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The Holidays are here!
The Holidays are here!
This is my very favorite time of the year. I love the scents, twinkling lights, amazing food, family time, and everything else that make up the holidays. The kids and I put our tree and Christmas decor up yesterday. Lance is still gone to WY and it really doesn’t look like he’ll make it home for Thanksgiving. Major bummer. But we are in the Christmas spirit anyway!
And this giveaway will help one of you with that as well.
Taste of Home is giving one of you all three copies of their holiday recipe magazines.


Food Gifts (143 Gift Ideas!), Best Holiday Recipes (235 Recipes!), and Cookies & Candies (150 Recipes!) all for one of you.
Each recipe has a photo to go with it.
How mouthwatering do these look?
These magazines are available in stores until the end of December so you can pick up your own copies, as well.
To enter, just leave a comment telling me your favorite holiday tradition.
Please include your email address so I can contact you if you win.
Giveaway ends Monday Nov. 26th.
Goodie plates for friends and neighbors!
My favorite holiday tradition is baking all different kinds of cookies!
My favorite holiday tradition is sharing family stories over Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks for the giveaway!<br /><br />Email: throughthelookingglassreviews(at)hotmail(dot)com
I go holiday shopping with my in-laws and we buy for our own families. Then we trade with the others for gifts for their families. Everyone gets the perfect size and its something from their list. Sometimes it gets pretty crazy but its a great time.
Picking out of a hat for a secret Santa and then opening the gift on Christmas Eve.<br />
I love good food and White Elephant parties!
We always say what we are thankful for/blessings in our life before we open our Christmas presents.
Opening up the stockings on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning was by far my favorite tradition as a child 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway. I love the Taste of Home magazines.
My favorite holiday tradition is the weekend after Thanksgiving, putting on some Christmas music, taking out all of our decorations, and decorating the tree with my kiddos! 🙂
every Christmas eve we do dinner at a Chinese Restaurant and a movie, it helps take up time, since the kids are so excited.
We always have a nice dinner on NOV 1st. We start listening to Christmas music and open up holiday pjs. And we talk about what we want to do for the next couple of months to serve others and make special memories. Makes us all so excited for the holidays.
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Getting together with the whole family!<br /><br />Thanks for the giveaway – love your blog!
My favorite holiday tradition is making a big, fun breakfast full of pastries and mimosa for Christmas morning. We never eat breakfast together and I always eat healthy, so this is a special day for splurges and fun! I look forward to that most on Christmas!
We always have to have the same desserts every Christmas, everyone looks forward to their favorite goodies<br />smokisno@yahoo.com
My favorite tradition is Christmas morning with my husband and children – opening gifts and cooking breakfast!
fav family tradition is getting everyone together while feasting on some savory dishes til we pass out and do it again a couple hours later
My favorite tradition is going over to my mom's house to bake pumpkin bread.<br /><br />shelly8806@hotmail.com
For our family Christmas get together at my parent's retirement home we all bring two $5.00 gifts of some kind of snack items. We then play bingo & the winner gets to choose a bag. The ages range from 90 to 20 so snack items fit for everyone. It also takes up quite a bit of time but everyone has fun.<br /><br />lsandes@comcast.net
One of my favorite holiday traditions is getting together with my college sorority sisters and their sons and decorating cookies. We all have boys around the same age and they loves decorating the cookies for Santa and we love catching up! It's our "gift" to each other and we all look forward to it each year!
Watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation on Christmas Eve and doing our family's secret Santa exchange.
Favorite traditions – spending time with family
Our favorite family tradition is having Christmas cookies and candy by the bunches around Christmas Eve and Day. Thanks for the chance to enter.<br /><br />Andrea D.<br />short74717@msn.com
Baking weekend with my best friend, so much fun!!!! This is our 13th year!
I love decorating the house! Wherever we live, it makes the place feel extra special!
I host a cookie baking/candy making night with each of my dil's and daughter…it's a fun time for making memories in the kitchen. We also love reading aloud the Luke 2 Bible story of how CHRISTmas was born. =)
Baking holiday cookies with my daughter.14
Our favorite holiday tradition is getting new pj's on Christmas Eve and then everyone staying in them all day Christmas Day playing board games.
Making Christmas dinner and having all the family over…love and laughter, what more could you want?<br /><br />mommy0004(at) aol (dot) com
Making treats for my friends and neighbors. And having spiced eggnog and wrapping presents and stuffing stockings on Christmas Eve with my husband!
Opening up the stockings..<br />Even though my kids are grown they are always here with there families/ kids on Christmas morning and we open our stockings It's been a tradition for as long as I can remember!<br />Happy Holidays!
I love making holiday candy for family and friends.<br />pianoman2010@hughes.net
The kids and I like to make cookies then take then places like the neighbors and fire station and such. <br />Jamie<br />j-pennington@live.com
For the past seven years, my daughter and grandson have spent Christmas eve with us so we, as grandparents, get to share in the Santa Claus excitement on Christmas morning–the best gift ever!
I love baking cookies- reminds me of my Mom and I baking cookies late into the night.<br />Thanks for sharing<br />cyndi<br />thompson.39@osu.edu
My favorite tradition is decorating the house and putting on the christmas music- it's so warm and exciting.<br />allegratuscany@gmail.com
My most favorite tradition is baking cookies for family and giving out cookie trays- big hit and lots of yummy treats to eat along the way.<br />cyndihamm22@yahoo.com
Baking cutout cookies with my kids and putting together our annual gingerbread house.
We all get together on Thanksgiving to the big meal, this year I am making it all by myself ! Grandchildren are going to be here, so I am going to start a new tradition of letting the girls help me with the baking and snack making !<br />Can't wait to see how it goes..<br />Linda Finn<br />faithfulacres7@gmail.com
My grandma's ham sandwiches on Christmas Eve – thick cut honey ham on homemade rolls. Delish!
Our tradition revolves around the exchange of Christmas gifts. Our kids are all grown, starting families of their own in different parts of the globe. None of us have a lot of money to buy for everyone. We buy gifts for all the children, but the adults secretly draw the name of one person to give a gift to. We give a main gift to that person and then give stocking stuffers to the rest of the
My favorite holiday tradition is Christmas Eve candlelight services at church.<br /><br />Thanks!<br />sharonjo at gwtc dot net
My favorite tradition is baking & watching Christmas movies 🙂
We always have to have the same desserts every Christmas, everyone looks forward to their favorite goodies and opening the Christmas stockings!<br />dwmarks33@comcast.net
One of our holiday traditions is going to grandma & grandpa's for christmas eve. Everyone is there! It's what makes christmas so special, being with family.
Favorite tradition is looking at christmas lights and it's a wonderful life!