Can you share your Christmas Eve traditions?

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Movies, snacks, dinner, anything fun you do with your family and friends!

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Growing up we always cracked and ate nuts on Christmas Eve after going to church. I try to keep that up now with my husband because it's one of my fond memories of my grandpa.

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Christmas Eve, we go to my Husband’s side of the family and eat and let the kiddos open gifts. We do that early, usually from 11-1. I get the kids Christmas jammies every year to open up on Christmas Eve. My husband and I make our famous “heart attach chili” (sorry if this offends anyone, it’s just the name I gave it many years ago because of all the crap we add to it), while we listen to Christmas music and have a few drinks..All Christmas lights burn all night long on Christmas Eve. We watch a few good Christmas movies, let the kids sing Christmas songs, have some cocoa or apple cider, just spend some good quality time together. Cookies and milk are left for Santa. My husband and I usually spend a little alone time together after the kids are asleep because it doesn’t happen too often, and then before we know it, it’s Christmas morning..🎄

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Came across this the other day and thought it sounded like pure heaven! 
Jolabokaflod I think it's called, they exchange books and then spend the rest of the night in bed reading and eating chocolate 😍

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My kids have Christmas Eve boxes that have little Christmas colouring books, reindeer food, santas magic key, a little game, some sweets, some chocolate& pjs and then we watch a movie and go to bed play a game usually angry birds on my phone then they go to sleep.

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Growing up, we always went to the Christmas Eve service at church, which I loved. There was something so lovely about singing Silent Night at the end of the service with everyone's candles lit. Before the pandemic, my husband and I always went to a midnight service wherever we could find one. Then we would read the Gospel accounts of Jesus' birth at home and sing some Christmas Carols. That's still the focus for us and we do our Advent readings before bed.

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Our one tradition that we always stick to is opening one gift before bed on Christmas Eve. It’s always Christmas pajamas.

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Christmas eve the kids get a box and the box always has the same items inside
-the night before Christmas book
-matching pjs
-a small toy, like 5$ or less small
-Reindeer food
-Santa's cookie plate and a mug
-Slippers
This year I want to start a tradition of having fried chicken for supper. We look at lights and watch movies, the kids say good bye to the elves. Then when we're ready for bed after Santa's been we put wrapping paper at the end of our hall so our oldest can't get up and peek at the presents.

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I’ve never gone a Christmas without having Christmas Eve here. We bought my gram’s house and growing up we’d get together here with my aunts, uncles, and cousins. We’d go to midnight mass after. Then, we’d go to my aunt’s house for an after party. Now, we host everyone and do the same. This year we may not because our baby wants to be in bed by 7 every night and I don’t think we’ll do mass and my aunts house.

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When I was growing up we always attended Christmas Eve Mass & went out for Chinese food for dinner. Once I met my husband things have had to be more flexible as he has a son from his previous marriage who sometimes isn’t w/ us on Christmas Eve, also my husband’s family lives in South Carolina & we’re in Washington State so sometimes we continue the tradition w/ my family sometimes we don’t. This year we’re actually celebrating w/ my family today (ordering in Chinese food) & then on Wednesday we fly down south to spend Christmas Eve & Christmas w/ my in laws, it’s been 3 years since we’ve gone down there so it will be nice for my daughter & stepson to see their Aunts & cousins. I don’t remember any specific Christmas Eve traditions that they do, I think my mother in law always gives new PJs but I can’t remember if that’s Christmas Eve or Christmas morning.

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Christmas Eve is the day we put our tree up. We harvest it in the morning, pull out the ornaments, and decorate it in the evening. I always took my grandma to midnight mass and will probably continue that tradition this year even though she’s longer with us. My dad reads “The Cajun night before Christmas” in a heavy southern accent. We drink spiked eggnog. That’s about it.

Can you share your Christmas Eve traditions?

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