Anyone have any special Christmas, Hannaka traditions?

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Knothing Your Christmas sounds like really "Something"!
I'm a little bit devilish so I love the idea that you and your brother share what Mom is getting you both.

And per above, about dysfunctional families...watch "The Ref". I should be getting $$$$ for all the promoting I'm doing for this movie!

Here's a recipe for eggnog...

 
I forgot...

This year, I made Abigail's Christmas stocking ( denim with red plaid cuff....trying to be good about reduce, reuse, recycle....used an old pair of jeans that would have gotten tossed), sewed her first Christmas dress (handsew), and will be decorating the tree skirt. We put the handprints of each person in the house and their names on the tree skirt using paint and have each of them sign it. Then we put the year on the tree skirt with fabric paint. :) Good memories.

Got the tree last night. :) Went to Lowe's...good price. $20 for a 6ft tree. :)Going to the tree lot is quite fun...then tonight will be decorating the tree, fire in the fireplace, and hot chocolate. :) (add a nip of alcohol for the adults.... )
 
Cinnabar in the end my kids are happy and we gave everyone something they needed or wanted. When you said devilish it reminded me of the year my brother knew about the 187 piece tool set he was getting. He just did not know my wife and I had wrapped all 187 pieces individually!!!!! Oh what a Christmas that was...... :)
 
For some reason, our family has a history (not sure it's really a tradition) of hiding gifts in order to surprise folks after they think they've finished opening everything.

When I was young, my folks also used creative packaging to either hide or add rattling noises to packages as well as using odd sized boxes, tubes, etc. to confound any guesses as to what lay inside.
 
Bernard said:
For some reason, our family has a history (not sure it's really a tradition) of hiding gifts in order to surprise folks after they think they've finished opening everything.

When I was young, my folks also used creative packaging to either hide or add rattling noises to packages as well as using odd sized boxes, tubes, etc. to confound any guesses as to what lay inside.
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My parents did the same thing. We also used to put something smaller into a box, wrap it, then place it into a bigger box and wrap it, etc etc, until the box was huge, and could barely fit under the tree.

I have also wrapped a present for my sister in nothing but layer upon layer of duct tape, and one for my mom with itty bitty peices of wrappign paper taped and glued to the boxes so she had to figure out which ones came off and which ones didnt!
 
I had an uncle who would wrap everything with newspaper and duct tape (NO scissors allowed) take nearly an hour to unwrap a bloody pair of socks lol
 
Lol

My mother in law likes wrapping the presents like russion nesting dolls...huge box, followed by a smaller box, followed by a smaller box, etc....
 
I love putting up the tree.

We have a Charlie Brown tree that I bought to decorate my husbands hospital room before we were even married. It is really small and pathetic and leans to the left. But it reminds me that we can get through all the hard times life has for us.

Then I love adding the ornaments. Each one represents important events or people in our lives. This reminds me of all the wonderful things life has for us.
 
Bernard, Rae, seizingbeauty, Skillefer Loving tricksters everywhere! I used to wrap presents in brown paper from the post office and attach small ornaments. Very earthy. Almost loved the wrapping as much as the buying!
 
I can't stand wrapping, it always looks like it was done by a kindergarden class. What makes this really funny is that I like to do origami
 
Sheri I've had Charlie Brown trees! The dearest trees, I think. Oh so small and scrawny, indeed. And they do represent, in their charming little way, that anything in life can be surrmounted! I really like that each ornament represented important people and events in your life. Your husband must have been really touched!
 
seizing beauty Oragami! Quite a challege. I'm impressed! How bout forgetting the bows (which are a pain for me) and attach them to the brown paper I love. They would certainly stand out and am sure people would keep them. Absolutely nothing to be thrown away!
 
I almost forgot to change my avatar to what is my PC Christmas tradition.
 
Knothing I love your avatar! Here's to Charlie Brown trees ! And the little things that make such a big difference. And your signature - Linus Van Pelt! That little one says it all....
 
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Funny part about Linus is that my son sounds just like him. My son is 6.
 
Cinnabar That would be Schroeder not Linus. Linus is Lucy's younger brother which oddly enough my 8yr old girl is a lot like her.
 
Oooops! I better watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas"! And get the little characters straight.
So, you've got a little Lucy? A Charlie and a Lucy. Just lovable. Do you remember the little rubbery dolls of Charlie and Lucy? My brother got Charlie and I got Lucy. I don't remember playing with her just that I liked her spunk on TV.
 
Knothing

My absolute favorite! Lucy analyzes Charlie Brown...hum de dum....

 
The Traditional Christmas lunch in Sydney often cooked outside on a barbecue Prawns and aoli, Barramundi with lemongrass and chilli, greek salad and tabouli, potato salad and white wine. italian or lebanese bread with baba ganoush, fruit salad and gelato for desert. To make it a little more authentic people sometimes serve turkey cold, with a mango and coriander dressing, but never hot. Everyone peels the prawns, while grandma gets drunk and rambles on about how hot grandpa was in the 1940's.
My newest family member is Scottish and was kind of shocked last year
a) my grandma is lewd for a 90 yr old b) we don't really eat traditional northern european foods in christmas, and no eggnog etc, we do get the christmas cracker things though. Im actually buying a proper christmas cake for her this year also, so she feels we're "doing it right", and am showing some respect for her scottish christmas traditions. But she'll learn, when its 40 degrees c, seafood,salad,white wine,gelato!
 
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