Happy first day of the 3rd annual 12 Days of Chriselle!
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The holidays have become more and more meaningful as Chloe has gotten older. She really understands what the holidays are about and, to my surprise, she even remembers what we did for the holidays last year which means the world to me because I’ve been trying my hardest to put an emphasis on traditions since Chloe was born. So to know that she remembers some of the fun things we did last year and has been asking to do them again makes me so incredibly happy!
Last year, we had a full on mommy and me day. We painted our nails, baked cookies for Santa, and decorated the tree together! When she came home to see the Christmas tree a week or so ago, she got SO excited that Christmastime was here. One of Chloe’s favorite things to do with me is to get ready and paint her nails. I rarely let her do it, so when I do, she knows it’s something special.
So, of course, I wanted to keep up those traditions with Chloe so that one day Colette can join us!
For the first day of the 12 Days of Chriselle, we teamed up with a favorite of mine, Essie! Their new Gel Couture set is actually a lifesaver. I don’t always have time to get my nails done, and I’m the kind of person who will leave the salon and instantly get a chip or two (surprise, surprise) so this Gel Couture means I can skip the salon, save time and money, and get the same great results like a gel manicure at home! Chloe is a little too young to do gels, so I liked that this polish uses a gel top-coat as opposed to a light to set it!
Not to mention these shades are to die for. I went a little outside of my comfort zone and went for a beautiful caramel brown color called ‘of corset’. It’s like a little darker version of a nude polish, actually matches and goes with everything I wear, and I’m totally into it!
Chloe went for two different colors: pink and sparkles!! She chose the shades ‘bodice goddess‘ and ‘lace is more.’ She was so giddy when I was painting her nails and like I said, I don’t paint Chloe’s nails often, but when I do I’m always afraid she won’t sit still enough for them to dry and end up getting the polish all over herself or the house! Luckily, the top coat was surprisingly quick drying so I didn’t have to worry about a thing, and there’s no base coat needed so she didn’t have to sit too long!
After we finish our first holiday tradition of painting our nails (and make sure they’re totally dry) we make cookies! She gets so excited about baking cookies together for Santa because she thinks more cookies = more presents! She also ends up eating a lot of them herself so we end up having to make a couple of batches…
Other family traditions we started to do together were to write a letter to Santa, read a Christmas book (her favorite right now is The Night Before Christmas) and of course, decorate the tree! I let Chloe pick out all her own ornaments this year to decorate- and let me tell you – this little girl loves her sparkles!
I can’t wait for Colette to be old enough to join in our mommy and me holiday traditions! Perhaps we’ll have some new ones with her once she’s old enough!
Thanks to our partnership with Essie, we were able to make a generous donation to Baby2Baby!
To give yourself (or someone else) the gift of an at-home gel manicure, Essie is giving away two of the GelCouture sets to two lucky readers!
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holidays are so special! love bundling up to go look at lights with peppermint cocoa in hand!
Holiday season means Christmas carols for me! Ig: questionmarkyee
@jw649. Taking our annual family Christmas photos.
Going out and dancing in snowy streets! @misperlasdemoda
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My favorite holiday tradition is bake so much! As a family we love eat ginger cookies, cinnmon rolls and add every year new recipes!
Ig: josehabit
My favorite holiday tradition is setting up the Christmas tree with my family. My sister likes to bake festive cookies, we make coffee, and our family will sit by the tree and talk for hours. ❤️ (Ig: @alisayso)
Church on Christmas Day! @phollowmethere
my favorite holiday tradition is secret Santa (ig: teragramnil)
Secret Santa for sure! Instagram @seanrconn
Baking cookies with my sister and mom every first week in December. IG: @bristaff
Singing carols by the fireplace on Christmas Eve. @alinapicazo
My favorite holiday tradition is playing board games while watching Christmas-y movies with the family! IG: teefee718
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the house and the Christmas tree with my brother when we come back to our parents home, while listening to Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas albums. IG handle: @tempetesousuncrane
My favourite holiday tradition is having Christmas dinner with friends and family. (IG: @edwiiiiiiiina)
Love watching home alone 1 AND 2 every year @me0w0r
Baking shortbread cookies! IG: vickyschips
My favorite tradition is waking up early in the morning and going to prayer and seeing everyone there!! I also LOVE our eid brunch which never fails the tastiness test 😋 @z_enah
My favorite holiday tradition is playing white elephant with my friends! I look forward to everyone’s creative gag gift every year. IG: lilaaxp
My favorite tradition is to cook with my mom the Christmas lunch! But unfortunately this year, I cannot come back home for holidays 🙁 @floriana_anselmucci
Walking around candycane lane looking at all the lights and drinking my favorite chestnut praline latte @sangggg
My favorite holiday tradition is easily decorating the Christmas tree with my family. I have vivid and fond memories of dancing along to Christmas music, sipping hot cocoa, and stringing lights and ornaments on the tree with my parents and brother. I don’t live at home anymore, but I still make my way to my parents’ home every Christmas season to keep up this tradition.
Instagram: @olivianevelyn
@viakrystal
My favorite holiday tradition is to have a gathering with friends who are all scattered in different states. We try to make an effort to be in company annually since it’s hard for everyone to get together. We like to mix it up by attending an event, a potluck with games, or go on a quick travel somewhere not too far.
My favorite tradition is going to Vietnamese Mass on Christmas Day. We go once a year and even though I do not understand the language well, I love seeing my family and friends. After mass, there is a pot luck and we get to enjoy the most delicious Vietnamese food. It is the best!
@kimferraro
My fav tradition is gag gift secret Santa with my friend group of 25, it’s so funny to see what “useful” gifts we get for one another 😆 insta: @brittneykitty
My favourite tradition is building a gingerbread house!
IG: looeen
@caitlinmay16
My favorite holiday tradition is having my family do a handmade version of secret Santa. It challenges everyone’s creativity and it’s so fun to see what everyone can make themselves!
@kayleighoh
My tradition is to watch the beavis and butthead Christmas special every Christmas Eve! Its so fun and funny.
My favourite tradition is definetly watching holiday movies!! Love actually, how classic! Insta: JoanieCh 🎅🏼🤶🏼🎄🎄
My favorite holiday tradition is how all my cousins and I (twenty + people!) all have a themed Christmas party and get really into it every year and we decorate our own “costumes”! Insta: dailyshinanigans
My fav tradition is watching “How the grinch stole Christmas” with the family ❤️ Insta: @diianaferreira
My favorite tradition is new pajamas wrapped on the hearth every Christmas Eve
I love the photos! My favourite tradition is the Christmas tree decoration, of course, along with the baking of cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is our annual secret santa gift exchange with my cousins. We gather together to bake, cook and exchange funny stories about our silly dogs. @teelonng
Eating my mom’s holiday bread and spending time with the entire family ! @jackieewong
My favorite tradition would be the big Christmas celebration with my family. With 3 brothers and 3 sisters all married with kids it is hard to find time to get together but it always happens this day of the year. And we make a good time of it playing silly games, eating, drinking, and white elephant. And we always end it it with a big family photo of 23 around the tree. @delectabledecor
I really love cooking with my mom and preparing the tree while listening to Christmas songs!! 🌲🌌
@_mary_gre_
My favorite holiday tradition is baking a cake. I like to try new recipes each year 🙂 @tealovingliz
I love baking gingerbread from scratch and when they are done I love eating them of course! 😀
@iamsenni
My favorite holiday tradition is choosing a color theme for the year by putting up the Xmas tree with my loved ones and not to forget the gift exchange, so we will pick a special present for the loved ones. IG handle: @itssaltandpepper
My favorite holiday tradition is traveling
My favorite holiday tradition is picking out presents for the family! It is fun to customize gifts for loved ones, wrap them with care, and put them under the tree! ♥️ Love looking through gift guides for inspiration! (@angindnvr)
Every year we make rounds to mutiple family homes to visit, eat and exchange gifts. It’s fun to see all the different Christmas decorations! (@lil_bittiy_ditties)
Cooking has to be my favorite holiday tradition. What better way to bring each everyone together? ♥️ Always family, friends and food. The best recipe for great memories.
(@barestilettos)
There’s this neighborhood in my hometown decorated with elaborate Christmas lights. My friends and I would drink hot chocolate and walk around looking at the lights on Christmas Eve. ✨
IG cindypeonies
I love sitting in the living room with my pajamas and talking to my family about what we are thankful for and what we look forward to in the new year. (@the.a.league)
I love making my annual xmas chocolates for all my friends and family! <3
(@lov3stia)
My family and i always get together during the holidays, even though we live in different countries. We’ve never spent a Christmas/New Years apart. We wear matching PJs for Christmas and usually eat Asian food throughout the holidays. It’s amazing to have everyone so close together. @vnssgunawan.
Going to the beach (we live in Melbourne, Australia) and a seafood lunch with family and friends! @bluedepths
Making princess donuts with my grandma, can’t wait for this year’s makin’ and bakin’! @mijaumew
Our entire family favourite holiday tradition is going to the family picnic every year because this helps us to get together after a year busy schedules. And chloe’s choices are so good. My fav-trendsetter rn.
@glimpseglancegleam
I love spending time with the entire family, and enjoying all the happy moments we have together! We never know when is the last day someone is going to be here, so cherish every moment that we have left together! insta: @mich.chn
I love watching Christmas movies and listening to holiday music while putting up the tree. 🎄 IG @jess.sung
@catalina_dcg
My father dresses up as Santa for old people affected by dementia and after that, he always comes home and pretends to be Santa for us as well. It reminds us of our childhood and brings back a little magic in our home
I love having Christmas exchange wi https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/7d753f2d3af000789f8372cab07fdc8e69a73c901feb06226bafc6e520a46259.jpg th my family. After my sister got married and moved out, it’s hard to get everyone together. We celebrate the holiday over a home cooked meal and open gifts at the end of the night— doggies included!
Ig: @kellyte
My favorite tradition is going caroling with my friends on Christmas Eve. Even if we’re older now we still do it. @ioana.onisor
@pamela.mixon.esq
Our family loves to go out and choose the biggest most fragrant Christmas tree ever!
@christina.manolesaki
Me and my mom we go shopping for the family, bake all the goodies and prepare the festival table. We also have mani and peni together the week before
Catching up with high school friends, decorating the house, and seeing all of the Christmas lights around the neighborhood <3 IG: @leashe_
Christmas 🎄 decorations with my sis, baking pumpkin bread and cinnamon rolls, and listen to Christmas music everyday 💕😌☕️👌🏼👩🏻🍳IG: noodleandchili
Getting together with all my cousins to eat and catch up. IG: addicted2choco
My favourite Christmas tradition: on Christmas eve morning the whole family go to the cementary were we put candles on my grandparents grave in order to remember those we love and miss 🎅❤ @edlundm
My favorite holiday tradition is the exchange of gift and decorating the Christmas tree with the family.
@tracy.wfw
Watching Christmas movies
@lunatranmoon
Traveling to Mexico to see my family whom I haven’t seen in a long time. We’ve been going almost every Christmas since I was baby so for almost 30 years now! @veevee_and
My favorite holiday tradition is watching Home Alone and all sorts of 90’s Xmas movies.
IG: aesthleete
my favorite holiday tradition is cooking with my mom @einatbast
My favorite holiday tradition: buying or making the presents and seeing the joy that my family get when they open their presents! IG handle: @amukidoll
My favourite holiday tradition is simply spending the whole day doing nothing with those I love before getting ready for a festive holiday dinner with the extended family!!! ✨✨✨💕💕💕
IG: jar_of_faith
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My favorite holiday tradition is getting the whole family together, bundling up in our warm coats, sipping hot chocolate, and driving around to look at Christmas lights. Especially as my siblings and I get older, it’s so nice to be able to spend quality time together!
IG: nerdinredheels
I dont do much Christmas traditions, but one that I do is to celebrate it with close friends and exchange gifts 🎁!
IG: LaveLwong
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking with my father, who is a retired chef. I love that I get to learn his recipes, and that I can then pass them along to my future children!
IG: mint.milano
My favorite tradition is big family dinner. Everyone is so busy during the year, it’s nice to get together and enjoy the moment.
IG: thatshott264
My favorite tradition is decorating the house and trimming the tree with my whole family while playing Christmas music in the background and sipping on hot chocolate with marshmallows as we do it. As the years go on, we’ve made a point to all come home and decorate, including my husband. This year, the newest and youngest member of my family will get to enjoy the tradition as well. I know my baby will not remember the activities this year, but the rest of us will. IG maryn1111
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas karaoke (like caroling but a million times better haha) and making sugar cookies! IG: @emily.dunphy
My favorite tradition has to be a huge holiday feast with the fam! We enjoy decoration the house too! IG : @choesque
During Christmas, our family members each get a gift to put around the tree and when I t’s time, we play white elephant! We basically raffle numbers and that chooses the order in which someone picks the present. Once it starts, you can either choose a present or steal someone else’s. For each present, there is three chances to steal it. We do this every year and it’s super fun! (Ig: anguyen235)
Insta: evee_vang
A favorite holiday tradition is creating our own family Christmas tree ornament so we can yearly see memories for the year. It consists an empty ornament that we paint, add confetti or papers and especially pictures. We hang them on the tree and poof end of year memories.
My favorite holiday tradition is baking holiday treats and doing cookie exchanges! 🍪 ig: christine.is.hungry
Christmas money tree. We go over to my grandma’s house and there’s a tree with envelopes with everyone’s name on it with a prayer/blessing and some cash. Ig: junejchang
One of my fave family traditions is getting together for dim sum on Christmas day and going to the movies.
Cheers! -@cancan22
My favourite new Christmas tradition since being engaged for almost two years, is having a Christmas Eve party with my fiance’s extended family. Thirty something people come out to it and it’s so crazy but fun! Looking forward to many more years of new traditions with my new family! Wedding is coming soon 🙂 IG: sh718
My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree and going to Christmas markets. I love to drink mullet wine with my friends and sweets. IG: hr15t1na
My favorite family holiday tradition is our annual cousin sleepover on Christmas Eve. I have a big family and we like to celebrate Christmas Eve together till it’s Christmas Day. On Christmas night we all go together to watch a movie and end up taking an entire row to ourselves!
@lavieofviv
My daughter is 3 and every year I print a picture of her and place it inside a Christmas ornament to hang in our Christmas tree. I hope when she’s older she’ll appreaciate all the pictures. She recognizes herself and is excited to hang her pictures on the tree @gemma_js_
My favorite holiday tradition is having two christmas dinners with my family! We always do one traditional Christmas dinner with a Christmas Ham, veggies, homemade bread, and other items you’d find at a typical “American” Christmas dinner. But for Christmas Eve or the day after Christmas, my family does a typical chinese/taiwanese style hot pot! Complete with a spicy hot pot and a regular hot put with steaming bowls of white rice. I love that I am an Asian-american and can celebrate both sides of my culture on a holiday that I love. My IG is @stephschn
Eating traditional food with family!
IG: nikhitha13
we do secret santa with the family 🙂 the secret santa gifts are wrapped in newspaper to keep it as anonymous as possible, the gift giver includes a hint, and everyone guesses to see who got each other before we do a reveal. ig: myrtleavenue
My favorite holiday tradition. Is watching The Grinch and Home Alone on Christmas Eve with my brother and first cousins (more like sisters), it’s what I most look forward to all season long ❤️ @laurabginebra
@kaysohee_
I love decorating the Christmas tree and the rest of the house while watching all of the Friends Christmas episodes or Elf with loved ones! @ecmpark
My absolute favorite holiday tradition that I look forward to is getting to pick out a tree with my Dad every single year and setting it up in the house with him! Instagram handle: @melemmal
My favorite holiday tradition is making candy trains with my mom to hand out to loved ones. We’ve been doing it since preschool and I still give them to my co workers and friends. IG handle: @mrssarahschuster
My favorite tradition is walking through rows of trees looking for the perfect one to bring home. Nothing beats the smell of the real thing 🙂 @annatonarely
@munchkindoodle
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas shopping with my sister. We always kick it off on Black Friday at midnight! IG handle: @brittanypham
My favorite holiday tradition it’s decorate the Christmas tree with my mom and sister! Always love family time 💛 @dlovebb
IG handle: @dellaziaclarissa | One of the reasons why I want to experience Christmas in Europe or US is because the Christmas hype is not as big there as it is in my country. My family is a Christian and so our idea of Christmas is just to go to church for the Christmas service. After that we’d have dinner somewhere and that’s basically the extent of it. But for me, when December comes, I’d light the fairy lights in my room, blast Christmas music and make sure my room is extra cold while I stay under the blanket, maybe have some hot drinks, and read some novels (hopefully Christmas-themed ones) or watch Christmas movies!
My favorite tradition is listening to Christmas music while we decorate the tree and eat freshly baked cookies together. This year we added our baby daughter to the mix, so it was even more special!
IG: @ashleyhillpaints
@mrsjlim we love getting the hymn book out and singing all the Christmas music in it with my son on the guitar and my hubby on the piano. Our two little ones love just singing along and tapping to the beat.
Definitely decorating the Christmas tree! Such a sweet tradition. My insta handle: @heathersaba
@mel_a_herrera cooking together with my family! See the joy in Ysa’s (age 4) making rolls.
My fav holiday tradition is to get gifts for my friends and parents for Christmas. This is where I become broke for a good cause. @peachy_pancakes
@annie_yannie
My fav tradition is seeing my family!! Ig:yimmyadventures
Definitely putting up/decorating the Christmas tree. Creativity put to work😂
@soymilkyumyum
I will somehow break a Christmas ornament even if it’s not glass 😂 I guess that counts as tradition
IG: globuggers
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking Christmas breakfast with all my sisters. I come from a big family so having everyone together during the holidays is the best feeling. I’m so thankful for them!
@liliflo92
Watching Christmas themed movies during the week of Christmas! @thisklutz
I really love decorating and gift giving during the holidays. Decorating allows me to express my creativity. Gift giving is a lot of fun because I get to give something thoughtful for those I love.
– @jaimekrzos
Fave holiday tradition: decorating the tree 🎄🎄🎄@larissa.fall
Being able to be with family itself is the best, but we all love to watch classic movies such as Home Alone and the Grinch! And also opening presents together. Hehehe!
IG handle: @joyciiieeee
Another favorite holiday tradition of mine is shopping for my nieces’ presents and getting to see the girls open them. I love seeing kids receive gifts! They always have the best expressions. @yana_sidorchuk
My favorite holiday tradition is picking out a Christmas tree from our Farmers Market and also stopping buy the the local French bakery for white and dark chocolate chip scones on the way home.
@gl_lai
my fave holiday tradition is being able to gather the fam and sing christmas songs together ❤️🎶 @emilysjun
@shinyobstacles my favorite holiday tradition is gathering as a family and having a feast together!
Every Christmas in my family my husband and me read to our daughter and son a story about Jesus to keep alive in them in true meaning of this celebration! Greetings!
Instagram : @ale.seytuqueen
@thisisminnie i love to get a new ornament every year and this year my daughter got to pick it for us~! 🙂
My husband and I love to watch Christmas movies, drink floral and spicy teas whilst decorating the Christmas tree. We light all our Christmas candles and it smells like a mix of cookies, hot chocolate and spicy apple cider. Tomorrow us that day and I can’t wait to begin the day with Home alone! @smriti161
Making wreath cookies and watching White Christmas! @hungariannarnian
I love driving around and enjoying the neighborhood decorations! It really gets us into the festive spirit 😍 @_pollylin
Favorite holiday tradition is giving gifts and watching childrens’ reaction when they open theirs. Also, getting together with family, doing white elephant and dancing silly before picking a gift. 🙂
@bengot14
My fave holiday tradition is doing a potluck picnic with fam and friends in the park or by the beach it is Summer here in Australia during Christmas. This idea is so much convenient as most of us got kids ☺
💫IG @louisiannes
My favorite holiday tradition is cooking for the entire family!
@gee.itsjenn
Decorating the Christmas tree and watching the Holiday! @abby_aceron
Putting up our Christmas tree! @annieebala
I really miss the magic of putting up a Christmas tree and the warm smell of cinnamon and hot chocolate next to the fireplace every year when i was younger. However, after some family separation issues, we haven’t celebrated Christmas since I was 14. Hopefully I will have my own family one day get to have this tradition again.
@pixels_on_your_screen
i love eating yummy food during the holidays!! my favorite family tradition is being all together on new years day eating korean dumpling soup and just spending time together as a family! we always help my grandma make dumplings together just like crazy rich asians!! minus the crazy rich ^___^ @_bjsp_
Christmas tree 🙂 How beautiful 🙂 @cholponnnn
My holiday tradition is to watch “home alone” with my whole family 🙂 IG: @hamy994
My favorite holiday tradition is watching Christmas movies and eating favorite snacks with my family at home ☺️❤️ @rhkim15
My favourite tradition is watching Elf with the family on Christmas eve! We always stay up in our pjs and watch it together! The tradition I cannot wait to start is saving my future kids art work and wrapping their special presents in it one day! Insta: @taywellings
Watching and videotaping my kids decorate the tree! @simplyaudrey
@sholalee (insta handle) my favourite tradition is watching a movie Christmas morning with my Mum 💛🌟
setting up the christmas tree with my family on the first of December!
@vanissawong
Making 만두 (dumplings) with my mom! 😊❤❤ IG – @yngpzy
Such as these! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8848f07fa381c8377dc53b58edcec64b7048d65e88959a54e6d4ca9a1c18d1ef.jpg
My favourite holiday tradition is spending some quality time with family, from browsing Christmas markets in my hometown, putting up the Christmas tree and all pitching in to help with the Christmas meal, whilst signing along to Christmas music 🎀🎁🎄
@melaikoo
And those cookies look so yummy. So a good Christmas tradition to start 😊
@alishaonthego is the insta handle. Mine is understanding people’s needs and gifting them with things that are going to make their holiday better.
@sxwilliams1 mine would be going to the movies on Christmas Day as a family in our fuzzy sweaters!
Favorite holiday tradition is getting ready to decorate the Christmas tree because that’s when all of my family from out of town gather and can agree on one thing.
Love this tradition of yours and CloClo’s. Can’t wait to this later in the future with my kids. ^^
IG: ddalkkimukz
My favorite tradition is baking snickerdoodles with my sons.
IG: @darcy.friedmann1
@julianne_le Going to my grandparents house after opening presents in the morning!
Our family Christmas tradition is going to take photos with Santa then picking out a photo frame ornament with the current year on it and hanging up on the Christmas tree. IG: @Mami.Stories
@krizzal is the insta handle. As a holiday tradition, my girlfriends and I exchange gifts because they are forever (present) in my heart
Hello Chriselle! I love the connection you have with Chloe in your posts!
To answer your question. Since I was a child I had mix culture (Asian and Latin) so I celebrate both sides. I have two favorite holiday traditions that is watching fireworks and firecrackers at night with all my family in New Year’s Eve and also eating hallacas (it’s like tamale) while we are exchanging presents in Christmas Day! Btw I love your IG post and merry Christmas to you and your family!! ♥️🎁 (sorry for my English I know is not good 😊)
My IG username is @nvlss
As a huge book nerd, I always cuddle up with my blanket, scented candle and hot cocoa to read the Harry Potter books. It teaches so many important lessons, and it brings some well needed magic to my life! ❤️ @alexaericsson
The colors are so beautiful and you have a great family, Chloe is adorable and she has great taste! I love sparkles too❤️
We don’t really celebrate in my family/country but I like to watch Christmas movies with my boyfriend 🙂 my ig handle is @chang.aya
I cannot wait till I can start my own Christmas traditions with my family. Growing up Christmastime was my favorite time of year as all of my family gets together and makes Christmas cookies. They’re so simple to make but we spend hours at the table decorating and chatting and laughing. Unfortunately this year my grandparents have fallen ill and for the first time we are unable to make cookies with them, but it has made me ever so grateful for the years past that we’ve had such wonderful time together. Thank you so much for sharing your Christmas tradition with us, Chriselle! Lots of love, @katieraechel
I love this time of the year and your Christmas posts, Chriselle! Chloe is becoming such a charming and beautiful little lady – more like you, every year!
For Christmas traditions, I always look forward to Christmas baking. Anything with the warm aroma of cinnamon and brown sugar wafting through the house along with the croons of Michael Bublé!
Cheers! @rachelevelyn7
I love Christmas traditions. Like you, my mom made it very special for us. I especially loved our advent calendar. @natnotgnat
Marathon Christmas movies with my family
Ig:victoria_vansickle
Definitely my family potluck with family friends! Now that we (the kids table) have grown up and moved away, we rarely get to see each other. Looking forward to tons of Asian food and board games/movies as always! @itsjessxu
One of my favorite traditions is putting up the tree with my parents while we listen to Christmas music! 🙂 It’s one of the things that we’ve been doing since I was young, and it’s always such a fun and special time!
XO, Elizabeth T.
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@itselizabethtran
Walking around Christmas markets with friends and a mug of mulled wine! 🍷
Baking shortbread cookies with my mom and sister! @xadrienne
The best tradition we have is going down to CT to celebrate Christmas Eve with the feast of the seven fishes. I love spending time with my family and the food is so good. We all dress up too which makes it even more fun. ❤️ @sarizz711
Since i am a child i have not only been decorating one Christmas tree but 3. Indeed, my best Christmas tradition is going to my grandparents’ home to decorate their tree too. I am now 20 years old and i am so grateful to still have them and to spend those times together.
( Insta : Suzan.dreau)
My favorite Christma tradition is watching home alone and home alone 2 with my family and sisters. This movie always puts me in the holiday spirit mood!!
Going to the big tree in Manhattan with the family as kids! I wish we still held onto that tradition now that my brother and I are older but it’s my fav memz nonetheless. IG: @kat.dlr !!!
Singing Christmas songs while I’m on the piano! Or my bro 😂 IG: e11emma
My family used to go to the movies every single year on Christmas and I loved it. We would open up our presents and go to the movies in Christmas pajamas and bring all the candy from our stockings. We don’t do it anymore so I want to continue the tradition whenever I have kids because I treasured those memories with my parents so much.
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Love this post. My favorite tradition is volunteering with my family on Christmas Eve at a soup kitchen then attending my family’s potluck to end the night!
My favourite tradition is decorating the house on the 15th of December and blasting classic Christmas music, while baking tons of cookies and icing them 🎄☕️🍪
Our tradition is looking at the lights on the houses around the neighborhood by walking or by car! We play games on who finds the most houses with lights first. Something I played with my mom and now I started doing with my sons. IG:franchyfresh
My mom and I spend every New Year’s Day in Mailbu and always end the day at Geoffrey’s during sunset. We’ve been doing this for 9 years now. I can’t wait to start including my husband and children into this tradition. But this year is going to be especially sad to go back after the devistating fires in Malibu.
Backing cookies with my grandma 🥰
@thefakesarracucu
Setting up the tree with my family! 🙂
IG: flobreezyy
I don’t have a Christmas tradition 😥 BUT, I like to host a dinner party with friends who are away from families to celebrate gathering with people you love! IG – taiwanesechica
Decorating the tree while fresh cookies bake! 🎄🥰🍪
IG:copperqueen
This post is so beautiful. I love seeing what you and Chloe do together. I like the change up from previous years. My favorite holiday tradition is putting up the Christmas tree. After I moved out, I got a table Christmas tree and decorate it with my boyfriend in our small apartment. Also, I love wrapping presents while listening to Christmas songs. I’m so excited for this year. #12DaysGiveaway
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Watching Christmas movies in our PJs! @LlKatherine
This is the cutest!!! Great traditions you have created indeed! My favorite tradition is singing Mariah Carey’s “Oh Santa” during karaoke at our family Christmas dinner lol. We kill it every year!
🎄 exchanging gifts with relatives!😍 @yamyammer
Love the post! It’s great to teach our kids these traditions as they can pass it on to their own someday. Christmas is the same at my house with my boys. We try to have the tree out right after thanksgiving and ready to decorate! ❤️ We try to make at least one new ornament each year for each whether it’s a simple stick tree where we decorate and bake cookies to hang on the tree.
I love listening to Christmas carols while baking cookies☺️🍪🎄
IG: @kar.hander
My favorite holiday tradition is my mom’s pumpkin rolls! She made them every year throughout my childhood. She passed away when I was a teenager and I’ve since picked up the tradition now that I’m an adult. Makes me feel closer to her memory. IG: ohstaceymel
@annershanster besides getting a new ornament for my daughter each year. My husband and I get a new game each year that we can play as a family.
I love exchanging gifts during the holidays. White elephant is always epic. 😂 @peachyy.studies
My favorite tradition is spending the day with hot cocoa, watching endless amounts of Christmas movies and spreading jolly spirits with the family! ^_^
@vanessa.sang
I am Indian and my boyfriend is American, and we have just started celebrating Christmas together. The first year we put up lights at our place and a tiny desktop tree, and this year we plan to buy a tree and decorate it together. I am looking forward to all his traditions especially playing Golf with him and his family on Christmas morning. 😊 @unwound_fashion
Favorite tradition is to decorate the tree. Every year we buy a new ornament during a trip or representing a moment of the year. So when we do the tree we can tell the story of each ornament.
IG: supermilu17
My favorite holiday is how we change our theme every year. Last year was Sleep Over Night where the whole family slept over my Aunts house and this year is Cocktail Night! @khayemay
My husband and I always cook Christmas dinner together! He cooks and I bake 🙂 @esthergufarber
This is too cute!
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My favourite Christmas tradition is polish tradition of wishing and sharing an oplatek (thin kind of waffle with Christmas motives). I love when we smile to each other and try to name all of the goodness we want for our loved ones 🙂
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My favorite holiday tradition is going to a McDonalds for dinner right before a fancy company holiday party with my husband! Because there’s nothing more fun than being dressed to the nines at a fast food restaurant 😂❤️ IG: azhen_style
My favorite tradition is getting together on Christmas Day for dinner and gift exchange with my family@arobimom
My favorite Christmas tradition is opening one small present on Christmas Eve with the entire family! @krissylyn808
Ahh love your dress! And love decorating for the holidays! @stephycake
Favorite holiday tradition is building back up the Christmas tree that my brother and I bought my mom two years ago! It was one of her long time wishes to get a tree! Every year we buy bits more of cute ornaments for the tree <3 My IG is @sun_pakk
My favorite holiday tradition is going down to Newport Beach and enjoying all the boats decorated with festive lights! 🛥🎄
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Just the simple act of gathering by the tree so the lil ones in the fam open all their gifts! @rrachelww
We don’t really have any traditions with my family, but I am thankfull that we can meet and eat christmas dinner together every year 😊 that is our little traditions
@meakova
Each year for already 4 years me and my little brother bake and decorate a gingerbread house, on their last day of school! Each year it’s more intricate 🤩@anastasia.kochman
I don’t really have a holiday tradition as my family never celebrates christmas. But since ive come to the US to study, cooking for my friends and bringing all the international students together has been amazing and I am hoping to create a small semblance of that back this year!
@annabelkoh
Decorating the tree with my family listening to Christmas classics @thefrenchmode
Making cozonac ( a traditional christmas cake in romania) with my mom
@otilia.condruz
My fav holiday tradition is baking cookies with my family! @makaylaxrochelle
Reuniting with my family and cooking all together
@claire.bdrnd
My favourite holiday tradition is actually going traveling somewhere and spending Christmas in a new place! This year I’m going to Scotland with my husband! So excited!! @hchillin
My favorite tradition is cooking with my mom. We are Ukrainian/Jewish and there are so many dishes she makes that I want to learn to cook so that I can continue making them with my kids ❤️
@call_me_lenusya
Favourite tradition is having Christmas dinner with my family. So lucky to still have both of my grandma’s to make the day special ❤️ @spmoss
Sitting around the Barbie and waterfights in the pool with my extended family bam @phantastic_sally
My favourite holiday tradition is our annual gourmet Christmas dinner. We pull out all the stops and spend the entire day in the kitchen together.
@misshapenheart
My fav holiday tradition:
Every year, no matter how unfestive or tough times were during the holiday season… me or my mom would always make sure that our stockings were hung (and later on discretely filled with treats) so that we could always surprise one another on Christmas morning.
(& essie lacquers have actually been our go to for the last 3 years! We both love doing our nails at home, and my mother finally trusts me to paint her nails for her hahah!)
IG: @injennius
Setting up the Christmas tree 🎄
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My favorite holiday tradition is to bake Xmas cookies 🍪 all together. I love the smell of the house after and the gothering after with hot chocolate and cookies. @Ioakimopoulou
Favorite holiday tradition is setting up the tree with my little one! This year we’re going to be making our own ornaments! IG:karinaromero
Ahhh the 💅🏽 @essie gels are so long lasting!!! Literally loveee 💕 just as I love drink hot cocoa (with mini marshmallows 😋) during the holidays ✨🎄 -xoxo @ohnaishee
Favorite holiday tradition is probably opening presents together Christmas morning with my family:)
@anniieyang
Every year my boyfriend and I attend the annual Wreaths Across America in Arlington, VA. His grandfather was buried there and what a sight is it to see families and friends coming together to show their support to the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for what we have today. Some of the men and women may no longer have families, but I can say I have said various names so they are remembered.
@tephunnie
My mom and I also put up our Christmas tree together while listening to American and Vietnamese Christmas music! It always signals that the holiday season has started to me and I love it. IG handle: @xhellenn
My favorite tradition is getting a personalized ornament with boyfriend and decorating our tree together:-)
@sepearl1
I love taking off from work and hanging with the family IG @teabreakwithshanita
Favourite holiday tradition is playing classic board games with everyone on Christmas Day. Somethinng we don’t do often anymore.
@inspiringolivia
Christmas ever dinner with my family @kmtran86
White Elephant 🐘 ♥️
IG: lovelindaxo
My favorite holiday tradition is eating hotpot on Christmas Day ☺️
IG: @cho_sarahh
@sylviedecremer my favorite holiday tradition is spending Christmas eve with my family eating out favorite dishes and playing board games
Hi, my favorite tradition is when as a family we lay baby Jesus is the manger we make every, and going to midnight mass coming home and eating and opening our presents.
IG: @n_carolina_a
@cari1030 – my favourite tradition is to still receive the same Christmas chocolate package that I’ve been getting every year since I was 5. I still pretend they’re from Santa 🎅😂
Baking Christmas cookies and giving them to our neighbors 🤗
IG: @akangster
My favorite tradition is Christmas dinner with the family!
Love decorating my house esp the tree with my son – it helps bring the holiday cheer! @vanessa_zuval
My favourite holiday tradition with my 3 yr old son is heading to the toy store to pick out gifts to donate to other kids and of course putting up our Christmas tree while listening to Christmas songs and drinking hot cocoa!
IG – Jf_331
My favourite tradition is the food and family gatherings in the cold winter. It’s something about the holidays that brings so much warmth and joy to everyone around us 🙂 IG: @shiniavan
My favourite holiday tradition is none other than spending quality time with the family! My IG handle is caitlinxlim xx
Great gift!! My Instagram is @thearcadiangirl
My favourite holiday tradition is cozying it up at home, putting up the Christmas tree 🎄✨ in all its shine beauty with a hot coco at hand. Hosting and serving my family and friends a feast of love and watching it all put a smile on their faces – just warms my heart ❤️ It’s the greatest gift one can only ask for~ I hope you have a very lovely and special one this year as a beautiful family of 4! @jlowxoxo 💋
Fav tradition is watching home alone every year.
My favorite tradition is turning on Bing Crosby’s White Christmas album and decorating the tree while the songs are playing! IG: @song_hannah
My favorite tradition is reading the story of Jesus’ birth with my family before opening gifts! IG: @theakilah_grace
So cute 😍 these nail colors look amazing. Me and my family always go ice scating on Christmas 🙂 IG: juliamasche
Love it! My holidays tradition is decorating the house right away after thanksgiving and bake a lot! I love to bake but try to not do it so often, so on December I let myself bake as much as I like and it gives me the feeling of Christmas.
Every Christmas my dad brings out this old, foldable card table and we do as many puzzles as possible before the end of Christmas vacation! Our favorites are from the Hometown Collection company (think painting-like images of old 1940s hotels and Christmas scenes).
My favorite holiday tradition is the making of our french christmas eve dinner !
Gathering of family and friends who you don’t see very often. @vkrose13
Hmm… My favorite tradition is probably the baking! My family gathers in the kitchen and the atmosphere is just so warm and nice, not to mention the smell! 🙂
IG: @crazykelsey68
For every Christmas, even when j was living in Korea, (and tradition continued after i got married) I joined my family in DC for big family gathering. We have christmas bbq and always play games (mafia, board games, chess etc) together all day! Ending the day with white elephant- But sadly this year, my husband and I wont be able to go for I just had a little girl! Looking at your photos with Both of your girls put a smile to my face! Hope one day, I will have precious holiday tradition with my girl:)
Ig: @meowbeanie
Going to the movies with my dad on Christmas Day @zooannimals
These pictures are so pretty, love your dress Chriselle. My favourite Christmas tradition has always been cooking and eating with family. Christmas is one of those times where the whole family is usually together and it’s always so heartwarming!
IG: @demmiie
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As I wroted under your ig pic (my_sweetercorner) I love roast the chestnuts 🌰 in our fireplace with my mum, she is a worker on shifts and this since I was a child ment “Xmas holiday” to me, me, my family in our house, the fireplace and serenity and health for our loved ones! That’s what a hope to have every year, even if this is not always possible the 24th evening because of my mum’s shifts this is special everyday during the holidays! 💞🥰
Baking. @reginekarpel
I love making dumplings together with my family❤️ @ashleeychoi
This will be my 2nd Christmas away from family but i would love to start baking some cookies and putting up decorations in my own house. I want my daughter to have some memories. However one thing we usually do in mexican families is make tamales which is something i want to partake.
IG: simpleplan_jess
decorating the tree @melissaingblog
Going to grandma’s house and seeing the whole family for Christmas lunch followed by presents in the living room. Grandma always made sure everyone attending had a gift to open, which for her meant buying some extra gifts and leaving them under the tree without tags so she could hand them out and claim that “the tag fell off” whenever she’d notice that someone there didn’t have anything to open. 🙂 @s0hryu
I love baking cookies with my family! @mollyandstacie
My family doesn’t have traditions but I would usually go to a Christmas Eve service at my old church and have memories of singing carols.
IG: miss_bae
Favourite tradition is putting up our Christmas tree and each year we pick out a couple of new ornaments to add to it.
IG: Suech0
My favorite tradition is attending candlelight Christmas Eve church service & then driving around town looking at all the holiday light!
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Love walking around the neighborhood with my family to see all the pretty holiday decorations and lights! @suehuang97
I love going to a performance of The Nutcracker with my mom.
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playing board games with my family!
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IG: @sydneyfajardo
Going to the movies after dinner w/ my bff & her family!
Definitely the ugly Christmas sweater parties!
IG: @alishuuh
My favorite holiday tradition since I had kids, is making a new ornament for the tree and baking cookies with them. I also bought them a tree of their own so they can decorate that too🎄
IG: geeloveme
Wow. This post sent me a wave of nostalgia. Looking back, my favorite tradition was driving around in my brother’s convertible with the entire family looking at Christmas lights. @runaatunaa
IG handle: @justsmilealong
My favorite holiday tradition is taking our family holiday photos. It’s such a wonderful way to create and cherish memories that we can look back on and see how much our babies have grown !
Love baking cookies with my mum😍@lidijaaaa
Every year as far as i can remmebr my whole family ( even extended fam) get together and play a very…and i mean very intense game of bingo! We even have prizes from fancy soap bottles to money!
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My favorite Christmas tradition is decorating the tree together with the family! We turn on the holiday music, and everybody has a unique role! My mom trims the tree, my dad carries it in, my brother hangs ornaments and I make a wreath! @mangolinabeans
My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies and shopping with my mom! My insta handle is natalie_c_king
@vinayayaya putting up the Christmas decor!
Love decorating cookies with my friends ❤️ @isab3lla.rosa
My favorite holiday tradition is probably spending Christmas Eve with my parents, sister, and now her new husband. It’s a small get together but we have a great time and usually watch corny Christmas movies together until midnight.
@stramallama on IG!
Opening gifts and going around to seee Christmas lights. @my820
Awh! That was such a good blog to read! We started last year when my daughter was old enough, she got to pick out an ornament for the tree and this year she did again. Princess ornaments as always. Since I also had my second daughter we can’t wait till next year for her to be able to join in and pick one for the tree too.
♡Lize
P.S. I’ve always wanted to say I love your name and I wanted my daughters first letter name to match her last name and your name was so perfect. Hehe so we named our first daughter Chriselle.♡
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The youngest in the family gets to put the star on the Christmas tree
IG: victorialchoo
One of my favourite holiday tradition is watchin home alone with the whole family! ❤ IG: @nara.ismyname
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My favorite holiday tradition is choosing a homeless shelter and providing Christmas gifts to the children.
All year round, i clip recipes for different type of cookies from the local paper, mags, online, etc. and starting December 1st, i make a new kind every evening. @tnafees
My favorite tradition was opening gifts with the kids with our PJ on, first thing when we wake up on Christmas day. We also love the play the Elf game, say what we are most thankful for this year and play white elephant game with friends and family.
I love taking my girls to see Santa. And spending time with both sides of our family on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning
IG: JessZnam
Oh so many holiday traditions, such as taking the kids to take photo with Santa, putting up the tree on Thanksgiving Day etc. And starting this year, we are going to travel somewhere warm in December since we live in Chicago haha! -feithfullyyours
Our Christmas tradition is with my mum and whenever we’re in the same country, with my grandmother too (my mum was born and raised in Hungary but moved to France when she met my dad) and it’s to decorate the Christmas tree and bake together. It’s one of the rare times when she’ll go back to her roots and bake the Hungarian cakes she grew up with ! IG : mm.sandra
I love baking holiday treats, drinking wine and watching holiday movies like The Holiday, Elf and Love Actually! I know I can’t win but wanted to comment!! 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition has always been the white elephant gift exchange we do with my stepdad’s family. It’s fun to watch everyone open the gifts and steal the things they want from other family members. @queenhalpal
My favorite tradition is waking up in our PJs and making home cooked meals together. IG: stelluhchoe
My favorite tradition is spending Christmas with my sister
@adelitofu
Favorite holiday traditions are white elephant, secret Santa, and ice skating!!
My favorite holiday tradition is making cookies and watching how the grinch stole Christmas (the animated one!)
Service in the morning followed by family dinner! @iamkayom
My favourite Christmas tradition is spending the majority of Christmas Eve watching Christmas movies with my sister ❤️ Then playing 윶놀이 with everyone who joins for Christmas dinner (even though it’s traditionally a game played on New Year’s Day)! Because my grandma only speaks Korean yet my husband and close friends that typically join for Christmas don’t speak Korean, it’s nice to have everyone spend time together in a way that transcends language.
Wonderful post! My family attends church on Christmas Eve and then spends Christmas having game night after dinner! I love to make more traditions as we get older.
Beautiful post, I can’t wait for Colette to join in on the celebrations! I love watching cheesy Christmas movies come the holidays every year 🎄🍿🌟
Every December my family and I do reruns of all of our favorite Christmas movies every night, complete with Hot Cocoa and baked goodies. The night on Christmas Eve we would go out to see all of the decorations of lights from the houses, come home to the usual Hot Cocoa/movie and open up 1 gift of our choice. I loved it so much. Even if we would visit family out of the state/country we would still do some of the tradition there and include the rest of our family members. I’ve always looked forward to ending the day with a full tummy, relaxing with the family, and being excited to do it again for the next night. ♥️
My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas but this will be the first year that I’ll be celebrating it with my boyfriends family! Ever since November rolled around, all he talks about is how the family gets together, the baking/cooking, festivities & traditions that draws everyone close.
I’ll finally be decorating my first tree !!!
Gingerbread cookies are a must 😍, and now I’m loving the idea of macaroons during the Christmas season. While eating these amazing delights, I love watching rom-com movies with Christmas themes, it makes me feel as if I’m one with the holiday.
My fav Christmas tradition is just going home from school and relax and sleep in in my own childhood bed :)))
Living abroad there is one tradition I miss the most and that’s my December Sunday’s spent at my moms place watching Christmas movies together.
My favourite holiday tradition is putting up the Xmas tree and playing Xmas music.
My favorite holiday tradition is gathering around with my family and friends and having hotpot together on the first day of Chinese New Year!!
Our family is split across the globe, so our tradition is to write personal Christmas and New Years cards to each other. If we are fortunate enough to spend the holidays together, we will exchange these in person over a nice meal. We cherish these much more than gifts, and it’s always fun to look back at past cards and reminisce. So grateful my parents started this tradition for our family since my sister and I were babies!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree with my hubby ❤️🎄
Loving baking during the holidays and decorating the tree and our house. By the way, A Night Before Christmas was one of my favorite stories as a kid, too!! 😭❤️
Love the dress- you look gorgeous. Our favourite holiday tradition is baking cinnabon rolls- fulfilling thag sweet tooth and winter cravings for cinnamon in one go!
my kid is only 10 months old; however, my husband and I are starting to think of traditions that we as a family will do. We were never into traditions before; however, now that we have a kid, we believe that it is important. It keeps the kid excited and gives them something to look forward to. We are going to have a photo with santa and a visit to see the christmas lights tradition during christmas season ❤️
Such a beautiful post <3
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