December 13: Nativity

This really made laugh ! Very interesting. We have one tradition. We don’t put baby Hesus in the Nativity until the 24 at midnight. Before place the baby in the manger, we sing lullabies and pass the little baby and give him a kiss. For this, we put baby on a little blanket , surrounded by candy called “colasion”. After we are done singing, the baby is placed on the manger.

No curses or weird things at my house, we always had a tree gift which was opened at dusk on Christmas day, I passed this tradition on to my family, this was something that was done by my great grandparents.

When my son was very little we went to my husbands sisters to celebrate. She had this beautiful nativity set on a low table that he couldn’t keep his little hands off of. We were very afraid that he would break it. The next year she still had it, but she had purchased a hard rubber nativity set and my brother-in-law had made a special stable just for him. Now 50 years later, the stable has been repaired several times, but the navitity set still holds a special place and has been played with by all our grandchildren.

No curses or weird traditions. Thanks for sharing the funny video today!

No curses in our house. We don’t have any special traditions and I’m with you that the elf of the shelf is ridiculous. So glad my kids are adults. Thx for your entertaining videos and prizes!

No holiday curses for our family! We got to open one gift on
Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning after
Santa had come.

I don't know if my comment went through, so I'll try again. My family traditions run to homemade treats (candies and cookies primarily).

One thing we did when my children were little was to practice the Dutch tradition on December 6th. On the night of December 5, the kids would leave a shoe outside their bedroom door and 'St. Nicholas' would fill the shoe with candy overnight. We aren't Dutch. Not even a little bit.

My 3 remaining sisters will also get together in early December to bake my late mother's pecan fruitcakes and make batches of Aunt Bill's candy from her old recipes. It keeps us connected with our mom and each other. It's my favorite tradition.

Thank you so much for the video. It was hilarious!!! I made my day.

We don't have any unusual traditions or curses. It was definitely entertaining hearing your nativity story & about the traditions in Spain. Thank you for sharing.

I have an angel in my attic. A friend of my mom gave her to me years ago. She is supposed to hang on the wall. When she was on the wall, it looked like she was flying out of the wall. I think she is a bit creepy. I placed her comfortably in a box and sealed it and put it in the attic. The next year when I was getting my Christmas decorations out of the attic, I had a strange feeling I was being watched. I turned around and the angel had popped out of the box. Before almost falling to my death on the tiny attic stairs, I grabbed a wooden reindeer and smashed her back in the box. I have not been back in the attic. Someone suggested I throw it away. She scares me. I think it would not be in my best interest to toss her out. So she lives in my attic.

I can't call our family Christmas's "boring," but we don't do anything unusual.

When I moved to Hawaii, I did not have any Christmas ornaments. They were all in storage in Indiana. So I took any Christmas card I got, punched a hole in it and hung it up on a dead branch with fairy lights. The sparkier the card the better. They filled the "tree" It became a tangible way I could connect with and know that I was loved across the Mainland. I liked the idea so much I'm still putting my Christmas cards on the dead branch. I've done it for 6 years straight. The first year I decorated pineapples. It was a thing that year! Quirky or not Christmas traditions build connection. Thanks for this post.

We play a game called hide the nutcracker. We have a tiny nutcracker ornament that we take turns hiding in the tree and the person that finds it hides it next.

Growing up, we couldn’t go downstairs until all adults were awake & ready. Fortunately, at our grandmother’s house, there was a mirror across from the stairs, and if it was angled just right, we had a good look into the living room with the tree and Santa’s delivery. Interesting that one every other day of the year, that mirror was never out of place, just on Christmas.

Oh my goodness no! We do not have an unusual tradition or curse - thankfully!!
I do love your sweater and your mom’s nativity scene!!

My dad was the champion of the Charlie Brown tree. He saw something wonderful in those trees. After a few years of tears and crabbiness over the tree mom bought an artificial tree .. Problem solved.

No weird traditions, or curses.
Growing up, we never lived in a house with a fireplace. Mama reassured me that Santa came in through the front door!!

We didn't have any curses. We did have the tradition of hiding the Christmas Pickle in the tree. Whoever found the pickle first got an extra present (usually candy).

Our family Christmas traditions included having oyster stew on Christmas Eve. This came down from my mother’s family in NE Kansas. I still have the recipe and may on occasion make the stew which is delicious but always have to offer an alternative as many do not care for oysters.

We do not have any unusual traditions or curses at our house, but it was certainly fun hearing about others.

luckily no Christmas curses, but my birthday on Christmas eve is not the greatest!

Our family tradition is that Christmas presents cannot be opened until beds are made. Christmas was the only day of the year that mom didn’t make the beds. My dad would offer a dollar to whichever kid had gotten their bed made first to make his.

No holiday curses here

We don’t have anything that fun but we do large advent calendars with small gifts every day.

I guess our holiday curse is that our family doesn’t like to get together for the holidays.

Love your idea of Christmas treats.

I remember Sherry telling the divorce/nativity story. It is good to see a set in person/video....but from afar.

No holiday curses in our family.

Nothing unusual in our family. I did used to get the lifesaver storybook every year in my stocking and that was always something I looked forward to. My husband usually buys me a different set of UNO cards for my stocking every year, so that is fun!

No, nothing unusual for our Christmas.

An unintentional custom occurred frequently when my daughter was young. We had a family Christmas Tree farm in addition to our regular jobs, so we were super busy from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Often we just barely got a tree up at our house and many years we never got any ornaments on it. One year in haste, I purchased a set of 6 large crocheted snowflake ornaments at the pharmacy and that was all that made it on the tree that year. After that year, some years had ornaments some only had snowflakes. My daughter loved the snowflakes so much that she now has them and includes them in her elaborate, over-the-top decorated trees every year. She also loves to tell about the sparsely decorated trees of her youth.