<p>Sterling silver bracelet from Tiffany's is def. favorite. 14kt gold necklace(JCPenney's) and a tennis skirt(Nordstrom) tie for second place. gilmore girls season 1 and 2 on dvd take third and I'll stop at 3rd place. (Spoiled, me? Nah...)</p>
<p>Merry Christmas Everyone!</p>
<p>iPod photo(40GB), new ralph lauren coat with a mittens and scarf set, the first season of will and grace, some other DVDs and CDs and books. I don't think I'll ever be able to top this year.
Happy holidays everyone!</p>
<p>Does anyone have a treasured gift or tradition that has nothing to do with material things?</p>
<p>Traditions
-We go looking at Christmas Lights on houses in the car at night
-Going to Church on Christmas Eve
A Gift
-a handmade card my sister made for me</p>
<p>I got coal.</p>
<p>HTH
Ndbisme</p>
<p>On Christmas Eve we have our private dinner (we used to always have the same thing until I became a vegetarian, now we mix it up), then we watch A Christmas Carol, and then we sit around by the tree, I read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas and we give each other cards and letters then. I also always sleep on the floor under the tree on Christmas Eve and a few nights before (I love it), and in the morning me and my sister make my parents breakfast and serve it to them in bed. I used to go to Midnight Mass with my mom, now I usually read the Gospels before I go to bed. There's also our Father Christmas in a white robe on the tree - my parents have been lifting me to put it on it since I was 2 or 3, and of course the Spanish always give kids coal (fake coal, it's sugar candy and turns your teeth purple if you actually eat it). We usually spend the rest of the night either listening to me play Christmas music on guitar or flute, or singing along to old songs.</p>
<p>I remember we had to write about our family in sixth grade and I wrote about our Christmas Eve traditions because it's the one night we feel like a family. </p>
<p>Christmas Eve is my favourite part - the presents are all there and it's not about what you get, it's about what you know you got for other people and how you hope they'll like them when they open them and how well you know them when you find something that's perfect for them.</p>
<p>"Does anyone have a treasured gift or tradition that has nothing to do with material things?"</p>
<p>Well, my material gift(Tiffany bracelet) came from my sister stationed overseas in Iraq, so it's my favorite because it came from her, moreso than the material value(although that's nice too.) And no, my family doesn't have traditions outside of opening gifts Christmas morning.</p>
<p>a gift certificate to Schoenhof's Foreign Books!! my favorite tradition is definitely staying up with my mom and eating the nine carrots my sister "engraves" with each reindeer's name.</p>
<p>nine carrots? but there's only 8 reindeers...</p>
<p>8 excluding rudolph :)</p>