23. Our Christmas Traditions | Blogmas

As a family, we are all quite festive people as well as incredibly habitual. This results in having a plethora of Christmas traditions that we make sure we tick off the list every year! We love doing things as a family, especially around the holidays and these activities always put us in good spirits and bring us so close as a family. Some of these we have already done, and some are yet to come! Here's a list of the Christmas traditions myself and my family have for every year!

1. Decorating the tree/house

2. Gingerbread houses

3. Light hunting

4. Christmas film marathon

5. Lots of baking

6. Christmas Eve dinner at my aunts

7. Wearing our new pjs to bed on Christmas Eve

8. Stockings on Christmas morning

9. Christmas morning brunch

10. Desserts all day and being lazy on Christmas Day

What are some traditions your family has for Christmas time? I'd love to know so please do leave a comment!

Thanks for reading, xo, Katelyn

11. Things I Love About Christmas | Blogmas

The Christmas season has to be one of my favourite times of the year! It's such a cheerful time and I have so many amazing Christmas memories that I tend to get quite nostalgic over round this time. For today's Blogmas post, I'd like to share with you all the ten things I love most about Christmas!

1. Christmas carols

2. Church fellowship

3. Giving gifts

4. Sugar cookies

5. Christmas lights

6. The aura of joy

7. Hot chocolate

8. Christmas films

9. Cozy nights by the fireplace

10. Spending time with the people I love

I hope you enjoyed this list of the ten things I love most about Christmas time! Please do let me know in a comment what your favourite things about Christmas are!

Thanks for reading, xo, Katelyn

Day 8: The Christmas Tag | Blogmas

I saw this Christmas tag over on Lotte's blog, The Beauty Box and immediately added it to my list of Blogmas post ideas! So without further adieu, here is my Christmas Tag questions answered!

1. What is your favourite Christmas film?

My favourite Christmas film(s) would probably have to be the old, poorly animated versions of The Grinch, Charlie Brown's Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, and Rudolph. I know that's more than one, but we have the very old versions that are only 20 minutes each and every Christmas season my family watches them together back to back!

2. Do you open presents Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?

We do both, Mom's side Christmas Eve, immediate family on Christmas Day, and Dad's side is usually on Boxing Day.

3. What is your favourite Christmas memory?

My grandparents always wanted to be included in seeing us open our stockings. Instead of opening our gifts from Santa on Christmas morning, my cousins and I would all go for a walk after Christmas Eve dinner for about an hour while "santa" came to us and when we got back we would open our stockings all together. I loved being able to share this experience with my entire family and I cherish those memories fondly

4. What is your favourite festive food?

Probably sugar cookies. I'm not typically a huge sugary sweet fan, however there's something about sugar cookies that makes me want them by the handful!

5. What is your favourite Christmas gift that you've ever received?

Hmm- that's a super hard question! It's nothing crazy, but every year my mom and dad buy me a new pair of Christmas pyjamas and I always look forward to them so much! It's the little, thoughtful things for me haha. 

6. What is your favourite Christmas scent?

Definitely Yankee Candle Vanilla Cupcake! It's absolutely to die for! A close second would be the Twisted Peppermint candle from Bath and Body works.

7. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?

I do! I touched on it briefly in question 3. Christmas Eve is definitely my big, crazy Christmas where all my family gets together, eats amazing food, laughs, and exchanges all our gifts. It's such an amazing night!

8. What tops your tree?

Here at the apartment in Ottawa, nothing... haha. My roommates and I completely overlooked that aspect of decorating (we're newbies, okay?) Back home our tree is topped by a spire/finial. 

9. What is your favourite festive song?

Definitely O Holy Night, it's such a beautiful song! Check out my Spotify holiday playlist post!

10. What is the best part of Christmas for you?

Definitely seeing all my family. This has always been the case as I'm a huge family person, but now that I'm living away from home it's that much more exciting and important for me to see them and share the fellowship of Christmas with the ones I love. 

I'd love to see everyone do this tag- so consider yourself tagged! If you do this, let me know in a comment so I can check it out.

Thanks for reading, xo, Katelyn