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Family Holiday Traditions - What are yours? (lemmy.world)

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Hearing about other people's traditions is often interesting. When my wife and I got married we decided to start a Christmas Eve tradition where we'd pick a country and plan out a dinner consisting of items from it. We're making sure we've got the necessary ingredients for this year's meal and it brought to mind how comforting and fun family traditions can be.

So what does your family do this time of year (or any time of the year) that you look forward to and helps make the holiday feel like the holiday for you?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The reasons are different (people moving away and spreading out) but I kinda feel this. My childhood was a Christmas Eve bake potato bar and pies over at someone's house filled to the brim with relatives with a gift exchange. It is part of why my my wife and I created the Christmas Eve dinner when we got married. I moved across the country and away from my side of the family her family didn't really have much in the way of traditions so we decided to start one. I look forward to what we call out 'International' Christmas Eve every year but it definitely isn't the same at this point (13 years) it feels like Christmas but it definitely doesn't feel like the Christmases of my childhood.