What Are Your Weirdest Holiday Traditions?

When you get married, you start to think about holiday traditions.
One of our pre-marital counseling sessions actually focused on this as well.
For Ryan and I, it was no big deal. Neither of us had concrete traditions we just couldn't live without. My family used to spend every Christmas in Chicago, but after my grandparents started to pass away, the last 5 or so years were spent in Florida. Because of this, we didn't really have any big traditions.
Now Ryan did have a few.
The biggest one is that he insists on watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation every year. He not only owns the moose mug you see above, but he also has a moose shirt with the quote from that scene in the movie and knows just about every other line.
I hadn't seen this movie until about 2 weeks ago - to Ryan, that was unacceptable.

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Ryan's family is also obsessed with making Cinnamon Rolls on the major holidays for breakfast. On Thanksgiving, they spent the morning texting pictures of their personal batches of Cinnamon Rolls to every other member of the family around the country.
I don't like Cinnamon Rolls. They make me feel nauseous.

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One last tradition he is used to, is that on Christmas morning, each person's stocking is on the outside of their bedroom door. Everyone has to open their stockings before they can come down for the rest of the gift activities.
Did I love watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation? Maybe not love, but it wasn't terrible.

What about the Cinnamon Rolls? We came to a compromise and I'm making my Cinnamon Roll Pumpkin Pancakes.
The stockings? I just love watching people open their stockings, so I think it would be sad for everyone to just rip into them in their own rooms.
This probably makes me sound like a bad or selfish wife. Thankfully, both Ryan and I are very flexible and are in agreement that we want to create traditions for our future family that work for both of us.
I'm always on the lookout for new traditions. Especially when we have kiddos one day - I want to have a specific set of things that we do so they can look forward to them each and every year.
So let me know!
What are your weirdest or most interesting family holiday traditions?
They can be sweet or memorable traditions as well.
I can't wait to read what you guys do with your family, or what ideas you have for your family in the future (:


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