What are your family's Christmas Eve traditions?

[Anonymous]

Just curious what other people do. We normally spend the day as a family playing board games, building LEGOs, baking, etc. while watching and playing games on the Google Santa Tracker. At night, we make "reindeer food" and sprinkle it on the front lawn. They each get to open one small present.

[Anonymous]

We have a nice dinner and then go to church for Christmas Eve services or watch from home on Zoom.

[Anonymous]

Some of us go to mass while the rest of us drink wine and cook, then we all meet up for an appetizer only party and much wine. It’s quite merry and delightful.

[Anonymous]

For lunch we eat Wiener and potato salad. Everyone straightens their room in the afternoon and wraps gifts. Sometimes we go to mass, but probably not this year.
After dark we put the gifts under the tree and when everything is ready we ring a bell and the kids come down and open gifts. We have fondue for dinner. Everyone gets a plate with cookies and candy. We spend the rest of the night playing board games and reading new books.

[Anonymous]

Church followed by a dinner of appetizers with my parents. We read the Grinch and then go to bed.

[Anonymous]

Appetizers for dinner while opening family gifts. (Santa gifts and stockings are saved for the morning.)

[Anonymous]

We're really flexible since we always travel for the holidays. We might cook where we're staying, might go to a restaurant, might get invited to a friend's home for dinner or a party.

[Anonymous]

Growing up, we always went for a drive around the nearby neighborhoods to look at Christmas lights. Then we would read the Christmas story from the bible and open a gift or two from family members. When we got older, we'd sometimes attend church service. These days we end up spending every Christmas Eve either packing or driving.

[Anonymous]

Chinese take out. The Jewish tradition….

[Anonymous]

We sometimes go to church and always go to a nice restaurant.

[Anonymous]

We go out to eat and open a present. We spend the day making cookies, watching Christmas movies and delivering cards to our immediate neighbors.

[Anonymous]

We go to NYC. We ice skate, grab our favorite lox bagel, eat Japanese cheesecake, ride the carousel, sometimes we attend Mass, grab some macarons on the way home and call it a night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For lunch we eat Wiener and potato salad. Everyone straightens their room in the afternoon and wraps gifts. Sometimes we go to mass, but probably not this year.
After dark we put the gifts under the tree and when everything is ready we ring a bell and the kids come down and open gifts. We have fondue for dinner. Everyone gets a plate with cookies and candy. We spend the rest of the night playing board games and reading new books.

Almost robotic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For lunch we eat Wiener and potato salad. Everyone straightens their room in the afternoon and wraps gifts. Sometimes we go to mass, but probably not this year.
After dark we put the gifts under the tree and when everything is ready we ring a bell and the kids come down and open gifts. We have fondue for dinner. Everyone gets a plate with cookies and candy. We spend the rest of the night playing board games and reading new books.

Almost robotic

This is what Germans do. You don’t have to be mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what other people do. We normally spend the day as a family playing board games, building LEGOs, baking, etc. while watching and playing games on the Google Santa Tracker. At night, we make "reindeer food" and sprinkle it on the front lawn. They each get to open one small present.