Share Your Holiday Traditions to Win

   By SheSpeaksTeam  Dec 07, 2011
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There are plenty of signs that the holidays are coming.  The nights get darker earlier, the weather starts to get colder and in some parts of the country it's already snowing. City streets are decorated with lights and garlands and store windows are embossed with snowy scenes.  With Thanksgiving now passed, how do you make the holidays fun and keep the spirit running through the end of the year?

For many of us the holidays is a time when we return to a childhood feeling but there is always opportunity to introduce a new tradition for you and your family.  What do you like to do to make this time of year special?  It's so much fun to go out for coffee or have wine with old friends or perhaps you go ice skating or take winter walk.  If you love crafts or cooking there's such a huge variety of fabulous recipes and projects you can make and thanks to the internet the new and creative ideas for the holidays are endless.  For some of us, making popcorn, kicking back and watching a family movie is the perfect way to spend family time together.

We'd like to hear your favorite, most creative or best loved holiday tradition or a review of your favorite holiday movie.

To be entered to win one of our prizes this week, simply create a review for a holiday movie or share your holiday traditions in the comment section below.  Maybe you'll get some ideas to add to your family favorites this year!

 

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 Prizes:



The All-American Cookie Book by Nancy Baggett


Create-a-treat Gingerbread House


Love Actually (Blu-ray)


Snow by Cynthia Rylant


The Nightmare Before Christmas Collector's Edition (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)


The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition with Blue Eyed North Pole Pixie-Elf

 

The contest starts Dec 7, 2011 and ends Dec 13, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.  Must be a US resident. No purchase necessary.

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Jobers by Jobers | MONTICELLO, IA
Dec 08, 2011

I think the best holiday movie for this time of year is Home Alone. I remember when they used to show it every year around Christmastime when I was a kid. It's a great family movie that's fun for every age.

Atiyya1 by Atiyya1 | WILLOW GROVE, PA
Dec 08, 2011

Our tradition is the week before Christmas we open a stocking stuffer every night and watch a childrens Christmas movie. This is a great feeling for our family togetherness. Also on Christmas morning before opening gifts we read from the bible and make sure the children understand what Christmas is all about.

sundowner2 by sundowner2 | Spring, TX
Dec 08, 2011

We have a few traditions, but the ones I love most, are the baking weekend, where all we do are bake cookies, and other treats to bag up and give, they way how every night from Thanksgiving until January first, I read two Christmas stories at bedtime to my son, and how we will all do a pizza night and watch Merry Christmas Charlie Brown and How The Grinch Stole Christmas together.

linzsnoop by linzsnoop | CROTON HDSN, NY
Dec 08, 2011

Our tradition is driving our now 3 year old son around at night to look at all the lights on the neighbor's homes. I love it. Lights just make me feel so safe and happy, and I love that when my husband comes home from work each night, our son asks when we can look at the lights. It makes for a peaceful end of a usual hectic day!

CeliaHoeft by CeliaHoeft | Stratford, SD
Dec 08, 2011

Every year when we put up the tree we hide a little woven box on the tree somewhere. It either has a little candy in it or a small ornament, all Christmas season we take turns finding it and seeing whats inside... Not sure who in the family started the tradition, but we'll all always remember it!

stef42678 by stef42678 | LAS VEGAS, NV
Dec 08, 2011

My favorite holiday tradition is helping my mom in the kitchen baking her Christmas Fudge, as well as every Christmas Eve we drive around the neighborhood to look at all the lights and decorations and celebrate with some ice cream. My favorite movie for the holidays is White Christmas which is always a tradition to watch for the holidays.

orangetulipgarden by orangetulipgarden | ROLLING MDWS, IL
Dec 08, 2011

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation has got to be one of my favorite Christmas movies - if not THE favorite. There are just too many funny moments to recall from it. I love the silliness of it and how it doesn't really have too many bells and whistles, just plain fun, and captures some of what having family over for the holidays can be like.

Carebare128 by Carebare128 | Biloxi, MS
Dec 08, 2011

Our favorite tradition is to bundle up and go driving around to see all the houses decorated with Christmas lights.Than after a long drive come home to some warm drinks and cookies.Than snuggle up on the couch and watch a Christmas movie together.We just love it.

jbkb1997 by jbkb1997 | NEWARK, DE
Dec 08, 2011

Our Christmas Even tradition is we have a fire out back in our fire pit, have dinner and then watch Christmas movies! Christmas Day we get up and do our presents (our kids are older) then go to our Relatives for brunch.

raintree2 by raintree2 | freesoil, MI
Dec 08, 2011

we have the christmas weasel who comes and lives in the christmas closet to watch the children to make sure they dont peek and when santa comes he takes the christmas weasel home with him he is santas pet and we take care of him while santa is so buzy with christmas but he tells santa if every one has been good we have a wonderful time with this make believe animal with all the kids they are so worried the weasel will call santa and give a bad report i have found food outside the closet door that the kids have left for him it is just the magic of christmas and i wouldnt miss it for the world

DebraA by DebraA | Coventry, CT
Dec 08, 2011

Every year, my mother makes a special breakfast that we alwasy refer to as "Christmas Tree Bread" because it is shaped just like a Christmas tree. I have had that every year for breakfast for as long as I can remember, as have my children who are now teenagers. The tradition now continues with my nephew who is now age 6.

jonboyandemmy by jonboyandemmy | ROANOKE, VA
Dec 08, 2011

A family tradition that has been very special to me is that my parents would buy ornaments for each of us children to have every year for the tree. When it was time to decorate the tree, we always scurried to the large ornament boxes to find ours and hang them with proud delight. All of mine are numbered since my very first Christmas in 1984 which is a beautifully painted blue wooden bell. When I got married and Christmas time came, my parents presented me with a very special box with all of my ornaments in it. Even ones that I made in early grade school that incorporated those ever-so-cheezy school pictures were included, and my husband even has some of the same ones with his picture since we went to the same school. Now our family's Christmas tree is adorned with some very sweet ornaments that cause very dear memories from Christmases gone by. And we have continued this tradition with our 4-year-old son so that one day he will have some special ornaments to start his own tree with.

Tappers37 by Tappers37 | NORTH READING, MA
Dec 08, 2011

Food plays a big role in my childhood memories. My mom would make "mountain cookies" (my great aunt's recipe)....they're called "mountain" because the recipe make a mountain!! They are basically a thin spice cookie. Also, we would make date nut balls (made with dates, rice krispies, walnuts and coconut.) Yummy!

Cropperhopper by Cropperhopper | SHARON, PA
Dec 08, 2011

We always watch "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas", and "Miracle on 34th Street. We just finished putting up the outside holiday lights and decorating inside and the tree. We like to listen to holiday music and burn seasonal candles to get into the holiday mood. We will bake christmas cookies here in the next 2 weeks. Those things are our holiday traditions. We have certain ornaments that are special to us that we make sure go on the tree.

nwgardengirl by nwgardengirl | VANCOUVER, WA
Dec 08, 2011

I love the holidays and I really love the traditions that surround season. Each year adding another or trying something new. My favorite is pretty much everything... Including driving around in the evening with my daughter to see the Christmas Lights and Zoo Lights and Christmas boats, making Cookies and sharing them with family and friends, going to a local farm to cut a tree and having hot cocoa, taking my daughter to donate gifts, listening to non stop holiday music on the radio in the car, eggnog and of course being with family. I can go on and on but i won't .... I am pretty sure you get the idea....