I know I am! If you’re a procrastinator too and are looking for some holiday card goodness, enter Rebecca from The Pink Orange. She’s giving away two boxes of her letterpress holiday notecards to one lucky reader!
For your chance to win, simply comment below with your favorite holiday tradition. Winner chooses style of cards from her collection and will receive two boxes of 6 cards. We’ll close the contest and choose our winner Thursday 12/10 at 5pm central, so good luck!
Update: congrats to our winner, Jen!
Twitter: @josephandjaime
I love wearing the Christmas cracker crowns at dinner on the 25th!
cute cards! I have last minute tendencies myself… as far as favorite traditions, it’s hard to pick just one. But one of mine is a newer tradition- exchanging Christmas stockings with my husband in our condo, a couple days before the 25th – before all the traveling/family craziness :)
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Twitter: @sillylittle
Our tradition is to go to our friend’s house Christmas Day. Those of us without local family gather for a huge feast, exchange presents through a white elephant exchange, and play games. Always fun, never stressful!
i guess i am literally a last-minute lucy!
my favorite holiday tradition is to make mulled cider!
My favorite tradition is sitting around the tree on Christmas Eve with my family and singing carols.
Twitter: @kimrally
My favorite tradition with my husband is doing our gift exchange a few days early because we’re too excited to wait to share our presents!!!
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Our extended family always gets together for a series of card playing tournaments in the week after Christmas
Twitter: @karen_g
Our office closes for a week between Christmas and New Year’s, so my fiance and I always make it our winter vacation. Best tradition ever.
This year we’re headed to Raleigh-Durham and plan to stuff our faces on beer and barbecue until we have to be rolled back onto the plane.
A tradition we started two Christmas’ ago in our first home….Waking up on Christmas Eve morn, popping my mom’s recipe for “Company French Toast” in the oven, and exchanging gifts with my hubby. With a little one this year, the tradition will be even sweeter.
My new favorite tradition is that my husband and I write each other cards for Christmas and save them for the next year. So basically, we open last year’s card instead of this year’s card. We’re odd. And also, it started haphazardly because we just forgot them at home…
My growing up favorite tradition is eating my Mom’s monkey bread first thing Christmas morning. YUM.
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Twitter: @gwynethpaige
What a great giveaway!
My favourite tradition, hands down, is making sugar butter cookies on Festivus each year. Every year my dad (who has recently passed) would make the dough around the 21st and on the 23rd we (my mom, sister and I) would gather round the kitchen island covered in powered sugar, with Christmas music playing as loud as we could stand it in the living room and together cut out and bake Christmas cookies. The next morning my sister and I would frost (and taste test) them before bringing them to our annual Christmas Eve get together.
Now since my dad has passed away, I’ve continued the tradition in my own family. My son is only two and doesn’t remember helping cut cookies out last year, but this year he’s excited any time I bake so I really think he will enjoy this nearly 30 year old family tradition of his mama’s.
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My favorite tradition is setting up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. We have hot cocoa and bring up all the decorations. I can’t wait to continue this tradition, and make new ones, now that we are a family and when our family grows. :)
Twitter: @purelyelegant
My favorite christmas tradtion is getting together the first weekend after Thanksgiving with my sisters, mom and grandmother and baking merrily for the whole weekend! We make 25+ different recipes and like to try out at least one new recipe each year, either one dug out of the old family archive of recipes or something new we saw in a cookbook (or blog). To me its the first sign that Christmas is on it’s way!
My favorite tradition is gathering with my in-laws and extended family and friends on Christmas Eve for a big Italian dinner, and then going to Midnight Mass.
Twitter: @Just1Week
I don’t know how to choose – maybe our annual dessert party where I make 40 dozen desserts, or maybe our fondu xmas dinner with my family, or maybe watching It’s A Wonderful Life with my husband every year… I love that the holidays are full of traditions!
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What gorgeous cards! My favorite tradition is Christmas breakfast. It’s full of special foods I don’t get the rest of the year, and I always enjoy it way more than Christmas dinner (and perhaps use that as an excuse for a little breakfast pig-out on sausage pinwheels and homemade scones…). For the first time I’ll be having Christmas with my husband’s family this year, and that’s the tradition I’m most afraid of losing! We’ll see if I can carry it over.
Twitter: @emilyj82
Every year my extended family celebrates a progressive Christmas Eve. We’re fortunate enough to all live within about 20 miles of each other, and so we take advantage of our proximity over the holidays. Each house hosts one course of the progressive dinner — from appetizers like cheese balls and steamed shrimp to desserts like homemade sugar cookies and chocolate cakes. It’s a wonderful tradition that I look forward to every year!
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