Day 5 - LC Chase
On the fifth day of Christmas, my (your) true love gave to me (you)….
Greetings, everyone! I’m so happy to be a part of RJ’s Advent Calendar this year!
Advent calendars were one of my favorite things leading up to Christmas when I was younger. The best part of each morning was opening that little door and discovering a new prize. Now that I’m older, Christmas Eve is my favorite—sitting by a fire with friends and family, playing games, munching on too many yummy treats, and drinking hot chocolate and apple cider while snow falls lightly outside…
Competition
But, we were talking about advent calendars, which means contest time! 😀 You have the chance to win one of the following:
A $5 Amazon gift card.
Or! A $5 Kobo gift card.
Or! A $5 Barnes and Noble gift card.
To have your name added in the random drawing to win one of the three gift cards, post a comment, or photo or meme of your favorite Christmas tradition (and your gift card of choice). I'll spin the Wheel of Names for three lucky winners’ names on the morning of December 10th.
Happy holidays, everyone! 🙂
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Watching Love, Actually every year with my husband.
Watching It’s a Wonderful Life while wrapping Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve
Watching It’s a Wonderful Life while wrapping Christmas gifts on Christmas Eve. (Amazon Ca)
Eating homemade cookies and decorating the Christmas tree.
The tree all lit 🎄🎄🎄
Amazon
I have gifted my sons with a special Christmas ornament each year since their birth. I have continued that tradition with my grandchildren and my daughter’s in law. I have so much fun picking out the ornaments each year.
Amazon gift card, please. Thank you.
Family Christmas dinner with cold meats, salads
Amazon AU
Christmas breakfast, with homemade cinnamon rolls and mimosas. Amazon gift card would be my choice.
Watching White Christmas and The Muppet Christmas Carol with my kids on Christmas Eve. Amazon gift card if I’m lucky enough to win 🙂
Decorating tree with family. $5 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC
Christmas eve candlelight service at church.
Amazon US
Decorating the Christmas tree & making mincemeat pies. Individual ones so they are bite size goodness over several days
Christmas eve when the whole family gets together. Amazon US.
Watching Christmas movies. Amazon US.
Driving around looking at Christmas lights and decorating cookies.
Finger foods on Christmas Eve with family. Amazon please.
Barbecue breakfast Christmas morning with my parents
And Amazon US gift card
Seeing my kids open presents. I would love an Amazon gift card
Extended family get-together. I have a LARGE extended family and we’d have a mini-reunion and potluck with gift exchange game every year. Needed to rent a hall to accomodate everyone (between my mom’s brother, sisters and cousins and all the kids and grandkids I think 125 people showed up one year).
I would love a KOBO gift card.
Extended family mini-reunion and potluck with a gift exchange game. Lots of fun seeing everyone. Between mom’s sib’s and cousins and all their kids and grandkids I think 125 people showed one year. We had to rent a hall.
I would like a KOBO gift card.
looking at christmas lights
amazon au
Friends and family gathering for dinner and a white elephant gift exchange.
Turn all the lights off at night except for the Christmas lights.
Amazon GC
Waffles on Christmas morning!
And Amazon US, should I be so fortunate.
My 11 am on Christmas Day drink, to toast the family where ever they may be. As I come from a long line of travellers and forces personnel this has been a tradition in my family for such a long time no one actually knows when it started but my children are continuing the tradition.
Forgot to say that if I should win (unlikely I know) I would love the Amazon Gift card please.
Making a special Christmas cake with my mom from a recipe passed down from her mom (my grandmother). I would like an Amazon US gift card.
Decorating tree and enjoying the lights every evening. Amazon UK please.
I love having a glass of Prosecco while decorating the tree. It’s the one day in the run up to Christmas that my husband voluntarily listens to Christmas music with me and we have all sorts of silly baubles that make us giggle as we put them up. I’d love an Amazon uk voucher if I were to win x
Christmas lunch/dinner with family. And driving around with my kids too look at Christmas lights.
If I win I would like the Amazon gift card.
Every Christmas Eve the entire family gets together and watches White Christmas and Arthur Christmas. PJ’S are optional. Baileys in my coffee is not!
I forgot to add that I would like an Amazon gift card. Thanks.
Christmas Eve dinner with the whole family! We prepare specific food (type and number) every year and gather together.
Amazon gift card 🙂
Christmas reading (from either amazon or kobo)
Making a gingerbread house with my daughter. Amazon
Listening to Christmas stories and songs on my mother’s old vinyl records.
Amazon gift card.
We host a big Christmas Eve dinner for everyone who has nowhere else to go that day. We usually have around 50 dinner guesta and it’s always a great time.
Kobo US GC if I win, please.
Christmas Eve dinner with family. Amazon GC if I win, please.
Eating junk food that is easy to prepare or was pre-prepared to allow more time with family rather than alone in the kitchen. And everyone knows that food doesn’t have calories or carbs on Christmas Day.
Amazon US
Tree decorating while listening to Christmas carols 😌 (I’d like the Amazon gift card)
Preparing Christmas lunch with family, listening to Christmas carols. Please may I have the Amazon gift card.
Christmas Day get together with extended family. Amazon card please
My favourite Christmas tradition is spending time in the kitchen with my Mom, chatting the hours away and rebuilding the world, while getting yummy treats ready : the Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas lunch, of course, but also Christmas cookies, chocolate truffles, marzipan filled fruits…
I’m getting my books from Amazon US or Kobo Fr…
When I was younger, it was sitting around with my mom and brother opening gifts in the morning. Even if we had peeked and had a scavenger hunt, she always somehow had a surprise gift or two we had not found. I swear my brother was a blood hound. Now it’s usually dinner and hanging with loved ones. I just that all boils down to seeing someone truly joyous for the holiday.
Secret Santa & watching Christmas movies.
Ordering pizza on Christmas Eve (we don’t cook the night before a big family feast) and after the children are asleep wrapping and putting their presents under the tree
Decorating the house with Christmas music and eggnog. And Amazon Ca
Baking cookies and decorating the tree. Amazon gift card.
Eggnog.
Dinner with family and watching the ” Indian thriller” video on youtube ( the Indian cover of Michael Jackson😁). Amazon gc♥ . 😁😁😊
Baking sugar cookies with my son
Amazon us
I love sending out cards every year and hanging up the ones I receive
The Christmas pickle ornament. I might even be the oneto hide it and buy the present this year.
Amazon US, please.
I love watching Charlie Brown Christmas every year!
My favorite tradition is the trip we take to pick-up my nephew and youngest niece for their week long Christmas visit. Since they are school age we don’t get to see them very often, only during summer break and winter break, so they are very important visits for us. We fit a lot of love and experiences into those visits!!
Christmas morning breakfast, so much food, as many of our kids(4) plus spouses and 7 grandkids, my sister and mother in law! Full house filled with laughter and joy. Amazon card please.
Spending time with the little family that I have left. I would love the Amazon card. Thank you.
I love the various get togethers with people (family) you don’t see all the time. Amazon for me, thanks
Baking the pies. Pumpkin pie and Fudge nut pie.
Amazon
Baking the pies. Pumpkin pie and Fudge nut pie.
Amazon
Watching Christmas movies all month, and opening one present on Christmas Eve. (Amazon US, thanks for the chance!)
Dec 25th spent in my PJ’s with noting planed ❤️🤩🧑🎄 (Amazon US please 😊)
We always watch a Christmas Story. I also make baklava.
Watching hallmark movies!
Rediscovering the antique ornaments I inherited.
We collect lottery tickets for months and then on Christmas Eve we all sit down and scratch them. We make hot chocolate and listen to music and have a good time.
Amazon GC
Cutting down the Christmas with whichever child and family are home! Amazon if I am so lucky☺️
Decorating the house for the holidays
Merry Christmas 🎄 I love watching Christmas movies and reading lovely holiday stories 💕
Favourite Traditon is decor.
I’m going to do a childhood one. My brother and I when we were elementary age (probably started when we were even younger), would always take the bows off our presents and put them on our Uncle Bob’s head.
Watching my 2 sons light the menorah each night of Hanukkah. Then having “theme” nights for presents. That way I could always sneak in the clothes they needed!
Baking fruitcakes with my daughters!
Our own advent calendar. Growing up we had one my mom made by hand. At home I have one we’ve cobbled together. – Barnes and Noble please!
My favorite Christmas tradition is family dinner on Christmas Eve. It’s about 40 people eating weird, meatless foods (mostly soups) in silence before we then get a visit from Santa then the adults drink. Always so memorable!
Driving through neighborhoods looking at light displays on Christmas Eve (Amazon US)
When my girls lived at home it was always going and getting a new ornament for the tree each ear. We all picked out one new ornament. This year they have homes of their own. It’s kinda sad to see the tradition leave but they each got a stack of memories with the ornaments they’ve taken to their own homes.
Getting the family together for at least once in the year.and having certain food dishes just for the day. (Amazon)
Watching The Polar Express with the family cuddled up on the sofa in our PJ’s.
Decorating the house and listening to Christmas music.
Decorating the tree with all the ornaments I’ve collected or made through the years. (Amazon)
This year is a little better than last year. Mom died December 30,2019 so all events last year were really rough. I’m hoping this Christmas Day is like last year’s where both Spawn show up and we play games until very late. (B&N)
In our family the youngest person present always puts the Angel atop the Christmas tree when we decorate it. On Christmas morning the oldest person present always plays “Santa” handing out the gifts from beneath the tree. Traditions are all important.
AMAZON thanks
Christmas tree shopping and decorating. And looking at Christmas lights. I never get tired of Christmas lights. They’re expensive and we can’t afford them, but I love looking at other peoples especially when they go all out.
Amazon.
Putting the infant Jesus into the creche that sat under the Christmas tree when we got home from midnight services
Amazon US
Mak8ng Christmas cookies with my mom. Amazon gift card, please
Dinner at Christmas Eve at my sister’s… all the family, lots of food and so much noise… it is crazy
Having a nice dinner at a restaurant and then drive around town to check out Christmas decorations and lights. B&N please.
Driving to my family or my husband’s family, while listening to my Pentatonix Christmas playlist. Hoping COVID-19 dies down so we can all safely get back to celebrating together… (Amazon US)
Watching A Christmas Carol (the Alastair Sim version) on Christmas day
My favorite Christmas tradition was to celebrate my Dad’s Birthday! I prefer the Amazon gift card, if chosen. Thanks for reminding me of past times.
It’s not Christmas until I’ve had an egnog latte at Starbucks! I’d like the Amazon gift card if I’m luckily enough to win!
I have a new favorite tradition. My 97-year-old mother passed away summer 2020. Now, I hang her hand-crocheted ornaments on my tree – stars, snowflakes, stockings, bags.
(Amazon GC would be enjoyed. Thank you for this contest.)
Pineappple uppsidedown cake
Watching certain Christmas movies/specials. Amazon US gift card.
I love decorating cookies and gingerbread houses. I’d love to choose Amazon.
Visiting the Christmas display at Meet man’s with my sons and now my grandson.
Having my kids home Christmas Eve until at least boxing day. Amazon GC
Taking turns opening presents in the morning followed by a special breakfast and then looking in our stockings from Santa. Amazon gift card.
I’ve been alone for the past few years so I have no traditions. Once I move, hopefully this coming year, I’ll be able to start some. AZ GC.
opening one present each on Christmas eve. Amazon Gift card
Every Christmas Eve our church does a special service and then we come home for a charcuterie supper and look at lights in our neighborhood. (B&N card)
Looking at Christmas lights in different neighborhoods
I love Christmas Eve movie night with hot chocolate and Christmas cookies! (Amazon)
Congrats, Michelle! You are the contest winner of an Amazon gift card. Please send me an email at authorlcchase @ gmail.com (no spaces), and let me know where to send your gift card.
Thank you so much for taking part, and all the best to you this Christmas and New Year’s!
Just spending time with family and relax…..whatevers being done/watched/eaten is just the bonus ! (AmazonAU)
My favorite Christmas tradition my sisters and Have now that we are older is get together at one of our house Christmas Day Morning and have a big Breakfast. It goes way back to our Christmas mornings with we were younger. If I am a lucky winner I would like an Amazon gift card. Thanks for the chance. Earleen
Mailing holiday greeting cards, listening to Christmas music and watching Christmas movies. If chosen, I’d like an Amazon US GC.
I have lovely childhood memories of celebrating Christmas with a large extended family. My folks and I also still enjoy driving around to look at the lights on houses. We like to have a nice dinner, and a choice of pies. 🙂 An Amazon U.S. or Barnes & Noble gift card would be nice. 🙂
We have a copy of “A Fortunate Blizzard” at our local library. I’ll have to take a picture. That’s how my mother found the book and read it. I had read it before then. 🙂
Happy holidays!
Making cookies with the kids
For me it’s decorating the tree 🌲
Watching Christmas movies.
Amazon
Watching cheesy Hallmark Christmas movies with my sisters and we also make banana bread ( so so yummy.) Amazon US GC please.
Baking the cookie recipes that my grandmother always made. Amazon us..
Happy holidays!
My favorite is spending time with family (opening gifts might be tied).
Should I win, I’d appreciate an Amazon gift card.
Decorating the house. Amazon gift card
Cutting of our homemade Christmas cake on Christmas eve.
Decorating the Christmas tree and going to Zoolights with my family. Amazon US gift card if I happen to win. Thank you!
My favorite tradition was eating Christmas breakfast with my family (this was after I got married). My father would do most of the breakfast cooking. Sadly mom and dad have been gone for several years but I still remembers those great breakfasts.
I love eating our friends’ tamales on Christmas Eve (and giving them homemade chocolate stout cupcakes in return). Amazon or Kobo would be great!
Having Christmas dinner buffet style in the living room with family… Amazon card
decorating, Amazon
Decorating, watching our own version of Christmas movies with my nephew and the big dinner on the 24th with all the immediate family (about 15 people!). It’s huge and lots of leftovers for days xD.
AMAZON US please
Have 2 – Spending time with family and friends & enjoying all of the Christmas music (Amazon or Kobo)
The tradition in my mom’s is home is that everything, decorating, baking and cleaning are done the day before Christmas. Which means all hands on deck. And I think I’ve continue this after leaving more.
Amazon.
Maybe I’m weird but I love doing Secret Santa with my friends, it’s a tradition we have since high school and it’s awesome, we also get really drunk at the opening party 😂😂
Kobo GC
Putting up the tree!
Amazon
My family always has a great game of opening white elephant gifts. The trading is always so fun. Plus we always have amazing card games the rest of the day/evening.
Christmas morning with just our immediate family. My husband makes an English breakfast and we open gifts together.
Whoops! I forgot to say Barnes and Noble! 😁 🌲
I love our Christmas eve party we have every year
Unwrapping new PJ’s Christmas Eve
I love listening to my rather large, curated playlist of Christmas music pretty much from sunup to sundown! And I adore advent calendars. Now that I’m not fixing one for a young person, I make at least one for me to do in December. So RJ putting this together is an extra special treat! A Kobo card would be great, thank you for the chance!
Fixing foods we only eat at Christmas: mincemeat pie, eggnog, rolled out cookies we cut into shapes,, chocolate covered cherries, and wassail while listening to the records and CD’s we’ve collected during our 50 year marriage, and reminiscing about how ‘times have changed.’ Pulling out the photo albums is a must. As is trimming the tree with ornaments our children and grandchildren have made, especially the ones with their photos on them) along with the ‘souvenir’ ones we pick up as we travel.
An Amazon would be wonderful, thanks for asking!
Watching White Christmas every year and making cookies.
My favorite thing is watching everyone open their gifts before sitting down for a light breakfast.
I would like an Amazon card.
Don’t celebrate so we don’t have any christmas traditions.
Amazon US
We spend Christmas Eve with my Husband’s family and it is always such a great start. Then get up Christmas morning and open the gift. Amazon.
Watching White Christmas while decorating the tree. Amazon US
Kids and I love to go together to pick out the “perfect” Christmas tree. Something always goes haywire. Two years ago tree lot attendant assured me tree was secured on the roof of my car’s roof. Half way home, my daughter suddenly got all excited. saying look 👀 look, The tree had slid off the roof and was hanging off her side of the car. 😂😂😂
I love our family’s tradition of having antipasto for Christmas Eve supper, followed by playing cards or Yahtzee. I’d love the Kobo gift card. Thanks!
No kids in our house anymore, so Christmas is the one day of the year we get a sleep in and have bacon and eggs for breakfast.
Going to the Festival of the Holidays at EPCOT/Disney World! And watching Hallmark movies and reading holiday romances from Amazon…
Amazon cards! My favorite tradition is hubby and I go to a local store and surprise a customer or two by paying for their purchases.
Driving around looking at Christmas lights! (oh, and Amazon)
Watching A Christmas Story on a 24-hour loop starting 8 pm Christmas Eve through 8 pm Christmas day. It may even be background noise while cooking dinner and sipping on spiked egg nog.
Every year I watch the Star Wars movies and Die Hard with the kids. We also drive to Orlando to see all of the Disney Xmas tree stuff.
Favorite tradition is family dinner.
My tradition is just getting to spend time with my family since all my kids grown up and on their own these days. And also I watch White Christmas every year.
Amazon gift card
I love to make up little bags of different candies, teas, and cookies that celebrate the season. Happy Holidays!
we let the kids open one present each on xmas eve
I love baking especially the goodies I grew up with.
My long standing tradition is to watch Christmas movies(regular and obscure/weird) with my kids even now that they’re older. A new tradition my daughter started last year is hiding a small frame picture of Chevy Chase from Christmas Vacation around the house until Christmas day. When its found, that person then hides it again.
baking mini mincemeat pies. My nana always made them for Christmas, and now that I’m the nana, I make them for my grandkids.
Driving around to see the decorations and watching Christmas movies with my mom
Amazon
Looking at all the Christmas lights. Amazon gift card
The Christmas lights so beautiful. Amazon US
Singing carols while decorating our tree has always been my favorite – from the time when I was a child, to raising my own, to now decorating with my daughter and granddaughter. ❤
Oops! Forgot to mention I’d prefer the Amazon card, thank you!
24 hours of A Christmas Story
Eating all of the fruit mince pies! – Amazon.au please!
Watching National Lampoons Christmas Vacation while wrapping presents.
A favourite tradition is blasting the Christmas tunes, while decorating, with the dog going crazy under our feet. It’s our puppy Theo’s 1st Christmas this year, which makes it extra special. (Amazon UK card, pls.)
My mom’s college best friend has always been a part of our lives, but lived far away. So every year she sends us presents and we always open them on christmas eve together as a family. Even last year when we were all separate due to the pandemic she sent everyone their gifts and we did a zoom so we could open them together. She is even including my son in the tradition. It’s lovely. (Amazon gift card)
The weekend before December, myself, sister, and cousins all head to my Nan’s to spend the whole day putting up her outside lights. Christmas music playing, McDonalds delivered for lunch and lots of cups of tea made by Gramps 🙂
I love making christmas cookies and looking at all the beautiful lights! I’d love and amazon or barnes and noble gift card!
Treat making with my daughter
Amazon 😁
Driving to look at light displays
I am all about the mulled cider and wine. We do have a log we drilled to hold candles that we light every year. Thanks for including Kobo.
Me and my kids do 12 days of cookie baking. Amazon gift card
My favorite tradition is making Pan De Polvo(Mexican Wedding Cookies)with my mom for the family and I’d love an Amazon card. Thank you so much for the chance and happy holidays! 💙🎄
My family likes to celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. We order pizza, watch movies, open presents. Its been a tradition since my first nephew was born. (Amazon for me.)
Getting new pajamas on Christmas Eve to wear to present opening and brekkie the next morning! And Amazon!
I love sitting down evey year to do my Christmas cards.
Watching my sons face one the morning of Christmas.
Amazon please
I create a spotify playlist every year for Christmas that I enjoy all month long!