What do you like doing during Christmas holidays?

On Christmas itself, I go to my parents’ house for dinner and exchanging presents. Over the holiday season (mid December to probably end of January), I enjoy visiting friends for the same.

I am going to kill hundreds of assimilated Borg Snowmen, race against alien spiders, and win a Breen T6 Carrier.
Q loves all his little creatures. Even you!

My family all gets together at my parents house for appetizers and finger foods, then we all exchange presents and then have a nice meal together. We’re supposed to be cutting back on gifts this year. We’ll see. :) I was blessed with a great family.

Hide under a rock.

Either I’m going out with my family (I could go with my BFF if her exams wasn’t the same time as Christmas) or I’m warping myself in my blanket with my laptop besides me.

I enjoy all the Christmas music for a few weeks. I like that my house is decorated. We also like to drive around and check out some of the elaborate lights people set up on their houses.

Post-Thanksgiving, I don’t care so much about the food. We’re probably going out to dinner Christmas Eve, which will be nice.

Try to get a visit in with my Mom,and other than that pretty low keyed ,Mrs Squeeky has to work,(She loves working Christmas,gets triple time for it) I usually cook a dinner for her,this year will be a Turkey roast.
We stopped doing the gift thing a few years back,opted for a shopping trip together after the holidays,we seem to like that better and no guess work.

Open House Parties with friends, and a couple concerts.

I have open house parties to go to on the 13th, the 20th, and the 21st.

Tomorrow night is a house concert put on by a music promoter I know, and a week from today is Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens playing in San Francisco.

There’ll be some family stuff too, but we’re mostly spread out, so not a lot.

Slugging down eggnog, hearing the song and singers of my youth, and staying as far from traffic as possible.

We may travel for the holidays. If it doesn’t snow.

Otherwise, I like to listen to good music. Last year we went and saw Benjamin Brittain’s Ceremony of Carols.

We have been having rib roast for our Christmas dinner the past few years. Very good.

@syz. Room for two under there?

I like Christmas parties with friends, which doesn’t happen often anymore. But just might this year.
I hate anything that is a “you have to do this” “you must feel this way”.

Spending seriously quality time with the wife & especially my kids, nothing says xmas more than that, unless I count the looks on the servants faces when I tell them they may have xmas day off :)

@gailcalled @syz Three?

Seeing and socializing with a few friends and my daughter and her BF. Otherwise, being older now it is all sort of a “been there, done that” thing. haha I enjoy not having all the pressure of shopping and extreme holiday pressure anymore these last 10 years or so, keeping it simple is where it’s at.
This year my daughter is coming up here to the ranch for Xmas eve celebrating, but that won;t change the usual farmy chores I have going on. I’ll be all alone here on the property so a good part of my holiday will be away in a manger, literally.

Horses and other critters don’t care if it’s Xmas, they still need their stalls cleaned and their hay and grain. I’ll be in the barn at dark on Xmas eve, bedding down the equines before my celebrating begins. lol

I like visiting my daughter’s family for a very casual dinner and having a honey baked ham with my s/o around that time. My favorite is exchanging gifts with my daughter and grandchildren.

@janbb:Sure, I will be the life of the party.

@gailcalled Maybe Frodo’s new owners will lend him to us for the holidays. That would add to the festivities.

I like getting together with the family for a meal on a day when you can forget about everything else. I love looking at the Christmas tree lights. I am easily amused.

Spending money. Mostly buying stuff on the internet at home. It’s good for the economy.

@gondwanalon Well hey Santa baby.
I’d like this pony please.
You can purchase him here:

www.equinenow.com/horse-ad-917622

If wishes were horses….

As little as possible. I just want to relax and spend time with my family.

Last xmas my house was burglarized, so this time I’ll be maintaining a major blaze in my fireplace to discourage any “drop-in” “visitors”.

Drinking seasonal beers.

@syz beat me to my original answer, “Hide!”

If I could choose my ideal Christmas holiday, I’d spend a week alone in a hut on a secluded beach with a fridge stocked with yummy finger foods and a well stocked bar.

Listening to Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker while making the house look all wintery and festive.

Watching Home Alone one home alone.

Christmas night I will once again make the holiday the highlight of the year by watching The Lord Of the Ring trilogy in order as a mini-marathon. (I really love Howard Shore’s musical score for all three movies.)

Home Alone Robot chicken realistic revenge

Drinking Stella Artois late Christmas Eve in my bedroom while I watch The Christmas Story on TBS and wrap all of the presents for our chidren.

@Coloma Wow $15K and free shipping. Such a deal! But that’s not much compared to food, housing, and vet bills. Maybe renting a horse now and then would be best?

@gondwanalon Already have 2 horses here, but fun to browse, like car shopping. haha

Cook, eat, spend time with both family and friends, take lots of pictures, take a walk in the woods (if possible, but not likely) spend some time on Pinterest looking at Xmas stuff, getting a good night’s sleep (if possible, but not likely). Watch as many of the Xmas shows as possible. Already saw Charlie Brown. Looking forward to the Grinch, Rudolph and Patrick Stewart’s Christmas Carol.

My family has a big, casual, pre-Christmas party that moves from house to house each year. This year, it’s going to be at my cousin’s house, the one who lives 15 minutes from our house, so that will be nice because we won’t have to spend a lot of time on the road, nor get home too late. It’s always a potluck and all of my family members are good cooks, so the food is always a treat. I’ve gotta try to find a way to rein in my gluttonous eating though, I’ve lost a few pounds and I look pretty good, trying to keep it that way, whilst still enjoying the spread.

@Kardamom I like the pun ” while still enjoying the “spread.” lol
Man, I have been eating waaay too much the last few weeks, we have 3 huge containers of assorted Xmas cookies right now, almond pumpkin bread and enough chips to sink the Titanic.
My spread could reach Ponderosa proportions if I keep this up. lol

@Coloma Ha! I hadn’t even realized I’d made a pun : )

I will be doing my first round of baking on Tuesday. I’m baking for some co-workers who don’t like overly sweet stuff, and they’re guys, so I’m doing a beer cheese quick bread, lemon shortbread cookies, and gingerbread men. These are all new recipes, so I find the whole thing a bit daunting, but I’m bound and determined to get it all done and wrapped in one day, to be delivered the next day. I will be up early.

Can I put in an order @Kardamom. I have a feeling your baking outcomes will be far superior to mine. Mice pies? Shortbread cookies sound delicious!

Mice pies? ewww gross. You Aussies eat anything.

Hey you guys, don’t laugh. You can buy frozen, chopped, baby mice to feed birds of prey in rehab. I have had a cookie sheet in the oven before thawing frozen chopped mice, the aroma is not exactly that of pound cake. lol

@Coloma Well then send @Earthbound_Misfit a gross of them. It seems to be a delicacy there.

LOL @Adirondackwannabe. YUM! Mice pies. I think even @Kardamom‘s mice pies might leave something to be desired.

I knew that would give you a chuckle. I don’t know, @Kardamom might be able to pull it off. :)

I think mince pies are fowl.

@Adirondackwannabe, if anyone can, it will be @Kardamom.

Oh my goodness! There is even a recipe. Perhaps it looks like this.

The worst pie ever is Rhu-barf! Gah!
I ordered Cherry pies at my local bakery a few years ago and they gave me Rhubarf instead.
Nasty stuff, looks like raw meat, tastes like crap. haha

@Kardamom: I decided that this is the year I am going to try to make Jamaican Black Cake, NY Times’ recipe. I bought fruit, I need to buy the liquor and I have been soaking some cherries in brandy sealed in a bag in the refrigerator since around July.

Rhubarb is one of, if not my, favorite pies!