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My Favorite Christmas Traditions

As Christmas is quickly approaching, I wanted to share a few of my favorite Christmas traditions

Eve Burroughs
Dec 23, 2016
Truett-McConnell College
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My Favorite Christmas Traditions
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1. Decorating the Christmas tree

What’s Christmas without decorating the Christmas tree? Some years, we will go to the tree farm and cut down a live tree and other years we just use our fake tree. Either way, my favorite part is decorating it. My sister, mom and I always decorate the tree together. We decorate it differently every year. The best part is getting the look through our old ornaments that we made as children.

2. Decorating Cookies

Every year since we were little children, all of my cousins decorate cookies for Santa together. My aunt always prepares just about every color of icing and many shapes of cookies. As we have gotten older we have still continued this tradition and now we get to carry it on to our younger cousins who enjoy it just as much as I still do.

3. Christmas Eve Service

Every Christmas Eve, my family attends my churches Christmas Eve service this is a very special service. They preach about the birth of Jesus and at the end of the service we always go down each row lighting each other’s candles and sing silent night. It is a beautiful service and it is my favorite Christmas Eve tradition.

4. Christmas Breakfast

After opening presents and cleaning up, my family comes over. My sister and I get to show off what Santa brought us and then we enjoy the breakfast that my parents make. My dad always makes his breakfast casserole during this time. Then, we later go to my grandparent’s house for lunch.

5. Reading the Bible

Every year my family gathers in the living room and my dad will read the story of Jesus’ birth out of the bible before going to bed. There has not been a year that we have skipped out on this. It is a great reminder of what Christmas is truly about. This is a tradition I plan to carry out with my children one day.

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