Question of the Day - Wednesday, October 28th, 2025

[casportpony]

Today's question is from @BoundlessLove:

What is a Christmas tradition/s you and your family participate in every year? (More than one answer allowed)

We open presents in the morning and cook a nice meal for dinner.

 

[sourland]

Chinese food on Christmas Eve. Way back in the beginning, the Chinese restaurant was the only restaurant that was open. It's a tradition that our children have continued.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

As generations pass tradition goes with them. HUMBUG!

 

[CCsGarden]

Go to midnight Mass, eat, listen to Christmas carols, spend time with family. Sing and play carols on the violin.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Kids open presents and we eat turkey.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Everyone sits around the living room and Papa (my dad) reads
Luke 2:1-19.
We have others, but this is the dearest to my heart.
When I was much younger, my dad would take us to the nursing home on Christmas Eve to visit and sing carols with the patients.

 

[FrostRanger]

As generations pass tradition goes with them. HUMBUG!

Same, my tradition is knowing the onslaught of nonstop Christmas music and whatnot is almost over and I can enjoy the rest of my winter in peace

 

[AntiqueB]

We have non-meat Christmas Eve dinner, usually some kind of fish and scallops. We also have Christmas wafers (oplatek in Polish) before we eat, with a prayer.

On Christmas, we open presents and they play with them (if you're the kid) or read them (if you're me). The chickens get a special treat, and when we had other pets, they'd get gifts, too. Dinner can be anything; Christmas Eve is the more important day.

Adding: We always have the scrawniest live tree we can find. It gets put up a few days before Christmas and comes down Jan 7.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Not sure what we are going to do this year. In the past I've cooked a mouth- watering standing rib roast, but this year GC has Alpha-GAL, and can't eat meat from mammals. As the kids have gotten older we've kind of phased out the whole tree thing, too. Guess it's time for some new traditions. Maybe we'll put on Christmas music and play board games. We'll see.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Christmas Eve we get together with extended family, have a traditional Norwegian dinner, and read Luke 2 (which I was somehow voted to read last year, and I’m afraid I’ll probably have to every year ). Then we open gifts and enjoy hanging out with family. It’s quite possibly my favorite day out of the entire year