Christmas Traditions

Reggie.

So what are your traditions over the Christmas period on your farms/in your homes.
Christmas eve pint?
Visit the in laws?

We usually meet up with her side of the family for a Christmas eve coffee in mullingar. Be doing it now for 10 years or so.

Base price

Christmas Eve bed and double feed silage/hay/straw bales to all the cattle so we only have to fork up and feed meal on Christmas morning.
Then into the house to pre pair ham, turkey and veg for the next day accompanied with copious glasses of bacardi and coke.
On Christmas Day we all stay at home together, OH, my two sons and I. No heading off to a friends house or party. I cook some venison steaks for myself for brekkie.
St. Stephen's Day we all meet up (children & grandchildren) at my Mam's house for dinner etc. She is 86 yo and still firing on all four cylinders
The weird thing is that she is hell bent on filling the grandchildren (youngest is 19) with drink and coming from a lady who would partake in one glass of Babycham with her Christmas dinner which amounted to her annual alcohol consumption. Never like that in my day :rolleyes:

Miname

Myself the brother in law and father in law go for a few pints on Christmas Eve. Other than that none really. Waiting here on my first child so in a couple a days I'd say it will all change

TheFarrier

Much as it might rile some people on here, our only tradition is that we all go hunting Stephens Day.
Animals fed as usual on Christmas eve, double fed and bedded early Christmas day, then the following morning, saddle up and ship out. Myself and the father hunt away all year, and the uncles do the odd day here and there but Stephens is the only day my sister and aunt come, nice to have the whole family out for a day

whelan2

Miname wrote: »

Myself the brother in law and father in law go for a few pints on Christmas Eve. Other than that none really. Waiting here on my first child so in a couple a days I'd say it will all change

best of luck, brother and his wife's first baby is now overdue too.

Muckit

At the moment we are enjoying the luxury of being fed by both sets of our parents!! (Every second year between my own parents and herselfs). As much and all as my mother especially gives out about the 'hassle', she wouldn't have it any other way!

I love her sherry trifle. Hmmm.

Although my father hasn't a hand to wipe his arse and can just about butter a slice of bread, l've thankfully taken on her skill in the kitchen. I can't wait to have our own few mouths to feed and cook up a huge Christmas day feast! I also make a tasty mulled wine, something we never made at home!

At the moment we have my side of the family round for dinner one day during the holidays. To me stuffing oneself with food until you are fit to only roll out the door, is what Christmas is all about. And as my 87 yeat old granny would say 'tis easy cook once it's in it(there).'

I always remember my father going out the farm and cutting a branch of holly and bringing it into the shed where we as kids would snip off twigs with my mother's 'good' secateurs. They would then be hung up around the house.

Christmas cards are also lovely. We used to hang a string from obe corner of the room to the other and hang them over it. It a little affirmation of all the good people that are in your life and that they are thinking of you.

blue5000

Going off to the forestry to pick and cut a christmas tree with my son is one of ours, also big feed christmas eve as other's here have said. Fill a mealbag with holly too, stick a few sprigs in the ground in a hedge in the hope that they might grow when I'm doing it.

Feckthis

Go to the mothers house drink beer and eat food go to in-laws drink beer and eat more food. Then back to the mothers with the whole family to drink beer.

Muckit

I like your thinking

Reggie.

Feckthis wrote: »

Go to the mothers house drink beer and eat food go to in-laws drink beer and eat more food. Then back to the mothers with the whole family to drink beer.

Jaysus you must be a sight the next day

I said

Avoid the apes ya haven't seen since last Xmas lol

howdee

Use Christmas to do abit of online shopping for myself..

Timmaay

1 mile athletics race followed by a dip in the sea Christmas morning, huge dinner and loads of boozing etc with the family. Oh and try find an hour or so to throw on the clusters and fire a few grabs of feed into the cows. Stephens day is flatout busy also, the local athletics club has their main fundraising 5k race that day, and I'm one of the main organisers. Not the worst, I wouldn't be a huge fan of Xmas I'll admit ha, would be perfectly happy to jet off for it but the farm doesn't allow.

lakill Farm

blue5000 wrote: »

Going off to the forestry to pick and cut a christmas tree with my son is one of ours, also big feed christmas eve as other's here have said. Fill a mealbag with holly too, stick a few sprigs in the ground in a hedge in the hope that they might grow when I'm doing it.

does it shoot from a cut off? hard to get a holly tree that has berries

gazahayes

Into work Christmas morning at 7 for a few hours then home to cook the dinner for the in-laws and my family open invitation type of thing.

Deepsouthwest

Two small kids here and another on the way, so Christmas revolves around them, which I love. Having kids makes Christmas nearly as much fun again as it was when I was kid!

gazahayes

Into work Christmas morning at 7 for a few hours then home to cook the dinner for the in-laws and my family open invitation type of thing.

whelan2

Deepsouthwest wrote: »

Two small kids here and another on the way, so Christmas revolves around them, which I love. Having kids makes Christmas nearly as much fun again as it was when I was kid!

yup great job, think dozol will be used here this christmas eve, had a few near heart attacks last christmas eve night

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

yup great job, think dozol will be used here this christmas eve, had a few near heart attacks last christmas eve night

Just lock the kids into the rooms or post a sentry

Base price

whelan2 wrote: »

yup great job, think dozol will be used here this christmas eve, had a few near heart attacks last christmas eve night

Used to run the legs off my two on Christmas Eve, between football, feeding and sweeping the yard. Santa wouldn't come if the yard was dirty and cattle/horses were not fed and well bedded :eek:
We ate dinner at about 9pm - full tummy normally sets them off to sleep until about 4am

whelan2

Base price wrote: »

Used to run the legs off my two on Christmas Eve, between football, feeding and sweeping the yard. Santa wouldn't come if the yard was dirty and cattle/horses were not fed and well bedded :eek:
We ate dinner at about 9pm - full tummy normally sets them off to sleep until about 4am

ye, no stockings in bedrooms this year, have to go through one bedroom to get to the next one here.

lakill Farm

whelan2 wrote: »

ye, no stockings in bedrooms this year, have to go through one bedroom to get to the next one here.

wait till they are bring home "pick ups" after a night on the town. :eek:

some walk of shame the next morning

Mehaffey1

Worked flat outXmas eve and day last year, saved the gloomy holiday as was living alone on farm, better than sitting in feeling lonely.

Got the missus back living together so gonna have a big day with as many folk invited round as possible