Woohoo, with we're to day ten. Wait, it's almost over? Boo! With the holidays and cold weather aproaching a hot cup of coffee, cocoa, or tea is just the thing! Well the fantastic Sean and Amanda from His and Her Hobbies blog are trying to make that happen for you! If you check out their blog you can see about sewing/crafting, travel, books, and so much more!
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What is your favorite way to celebrate the holidays?
Our favorite way to celebrate the holidays is to spend the day with family and friends trying to recreate as many traditions as possible. Amanda's family always spends Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together. Her mom makes the big meal, but Amanda is in charge of desserts. Presents are opened Christmas morning, with one gift opened on Christmas Eve. Skyping with Sean's family is a must also!
Do you prefer a white Christmas or are you more of a Christmas on the beach person?
Amanda: I love the idea of a white Christmas, though it has not happened yet. I am hoping that one day I will get to see the world blanketed with snow on Christmas morning.
Sean: I much prefer a hot Christmas as it is what I grew up with. A cold, white Christmas doesn't seem right to me. I am used to Christmas day being around 90 degrees so bring on the beach weather every December!
If you could receive any gift this year, what would it be?
Amanda: A cruise with my family would be an amazing gift!
Sean: A business class plane ticket to visit my family and friends for the Christmas holiday would be great.
Do you have any fun Holiday traditions you practice?
When I (Amanda) was younger, my grandmother would always let us open one gift on Christmas Eve, because we just couldn't wait until Christmas morning. I have such fond memories of repeatedly asking her if it was time for us to open the gift yet. She would laugh and I loved her smile. I miss her a lot, especially at Christmas, so Sean and I continue the tradition of opening a gift on Christmas Eve. It makes me feel like she is still in the room with me, laughing as I tear open the wrapping and check out the present inside.
What's your favorite Holiday food?
Amanda: I make a Ho Ho Cake from Brown Eyed Baker's website that has become a family favorite for Christmas dessert. It's so delicious! Layers of chocolate cake and icing, designed to taste like a Hostess Ho Ho. You can find the link to the recipe HERE.
Sean: My favorite would be corn pudding. It's my favorite side dish and I am lucky that Amanda's mm makes it every year knowing how much I love it.
Okay, that cake. Now. Thanks for the recipe Amanda! Ready for the giveaway?
Amanda and Sean are offering one lucky reader a $25 Starbucks gift card!
Giveaway ends on 11/25/14 at 12AM and is open to USA only.
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Going out and chopping down our Christmas tree each year when the kids were young. Now we have an artificial because it is not as much fun with no kids.
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ReplyDeleteGetting a puppy when I was younger. We had wanted a pet for a long time and getting one was amazing.
ReplyDeleteMy son's first Christmas is one of my favorite holiday memories.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is baking Christmas cookies with my grandma
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite memories are of my children decorating the tree.
ReplyDeleteDecorating the tree with my parents while listening to Christmas music and baking cookies in the oven!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is visiting my grandparents in California and going to their big family Christmas party. They have been dead for many years now and I wish we would all still get together like that.
ReplyDeleteI love spending time with my family! :)
ReplyDeleteWe used to drive around to see holiday displays. It seemed so magical as a kid!
ReplyDeleteChristmas lights! They are my favorite. I make my husband drive me around to look at them still.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 7 my parents bought us bikes - so I had to do a treasure hunt to find them with clues it was awesome :)
ReplyDeleteDriving around to see Christmas lights, now we go to Shadrack to see them! It's awesome!
ReplyDeleteMaking gingerbread cookies with my grammy!
ReplyDeleteIt's a funny memory - I remember my sister telling my that Santa wasn't real...I was so hysterical. Sad then but funny now
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ReplyDeleteIt was actually the year I blew off xmas dinner and went to the beach and got drunk with a friend for her birthday!
ReplyDeleteI loved having our first christmas as a family!
ReplyDeleteOpening my stocking on Christmas morning
ReplyDeleteI loved going to my town's festival of lights. It's something I look forward to doing with my own children!
ReplyDeleteMy sons first Christmas is my favorite memory.
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Spending time with my family :) .
ReplyDeleteGetting together and spending time with my family
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ReplyDeleteWatching movies with my Grandmother and cooking food with my Nana
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... I think my favorite is just being in my parents living room, taking turns opening presents, watching their black lab tear into the wrapping paper and just soaking in the feelings of love and happiness.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory is skiing on Christmas with my family.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Holiday memory is when I was a kid, like 5 years old or younger; When Santa came on Christmas Eve AND Christmas Day! Lol, it was amazing for me as a little kid, both days I had presents ALL around the tree and as tall as me of piles. Man were those the days! xD Thanks for the chance!
ReplyDeleteGoing for snowmobile rides with my Dad over Christmas break! Gosh I miss snow!!
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ReplyDeleteI have a big family with a lot of cousins. We always had fun spending Christmas together.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a set one! I think just all the memories of being a kid and being very excited on Christmas morning.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory is when my husband came home and I was able to make my first Thanksgiving meal for him.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory was the last Christmas I spent with my Mom before she passed away.
ReplyDeleteChristmas Eve with my mom's side of the family. She has 5 sisters, all married with kids, so our gatherings were kind of loud and fun:)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is spending time with my family!
ReplyDeleteThe only person that I know who got more into Christmas than me was my grandmother. So any of our Christmas memories together are always at the top of my list.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory was when my older sister gave me the game Candy Land. I wanted it so bad and it meant the world to me that she bought it for me!
ReplyDeleteI love going to see all the christmas lights...driving around with family!
ReplyDeleteSpending Christmas in NYC with my family!
ReplyDeleteMy mother faking out my brother with an old PlayStation box. He thought he was getting the new one, but she just filled the old one with some new underwear and wrapped it up.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory was my husband and my 1st thanksgiving when we stayed home together put our lego holiday set together and ate pizza :)
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My favorite is the last one I spend with my dad.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Holiday memory was right after we gave birth to our daughter. She was exactly 25 days old. That's the day when Holidays turned into family days for us. I'll never forget the loving tradition she started for my husband and I. Realizing that next year, we will have two little munchkins instead of one, means more love and great holiday memories for many years to come!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memories are opening gifts at my Grandma's house when I was younger.
ReplyDeletemaking homemade ornaments with my Mom & brothers & hanging them on the tree..paper chains garland too lol
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My favorite memory is bundling up and going for walks to see the decorated houses, it was magical when I was little. ALONA Y.
ReplyDeleteGoing to a hill above The Plaza in Kansas City with my grandparents, watching the Christmas Lights come on every year. Getting my first bicycle was pretty exciting too!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory is driving around the neighborhood looking for Christmas lights!
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ReplyDeleteThe first Christmas with my twin girls.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was four my parents surprised me with a kitten for Christmas. I clearly remember them bringing him home and how tiny he was. That's the best memory because he was my first pet and we grew up together. He lived to 19 years old!
ReplyDeleteHard to pick just 1. Seeing my little nephew and niece all excited last year was neat.
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ReplyDeleteBaking Christmas cookies and decorating the house with my mom
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Baking cookies to leave on the hearth for Santa...along with some carrots for the reindeer.
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ReplyDeleteI loved waiting for Santa to bring us presents.
ReplyDeleteThe last Christmas I spent with my Mother before she passed.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the story my Mom tells of bringing me home from the hospital on Christmas Eve and putting me under the tree.
ReplyDeleteOne year we didn't have much money so my mom spent weeks hand crafting every single gift.
ReplyDeleteThe year the car died at the Costco and we waited 5 hours for AAA in a big snowstorm. The car died a second time on the way home and then got towed by the police. My cousin came and brought us home. The following week, we put up our tree, made hot chocolate, popped popcorn and watched A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart) and everything stayed cozy from then on out.
ReplyDeleteWaking up Christmas morning to find Santa came and dropped off our wrapped presents. We may not have always gotten everything we wanted but my family always made it memorable! Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory was the last Christmas I got to spend with my grandma and grandpa were still alive..I miss them so much!!
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ReplyDeleteRiding on an old-fashioned wooden toboggan being pulled in a country field behind a tractor!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is making the christmas breakfast with my parents :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memmory is when we first went and saw the Christmas light show.
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Hot cocoa with family, homemade Christmas fettucine and watching The Holiday
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is that my brother always wears a silly hat on new year's eve.
ReplyDeleteI miss putting all my ornaments from my mom on the tree every year
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My dad in his holiday pjs
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Seeing the look on my oldest son's face on his first christmas morning! WOW!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory was the first time my cousins and I went caroling together. :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is Thanksgiving 2013. It was the first year with out my Brammy, but it was also the first year that my mother was liberated from her marriage. So as it was a sad holiday with out my Brammy, my mother and I made it fun with memories of my Brammy and not having to deal with her ex husband's family.
ReplyDeleteProbably when my grandmother was alive when everyone would meet at her home and all of our kids would play outside
ReplyDeleteI remember the year my older sister's boyfriend came over with a real Christmas tree. We had always had a really ugly fake tree up until then so having the house smell like pine was pretty exciting for us!
ReplyDeleteSpending time with my family, with loads and loads of wrapping paper strewn all over the living room floor!
ReplyDeleteBeing in live nativity at our church
ReplyDeleteI found a $20 bill in the parking lot when I took my dog out early in the morning when I was 12!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is Christmas. I remember getting a pink ladder that I was so thrilled about - shaunie
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is spending my holidays my junior year of high school in London, England. It was such a great experience!
ReplyDeleteI would say having all my relatives around for Christmas Eve when I was 16th for my birthday plus they were there for Christmas also it was fabulous got spend time with them all
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memories are helping my parents decorate the Christmas tree.
ReplyDeleteOur first Christmas (with my hubby and stepkids) - our tree was crooked, but it was so amazing watching the kids open their gifts from Santa!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is actually all of the Christmas Eve formal dinners we had with my grandparents before they passed away. I loved getting dressed up in my fanciest clothes, dining by candlelight, and reading stories like "The Night Before Christmas" together by the fire and in front of the tree until it was time to go to Midnight Mass. I miss my grandparents even more at the holidays, but I'm so grateful for all the years we did have together.
ReplyDeleteWaking up to a huge Tobagon in our living room!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory is putting the tree up the day after Thanksgiving. I loved going through all the ornaments.
ReplyDeleteGoing to my grandma's house for Christmas-- the wonderful smells coming from the kitchen, the gaily wrapped gifts, the glowing, ornament-laden tree twinkling with bubble lights.
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ReplyDeleteI always remember waking up super early and wanting to open gifts on Christmas morning!
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Playing piano duets of carols with my aunt before she passed away.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite memory is Christmas at my Grandmother's house when i was little... Big tree with tons of presents and a delicious breakfast!
ReplyDeleteMy Favorite holiday memory is spending with my grandparents when I was little and my grandpa would take me to the candy store to pick up holiday sweets!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite holiday memory is when my dad brought a puppy home for the family.
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