Top 10 Christmas traditions
We each have our own holiday traditions: Decorating the Christmas tree, drinking eggnog by the fire or caroling around the neighborhood.
But have you ever taken the time to ask yourself, “Do the people around me enjoy these things as much as I do?”
We here at the News-Review have decided to take the burden of this much anticipated question off your shoulders. We have compiled a list of our top 10 favorite Christmas traditions, but with a twist.
Our list includes the lighter side of each of these fun-filled activities, but also offers up an alternative perspective.
Enjoy.
1. Sledding, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating — try any of these extreme winter sports, but make sure to take care of yourself and not break any bones while you’re at it. You can check weather, surface and snow conditions, and find out which trails and lifts are open at
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One tid-bit of advice — whichever sport you choose, be sure to have an ice pack, icy hot and your insurance card on stand-by.
2. Watching movies. “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” “A Christmas Carol,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Jack Frost,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Miracle on 34th Street,” and other holiday favorites. Who can deny the warm fuzzies these holiday classics provide? The list is long, and we’re sorry to inform you that you won’t get through them all, so we encourage you to view nightly listings in the second to the last page of the Petoskey News-Review sports section — choose wisely.
3. Drinking eggnog by the fire (only when it’s spiked with rum and you’d better be 21!) Eggnog is one of those holiday traditions that is either hated or cherished. Some rail at the foamy, milky substance as if it were an abomination, while others laud this elixir to the skies. However you may feel about eggnog, there is no denying that millions of people enjoy it around the holidays. For recipe ideas visit
Food Network : Healthy Recipe Collections, Party Ideas, Quick & Easy Recipes, Cooking Videos.
4. Bringing home your Christmas tree and decorating it while listening to your family’s favorite music or Muzak in the background. You can select a balsam fir, Colorado blue spruce, concolor fir, Douglas fir, Fraser fir, white pine or a white spruce at Goslin’s Greenery on Fletcher Road in Petoskey. Once the tree is up, and not leaning to one side, revel in one of our staff writer’s favorite holiday traditions — hang your favorite ornament. “I put up my kindergarten ornament with my picture in it every year. It’s just not Christmas until I put myself up on the tree,” she said.
5. Eating until you burst or gaining 5 extra pounds (OK, so we know that you know it’s not really five pounds, but it’s your word against theirs) over the holiday season, whichever comes first — that is if the family pet (Fido! Get off that table!) doesn’t beat you to it. Again, the Food Network has great recipes (
Food Network : Healthy Recipe Collections, Party Ideas, Quick & Easy Recipes, Cooking Videos), and who doesn’t love Martha Stewart? As for Fido staying off the dinner table, contact Northwoods Dog Training in Petoskey or turn on an episode of The Dog Whisperer (check your local listings).
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. Forced family fun (or forced family torture, depending on whose perspective it is). Our editor, Kendall P. Stanley fondly recalls going out for dinner on Christmas Eve and driving around looking at the Christmas lights with his wife and daughter every year. Some might argue that driving around looking at the lights is better than the alternative of actually having your family force you to put up your own lights. Take notes when watching “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” you might need them if you choose the latter.
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