Christmas Eve traditions?

[Cubist]

Chez Cube it's usually a lunch out then onto the panto, followed by midnight mass for me and the kids. This year I'm working so I'll go to midnight wherever I happen to be. Midnight mass at Dewsbury minster was pretty special when I went a year or so ago, so I may engineer things to be over there for the right time. Google tolling the devil's knell.

 

[fimm]

My boyfriend is from Austria. Spending Christmas with his parents & family is different! In Austria Christmas Eve is the "big day". The tree goes up on Christmas Eve, and all the presents go round it. (Small children are kept away while this happens, as in Austria they don't have Santa Claus, it is the Christ Child who brings the tree and the presents (I think I've got that right).) In my b/f's family, we eat Weiner Schnitzel (which I think is traditional). Once the presents are opened, we have a meal of noodle soup and sausages (a poor man's meal) and then go out to midnight mass at a little chuch which is a walk up a mountain path - everyone walks up with torches and lanterns and the service is held in the open air, it is lovely (even though I don't understand a word).

My boyfriend and I have started the tradition of cooking Weiner Schnitzel for my family on Christmas Eve when we go there for Christmas.

 

[ScotiaLass]

My boyfriend is from Austria. Spending Christmas with his parents & family is different! In Austria Christmas Eve is the "big day". The tree goes up on Christmas Eve, and all the presents go round it. (Small children are kept away while this happens, as in Austria they don't have Santa Claus, it is the Christ Child who brings the tree and the presents (I think I've got that right).) In my b/f's family, we eat Weiner Schnitzel (which I think is traditional). Once the presents are opened, we have a meal of noodle soup and sausages (a poor man's meal) and then go out to midnight mass at a little chuch which is a walk up a mountain path - everyone walks up with torches and lanterns and the service is held in the open air, it is lovely (even though I don't understand a word).

My boyfriend and I have started the tradition of cooking Weiner Schnitzel for my family on Christmas Eve when we go there for Christmas.

Sounds fantastic!!

 

[Aperitif]

i watch three dvds.Polar Express first.Tonight it is The Muppets Christmas Carol.Christmas Eve,Mr Alastair Sim as the most wonderful Scrooge,and it's in black and white.

I'm sure this post has been shown before!

 

[stephec]

My boyfriend is from Austria. Spending Christmas with his parents & family is different! In Austria Christmas Eve is the "big day". The tree goes up on Christmas Eve, and all the presents go round it. (Small children are kept away while this happens, as in Austria they don't have Santa Claus, it is the Christ Child who brings the tree and the presents (I think I've got that right).) In my b/f's family, we eat Weiner Schnitzel (which I think is traditional). Once the presents are opened, we have a meal of noodle soup and sausages (a poor man's meal) and then go out to midnight mass at a little chuch which is a walk up a mountain path - everyone walks up with torches and lanterns and the service is held in the open air, it is lovely (even though I don't understand a word).

My boyfriend and I have started the tradition of cooking Weiner Schnitzel for my family on Christmas Eve when we go there for Christmas.

Weiner Schnitzel, food of the gods!

I've just spent a week near Hanover for work and had to eat it about three times.

 

[Salad Dodger]

Mrs Salad will cook a piece of ham during the day, so the whole house will have a lovely smell of cooking.

In the afternoon, she will watch a Christmas DVD (one of the 28 or so in her collection).

Our daughter will arrive around 7pm, and we will have ham, egg and chips for tea. It's a family ritual, and our daughter was most determined that, just because we have moved house this year, and have changed our Christmas Day plans from "the usual", that the Christmas Eve meal should remain unaltered.....

 

[pplpilot]

We like to get together as a family, stand one leg in a circle and hop anti-clockwise whilst chanting "ribbit ribbit"...

... after that we all settle down to a lunch of Weetabix with no milk.

Nutter...
Weetabix with no milk, thats just mental.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Family night in with a takeaway curry and either Bad Santa or Nightmare before Christmas on DVD.

 

[Julia9054]

We have a party.
My sons both sing in the local church choir. They do nine lessons and carols at 7pm then the choir, local brass band and various heathen hangers on come back to ours for curry and beer. Then they all wobble back down the hill again (apart from the heathens) and sing midnight mass. Some of them then come back for more beer and the lads are up again for 10am the next morning for the Christmas Day service!
Gets me out of having to go to church as I have to cook curry and clear up!

 

[Dave 123]

I am booked into a 7.30am spinning class, and so is my 18 yo son ( I haven't told him yet......

It is my works do tonight.

None of this is tradition , yet.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

We tend to have a baked Camembert and a f*ckload of alcohol. No church, no family if we can help it, no visitors. Bliss

 

[nickyboy]

Watch some junk shows on TV and have a takeaway. Bored with Indian or Chinese so this year we're going to try Sri Lankan. No idea about Sri Lankan food, will report back.
Goodness knows what prompted a Sri Lankan restaurant to rock up in Glossop

 

[Fnaar]

Our most enduring tradition is to still be wrapping the kids' presents at 1am, and me moaning about wrapping the kids' presents at 1-flipping-a-bloody-m-a-bloody-gain

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

Our most enduring tradition is to still be wrapping the kids' presents at 1am, and me moaning about wrapping the kids' presents at 1-flipping-a-bloody-m-a-bloody-gain

I used to love doing this when I lived at home and made my mum save all the wrapping for me. There's such a large age gap between me and the weans that I'd be hideously hungover while they unwrapped their presents and wanged on about what Santa brought.

 

[screenman]

I have had a few drinks this afternoon and have just realised it is not Xmas eve.