piglet1979
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- Mar 18, 2015
On my moms side, my grandfather is Italian (my great grandparents were the first in the family to come to América) and my grandmother is Hungarian. Surprisingly, I don't think we have any traditions from either. Maybe baking. My grandmother loved to bake. She would make poppyseed rolls, nut rolls and kolachy's. I don't like any of them but I will make Kolachys. The tree always goes up the day after Thanksgiving and we still do this one.
We do bake cookies and this was a big deal when I was a kid. I still make all the cookies and every once in awhile the kids will help. I wanted to be able to bake with my mom every year and we started that traditional and about a year or 2 after she was diagnosis with celiac, so that stopped.
Our gifts are all from Santa. My mom never wrote anything on the gifts. The way we knew whose gifts were whose was by the wrapping paper and where our stockings were laying. I still do this with my kids.
I only ever spent a few hours with my dad's family on Christmas eve (my parents have divorced since I was born). I don't think they had any traditions but I really don't know. We were forced to spend Christmas eve night at my dads one year as it was his weekend. There was a huge issue with this before hand as my sister and didn't want to. Christmas morning consisted of us watching our younger brothers open gifts while we sat their. We were not forced to do that again.
Jeff's family kept things very small. He has a very small family. Growing up it was just his mom and grandmother. He is the one that is really for the Christmas tree going up after Thanksgiving. He is also the one that really gets into the Elf on the Shelf. I hated this thing. We only move it but I would always forget. Even with the kids being 16 and 17 he still brings it out Thanksgiving night and moves it each night. Jeff doesn't talk much about when he was younger so I don't know if they ever had any traditions.
We do bake cookies and this was a big deal when I was a kid. I still make all the cookies and every once in awhile the kids will help. I wanted to be able to bake with my mom every year and we started that traditional and about a year or 2 after she was diagnosis with celiac, so that stopped.
Our gifts are all from Santa. My mom never wrote anything on the gifts. The way we knew whose gifts were whose was by the wrapping paper and where our stockings were laying. I still do this with my kids.
I only ever spent a few hours with my dad's family on Christmas eve (my parents have divorced since I was born). I don't think they had any traditions but I really don't know. We were forced to spend Christmas eve night at my dads one year as it was his weekend. There was a huge issue with this before hand as my sister and didn't want to. Christmas morning consisted of us watching our younger brothers open gifts while we sat their. We were not forced to do that again.
Jeff's family kept things very small. He has a very small family. Growing up it was just his mom and grandmother. He is the one that is really for the Christmas tree going up after Thanksgiving. He is also the one that really gets into the Elf on the Shelf. I hated this thing. We only move it but I would always forget. Even with the kids being 16 and 17 he still brings it out Thanksgiving night and moves it each night. Jeff doesn't talk much about when he was younger so I don't know if they ever had any traditions.