Christmas Traditions!!!
 

So everyone has them...what is yours? What would you like to start as a tradition?

Mine are simple..We make sure that we are home so that the kids can wake up in their own beds on Christmas morning. Then we normally go over to the inlaws for a massive lunch and more presents!

One thing I am starting this year b/c our kids are getting to many damn toys! For every new toy they get this year they are to pick one old toy to get rid of. Then we will just drop them off at Goodwill.

So what are your family Christmas traditions?

ditto. it is well known in our family that we go nowhere on xmas eve (evening) or on xmas day. we usually get up before the sun is up and open presents. then i take a shower, start drinking, and start on dinner. usually just a fun day after that.

The wife and I get into a fight over the Christmas dinner preparations because she's an idiot.

I threaten to call the cops for domestic violence on me and send her ass to jail.

She calms down, we have makeup sex, finish making dinner and wait for the guests to show up.

well atleast you have something to look forward to

We spend Christmas Eve night at my wife's paternal grandmother's house, where each person from youngest to oldest opens presents. We usually get there at 6pm and are sometimes lucky enough to be done by about 12:30 or so (there are around 50 people at this). Christmas morning my daughter opens her plethora of presents and then we go to lunch at her maternal grandmother's house and open presents again. We typically see my family later that day or not at all if my mother's refusing to take her prozac again.

Sometimes, if I'm really good and have been nice all year, I'll convince my wife to give me a Christmas Eve blowjob. Since that's the only one I'm getting, I try to relish it, but she prefers peppermint since she says it's more a candy cane than a hot dog.
-SRD

I get dragged to midnight mass with the wife on Christmas eve, after boiling the holy water when I walk in the door I normally get told how much a fucking sinner and failure I am by an old man who's made it his entire life to worship a magician and touch little boys

I then get dragged to my in-laws on Christmas where I normally hide out in a back bedroom and play x-box while they are all cheery and praying, and thankful and holiday spirited which annoys the fuck out of me. Then we eat lasagna (weird I know) and sit there for hours upon hours being forced to watch stupid holiday movies and talk about how god and the church needs to be shoved down our throats because this is not a Hallmark holiday.

I dread the holidays since my mom passed away

i drink copius amounts of vodka and eat chinese food with my jewish friends

I wait for something horrible to happen; someone to die, a trip to the hospital, an exwife steal my dog, police arriving, someone vomiting, precious memories destroyed, any or all of the above.
I pretty much hate the holidays.

Every Christmas morning i wake up to Santa being in my room. He always kinda of smells like bourbon and cheese, and he kinda looks like my uncle (Maybe my Uncle is Santa!). I then always have to earn my presents and last year it was by dancing around in a women's nurse oufit while he films it, he said that he was having some hard times with money and he wanted something he could sell, (not sure who is gonna want a video like that?) Anyway i thought it was funny..............then he touches me :(

i guess we'll start some new ones when the baby comes along. as of right now we go to my grandparents, open presents, and eat ourselves into a stupor.

Wait a minute, you spend Christmas with Pred, dressed as Santa? I don't know whether to be jealous or just wait for the vid to be posted... haha.
-SRD

I'm dressed as Santa's sexy mistress :D

My wife is Mexican. Before I met her, my Christmas' were pretty much like what everyone else described. No any longer. For us, Christmas starts about 7pm Christmas Eve. We have a little food out, but mostly, we get shithoused. I'm sure we should go to Midnight Mass, but we're usually too drunk to find a designated driver. At midnight, everyone opens presents and drinks some more. Most of my nephews on my wife's side drink all morning, the next day and all Christmas night. I can't do that any longer. I pass out about 2am, get up the next day and play Modern Warfare. This year, I should be play Modern Warfare II. I love Christmas.

hahah...that really made me laugh!!!

...and tamales!

damn, i miss california :(

hungover.
kids.
bloody mary's.
food.
football.
nap.
visiting.
wine.
food.
toddies.

WIN! Thats pretty much it! :D

Hells yeah! Nice red tamales drizzled with chili con queso...*sigh*
Good times. :D

and champurrado! :D

This year, my fiance and I are having Christmas stocking for the first time.. both of us have never done this before.. we'll see how it goes.

We always do christmas the same way... (@ my family or hers) eat dinner around 8pm, then we drink, @ midnight we wish each other a merry christmas and open gifts... drink some more, and then go to home.

Every year I watch Charlie Brown Christmas, Grinch, and Rudolph and older versions of A Christmas Carol. I don't know why I still do it, but it's something I remember watching as a child and have done every year since.

Are you sure you meant to say "Stocking" and not dinner??

mmmm.. yeah, stockings... you know the big long sock.
We're buying little gifts for each other... in our families (latinos) is not a tradition.

Yeah if you give anyone in my family a stocking they'll ask you what size it is and why you only gave them one.:D :D lol

I can see it now.

LOL....:D

No its more like...

What the hell is this? What am I supposed to do with it? Do I wear it? Wheres the other one? Thats screwed up Prima...if youre gonna give me a gift at least give me the pair gacha. :D

Fuck there are a lot of depressing people on this board. Mad Max II is on. It's much more uplifting.

Fuck you! Does this look like the Random Thoughts thread?
And Merry Christmas you fuck.
Here's a tradition for you; wake up Christmas morning, make a nice cup of cocoa and

When my parents were alive we'd have all (or most) of my brothers and sisters over with all their kids. I'm the next youngest of 11, and an oops.:eek: Closest brother's 11 years older. So, basically, it'd be about 50-60 people throughout the day. House decked to the nines. Huge fun party. These days, the in-laws come over, Mom-in-law takes over cooking, food gets ruined, we all fight and I end up in the basement drinking my Christmas dinner. Fun times.

Take it easy, Fish. He obviously found Pred's meds while Pred was teaching him how to play hide the tire iron.

fallin' mormon or what, jebediah? ;)
that, or daddy was slow on the draw :eek:

+1 on the inevitable disappointment of in-laws though. When I was younger it was kind of like a daredevil stunt - what will set it off? who will get trashed and spill the deep dark secrets? who resents who for god knows what? - but I'm too tired for that shit now. Rather spend it with close family and shallower friends & neighbors. Laugh, play games, what it's supposed to be. Blood & marriage ties are overrated.

In my family you get a bottle of your favorite alcohol under your stocking (so I always get a bottle of good tequila)... this goes for immediate family as well as any friends/boyfriends my sister and/or I have visiting for xmas. Needless to say we always have friends who want to come to our house for the holidays.

And cinnamon rolls get hand-made xmas morning as well. And we play games during the day, and my parents try to get everyone druink and all in all it's chill and pretty fun. :D

chilli on christmas eve.

Couple things.

Carajas, if you want to pass as a legal US citizen, you have to understand that you hang the stockings from the fireplace mantle and put small gifts "inside" the Christmas stockings.

Cellany, I'll be knocking on your door posing as a stranded motorist on Christmas. I'm just looking for some free booze and weed but you'll know it's me because I'll be the one in the Julia Roberts "Pretty Woman" hooker outfit complete with the peroxide blonde wig and thigh-high boots.

d_b_99- Lurk much????

Me too. We moved from LA to Georgia. But, a lot of my wife's family moved out here too. Tough to get rid of Messicans. I think I love her family more than my own though. They will put a party together at the drop of the hat. Don't really like tamales though, I like sincronizadas. It's carne asada between two tortillas and smothered in cheese. With that dark red chili that can take the paint off a car.

Carajas, my wife really wasn't into the whole stocking thing until she found a pair of diamond earrings in hers. Now those are the first decoration to go up. ;)

and the shits on christmas morning?

My first wife was a Mestiza, and we always went down into Ciudad Juarez to see her abuela, where we would start drinking rum and cokes and good mexican cervezas about 6pm. Presents would start being opened around midnight, with demands that any clothing items be put on immediately. One of her uncles liked to play guitar, so I'd generally end up on the front porch with him, he'd strum and I'd sing CCR tunes while he vocalized (he didn't speak any english, but his phonetic attempts were pretty damned good) until someone inside caught us and my wife would tell me to come inside and stop making the coyotes howl.

-SRD

One more that I forgot is at my dads house the movie The Christmas Story is always on when TNT plays it for 24 hours straight!

You'll shoot your eye out, Ralphie! That movie was a classic, the sequel sucked ass though. I typically will try to watch that and the Charlie Brown Christmas Special if I can catch it on the DVR.
-SRD