Favorite Holiday Traditions

[ctadmin]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you not wrap any presents on Christmas Eve? Enjoy Blackeye peas and collard greens on New Year's...

Let's share and get to know each other more.

 

[Ebenezer]

My favorite is Thanksgiving. Highly promoted, over done in the media and sales but a true time to reflect on the thing that we don't do enough: be thankful. My quirk is that I don't care for turkey so I eat country ham.

 

[Bayou]

We have a uniquely South Texas tradition I think, my Dad and the rest of us would drive around the ranch seeking out the perfect Guayacan shrub to turn into a Christmas tree. Dad would cut it down with his Sawzall and take it back to the camp where he would stand it up in a coffee can full of flint rocks and we’d decorate it with ornaments. It was something we looked forward to and miss now that he’s gone.

 

[dwilliams35]

Christmas, just because the world is on board with that when you get together with family and such: Thanksgiving is just kind of a long weekend for many, albeit with football, easter just the long weekend part, but we basically have a month or so in December for gatherings, parties, culminating in the day itself with family.. It's changed a bit since we lost my dad a few years back, but I'm hoping everything comes back together once we get adjusted to that..

I don't know that we have any specific traditions that have gone on forever, some individual items that hold deep family significance come out for that month, but that's about it..

 

[Stonewall Joe]

We always try to have at least 1 "whole family" get together in the Thanksgiving/ Christmas time part of the year but with the family getting stretched out geographically and with multi generations it makes things harder. The biggest family gathering where the most show up in one spot is actually labor day and we spend it at the Guadalupe River just outside of Canyon Lake. We all arrivec early fr the weekend and stay a day late and share the best times and memories ever

 

[Silver]

Can’t have New Year or New Year’s Eve without gathering to watch World Junior Championship games.

 

[Dave]

I am 73 and lived alone most of my life. Holidays were just another day. Where I am now I would have to say Thanksgiving. There is a family here who for decades has done a Thanksgiving dinner for the community. They supply the turkey and dressing. The rest of the meal is pot luck. Old grandma who is 95 says she remembers when they cooked over 20 turkeys. Back then there was still some remaining homesteaders and people living in the hills mining gold. Now it it mostly ranchers and 2 or 3 turkeys fill the bill. But it is a community event. And it is things like this which help to build community. Community is one of the things which most of this country is losing.

 

[gherron]

Mine is Thanksgiving. A time for family to get together without the stress of Christmas.

 

[BWeir]

Christmas. Our child loves it because of all the decorations and the fact that it was the birth of Christ. We need not forget that it should be the most important because of that alone.

 

[tex452]

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, we would get four days off, but most importantly we would head to the deer lease.
It was always good hunting during that weekend.

 

[C-Ranch]

I would say my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. We try to escape the ranch for 4-5 days and rent a cabin somewhere. It's a good time to relax, look back on the year, and enjoy the grandkids. Plus, someone else gets to feed the cows and tend to the ranch for a few days besides me..Haha

 

[redcowsrule33]

Picking out the Christmas tree is my favorite tradition. One of my earliest memories is this and brings back many years memories of my parents. Going to a tree farm and cutting it myself is a must.

 

[Warren Allison]

Thanksgiving, my favorite tradition is the morning quail hunt.

Christmas it is the numerous toy runs by the various MCs. One about every weekend from the Saturday after Thanksgiving til the last weekend before Christmas. The one the Custom Riders MC does up here, is 49 yeas old, and has over 1500 bikes.

Easter would be Sunrise Services.

 

[TCRanch]

I'm on board with everyone that prefers Thanksgiving. We used to have an epic Christmas Eve when we opened presents but with kids growing up, getting married, living in different states, having to split time between multiple families, it's just not as fun. Thanksgiving is more relaxed. Not a fan of turkey or glazed ham sick but I love the sides.

 

[mac]

We have a bonfire, conditions permitting.

 

[Rodeo_Babygirl]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you not wrap any presents on Christmas Eve? Enjoy Blackeye peas and collard greens on New Year's...

Let's share and get to know each other more.

My favorite tradition is breakfast together on Christmas morning.

 

[Dsth]

I would say Thanksgiving has become my favorite holiday. it is the holiday when the whole family tries to get together on the actual holiday. with our kids having their own kids, they like to spend Christmas together as a family and not have to travel. Christmas has gotten so commercialized now that the whole meaning of Christmas seems to be secondary to the black Friday sales. all the reports of $s spent compared to previous years, and just the whole atmosphere surrounding Christmas. It has almost become depressing now.

 

[Texas G@l]

My favorite is Thanksgiving. Highly promoted, over done in the media and sales but a true time to reflect on the thing that we don't do enough: be thankful. My quirk is that I don't care for turkey so I eat country ham.

We're team ham as well.....and prime rib.

 

[alacowman1]

Christmas would be, and should be..but now it's exactly the opposite from what its actually is about…

 

[bigcountryhl]

I would love to hear about your favorite holiday traditions -

Do you open gifts up on Christmas Eve? Do you not wrap any presents on Christmas Eve? Enjoy Blackeye peas and collard greens on New Year's...

Let's share and get to know each other more.

Thanksgiving #1 holiday. Harvest was finished, farm and household was ready for winter and extended family i.e., Aunts, uncles, cousins gathered for the the most out standing meal prepared by the world's most outstanding cooks!