❄️ Favorite December Holidays & Traditions | Badge of the Month | December 2024

We go skiing 🎿between Christmas 🎄and New Years 🎇 which is something I really look forward to every year. I may not be smiling 😃 but spending time with the family 👪 being outside all day🌞 and doing a sport is a wonderful 💜combination!

December is all about joy, giving and cherished traditions! Whether it’s lighting the menorah, sharing meals or celebrating the New Year, this season brings us together. ❤️

In my family, advent calendars are a fun tradition I look forward to every December!  But not just any advent calendar...I create my own.  Each year I come up with a different theme (this year is buttons/pins/stickers) and hide something in each of 25 magnetic tins on a board.  Then we open one each day to see what surprise is inside!  In the past I’ve done other themes like:  holiday related questions, foods and beverages to try, and puzzles.  It’s always a lot of fun and gets us in the spirit for the season!

My favorite Christmas tradition is the novenas, the novenas are 9 days from December 16 to the 24th and I don't know if it is typical of Colombia or all of Latin America, the fact is that every day one gets together with friends or family to make a set of prayers to prepare for the birth of Jesus, is a reason to get together, share dishes and some Christmas carols.

Loving all these posts! The XM Community team is wishing everyone happy holidays!

In our family we open gifts on Christmas morning, but we gather on Christmas Eve, after church services, for a fun evening of games and Christmas shows/movies. We don’t have a formal meal together - instead it’s a night when we all bring favorite appetizers and desserts (invariably far more than we need such that there is spillover into Christmas Day when people need a little something before the meal.) One of my nieces and I have taken to calling this The Feast of Nibbles, and it’s a fun casual time together that is one of my favorite nights of the year. 

Thank you to everyone who shared about your wonderful holiday plans this month! Wishing everyone a very happy new year!