Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories - Day 10 - Christmas Traditions

This series of blog posts has been inspired by Geneabloggers Advent Calendar to share memories for others in the future.


I do not feel that I have many Christmas traditions now but as a child we had traditions although I have not kept many.

Christmas traditions we had as a child are:

• eat turkey with vegetables (inc sprouts & parsnips), potatoes, pigs in blankets, stuffing, bread sauce, Yorkshire puddings and lots of gravy with Christmas pudding or Christmas cake for dessert
• watch Queen's speech at 3pm
• play a board game or two
• spend Christmas day with my maternal grandparents
• go out for a Christmas day stroll
• go to church Christmas morning
• go to a Carol service at some point in the lead up to Christmas
• open our presents on Christmas morning

Christmas traditions I like to keep:

• eat turkey roast as above (but this is dependant on who's cooking)
• play a board game
• spend Christmas with family members
• go to a Carol service
• open our presents on Christmas morning