What are some good christmas traditions for couples?
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Buy some pretty Christmas toasting glasses, and have a toast to your first Christmas together.\nBuy an ornament for the tree, a nice collectible one, just the two of you.\n LIght a Christmas candle together.\nDecorate the tree.\nDrive around, and see all the pretty lights, tune in a radio station playing carols.. Or go to a comercial light show.\nBuy some canned goods, and take them to the food bank, together.\nCall the relatives to wish them Merry Christmas.\nGo to church.\nHave an empty creche under the tree, and put the baby Jesus in it. \nBuy each other an ornament. \nDo a Christmas eve tradition. Open just one gift from each other. \nHave a cocoa and cookies snuggle by the fire, or TV.\nBuy a Christmas movie, watch the same one, or a different one, every year.\nGo caroling.\nVolunteer to a food bank, or deliver Chistmas baskets to the poor. \nIn advance, call a local nursing home and ask what they need for the patients.\nHave a open house for the neighbors.\nFill each others stockings, without the other one seeing.\nCook dinner together. Cook something that isn't a tradition.\nDeliver some small gift to each of the neighbors, a plate of cookies, a box of candy. \nBake some cookies together, and decorate them. Or make fudge.\nAnd don't forget the mistletoe!
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maybe on a christmas night? romantic
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How about Hot Lyts? \n\nhttp://www.hot-lyts.com/christmas-layouts.php
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Drive around and look at the beautiful lights.  It's so fun to see how people decorate their houses.  Even the cheesiest decorations make me smile, because it's only once a year, and it's still fun.  Put up a tree and decorate it.  Buy a good CD of classic Christmas tunes. Light a fire in the fireplace and listen to it and look at your tree with the room lights off.
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Them could be: Christmas Traditions Around the World\nFELIZ NAVIDAD\nFeliz Navidad\nFeliz Navidad\nFeliz Navidad\nProspero ano y felicidad\n\nHow other people around the world celebrate christmas.\nEach hall way can be decorated  in a different theme. \n\nOn Christmas morning, boys and girls around the world will waken early and run excitedly downstairs to see what Santa Claus has left for them... \n\nWell, that's not exactly how it goes -- for around the world children celebrate the Christmas holidays in many different ways. \n\nhttp://www.santas.net/aroundtheworld.htm\n\nThese are just some examples I got from the net. Click on Site above it will take you to all different catigories of countries that celebrate christmas differently!\n\nIn Mexico\nChristmas festivities begin with "Las Posadas," nine days from [December 16 to December 24] of lively parties. In villages and urban neighborhoods throughout Mexico, youngsters gather each afternoon to re-enact the holy family's quest for lodging in Bethlehem … The parade stops at a designated house to sing a traditional [song]. Holiday festivities end on "Noche Buena" (Christmas Eve) when families head home for a traditional Christmas supper and opening of gifts for the children. December 25th is set aside as a day to rest and enjoy the holiday. [On Christmas Eve] my family gathers for a traditional Christmas supper: "tamales" and Champurrado (corn gruel), or other traditional dishes. We dance and wait for 12 midnight to exchange and open gifts! Most relatives stay for the leftovers the next day.\n\nIn Germany, the 6th of December is a special day:\n...There's a special tradition all over Germany on December 6th. [On] the evening of December 5th you put your cleaned (big) boots outside the house in front of the door (or inside). Some people also put a plate there or on the windowsill. The bread in the plate is for the white horse of Santa Claus ... In the morning you see that Santa Claus really was at your house and put nice things into the boots or plates, e.g., all kinds of nuts, oranges, apples, sweets, chocolate, small presents ... But if you [weren't] well behaved the whole year you only get a switch so that your parents can punish you, but they don't!\nKristine and Wiebke, Germany\n\nAnd in Italy, January 6th is a day long-awaited by many children:\nThe 6th of January is the day on which the three Wise Men arrive at the Bethlehem cave in which kid Jesus is and give him gold, incense and myrrh and for this reason in Italy children receive presents traditionally brought by the "Befana," a good old witch who comes into their homes through the chimney. This is the last day to the Christmas holiday in Italy.\nElisbetta, Italy\n\nIn Sweden, December 13th is a special day that children look forward to all year long:\nSaint Lucia [Day] is celebrated all over Sweden on December 13th. The custom with the girl dressed in white with candles on her head has a complicated background ... In our school we celebrate Saint Lucia Day outside very early in the morning while it's still dark. Our Saint Lucia is coming in a carriage pulled by a very small horse. She is followed by Santa Claus on a big horse and a lot of girls and boys in white gowns and a lot of candles. They all sing traditional Christmas songs and read poems. After the ceremony we all eat ginger cookies and bread with saffron. To celebrate is very important to Swedish people.\nClass 4c in Nasbyparksskolan
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1. exchanging gifts on Christmas/birthdays\n2. not cutting in line\n3. saying bless you after someone sneezes\n4. getting married to only one person(vs. poligamy)\n5. having correct manners\n6. showing up on time\n7. Child labor laws (differ from country to country)\n8. amount of public displays of affection (in some countries men hold hands and are not considered gay or weak)\n9. equal rights\n10. we don't eat certain animals (like dogs or cats)\n\nThere's more, but i hope this steers you in the right direction!
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They are not mutually exclusive, I send a e-mail every Christmas to my family you could say that is my tradition yet it is in the form of modern technology...I also can make my grandmas recipes in a microwave... so you see where I am going here. Traditions are rituals we do to feel connected to someone/thing.  You can speed these things up with modernizations though.
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Here's some things you can try.....Cook a nice meal for him on christmas day his favorite foods...(you can also invite some of his friends/family and your friends/family over get some liqour&good christmas tunes and enjoy a pre-christmas meal with them...do this maybe a few days before christmas since the holidays are about being with family and friends) Rent a FUNNY christmas movie ( can't go wrong with Christmas Vacation.or..Just Friends & a classic movie) snuggle up with him and watch it,Drive around your town and look at christmas lights or if your town has a festival of lights go see that get a lil frisky in the car lol &If you're in an area where you'll probably get snow sneak out in the middle of the night and go on a snowman building adventure sneak into some random persons front yard and build some erotic snowmen doing sexual acts.... then sit in bed and giggle about it later,Buy him a present that he REALLY wants if you can,Stick some mistletoe on his belt buckle & tell him thats for later...make him wait he'll love the suspense of it all...make yourself look beautiful go to victoria secrets and buy a naughty Mrs.Clause outfit,give him a lil strip tease to that one song...by Marilyn Monroe called Santa Baby...( also lol theres a lot of really dirty adult type christmas music you can play during the holidays for each other in private or when you're having a christmas get together i gurentee he'll get a kick out of it just make sure the kids if you have any don't hear it lol) Those are a few things that might lift his christmas spirit..i personally think christmas reminds us all of being young so try to have lots of fun with him....Don't forget to tell him how much you love him and are thankful that you get to be with him on this day try to keep the smiles on his face.,...make him realize how lucky the two of you are and dont forget to be thankful for what you already have because someone out there has it worse !! Hope you have a great holiday !!!
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everything.  i love christmas.  the decorations, the cold weather,  the christmas dinner, baking cookies, shopping for christmas,  wrapping presents, the christmas music, seeing adorable little kids all dressed up to take pictures with santa at the mall,  decorating the christmas tree, being with my bf on such a special day and being with my family and friends.  seriously everything.  i like trying to make it a good day for everyone i know in whatever way i can.
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Hi, Merry Christms!\n\nI think a good place to start would be this:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?sm1=RmluYW5jaWFsIEFpZCBjaHJpc3RtYXM/IA==&fw=2&fc=4&ss=-1&es=-1&gwp=11&ver=1.0.8.207&method=1\n\nThis gives you a lot in detail. And then there a lot of links that take you elsewhere for more details. \n\nOr you can read here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas\n\nOtherwise, if there is something in particular, you are looking for, use google (www.google.com) to serach about it. \n\nI hope this Christmas turns out ot be informative for you. Have a great time reading and knowing!
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Christmas tree\npresents\nSanta Claus\nWhat does your family do for Christmas\nJesus\netc..
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The traditions that our family has built up over the years.  the colors, the music, the emphasis on good will and giving to others, the smells of the tree, gingerbread, fires in the fireplace, and the wamr comfort of being at home with family.
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in the city where i live there is a family park where during the winter a giant skating rink is made and during the night there are beautiful dark blue and white christmas lights in the trees.  all you need to do is take a blanket for a bench some hot chocolate in a thermos and your skates and your set for a romantic evening under the stars.
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heaps of ideas\nhttp://mariesmanor.fateback.com/Christmas-Decorations.html
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Refer to Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in "Runaway bride"!\nOkay, seriously, the most memorable was to include a ring ceremony with my children from a previous marriage.  This was separate but similar to our own exchange, but we each wrote a vow to the children.  They were very young, and now their rings are on chains that hang in my room.  I think they would make beautiful ornaments for a Christmas tree for their first Christmas tree when they are married. :)\n\nI also think inviting children of those you invite is important to teach children the sacred and specialness of weddings.  With this said, a table designed just for them with games, toys, pens, bubbles, kid foods, and a special attendant for them (and their own dance floor) and a small special bouquet and boutt. to make them part of it all. :)\n\nOne more, since you were probably not looking for children, the table decorated with small bowls of live beta fish in similar wedding colors, as favors, with thank you's around the edges of the fluted bowls (or as name place holders) with confetti hearts, glitter, or tinsel on mirrors with mini christmas like lights around would be nice if indoors or at night, too!  Congratulations and enjoy!
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If you have a great mixture of very young and very old, holiday bingo is good and easy. Just make the bingo cards with pictures of things instead of numbbers: a stocking, a doll, a candy cane, Santa, an ornament, a mistletoe, and so on. Then have those things in little slips of paper that you'll pull from to call out, "Under the B, a present! Or you could change the BINGO to SANTA, if you want. Putting together Christmas or wintery puzzles is a good activity if you can set up a few card tables. That way people can congregate for a little while or for the whole puzzle and different people get to visit as they move around to different puzzles. If you have some old family Christmas videos of when some of the older ones were very young, this is always a lot of fun for everyone to watch, too. You can just have them playing in the background rather than commanding everyone to sit and watch for a period of time.
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Since I was a kid, we always did the same thing.  About a week before Christmas, we'd make a thermos of hot chocolate, load everyone up in the car, put on some Christmas tunes and go look at all the Christmas lights.  Sometimes we'd assign each family member an item (snowmen, santas, nativities) and see how many we could count.  This is a tradition I've carried on with my own kids, and they look forward to it every year!