This week our giveaway is a Step2 Busy Ball Play Table! All you need to do to enter this giveaway is leave a comment on this post below with your favorite Christmas memory! It’s that simple! I will pick ONE random winner on Sunday at 1 pm. Make sure you use a valid email address to comment, but do not put your email address in your comment! This giveaway is NOT sponsored. It is solely paid for by Kroger Couponing!
My most favorite memory was when my now 7 year old,, then 6 year old non verbal autistic son opened a present (which was a first for him to tare the paper)…the present was a musical, light up snowman. We went to help him put batteries in it….his first and only word ever spoken when we touched it “no no no no no”. Cried for hours…tears of joy that there are Christmas miracles and hope he may sometime speak.
Wow! That is really amazing! Thank you for sharing!!!
My favorite Christmas tradition/memory is always opening one gift Christmas Eve night 🙂
Oh, that sounds like a really fun tradition!
Going to look at Christmas lights
One night a year, we get into our pj’s, pop some popcorn, get mugs of hot chocolate and just drive around town looking at lights! It’s one of my most favorite traditions!
My favorite memory is when my daughter was young and she so wanted a Cabbage Patch doll. My Grandpa worked at Zayres and the toy dept lady was sweet on him and he got dolls for all his Great grandkids. They were so happy that year.
That is a great family memory! Thank you for sharing!
Baking with my kids to give plates of treats to the police and fire station . And then drinking hot chocolate and watching The Polar Express every Christmas Eve
My favorite tradition is cocoa every ight for December. Onenight with whipped cream, another with marshmallows, etc…. we try different kinds each night then vote on Christmas Eve— Santa only gets the best!
My favorite Christmas memory is making cookies with my family.
My favorite memory was when I was a child we were all happy everything was perfect this is my favorite because my father was still alive and no one was sick. This was the year I was 14. I didn’t even ask for anything I was just so happy we were all together and happy. I remember this one so well because later on the next year I ended up with bad depression and life was hard for me. My father also ended up passing without any notice a few years ago. So when I think of him and and Christmas I think of that time when all was well.
My favorite Christmas memories are from when I was a girl scout. I did a toy drivr through my church for kids in an orphanage in Kentucky. I loved seeing all the gifts brought in. Then I personally got to wrap each individual gift and send them. After Christmas I received letters of thanks. It just made my heart melt because I was a teen and at that time took a lot for granted.
My favorite memory was when I was a little girl and my dad was still alive. I remember how wonderful Christmas use to be with my whole family. Now I’m working on making those kinds of memories with my husband and 3 year old little boy.
Our tradition is cocoa contest starting Dec 1-24 each year. Different cocoas, different toppings. Dec.24, we vote to see which we “leave for Santa”. The kids are grown but we still do this, as do they! Its fun, delicious and we try different brands!
My favorite tradition is reading the christmas story with all of my family!!
That is a GREAT tradition to have!
My favorite holiday memory was opening my gift to find a cabbage patch doll. They had just come out in the 80’s and my parents were determined to get one for my eldest sister and me. I still have it today 30+ years later.
I still have my first cabbage patch doll also! Funny thing is, my husband had a cabbage patch doll also!
My favorite Christmas memory/tradition is putting on Elvis or Garth Brooks Christmas album every year while we put up the tree. It really gets me into the Christmas spirit!
I LOVE Christmas music!
My mom used to give me and my sister the 12 days of Christmas. It was always little things like a Santa hat, Christmas socks, jingle bells to tie on our shoe laces. Just things to get us into the spirit, but oh so exciting every day.
Oh now that is great thing! I love that idea!
Is when me and my kids went to store and i had them pick a angel from the tree to buy for and told them how it was for kids that didn’t have nothing for Christmas when we got home they went and bagged up some of their toys to give to the kids who needed Christmas that was the best to me cause they wanted to give instead of worrying about what they was getting
That is a GREAT memory! I think it’s important to teach kids while they are young the importance of helping those who are struggling!
My favorite Christmas memory is when I was a little girl. I awoke on Christmas morning to the most Beautiful scene. Presents were everywhere. It had snowed that night and was still snowing. That Christmas I received a bike, some dolls and a piano. I screamed, lol. I could really make some noise now!!! My cousin got an electric organ so it was on, lol. We were so happy and had so much fun. After breakfast, we bundled up and went outside to make a snowman, have a snowball fight and make snow angels. Those were some Beautiful Christmases growing up
Oh my goodness! I would LOVE a white christmas! But, here in the south it’s sooo rare!
My favorite Christmas tradition is watching the Christmas story 24 hours straight.
Oh wow! That’s a LONG time!
Our Christmas Eve tradition is all the family gets together and we make homemade pizzas and play card and board games.
My favorite Christmas memory is watching Emmit Otters jugband Christmas every year with my family.
We always sat at the top of the steps Christmas morning waiting for the okay from our mum to come down. She would put cinnamon buns in the oven, make her coffee, and turn the tree on.
Going to look.at.Christmas lights with all the kids and grandkids. ?
Christmas at Grandmaw’s house with all the Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins. It was such a special time of the year. Great memories and cannot pick just one.
My most memorable Christmas is when me and my dad and my baby sister will put the tree up together. Back then you had to put the tree together Branch by branch and he would take turns giving each one of us a branch to put in place. We would decorate the tree with icicles and big big old bulbs. That was the most memorable thing I have about Christmas and I miss my dad so much.
When my daughter was two, she walked right past the piles of presents and went straight for the can of pringles in her stocking. I had to beg her to open stuff. She was stinking cute.
My Favorite tradition is breaking the wishbone as we call it out of the turkey, after Christmas Dinner..
Making cookies with my mom and kiddos in Christmas eve for Santa!
My favorite Christmas memory is of Christmas eve. My family gets Chinese takeout and the kiddis open one gift (always is new xmas pjs) we stay home and watch xmas movies and eat in comfort! I carried this on w my own kiddos.
One of my favorite memories is when my husband made Santa’s footsteps from our front door all the way to the tree. Our girls where so excited the next morning when the seen Santa’s steps.
The first year I become a Grammy, best Christmas ever
My favorite memory is my last Christmas with my dad when I was 17. He didn’t want very much so we made sure he got everything. I remember opening all of my gifts slowly just taking everything in for my memory. I remember the house smelling of cinnamon and having Christmas music playing quietly in the background. I don’t remember wanting anything for myself, just wanted more time with him. #Cancersucks!
Now it is being able to visit family for the holidays!
shopping at Kroger and a customer pays for a family of 5 for there groceries because they didnt have enough money to buy everything in there cart that is the best xmas present someone can do for a family.
Hi Wendy, thank you for all you do for everyone.
My favorite thing at Christmas is on Christmas Eve when I take my girls out driving around to look at Christmas lights. I think their favorite is opening their new pj’s, to be, slippers, and blanket. They talk about it all year long lol.
Also, I have a home daycare and every year, I order them matching shirts and they have their names on it. I take them to the north pole aka bass pro shop. My nuggets love it. I love it when they get excited and say Miss! Santa knows my name ❤
Merry Christmas Wendy, Zoe, and Mr Kroger
My first experience was seeing my grandbaby opening their gifts eas priceless
Growing up Every year on christmas my dad used to dress up as santa when it was time to open presents and he would pass them out. It was awesome the little kids where amaze and it was always a great time.
I don’t celebrate Christmas but our family usually gets together in December to sit down to a nice dinner together at my mom’s house. We also exchange gifts and play a few games and/or watch a movie together. Things have changed a little over the last few years, as my sister passed away. It’s just not the same & I don’t feel a sense of happiness going there like I once did. I know it’s not the most happy story but it’s the truth.
Thank you!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is going on Christmas Eve to stay the night with my Grandparents….we make cookies for Santa and play games…we have been doing this for 40 years
My favorite Christmas memory is a memory from two years ago. My grandfather wanted me to see the Riverwalk in San Antonio at Christmas time and made me promise him I would, but I never got to see it before he died. Two years ago, my dad, who had moved to San Antonio in the meantime, had a massive heart attack, so I went to San Antonio to be with him while he recovered. Because of that, I was finally able to see the Riverwalk at Christmas, fulfilling my promise to my grandfather. Not only that, but my dad died suddenly 6 months later, so it was the last Christmas time I got to spend with him. Plus, he got to meet my little girl for the first time. Christmas is a bittersweet time for me now, but I’m grateful for that Christmas beyond words.
I love having family Christmas Eve with my family we started before my parents passed away we’ve tried to keep it up we keep having to change to the biggest house in the family love it
Every year on Christmas morning, my parents would have us gather around the tree to read the Christmas story before we opened presents and talk about what we were thankful for. As we got older, we each took a turn getting to read the story of Jesus’ birth. It was just a fun tradition that We are now starting with our daughter so that she remembers the true meaning of Christmas.
My favorite memory is staying up all night with my brothers Christmas eve to wait for Santa..Of course we fell asleep to do it the next year..
My favorite Christmas memory is waking upon Christmas morning and reading the Christmas story and talking about what we are thankful for before opening our presents. As we got older, we each got to take turns reading the story ourself. It was a great reminder of what Christmas is all about, and I have started this tradition with my own daughter now.
Our favorite Christmas tradition is making cookies for friends and family and opening one gift on Christmas Eve, that we call our Christmas Eve box. They contain new pjs, a movie, cocoa and popcorn. Then we all get into our new pjs, mix up our cocoa, pop some popcorn and binge watch our new movies.
Favorite Christmas memory was going to my maternal Grandmother’s house every year. She had a 4 room house with a front and back porch. The family would eat in shifts in the kitchen – the men first, children second (there were 15 of us cousins), and the women last. She had a white Christmas tree with a rotating colored light that shined on one side of it. She always had hard ribbon candy in dishes and homemade egg nog on the back porch. After Christmas dinner the kids would all go to the Washhouse out back and play dress-up with the old clothes found in the trunk. I have such good memories of my childhood playing with my cousins. I now have 6 grandchildren and making sure that they also have good memories with all their cousins.
We love making Christmas candy and cookies together each year for all of our family and friends. My baby girl has fallen in love with this tradition as well and she has been anxiously awaiting this years candy making for the lady several weeks❤
My favorite memory is getting our stockings off the mantle to see what treats we had.
OMG that would be awesome to win
Sorry my most favorite memory would be when all of us would meet at my grandparents (now with Jesus) and we would have Christmas dinner oh how I miss her sweet potatoe pie she would fix them a few days before and put in freezer I love them pies, and then after dinner we’d sit around singing Christmas songs!
Trimming the tree with my children on step stools.
I remember when I was little we would read stories and sing Christmas songs!
Spending my first Christmas with my new family, baking cookies and making ornaments for our homemade christmas.
My favorite Christmas memory.. I was like 4 or 5 and Santa brought me this blue winter coat, it was trimmed it white with a big furry Hood but the best part it had a matching hand warmer. Man I loved that coat for some reason lol. Best present ever?
My favorite Christmas is my first Christmas with my child. I was told that I would not be able to have children naturally and got pregnant 6 mo the after I was married. She was due Christmas Day but was born before that. My first Christmas being a mother is one I will never forget!
Dinner with all my men! Husband of 25 years young men my sons 22 n 20. N my several fosters who are young men , but three serve in military n will not be home this year. Merry Christmas n God Bless
My favorite Christmas memory is from the first Christmas I moved to a different state for my first “big kid” job. I had to work Christmas, but my parents and siblings came to stay with me in my tiny apartment the 23rd and 24th to celebrate the holiday. We did all our regular traditions, plus a few more. It was so special.
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to my grandmother’s on Christmas Eve. We have a large, extended family, so it’s about 50-70 people shoved into a 1200sq ft home for my grandmother’s cooking and a very large gift exchange. The presents stack so high that they cover the tree and sprawl out several feet. I’ll be so sad when we can no longer have these get togethers.
My favourite Christmas memory is Midnight mass for the candlelight service on Christmas Eve. Every Christmas Eve. We’re a big Greek Family. Grandparents, mom, dad, my sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins. I wish we had those times together again.
When my parents was still living on Christmas Eve we kept our pajamas on all day playing board games cracking walnuts and pecans eating oranges and cookies and then off to sleep we went to wait on Santa Claus
My favorite Christmas memory is going to my grandparents house & sitting in my grandfather’s rocking chair looking at the Christmas tree all lit up.
My favorite Christmas tradition is the Christmas Eve boxes my parents do every year with pajamas, hot cocoa, a movie, and a small item. Then we all sit down and watch the movie “A Christmas Story”
Just seeing all my family that I never really get to see all year.
Decorating the tree and baking cookies for Santa
Going to Grandma and Grandpa’s house and be with all the cousins
My favorite Christmas memory is when the electricity went out one year on Christmas Eve due to a heavy snow when I was 7 or 8 and we pulled our mattresses into the living room in front of the fire place and spent the night in there like a big family slumber party.
We love to make gingerbread (graham cracker houses). I save a bunch of my kids Halloween candy to decorate them with.
My favorite Christmas memory is gathering on Christmas Eve at my parents house with over 50 people to have a party! We exchanged gifts, laughed, ate, and enjoyed each other’s company. Now most of the people who held that together are gone and things are much smaller now.
My favorite Christmas memory is when I was a little girl and one particular year my gift was a huge box of nothing but yarn and I wondered wow what am I going to do with this because I wanted a toy ? but that is when I learned how to crochet and I have loved to crochet every since making blankets. Best gift I could have received.
Having breakfast for Christmas Eve. This is a tradition from my great great great grandmother.
My favorite memory growing up my mom would put on chipmunks Christmas music each year while we decorated the tree for my brother and I. So now every year I do the same with my girls. And we read the night before Christmas before bed Christmas Eve.
Decorating tree
My favorite Christmas memories are of Christmas eve as a kid. We would go to church and do our Christmas performance and then we went to Grandma’s house to open presents. Sweet memories!
Keeping with family traditions, we cut down our own christmas tree at the tree farm Its extra special when there is snow on the ground.
I remember my first Christmas where I understood Santa. Boy was I excited to find out he had visited my house!
My favorite Christmas memory is every christmas eve my family and I head to christmas tree lane to watch all the lights and drink hot cocoa, while we hear carolers. Then go back home and make some yummy cookies for Santa then, tell my kiddos a Christmas Story before bed.
I really hope they pass on the tradition.
Thanks for the chance I have 3 boys who would absolutely love this!
Happy Holidays all!!!! ?
Decorating the tree with my kiddos!
My favourite memory is baking holiday cookies wiith my grandma and playing games with my grandpa.i miss them so much!
Family and friends getting together…. So busy all the time…. It’s so good to see them…
My favorite Christmas memory has to be when we Had a small ice storm a little bit before Christmas back in 2004. We brought my Mom and Dad to our house because their electric went out. We all got to spend time together, talk, played board and card games. It was a wonderful time, and great memories!
My favorite Christmas memory was every year i spent with my loved ones. Growing up with an absent father and a disabled mom was pretty ruff. No we didn’t have the perfect Christmas and barely had money to get presents. My mom always seemed to make this day special anyways she taught us the true meaning of Christmas that it was not all about presents but it was about having each other. I am forever great full for her and thank God each and everyday for keeping our family strong.
Making cookies as a kid
My favorite memory is when.my 1yr old daughter got up Christmas morning. She came into the living room seen all the presents and ran back into her room. We had to coax her back out and explain what was going on. You should have seen her face light up and the hugs she gave. It was such an amazing sight to see the wonder and amazement on my daughter’s face. True magic and appreciation. Our first true Christmas as a family with Santa Claus.
My favorite memory is when there was more respect and Celebrate Christmas with more emotion now everything is a text
My adult children and grandchildren stay with us on Christmas Eve. One year my husband and I bought a bunch of nerf guns and we all had a nerf gun fight. Everyone still talks about how fun it was!!
Thank you Wendy for the chance, My favorite Christmas memory as a child was celebrating a mexican tradition called “Las posadas” My Grandmother & other elders of the Church would present a ceramic baby Jesus at different homes & gather in song and prayer. The Hostess of the house would welcome them & make tamales, homeade breads, cookes, hot chocolate (we called Abuelita) in a big clay pot. & also a thick hot cereal we called (champurrado) it was much like cream of wheat. But better…lol The idea was much like what Mary & Joseph went thru when baby Jesus was born. We as kids would help my Mom & Gramma cook and bake for days & then help serve when the guests were done praying. They would leave Baby Jesus for that night & come back for him the next day & do it all over again the next day at someone elses house. I wish those times now could happen again . as a adult you have fond memories & I wish I could share them with my own Grandkids . what I do have are beautiful memories to tell of our days as kids and one of the ways we celebrated Christmas.
My favorite Christmas was my first Christmas home from college. My aunt took myself & 3 sisters in when I was 14 and so with 8kids and no help, we barely made it. That Christmas I busted hard at my job and used ebau and clearance to give all 7 younger kids the biggest Christmas we ever had. It felt so great to be able to do that. Including one sister agreen flute!
My aunt took my 3 sisters and I in when I was 14. So Christmas wasn’t easy with a total of 8 kids. My first year in college, I worked hard and was able to make it a big Christmas for all 7 kids. Including new clothes, shoes, toys and one sister got a new flute that was green. It was by far my favorite Christmas.
My favorite Christmas Tradition is family gathering at my 80 years old grandmother home to all eat a breakfast to enjoy and take pictures. We have celebrated this tradition for over 38 years. I pray God allows many more great years!!
My greatest family tradition is that all my extended family meet up my 80 years old grandmother home to eat Breakfast on Christmas morning. It is a tradition we have done over 38 years.
I Would Love To Win This For My Granddaughter i can see the smile on her face now
I Remember my grand daughter Talaysia 1St Christmas She Laid Under The.Tree She Was So Amazed. All The And Decorations And Presents She s Now Age 4
My parents didnt have a lot of money and 5 kids so one tradition we had was to pile in the car and go out looking at Christmas lights.
One of my faves is when my kids was at the age of not believing in Santa. We had my husbands best friend come and set out their gifts. We had been at my in-laws and when we got home the looks on their faces was priceless. We had one more good year.
My favorite memory is seeing my kids all lined up on the stairs
and waiting “patiently” for me to get ANOTHER picture before they could make it to the tree and presents
My favorite Christmas tradition is listening to holiday music and watching Christmas movies everyday up until Christmas day.
My favorite christmas memory is going to my grandfathers house before he passed with all my siblings, uncles ,aunts and cousins. We had a blast! My grandpa would tell us stories and we would watch A Christmas Story. It was so much fun.
Love to win this table
What a special idea