of highly desired prizes then the stealing and squabbling begins!! It’s a real hoot!!
Whenever we add a new ornament for the tree, I buy 2 more just like it so when my sons’ have families they can have ornaments from their childhood. I love the ornaments Mom saved for me and my siblings and treasure them so much.
Merry Christmas! Our family has many traditions we treasure. One is we host Christmas dinner each year for the neighbors who have no family in town
Christmas Blessings Patty. One of the things our children love in their stockings are scratch off tickets. Being too young to purchase them, it is a nice treat for them to scratch off and hope for a winner. Any winning ticket gets cashed in and the money goes to that child.
We started a tradition a few years ago of getting up early and going on a cold, wintery walk along the river with our dogs. It’s the perfect way to start Christmas Day! After such a peaceful, beautiful walk, we’re ready for the family fun the rest of the day brings!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Service is the best part of our family traditions. Making Christmas baskets full of foods to make a dinner and delivering it to families is what makes Christmas meaningful for us. Seeing the gratitude with those we give our baskets too is all we need to feel the spirit of the season. Merry Christmas to you Patty! I feel like I get a gift from you every day thru the wonderful ideas you share thru your blog!
I missed getting this set. One of our traditions is that after we open stockings and presents we do some lotto scratchers! I won $48 this year which is pretty cool!
Merry Christmas, Patty! Okay, I am a lucky ducky who has this but I know a couple of ladies in my monthly stamp group are having remorse for not getting it and it would be an amazing gift.
So, traditions…My mom started buying me a new ornament every year since I was little (always a Hallmark), and we have continued the tradition for my 3 kiddos and I write each year on the box. This year I let the kids pick from the wishbook. My youngest picked the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, middle child picked the Hobbit golum, and oldest picked Merida from Brave. It makes the tree special and the kids love pulling out each ornament and remembering stories about why they picked it.
Spending time with my kids and family. Merry Christmas, Patty!
We always attend A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre on December 23. Each child also gets a new ornament each year – an angel for my daughter and Santa or snowman for my sons. This year I made the ornaments with Stamping Up! products! Merry Christmas!
Tamales on Christmas Eve, staying up late to open presents (& then clean up the mess!), and of course Santa with the kids on Christmas morning. I just love this time of year!
Merry Christmas Patty! My kids love egg nog, and years ago I made an egg nog cake that they love. So, I started letting them have egg nog cake for breakfast on Christmas morning. They thought they were getting away with murder, and I had a nice, easy breakfast on a busy day! Now that they are grown and almost grown, they still love egg nog cake on Christmas morning. Thanks for the daily inspiration, and the generous giveaway! Enjoy the holidays!
We watch the movie National Lampoon Christmas Vacation on Christmas Eve; then open one present. Christmas morning enjoy our stocking stuffers first, then open presents after having our morning coffee and then sit down to a large breakfast of scrambled eggs, fruit smoothies, English muffins and cinnamon rolls. Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and all the best in 2014.
Our Christmas tradition is to eat my breakfast casserole in the a.m.; then we open our stockings and gifts. Later in the day, we snack on cheese, pepperoni, homemade sausage balls, cookies, etc.!
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Patty.
Hi Patty – It would be so great to have this set. We have an ornament exchange party every year. It’s so much fun.
My family gets together and we each bring 5 small gifts for a grab bag. There is one gift that circulates each year. We have fun and laugh about the gift that keeps on giving. Thanks so much for a chance to win your blog candy.
Happy Holidays!
We open and read a Christmas book every night for ten days as our advent calendar.
New traditions are beginning in our family with grandchildren. Love the fact that even though we don’t have Santa visit our house early Christmas morning we are able to go our daughter’ home and watch the little ones wake up and find out that Santa was at their house and left lots of things. Being with family is such a blessing.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Every year my Grandchildren want to watch Annabelle’s Wish, a Hallmark movie from 1997.
I’m soooo disappointed that I didn’t get one of these Endless Wishes sets before they sold out! Really a great set! Thanks for the opportunity to win one! Fingers crossed…
My family tradition…I bake several kinds of cookies each year and share them with friends and family!
Merry Christmas! A tradition I started since my boys are grown and out on their own is that I buy them a new Christmas coffee mug every year. When my eldest got married I also buy our daughter-in-law a coffee mug also. She loves them so much that she used her last one all year long. I missed getting this set and was sad to find out they weren’t getting any more. Thank you for the chance to win one.
Merry Christmas Patty!!! And thank you for your constant inspiration!! With three shift workers in our family, our “Christmas” is almost never on Christmas day, this year was no exception, we celebrated on the 22nd with our usual over abundance of food, opening gifts for the children and relaxing with family and friends who drop by to visit!
Merry Christmas Patty! Even though my kids are grown and out of the house we all still sat down to watch A Christmas Story.
We have a tradition to have brunch after opening presents….. this year we have a new tradition to take a nap after brunch! Merry Christmas!
All my family wishes that those fighting for our country will be at home next year with their families to enjoy Christmas with their families as happily as I have with mine.
We travel a few hours to my husbands home town and meet up with his family in a local hotel to celebrate. Since we don’t have any family close by, this means a lot to me.
Merry Christmas to you, Patty, and your family. Now that there is only hubby and me here during the holidays we have started golfing with our CA friend who moved to AZ to be near us. Then we go to their house where their two single daughters have cooked a delicious Christmas dinner for us. Then of course there is the opening of gifts. Have a blessed holiday and healthy New Year. May be I’ll be lucky and win this giveaway.
Merry Christmas, Patty! My favorite family tradition is having dinner with my family and eating all of our favorites. We allow ourselves to indulge while we catch up on what’s been going on in our lives. That’s the best part! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Merry Christmas!! We have an annual Gin Rummy card tournament that lasts the better part of all of Christmas Day and often into the next day. There are usually 16+ participants and it’s double elimination.
Merry Christmas!!! Thank you for sharing! This is one of my favorite sets that I wished I’d bought! My favorite thing at Xmas is watching everyone unwrap their hand stamped wrapping paper and gifts!
Merry Christmas every year I buy Christmas pajamas for the
Whole family to open on Christmas Eve. We
Also go to my mother in laws house all 30 of
Us and we have dinner and then we play dirty Santa. My father in law
Is a Santa every year but we always take time and
Read the story of Christ birth. Merry Christmas.
Love reading all of the above family traditions!!! It makes me feel good to know people still carry on the traditions handed down by their parents, grandparents, etc. Our tradition is to get everybody together, along with anybody who doesn’t have a family to celebrate the birth of Jesus. This year, we said no presents just get together and enjoy each other and the blessings we have received!! It was a little harder this year because mostly everybody has been out of electric power since Saturday night, so we had early guests because we have a generator!! The very best to you and your family Patty!!
I love the stamp set! My brother and his family came to visit me in 1982 and we needed some cling wrap to cover some food….well, we have been passing back and forth a cling warp box they gave me for Christmas in 1983 for 30 years now. We sign the box and put some little goodie in it.
Making our Christmas cookies. We only use the recipes once a year so they are special and fun to make. Of course the kitchen is a mess but it’s a fun time together.
This year was a new tradition. I took the grandchildren outside and we shot a bow and arrow. So much fun until we lost the arrows in the woods.
Merry Christmas! Now that my mom has passed on and all my in-laws have familiies of their own we get to spend the day at home. No rushing around, no mad dash to finish wrapping, just hang out at home and I get a NAP. Yes, a nap. Oh, it truly is a magical time of the year :).
The weekend before Xmas our family gets together to make tamales for our Xmas dinner
Merry Christmas to you and your family! Our Christmas tradition starts on Christmas Eve with church. On Christmas day we invite my Aunt and Uncle over for breakfast and french toast casseroles. We also make sure that anyone from church who will be alone has an invitation to come be with us for the day if they want to.
Staying in our pajamas all day long!
Merry Christmas Patty!
Ever since I was small, my family would go to the same church that my Grandma (b. 1894) was baptised in for the Christmas Service. Today, the tradition is still carried on and this year was extra special for me. My first grandchild was born this past summer and became the fifth generation to celebrate spending Christmas Eve, (my birthday) in the same church with the family.
Patty
We opened presents early in the morning and then went to grandma’s house for a big family Christmas.
Christmas morning breakfast at my BILs-adults only-I make monkey bread, BIL grills sausage (6 degrees F outside) and my SIL makes eggs. Its always the nicest time of the day for me.
Merry Christmas Patty, My tradition will start next year as we all could not be together this year. Each person will have a number near there place at the table,we will sing The Twelve days of Christmas and everyone will have to sing there part of the song.
My brother, nieces and nephew come to grandma & granddad’s house. Then we exchange gifts. Of course, there is always a turkey baking in the oven 🙂
Merry Christmas Patti!! One tradition that my family does is watch the Disney Christmas Parade while we eat breakfast after opening presents.
Merry Christmas Patty Boyfriend and I enjoy a quiet day being with each other
Hugs
Patty…I really look forward to your posts. I learn something from each one. Thank you for sharing your awesome ideas!
Spending the evening thankful to be blessed my son surprised me this morning being here from CO with his precious 11 year old son to surprise me. My sweet husband and one of my daughters were in on it. Having family around is a big part of the holidays. I was feeling really down to not have my son and oldest daughter with their sons here. He lives the closest of the two but it still is an 8hrs drive. A wonderful surprise and a blessed holiday. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
We played a fun game for the first time. All of us adult ladies gathered around in a circle. We were each given a bag with a gift inside. Twas the night before Christmas was read and left and right was added. Each time it was said we passed the bag to the person on our right or left. It was so much fun! After all was finished we got to keep our bag. Inside was some sort of purse or tote bag from Vera Bradley. Such a great idea and we laughed a lot. This is a start of a new tradition.
Marian Biegel
Merry Christmas, Patty. My daughter drives me around each year to look at Christmas Decorations. We have so much fun seeing all the beautiful lights. And it gives us some time to be together, just the 2 of us. Thanks for your generosity hosting this Blog Give Away.
The season starts early for our friends and family with a progressive dinner. We have been doing this for 27 years now. It is a wonderful way to make time for each other, catch up with everyone in our extended family, and makes me get ready by the second Sat. Of December every year. We keep a journal and everyone writes a line or two about the past year and so much fun to review previous entries.
Thanks for all you do. May you have a blessed New Year.
Patty, nativity sets are our decorations all year long, but every Christmas we get up to look for the baby Jesus to place back in the manger that has been hidden somewhere in the house the night before. We do this before the gifts are opened to remind us the reason for giving. The kids really enjoy it.
Jane
Ah….Christmas. Family time is so very important to me at Christmas….not the big things but just the simple things like having homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning…..or enjoying quiet moments with each of my children.
My 3 granddaughters help me make cards and get them ready to mail. Then we take the Grapeline bus to view lights. And of course, I have Christmas music on for the whole season. Blessed Christmas to everyone – especially those serving in the military and their families waiting at home.
We have Christmas eve dinner at my house with my grown children and grandchildren. Then my husband and i get up early and go to my daughter’s for breakfast and to see what Santa brought.
I do up all my laundry on Dec. 24th and then don’t do any for a week, so not until after Jan 1st. I do this in honor of my grandmother who said it was bad luck to do laundry between Christmas and New Years. I suspect this was her way to get a break for a week or so from that drudgery of a chore.
Our family generally spends Christmas Day in their new jammies everyone receives on Christmas Eve–big surprise! We play old-fashioned board games, cards, and eat finger foods on and off throughout the day. Totally just us enjoying each other’s company!
Merry Christmas Patty… How Kind of you to offer the Stamp Set…. I would LOVE to win it. We have been enjoying each other and watching FUN movies all day today… Thank You for a Chance to Win….
Faith
Something we always do is to let our two grandchildren help scratch off the lottery tickets that Santa always leaves in Memaw and Papa’s stockings and we give them half of any money that we win! Thanks for the opportunity to win this great stamp set that I wanted so bad but didn’t get because they ran out. Merry Christmas to you Patty!
So many, Christmas Eve dinner, with green bean casserole and brussel sprouts. In Utah with 6 grandchildren. Early morning unwrapped Santa gifts for children, then off to breakfast at Ihops. Return home to read the Christmas story and give thanks, then children open gifts. When they are done, the adults open their gifts, while children have fun. Always a silly string fight out in the street and the children on their small sleds, sliding down the front yard slope. Watching a new movie, always a gift at Christmas, at which I usually fall asleep. Playing with the children’s new toys with them. Taking flowers to deceased family members and taking a picture with the elf on the shelf ornament, then bringing him home for next year, 2 years of that tradition now. Early night and sleep in tomorrow. Such fun!
Merry Christmas! Actually, we will celebrate Christmas with our son, his wife and 3 sons Saturday. After dinner we play cards and eat snacks and just have a great time. Today (Christmas), I am enjoying the time to really think about how blessed my husband and I these past fifty years. We celebrated our 50th last Friday and cannot still believe it has actually been that long. Just seems like yesterday that we tied the knot!
We love to watch A Christmas Carol and Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas. It doesn’t matter how old you are, you have to love it! We always go to church on Christmas Eve.
Every year my father would read the Christmas story from the Bible and then The Night Before Christmas. 4 Generations have enjoyed this tradition. My father passed away 12/17/13 unexpectedly. With heavy hearts and tears in our eyes we carried on this tradition in honor of my father. Thank you for the chance to honor my father in this small way.
Merry Christmas to you and family!!! Patty, again, awesome Christmas card
creation !! When my brothers and sisters were all living in NH, we would gather around and do a Christmas dinnner and end the the evening with a yankee swap!!!
I hope to win this awesome prize!!!! I went to purchase this set and it sold out!!!!
Thanks Patty!!!
Gay
Hi Patty! Merry Christmas to you and your family. This year we received an elf on the shelf and my 4 year old Brody named him Elfie. Elfie is a helper elf, not a mischievous one – he put together our Christmas train under the tree, he packed lunch for Brody and his sister, Brody asked him to decorate the top half of the tree and also to water the plants. We look forward to Elfie’s return next year!
Our family tradition for the past 3 years has been to postpone Christmas until January. (My whole household, except me, seems to get sick every year without fail during this time)!
It appears the best way not to disappoint anyone, and we get to celebrate even longer!
Merry Christmas to you & yours Patty ! ?
Thanks Patty for all you do! One thing I’m noticing becoming a tradition is checking out any new penguins you might have added year to year!! But family wise…just enjoying time with my folks and feeling blessed to spend another Christmas together. ..dad and I enjoyed an eggnog while we went through “tablet training” tonight….he’ll enjoy his first day on the Internet tomorrow. .. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Merry Christmas to you Patty.
We like to make popcorn balls every year and this year we couldn’t find the time to make them, it was sad, but made a deal that next year we make time no matter what.
Thank you for a chance to win this stamp set, I didn’t get to buy it before it was gone. Hope I will be lucky and win it.
Merry Christmas Patty!
Our Christmas tradition for the past 35 years has been to gather at my sisters house to celebrate the birthday of her beautiful daughter. Tonight we did it again. The group gets bigger every year! I never get tired of getting together with family ❤
We have continued a tradition started by our home’s previous homeowners – lining both sides of our half-circle driveway with luminaries (about 150 of them) made with white paper bags. It’s a team effort and looks so beautiful late into the night. Thanks for the chance to win!
My mom, sisters and I exchange “favorite things” Christmas stockings on Christmas morning. It’s once of the most anticipated exchanges. Thanks for the opportunity to get this set that I missed.
I try to make something homemade every year. This year – sugar scrubs and some peanut butter party chex. Both were a hit!
Our grandchildren sit beside Pappy as he reads the Christmas story. Our 2 1/2 and 1 1/2 year old grandsons were with us this year and an age-appropriate board book was read. They were pointing out Mary, Joseph, the shepherds, the star and Baby Jesus on the pages. As soon as Pappy read the last page the boys were off his lap and ready to open presents. Such a precious tradition to start the day off focusing on the real meaning of Christmas.
Have a wonderful Christmas and blessed New Year, Patty and family.
Every year the girls in the family get together to make Christmas Sugar Cookies – this year we included the great grand kids – there were 10 of us – took as long to clean up as it did to bake and decorate- worth every minute
want to thank you for all you inspirations – I too missed this
stamp set and have regretted it – thanks for opportunity to win
Happy Holidays! My oldest daughter who is now 25 is the offical waker upper on Christmas morning at our house. She got married in October and her and her hubby came and spent the night on Christmas eve with us and on Christmas morning she says to me, “don’t worry, I got everyone up”. Too funny!
Happy Holidays! Our Christmas tradition is to take a ride on December 26th and look at all the lights and decorations, We would try to do this before Christmas but everyone is too busy. Watching It’s a wonderful Life is also a Christmas tradition.
Merry Christmas Patty! We carry on a tradition started by my Mother-in-law. She burned bayberry candles – one for each one in the house. The bayberry candles are lit on Christmas Eve and burn through Christmas. We also do this on New Year’s Eve. The little rhyme that goes along with the bayberry tradition goes like this……….. “A bayberry candle burned to the socket, brings health to the home and money to the pocket.” Although the burning of the bayberry candles have no real power, they do remind us of Mammy and the many blessings we have received from God! And, they make our house smell festive, too! Thank you for your post and sharing the great papercrafting ideas from you and your team! Many blessings to you in the coming year!
On Christmas Eve my mom and her boyfriend come down and we go to the Christmas Eve service together after a nice dinner. After the service we drive around looking at Christmas lights. Before bed I’ve always given the kids new pj’s, but this year I made new Christmas pillowcases for everyone instead.
I give the kids pjs to wear for great pictures Christmas morning. Even though my kids are adults now they still expect their pjs. Then we watch its a Wonderful Life. Thanks for a chance at this wonderful give away.
My six year old and I make cookies for Santa and then spend Christmas Eve evening at the in laws opening presents and watching Christmas movies, nothing out of the ordinary, but we are all together for some quality time.
I think we started a NEW tradition yesterday! We did a video Skype yesterday with our son and grandson in San Diego!!! That’s a first!! We got to watch our grandson open his presents! What fun! THANKS for offering this blog candy! You are always so generous!
Merry Christmas to you and your family. My favorite tradition is spending time with family.
To me that is a Christmas Blessing.
Thank you for the chance to win this set.
The Christmas tradition my daughter and I love the most is our big Christmas breakfast with our whole family with our special Christmas casserole and so many food items that are just so yummy! Thank you for all your wonderful inspiration. Merry Christmas.
We drive around neighborhoods and look at Christmas lights and decorations on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Merry Christmas!
Ham dinner with the grandbabies followed by a “Happy Birthday, Jesus” cake. Hope you and your family had a great holiday.
My daughter was born on Christmas day — we always have a cake for her and Jesus and she opens her birthday present at the end of the day! This year it was a t-shirt quilt!!
Merry Christmas. This year on Christmas morning I woke to find most of everything in my house wrapped in Christmas paper. After going to bed on Christmas Eve , my children (ages 17 & 21) wrapped the couches, kitchen cabinets, chairs, taped paper to the floor, tapped to the stairs, wall, and over doorways. What a fun surprise.
Awesome. We put cookies out for Santa and take pictures of him eating them. Santa is dad and one of the children.
We attend Christmas Eve Mass then head to my son’s house to have dinner. Then my granddaughters have a little piano concert for us.
Merry Christmas! We started a new tradition to get together with extended family (today) the day after Christmas for gifts and dinner!
Merry Christmas Patty! Thank you for all your wonderful inspiration throughout the year! Now that the kids are grown and gone and there are no little ones here on Christmas morning, we have gifts for our 7 dogs to open! It is so much fun to watch them with their new toys and bones, it’s almost like having little ones here again! We then all get together either here or my brother’s home for Christmas dinner!
Merry Christmas to you and yours! Thanks for offering the chance to win this beautiful set! One tradition in our family is to fill a big bowl with candy and pass it around while opening our gifts. We open one gift at a time so that we can see the joy on the receivers face so the candy is our sustenance before breakfast as it can take a few hours to open everything!
We enjoy getting together with our family on Christmas Eve, having a great meal, going to mass and then the thrill of my night…listening to my 9 year old granddaughter sing her heart out with all the wonderful christmas songs.
The one and only tradition it seems to have stayed from my childhood is how we unwrap presents. We start with the youngest picking a gift to give to someone, then all the family watches that person unwrap their gift. When they are done, the next oldest gets to pick. We move that way all morning until all the gifts are unwrapped. It is a nice way to celebrate each gift as special. Merry Christmas to all!
A Merry and Blessed Christmas to you and your family!! =) Our new Christmas tradition seems to be to crash with other families since ours reside in another country.
Patti, Merry Christmas to you and your family. My husband and I moved to Arizona a year ago, so we are starting new traditions. We were blessed with great weather yesterday so for our second Christmas in Arizona we played 9 holes of golf and then went for a ride in our convertible with the top down. Pretty sure we don’t live in Illinois any more. Thanks for the chance to win this stamp set. Maureen
A new family tradition we started is that each of our grown kids take a turn at being “in charge” of the gift exchange. They purchase wrapping paper for everyone so it is all the same, make labels so no one can tell who gave the gift. Then they create a way to exchange usually using a point system for guessing. this year we had to guess by a white elephant gift exchange – how fun – boy did we laugh!
We have a traditional turkey dinner with all the fixings on Thanksgiving, then just have soup and sandwiches and snacks at Christmas so there is more time to spend together.
We always get together for dinner on Christmas Eve. It is a great way to share the evening and great food! Shauna smith
Merry Christmas Patty to you and your family! This year was another busy year for baking. I bake gifts for people and our neighbourhood doggies. I also make cards to accompany the goodies. I love going to the doors and handing out the doggie treats, as soon as the dogs see me they know I’m there for them. So cute! LOL.
Ter 😉
Merry Christmas! Christmas brunch at my Mom’s we now in shifts because the family has gotten so large, most the grandkids are married and they bring their kids and house is over flowing, brunch then presents, then nap, then off to other families members for more eating and gifts.
Not very exciting or different, but my husband and I have no in town family so we just have fun, easy snacks all day and watch marathon episodes of different shows on. Thanks 4 the chance!
Patty….Merry Christmas to you and your family! My children and families come to my home late Christmas morning and we exchange gifts and a tradition we have had since they were old enough to have candy is their M&M containers. They have grown from 2 containers back in the 60’s to 9 today. The little ones think this is cool and look forward to them every year!
Our family begins Christmas day with the opening of “gifts from the heart”, something created for each person. It is the most special moment plus we’re celebrating “remission”, this is truly my Christmas miracle.
Merry Christmas Patty, When our children were little they had given me a Mickey & Minnie waffle iron for Christmas. So ever since then on Christmas morning we have M & M waffles for breakfast. Now our kids are grown with their own children, and they all come over Christmas morning for their M & M waffles and to open presents from Nana & Papa.
My Christmas tradition is going to my neices house Christmaas eve for pizza and then back again Christmas day for prime rib. She is an excellent cook and we all have a great time.
One of our traditions is new PJ’s to be worn on Christmas Eve! Thank you for sharing your talents; I always look forward to seeing what idea you’re going to present. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Merry Christmas Patty! We did our usual tradition on Christmas Eve – fondue! Then we went to church for our Christmas Eve service. My daughter was home from college so it was very nice.
We enjoy Christmas Eve dinner and then waiting for Santa to arrive on the fire truck. Our local volunteer fire company has been doing the Christmas Eve Santa run since I was a child and I so enjoy sharing this tradition with my child now!
On Christmas Eve, our family goes to the children’s program at church. Then on Christmas morning we gather together and open our gifts, youngest to oldest. Then we enjoy food and fellowship!
All of us empty nesters get together on Christmas evening for an evening of fellowship, food and games. Merry Christmas!
I was so sad to this that this stamp set wasn’t going to be available anymore! What a treat it would be to be selected to win this give away but I wish everyone best of wishes for their own chance to win! 🙂 One of my Christmas traditions included buying our one and only child a beautifully crafted glass ornament made in Germany. I’m about to start a new Christmas tradition since we are expecting our first granddaughter next month! Next Christmas will be so much more special! 🙂
Merry Christmas! Love this stamp set♡♥
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking cut-out cookies and decorating them. Some years my niece helps me, some years my stepdaughter and some years it’s just me but I always enjoy it-wouldn’t be Christmas without cookies! Thanks for a chance to win this set- it was sold out before I could order it.
LOVE you blog and check it out every day for inspiration. Happy New Year!
Karen
My adult daughter and I take turns filling a pre-papered box with one or more “tacky” gifts. Last year I was the “proud” recipient of a flamingo pen for my desk. This year she got a set of Redneck wine glasses (mason jars glued to glass candle holders). Each year the box goes with the gift to be returned the next Christmas. These gifts are often the most enjoyed items of the season…in any event, they are almost certain to provide some laughter.
Thanks, Patty! I have made a lot of your cards, thanks for the videos!
Happy Holidays! As soon as the last quest, family member,relative, friend has left my husband turns on old family videos of past Holidays when the kids were little!! My now 21 and 17 year old children still laugh and enjoy just listening and watching these over and over again!! Great Holiday time with my family!!
Stockings first on Christmas morning…then breakfast…then finally…presents!!!! But only one at a time!!!
We enjoyed our yearly tradition of three gifts for each of our three daughters, in honor of the three gifts Jesus received from the Magi: a want, a need, and a spiritual gift. This keeps the focus of Christmas on where it should be, celebrating Christ’s birth, instead of on the gifts.
Merry Christmas!! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!! We always have have tradition of making cutout sugar cookies with my kids, then decoration them, and getting CRAZY with some of the decorating!! It’s hilarious fun!! We always have to seriously clean up the floor when we’re done because we get sprinkles EVERYWHERE!!!
My favorite is going to Christmas eve services.
I started what I hope to be a new tradition with our grandchildren. I put together little kits for them to make their own Christmas ornament. I gave them each an clear glass ornament and they chose different things to put inside — rolled strips of SU designer paper or music, the youngest decided to use curling ribbon inside. It was fun crafting with them.
We always have Christmas Crackers which we pull with a partner. The cracker splits with a Bang!!! and out comes a paper hat which we wear. There is also a small gift that comes out of the cracker.
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A Christmas tradition for many years has been to give an ornament to each child. Now the children are grown and gone, but they still each get an ornament every Christmas. A more recent tradition is to have pizza for Christmas. We thought about having something different this year, but the kids still wanted pizza.
We have Christmas Dinner with my grandparents. It is fun to eat good food and talk.
Our traditions are having a breakfast casserole after opening presents and playing family games in the afternoon. I’d sure like to win that stamp set. I waited too long and then it was gone! Thanks Patty.
Merry Christmas! My favorite holiday tradition is to look atChristmas light displays on our way home from the Christmas eve party with the whole family.
Merry Christmas Patty!! I have all the family over for a traditional breakfast casserole. After that, we all open our gifts and reflect on the year. It is such a wonderful time to be with family.
This year is special because a son came, whom we have not seen in several years. It is a joyous reunion and we enjoyed baking and cooking, and of course, eating together.
Merry Christmas! I was so sad to see this stamp set sold out. We have a family tradition that on New Year’s Day we all gather at my house. The men watch football and the ladies gather around the kitchen table for crafts. Finger foods for all to enjoy.
Merry Christmas Patty! Our family’s tradition is opening our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve after we’ve come home from the Christmas Eve service at our church. The tradition part is that the kids always get new pj’s to put on Christmas Eve. Even though the kids are older now, they still enjoy this tradition and look forward to it every year! Blessings to you and yours this Holiday Season and a Very Happy New Year! P.S. Thank you for offering this very special blog candy! 🙂
Sweet potato biscuits and country ham. A TN Xmas breakfast that my FIL is determined to keep no matter how rest of family feel about it!! LOL!! Happy NY One & all!!
My family has their gifts at their homes Christmas morning, then my husband and I fix big breakfast and the kids and grandson come here , then we relax and open our gifts. We enjoy watching each other’s faces as they open each gift.
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Patty. Thanks for the chance to win this set. My tradition was to go to my Mom’s family on Christmas Eve for dinner and opening presents from her side of the family. Since we already had some gifts we knew that Santa was coming and didn’t have to worry about getting up early on Christmas Day – many times the folks would have to wake us up! Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas and your great web site. Happy New year to you all.
Merry Christmas
our Christmas tradition is making homemade tamales a week before
Christmas. After Church Christmas eve we steam the tamales for our dinner. Our
Hi Patty – Happy Holidays to you and your family. Every year on Christmas Eve we gather round and eat appetizer and pick-up foods. When everyone is finished eating we open gifts. When 11:00 PM comes we attend Christmas Eve church services.
My husband and I started our own little “tradition” for Christmas Eve by getting take out dinner and eating it in front of the tree!
Merry Christmas,Patty and a Very Happy New Year !!! I love spending Christmas with my Daughters and Grandchildren. There is nothing better than watching the kids opening their presents. I tried to order this stamp set but it was out of stock and was so disappointed. I would love to win it. Thank you for all your inspiration and a chance to win.
Our two sons (who are now grown) have to don Santa hats and disperse the Christmas gifts. This is done while listening to a tape from a Christmas performance when one of our sons was in middle school. I have to hide the tape until Christmas day. I’d love to win this stamp set. Thank you for the opportunity.
Merry Christmas. This year we started a new tradition! Opening our presents from family and friends on Boxing Day. Helps to spread out the Christmas cheer for the kids and helps it not to be so anti-climatic. The children enjoyed it too!
Our Christmas traditions begin by cutting down our own tree. Making around 80 Christas cards; the neighbors get theirs handed to them when the dog and I go walking (if I have time; the doggies all get homemade dog cookies too). We are being lo-key this year as we all seem to be sick! 🙁
Our family always gathers on Christmas Eve so the ones with small children can stay home on Christmas Day to enjoy their Santa.
Thanks for a chance to win and wishing you a wonderful year ahead!
My husband’s birthday is three days before Christmas, so we always go caroling to several families on his birthday. This year we gave out ornaments I made using several nativity stamps and lots of glitter. 🙂
Hi Patty, We are really big on a lot of traditions, but this year I started a new tradition. My youngest was away at school. We always had an advent tradition of me hiding little gifts or treats. When they were at their youngest it would be a picture of a place or just the word of where it was. Then they would get one clue and then that progressed to three clues in the form of a riddle for each child. Now that the others are away and the youngest was in a dorm, I made my child (young adult) and each of his roommates a clothesline of the SU muslin bags and boxes with treats or gifts (like little race cars or a St. Francis coin with a picture of their pets) in each bag. They had a bag a day until they flew home for Christmas. It decorated their room, counted down to home, and they had treats every day (through finals). My son and the other boys really liked it and we started a new tradition. Merry Christmas to you
and I really enjoy your blog!
We love to watch movies. We will watch a classic Christmas movie and then watch a “new” movie that we usually wind up purchasing during Black Friday. It’s a fun way to spend more family time together after a fun filled day of good food and family time.
Our favorite family tradition started with my grandmother, pasted down to my mother and now to me.
We love to make the traditional Christmas punch every year. It has to have just the right amount of ginger ale, Hawaiian punch, ice cream and sherbet. Oh, it is so delicious.
Hope you and your family had a blessed holiday.
Enjoying a hot bowl of oyster stew on Christmas Eve, while catching up on reading Christmas cards & newsletters, and being so grateful for the many blessings God has bestowed on us and thankful for the love of family and friends. Thank you Patty for all you share with us and the inspiration you provide all throughout the year!
My tradition is giving each of my grandkids a tree ornament that will be given to them for their own tree when they are grown. They love seeing what I have chosen each year.
We’ve been creating new family traditions with new family members…taking lots of photos for sharing & remembering at future Christmas’s. One old family tradition…Swedish Sweet Rolls…it’s just not Christmas without them;)
BTW…I love your site…it’s now in my favorites!
I hope you had a very Merrry Christmas, Patty. I spent Christmas with my family and friends. My friend invites us over every Christmas to share their wonderful bountiful Christmas dinner. I have tried so hard to find this set without success. It was taken off the list before I could order it, then when it was back on, I couldn’t order it in time before they were all gone. I guess I learned my lesson. Happy New Year to you and your family!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I get together with my brothers and sister and their families. We have a Pollyanna gift exchange, play games, eat, sing and laugh. It is a fun time to spend with our families. I hope you have a fun time with your family. Thanks for the opportunity to win the endless wishes set. I was too late to order it and missed it.
Reading Twas The Night Before Christmas. Just love it!
All the females get together which is about 9 of us and we bake cookies yak,yak and yak about how the year of 2013 has bee good to us and then we drink some good wine and laugh. Just a fun way to get together and enjoy each other and then we all say a special prayer for how lucky we are
Thanks for sharing pictures of your decorations-your house looks beautiful! Our family always gets together on Christmas for an early supper, then we open our presents. I always do all the cooking & cleaning up the kitchen (which is a gift in and of itself).
Hi Patty, Merry Christmas! Our tradition is to celebrate Christmas with our families!
Thanks for sharing pictures of your decorations-your house looks beautiful:) Our family always meets on Christmas afternoon. I serve them all supper. And I do the kitchen clean up, which is a gift in and of itself!
We celebrate with family on Christmas Eve. We have sandwiches, baked beans, cranberry jello salad, pumpkin pie and ice cream. We talk, laugh, go to church and this year after church we watched “A Christmas Story,” and ate popcorn!
Merry Christmas Patty! Thank you for the chance to win some exceptional blog candy. As for our tradition, we celebrate with family on Christmas Eve and then go to mass that evening. After that we open two presents before we go to bed. One is new PJ’s and the other a dated ornament. Morning brings breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls and then the other gifts. Later we watch A Christmas Story and have a wonderful dinner together. Happy New Year……I for see great things in 2014 from you! 😉
Happy Holidays!! Our family tradition is making tamales on Christmas Eve, staying up till midnight to open presents, then going to mass Christmas Day, and we have to watch the following White Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas Patty !!!! Our tradition is to go to my parents home, celebrate the day and then end up with a huge Christmas dinner. We were missing some of the children, but were able to contact them via phone. Then we celebrate the next day my Moms birthday. She is 84 years young now, what a blessing.
Merry Christmas to you and your family! My parents come to visit for the week and celebrate Christmas and my brother’s birthday. We grill steak and make a yummy bleu cheese sauce. Wishing you a great 2014!
A fun holiday tradition for me is watching my dog rip open his gifts with the same excitement and anticipation of a child! He enjoys tearing the paper more after he eats whatever was inside!!!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (almost) to you and your family. Our tradition of getting up very early and opening presents on Christmas morning have now morphed into my two (now) college kids getting up closer to noon! Some simple food and some great cookies and we are good! The photopolymers are intriguing, hoping to win to try it out!
Merry Christmas, Patty. Thank you for all your inspiration! One family tradition our family enjoyed this year is potato soup for Christmas Eve dinner. I got the recipe from my dad. We usually serve it with crusty bread topped with melted cheese.
Happy Holidays to you all!
Before we all sit down to Christmas dinner we share Christmas Wafer (a tradition handed down from my maternal grandparents who immigrated from Poland as teenagers many, many, many years ago). We each take a wafer and then go around to everyone and share a piece of each other’s wafer and make a wish for them and they to you and then share a hug/kiss. Happy New Year everyone!
Thanks for the chance to win an awesome giveaway. A Christmas tradition that we always do is to trim our tree and then watch the movie “A Christmas Story”, the show with Ralphie who wants a Red Rider BB gun for Christmas. It’s great to have family time during the holidays. Best of luck to you and yours in the coming New Year.
Merry christmas! A few hours before christmas day we play secret Santa, and right after that my mom picks a name from the hat, and the last name played wins $100. My mom has been doing this for years and we all look forward in winning that cash lol
Thank you for the chance to win. Praying you had a great Christmas with your family. Our tradition is to sleep in the living room by the tree. This was a lot easier to do when we were younger. Even though our kids have grown up, both in their 30’s, when they are home we continue this tradition. On christmas morning, I make cinnamon rolls as we open presents.
My favorite time this Christmas was sitting on the couch and snuggling with my 10 year old son watching Christmas movies. Thank you for the chance to win & Merry Christmas Patty!
Thank heavens this is NOT a Christmas tradition…many years ago my husband, our three young children and a dear friend went out into the woods to cut down our Christmas tree. The perfect tree was located, BUT it turned out that neither of the adults had brought a saw…or maybe each thought the other was bringing the saw. They did however have a shotgun with them and luckily, the base of the tree was not very thick, because that was the year we “shot down our Christmas tree”! You can bet that is a memory that is recounted every Christmas.
I have an elf that was on a christmas gift when I was a little girls (the elf is easily over 50) and he always has the prized perch up near the tree topper!! The kids used to fight as to whose turn it was to put him on the tree! Love all your ideas and keep us creative!! Have a wonderful 2014!
Thank you for giving us an opportunity to win this stamp set. I missed getting it before it sold out. Something we always enjoy doing at Christmas time is sitting down with all the nieces and nephews and we stamp a project or make a Christmas project together. This year we made the snowflake flurry ornaments. Another tradition is watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation movie.
Merry Christmas, Patty! My family here in S.CA has many traditions. This year we took photos and collected ephemera from our Dec. outings and decorating, as well as informal/silly shots of family wearing silly hats, etc. I will be assembling everything into a Seasonal Stripes album. I’m from SC where my sisters, their families, and my parents live. One weekend close to Christmas they all get together at one sister’s house, alternating back-and-forth from year-to-year. They have a delious meal, tell funny, embarrassing stories about my sisters and I as children, unwrap presents, and call me. I’m put on the speaker phone and have a wonderful time catching up with about 12 family members. That really touches my heart and makes me feel close to everyone. One more thing…when our children were young, my mom baked a cake for baby Jesus. The kids sang “Happy Birthday” and blew ouf the candles.
Unfortunately we weren’t able to observe any of our Christmas traditions this year as I had emergency gall bladder surgery just before Christmas. We usually have our big meal on Christmas Day, but on Christmas Eve we have soup and open one gift.We also have Christmas crackers at Christmas dinner which is roast beef and Yorkshire pudding.
We always do Christmas on Christmas Eve so we had 6 of us at our house and we had finger food and snacks and cookies and fudge and then we opened our presents. My hubby and I spent Christmas Day together. He used his Traeger Smoker and cooked our Christmas ham in there and also made potatoes au gratin from scratch using 3 different cheese and we had some cheddar biscuits made from the Red Lobster mix….tastes just like the ones you get at Red Lobster!
We hope you had a wonderful holiday and wish you a Happy New Year!
Kathy
All of our (6) children have always slept together downstairs in the playroom on Christmas Eve. Now that they are all grown, and most of them are married, it made for a VERY fun and crowded room! Best tradition ever!
Cookie making and pj’s!
We get together on Christmas Eve and make tamales. We make frothy Mexican chocolate and drink it with a dessert called bunuelos. Yummy!!
Patty what a fun idea! You are always thinking of creative ways to make crafting & sharing special. Our Christmas tradition is to give creation information as part of our gift. We love to share that the Bible is accurate in all areas & that science confirms the Bible; along with all the ways in which evolution is inaccurate. What better way to celebrate the birth of our Savior/Creator than to help equip the church!
We have spent many years singing in three of the five Christmas Eve services at our church. Now we watch one of the services online in our cozy little apartment in a retirement facility and sing along with the hymns and remember the wonderful years we spent in the wonderful choir.
Every year on Christmas Day my family gets together with my parents, sisters, and BILs have have dim sum (variety of Chinese dumplings and desserts) for brunch, take some family pictures in front of the tree, and exchange and open gifts.
Church on Christmas Eve, Christmas ornaments from Santa in my son’s stocking, and cinnamon rolls for breakfast on Christmas morning. Merry Christmas and many blessings to your family.
We like to watch Santa Claus: The Movie. Of course there are those sweets we must fix every year, Santa’s Whiskers cookies and congo bars.
I make a French toast casserole every Christmas Eve using Portugese Sweet Bread it is made the day before and Christmas morning it goes in the oven while we open gifts and is ready when we are done. My girls love it so much they now make it for their boyfriends mothers so they don’t have to cook christmas morning either. Theresa
Hoping you haven’t drawn for a winner yet! Would love to have this stamp set! Our Christmas tradition is to spend Christmas eve with all of my husband’s family. Lots of siblings, grandkids and now great grandkids! It’s crowded, but lots of fun and good food. Thanks for a year of great inspiration, Patty!
Lisa G.
My Tradition is to carry on the one my dear Mother gave to me to my Great Niece and Nephew I give them a Ornament for their B’days that is in the end of November and 1st of December that way they can put them on for Christmas every year and then when they turn 18 they have ornaments for a tree and special memories for years to come as they put them on their own tree!!!Happy New Year Patty!!