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re: What’s your Christmas Eve/Christmas day tradition?

Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:23 am to
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
128950 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:23 am to
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My in laws have flown up from Louisiana and are staying in our apartment in Manhattan (kill me).



How long are they staying?
Posted by MaHittaMaHitta
Member since May 2014
3182 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:24 am to
We have a small family back in Nola, but our house was always the house that the friends came to. On Christmas night all of my friends and cousins come over and we drink a ton of Budweisers (one cousin only drinks Corona) and the guys play poker. After that we all go to Pat O's and hit the French Quarter. Christmas night is basically like blackout Wednesday before Thanksgiving. I look forward to it every year.
Posted by RedPop4
Santiago de Compostela
Member since Jan 2005
14400 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:27 am to
Busy, busy. Church Musician : play two vigil Masses then to my BIL's house for hors d'ouevres/supper with my SIL's family and our family. (It's just my wife and her brother, and I'm an only...)

Christmas morning, Mass at 7:00 come home, if everyone is up I might make biscuits and we'll open whatever presents we may have for each other (younger son still lives home.) Play 10:30 a.m. Mass, come home for smallish lunch, drop the meatballs in the gravy. Then go to MIL's for big supper and family presents.
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
Member since Sep 2007
21449 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:27 am to
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Grinch floats are lime sherbet and sprite.


Seems like something's missing.
Posted by Brageous
Member since Jul 2008
107724 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:28 am to
It changes for us every year. I'll be with my family and nieces/nephews but no presents that night. Doing a Christmas brunch, then lunch, then relax that night. Finish up the night after Christmas with extended family in town. Around 10-12 kids from 1-11 running around...oh boy.
Posted by jdd48
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2012
22079 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:31 am to
This is the OT isn't it? No one's tradition includes PIIHB?
This post was edited on 12/22/17 at 9:32 am
Posted by jlovel7
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2014
21306 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:31 am to
Brother and I sleep in the same room and watch scarface.
Posted by Hook Em Horns
350000 posts
Member since Sep 2010
15087 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:32 am to
Why do you say that? The sprite and the lime ice cream turns green. I don't know what you are missing here but I've only been making them for 8 years now.
Posted by terd ferguson
Darren Wilson Fan Club President
Member since Aug 2007
108740 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:32 am to
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Watching A Christmas Story a hundred times.


Dat marathon... and nobody better touch the damn remote.
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
128950 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:33 am to
My husband and I are using my recent surgery as an excuse to not have to be out and about all day/night on Christmas Seriously...my mother in law will want us over at their house until 9-10 pm normally.

Going to my parent's house for breakfast Christmas morning then my inlaws at noon.

And because I'm still "recovering from surgery and need my rest" we can leave his parents around 4 or so and just relax at home the rest of the evening
Posted by Hook Em Horns
350000 posts
Member since Sep 2010
15087 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:35 am to
Jesus. Google lime sherbet and sprite. You will see pictures of it.
Posted by glorymanutdtiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2012
3791 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:37 am to
Christmas eve: we cook big indian meal with mutton, chicken dum biryani and puff pastries. Wrap kids gifts.

Christmas Day: kids open presents, have meal with in laws, drink.

Day after christmas: check my bank account and notice a huge dent and drink more
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:43 am to
quote:

How long are they staying?


Too long. They’re dragging my wife out to the ball drop in Times Square on NYE. It’s a tourist trap, I’m not going.
Posted by Tacktheritrix
Wonderland
Member since Jun 2013
1159 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:50 am to
Go to the Casino and gamble until the sun comes up.
Posted by Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Chicago, IL
Member since Nov 2014
6575 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:51 am to
Christmas eve we do a big party at my parents house with aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. We used to draw names from a hat and get a gift for one other person, but as of two years ago the adults are no longer included, just the next generation. Watch Christmas Vacation after everyone leaves.

Christmas day with my parents, sisters and our families. Open presents in the morning, then do a big blowout brunch. Biscuits and gravy, eggs, bacon, sausage, danish, bloody marys, mimosas, etc. We used to always watch the movies we would get as gifts, but no one gets dvds anymore. We usually go to the movie theater Christmas night.
Posted by JEAUXBLEAUX
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
55358 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:52 am to
Christmas Eve Chinese food
Posted by flipper70538
Franklin
Member since May 2009
237 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 9:54 am to
Work
Posted by Modern
Fiddy Men
Member since May 2011
16877 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 10:00 am to
Xmas eve

4pm mass and my parents neighbors always do a huge gumbo.
Posted by Ellis Dee
G-Lane aka Pakistan
Member since Nov 2013
6862 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 10:36 am to
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Times Square on NYE


Aside from North Korea, that has got to be the worst place on Earth to celebrate NYE.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
146683 posts
Posted on 12/22/17 at 11:11 am to
what surgery did you have? hope it went well.
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