Have I ever told you how much I love Christmas? It’s my favourite time of the year! I count down the days until we can put up the Christmas tree and start decorating for the holidays. We own so many Christmas decorations I have no more room to store them! I like to put them out as early as possible so we can enjoy them for a couple of months. I love all the whimsical things, the trees, the snowmen, the Santa’s but most of all the buffalo plaid!
This year is definitely going to be different, but it doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate with some of our favourite Christmas traditions! Gatherings might not be allowed this year but it doesn’t mean Christmas is cancelled altogether. There are lots of ways we still plan to celebrate even if we can’t be with all of our family in 2020.
Over the years our family has made some of our own traditions with the kids. I wanted to share some of our Christmas Traditions with you! Some of the special moments we enjoy with our kids include:
- Matching Family Pajamas – Every year we have been dressing our children in matching pajamas for the holidays. Years ago before it was trendy like it is today, Denny and I wanted to match the kids so we started wearing them too! Back then they weren’t easy to find like they are today! We have been ordering our Christmas pajamas from Little Blue House for years, we just love the quality and how long they last.
- Decorating the Tree – We love to decorate the tree together as a family. We turn up the Christmas tunes and fill the tree with ornaments we’ve collected over the years. I love remembering back to special moments that the different ornaments remind me of.
- Christmas Treats – Every year we make our favourite holiday treats to share with friends and family. Some of our favourites include Dill Snacks and Christmas Crack. Click the links for our recipes on the blog!
- Christmas Lights – We load up the kids in the car every year to take in all the Christmas lights! We love how festive some of the homes get including Candy Cane Lane in Edmonton. It’s always puts me in the holiday spirit to see all the beautifully decorated houses out there.
- Christmas Breakfast – Our family always has cinnamon buns for breakfast on Christmas day. We like to let the kids open their stockings, then we break for breakfast before opening presents. It gives us a moment to wake up on those very early mornings with littles and enjoy a cup of coffee with breakfast before the madness begins!
What are some of your favourite family traditions? Let me know in the comment section below!
I love that matching family pajamas have always been a family tradition for our family. Here are some of our favourites from Little Blue House over the years! Looking back at these brings me so many wonderful memories of our time together with our kids.
Making gingerbread houses with the kids before Christmas. Each child gets one and makes their own with their creativity and imagination
One of my favorite traditions is setting up our Christmas village tree!
✨ My favourite holiday tradition is baking cookies 🍪 for Santa Claus 🎅 with my two boys on Christmas Eve. We look forward to it every year! Merry Christmas. 🎅🎄🎁☃️¸¸.•*¨*•♫ 🤶
Hi!
We have a lot of little Christmas traditions; decorating the tree together, advent calendars, Christmas baking (my favourite egg nog cookies), a mandarin orange in the toe of everyone’s stocking, but my favourite tradition is Christmas morning breakfast. We make Christmas morning Wife-saver, which we now call, “Christmas morning Lifesaver.” It’s a recipe you make the night before, and it bakes in the oven Christmas morning, while everyone opens gifts. The recipe has been passed down 4 generations, and we all look forward to it every year.
I love baking Christmas cookies with my family! We listened to Christmas music while doing it too!
You’re Christmas Breakfast sounds fantastic! Cinnamon buns would be perfect!
Each year I bake goodies for days and then give treats to family and friends who don’t bake or not much anyways;I also bring a tray of baking to our model train club and make the guys happy.
We spend Christmas morning at my daughter’s with her family.
Our Christmas tradition is me waking the kids up bright and early, opening our stockings while dad makes coffee then we do gifts. After the chaos we have a huge full English breakfast and too many sausage rolls. We then complain we are too full to enjoy all the fixing of turkey dinner. Every single year!
We follow my family’s German tradition of opening our presents on Christmas Eve. Santa leaves you a stocking for Christmas morning.
Every yeat we have back bacon and cheddar on aa bun for Christmas morning breakfast.
Our family has definitely enjoyed going through the city and checking out Christmas light displays. It has definitely become our yearly tradition. ☺️
Happy holidays!🤶🏻🌲🎅🏻
Ever since I was a little girl, our family has gone for a walk on Christmas Eve to look at all the lights and decorations in the neighbourhood. I carried that tradition on with my kids! It’s something we all look forward to!
It is tradition at our house to play boardgames Christmas Eve.
I buy the grandkids a new ornament for the Christmas tree every year so that when they leave home they have a good start to buying their own Christmas ornaments.
Plus we always drive around the city and look at all the Christmas lights.
Our family tradition is going to Christmas Eve mass then comming home for a late dinner. Then our family watching national Lampoon’s Christmas. We also allove getting a hot chocolate and driving around looking at all the Christmas lights. Also going tobbogin and skating. This year we are really going to miss spending time with our extended family. Bit we have alot to be thankful for.
We too share the tradition of family PJ’s. We always get to open one gift on Christmas Eve. It’s always PJ’s. PJ’s are best when the match!
My favorite Christmas tradition is every year we get a new family ornament as well as individual ornaments for each of the kids, we also get new pajamas every year. We all look forward to it 🙂
We do a Christmas Eve box for our daughter.
It has her annual Christmas Ornament, usually themed to something she has done or likes that year, Christmas PJ’s, a book, game or activity and a snack.
She looks forward to it every year and anticipates what her ornament will be!
We always collect an ornament from our travels during the year and it is the first ornament that gets put on the tree each year. This year we didn’t take any trips, so we got a 2020 Pandemic ornament that got top honours!
Christmas lights go up!
Our Christmas Traditions are making gingerbread houses, baking lots of cookies, Advent Calendars; and also, like you, Christmas PJs with pictures in front of the tree.
For years, a tin of Vienna Sausages can (no pun intended lol) always be found in each stocking.
Every year we turn on all the Christmas lights, and turn out all the regular ones and have a Christmas lit picnic.
Oh I love Christmas so much! 😍
From the traditionnal cooking and baking : French dishes : tourtières, ragoût and a delicious Yule Log cake to advent calendars, grab a hot chocolate and drive around the city to look at beautiful and magical Christmas lights, decorate the tree (real tree – love the smell!) seeing the joy and love in each other’s and feeling it .. so many sparks! ♥️ Relaxing in matching pajamas in front of the fireplace sipping a warm hot cocoa!
Omg! Love all your pics. We like to get Santa pics done of the kids. It’s a way to watch them grow every year
One of my favourite family Christmas traditions is fondue. And I mean full out fondue. Chicken, steak, all kinds of seafood and veggies and cheeses and chocolates and fruits. We go overboard and it’s the bestttt.
Open a present Christmas Eve which is pyjamas
I love the day every year that we decorate the inside of the house for Christmas. We put on our favourite Christmas music, decorate, then watch a Christmas movie together.
Skating at a local outdoor rink, with family and friends, on Christmas Eve is my favourite tradition.
My family favourite tradition is wearing ugly Christmas sweaters.
Our traditions are we open a gift on Christmas Eve that has PJ’s, movie, and snacks for the whole family. On Christmas Day after a wonderful dinner we like to sit on the couch playing trivia games since no one wants to move around too much.
Our Christmas tradition has been getting together with friends and watching Christmas Vacation. Always a fun evening with lots of laughs and home made eggnog.
My daughter and I decorate a gingerbread house every year. Festive and tasty!
I love Christmas Traditions!!! My favourite two are:
1. Hiding the pickle! It’s a German Tradition to hide a pickle in the tree. Traditionally, it was a real pickle and whomever found it got to eat it. Today, it’s an ornament we have. Our kids get to take turns every year hiding it, and then the others get to try to find it! It’s the thing they most look forward to decorating the tree, and it’s such a fun tradition for us.
2. The first year our Elf on the Shelf appeared, he came with a family Christmas Tree ornament! Now the kids look forward to seeing what ornament he is going to bring that they can hang on the tree. Usually it has something to do with the year….so I wonder if this year we will be wearing masks on it! I guess time will tell!
My daughter & I have a few but definitely still doing the drive around to look at everyone’s outdoor Christmas lights, & in some cases, light shows!! We haven’t done the matching pj’s yet but hoping this is the year that we finally do!!
Our favorite Xmas tradition is opening stockings while drinking coffee and Carolans Irish Cream (hot chocolate for the kids).
Those are lovely family traditions. Our favorites would be exchanging one gift on Christmas Eve, decorating the house, decorating the Christmas tree and eating lots of Christmas cookies. My personal favorite is decorating my wheelchair with Christmas lights and decorations to spread Christmas cheer.
My children are all grown up, so a few years ago I stopped buying advent calendars thinking they were getting to old, but my son and daughter were so disappointed the one year I stopped. So now I continue the tradition but geared for adults. And they love it. I’ve also now included their spouse’s. Merry Christmas 🎅
Drive thru lights and watching Polar Express on Christmas Eve.
I love our family traditions of decorating the tree as a family while listening to carols, and decorating cookies.
So many awesome traditions! Growing up Christmas Eve we’d always go to my Grandmas house and there would always be thee best snacks & appetizers and the adults would play cards and cribbage and is kids would play and dance. It always felt so magical and the thought of Santa coming that night was the cherry on top!
Every year for decades; we would go to a beautiful family party. One of my beloved Uncles passed away in the spring. Uncle Leo was one of the first Chiropractors in Canada. He did so much for the field. His brother is one of the first pharmacists . When their Dad first came to Canada. He was a junk peddler.
My favorite family tradition is making magic reindeer food with my granddaughters. They look forward to this every year.
We like our pajamas on Christmas Eve.
Since we left Ireland before our
Children were born and we cannot always be there at Christmas time, Santa drops a Christmas Eve gift
Of pjs to say he will be back
Later – still happens 30 plus years later:) hoho hoho
Decorating the tree listening to holiday music and checking out all the pretty lights in the city!!!
We enjoy decorating the tree baking with my granddaughter Kali and Christmas caroling with family 👪 ❤
Christmas eve with my parents
As I come out of the haze of baby/toddler years with four little boys who are growing faster than I would like, I’ve been trying to create some Christmas traditions for our family. New PJs on Christmas Eve has been happening for a couple years but I’m always scrambling to find comfy jammies i like – at a price I can afford.
Happy to have another suggestion of where to look. These Little Blue House jammies look great! Thank you.
We attend church in an old church near us in the country on Christmas Eve. that has no electricity, it has a wood stove and lanterns.. I doubt if it will be possible this year because it is small.
One of our favourite Christmas traditions is going to a friend’s property to cut down our own tree. It’s always fun to go for a walk in the woods with their kids to pick out a tree.
One of my favourite Christmas family traditions is going for Chinese food on Christmas Eve with the family! We’ve been doing that for over 20 years! Plus it’s delicious 😋
Christmas baking, decorating the tree, decorating outside, and driving around looking at all the beautiful Christmas lights!
Old traditions are great! Like, decorating the tree together as a family. Or just driving through the street’s seeing the pretty light’s-this was one of our most favourite!!
I’ve seen this mention lots of time’s and think it is a great one to start; new jammies for the family! Like em or not, lol.
I love decorating the Christmas tree with my husband and we decorate it with all these different ornaments we love
Our Christmas family tradition has always been baking cookies for Santa on Christmas Eve, followed by hot chocolate. They are allowed to open one present! It is always Christmas pajamas and popcorn! We cuddle up and watch movies together ❤️❤️ Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I love decorating the Christmas tree with my daughter and then my cat Luna sleeps in the Christmas tree lol….that makes us laugh a lot!!!!
I love getting our kids non treat advent calendars and I fill stockings for whoever we celebrate with!
Hosting Christmas dinner and baking a bunch of treats.
We love to go for a drive to see the Christmas lights!
Our family tradition is to put on our matching pjs during Xmas Eve and take a family photo.
We love going to a local tree farm and picking out our tree. We also love baking and decorating Christmas cookies together. As it gets closer to Christmas we pick a night a drive around a look all the Christmas lights.
When the kids were small they would get so excited about Christmas on Christmas Eve that we found it hard to settle them down.
So we started a tradition of on Christmas Eve, we would get into our jammies and watch Miracle on 34th Street. But before we watched it we would have cocoa and the kids could each open one present, designated by us. It settled them down to watch the show while playing with an inexpensive toy they wanted and usually fell asleep with mins of watching.
They are 28 and 29 and we still get excited about our Christmas Eve tradition 🎄🎅🎄