Making my Gran’s Christmas cake and having a real tree.
@little_valley_photographynz
French pastries for breakfast!
@alainasims
Christmas breakfast. As children, we got to choose our favourite cereal, and mum and dad would buy us each our own box for Christmas breakfast. Now I'm 31 and mum and dad still buy us our own special box of cereal.
@laurelle.w
All of us kids sleep under the Christmas tree on the night of the 23rd each year, staying up late watching Christmas movies.
@staczeez
All our kids sleep in the same room on Christmas Eve. They are 16, 13, 12 and 11 now and still do it. We also get the kids a new ornament each year and when they leave home and start having their own trees they get to take their ornaments with them.
@nzfarmmumx4
Everybody being home to do the tree decorating.
@lisa.denn
My favourite as a child was my grandma hiding coins in the Christmas pudding and you found them as you ate it! We haven’t continued this one on, but I think I should find a way to...
@walterlibby
My mother and my daughter doing the flowers for the Christmas table together.
@thefoodfarmnz
When our kids were little (they're now late 20s), Dave-down-the-road grew Christmas trees. The kids and I would ride down the (gravel) road on the quad, singing Christmas carols at the top of our voices. We'd pop $10 in Dave's old gumboot at the back door, go down the paddock and argue over which tree (the kids always wanted the biggest, I wanted the one nearest the top of the hill)! Then I'd saw it off, drag it up the hill to the bike, strap it on and we'd head home, singing all the way home, Foxie tearing along beside the bike. Then, of course, there was the whole palaver of putting it up and decorating. But I always loved that "the girls" did this every year. Sadly Dave ran out of trees about ten years ago.
@shonaaddison
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