Merry “Almost Christmas” my friends!!! 😀 Just a few hours left, and all of the shopping is done, the gifts are wrapped (the Christmas Eve present has been opened) and we’re now indulging in egg nog (and I’m already in fluffy pajamas!) and… maybe a little fluffy in the head from the eggnog ;).
Tee hee!!!
But we’re not done with the gift giving yet! It’s time for a bunch of crazy awesome “let’s open the gifts on Christmas Eve” giveaways!!! Tonight’s gift giveaway will have four winners!
And I’m giving away (we’re giving away – THANK YOU AUTHORS!!) some of my absolute favorites from 2013:
- Night Owl (The Night Owl Trilogy) by M. Pierce <—- This is one of my absolute favorites (here’s my review) one just got picked up by a big publisher, so this “print indie copy” is kinda rare. Or maybe extremely. 😉 But I have ONE for a lucky winner here.
- Sex Love Repeat by Alessandra Torre <— One of my latest OMG YOU GOTTA READ THIS book finds (see my review – I went absolutely crazy for it!) – Well… I have ONE signed copy to give away today!!
- Reaper’s Property by Joanna Wylde <— I have TWO signed copies of this one (Biker romance at it’s best! Here’s my review) AND AND!!!!!!!
- OMG You guys are gonna freak, ’cause this one is NOT out yet!! I have ONE signed copy of Reaper’s Legacy (book #2 in the Reapers Motorcycle Club). The author says: “… this one is hot off the presses and doesn’t come out until Jan 28th”!!
- the first randomly selected winner gets the signed Night Owl
- the second randomly selected winner gets a signed copy of Reaper’s Property & Reaper’s Legacy
- the third randomly selected winner gets the other signed copy of Reaper’s Property
- the forth randomly selected winner gets the signed copy of Sex Love Repeat
How to enter for a chance to win one of these awesome signed books? Just leave a comment below and tell me your favorite holiday tradition (whether it be cooking a specific recipe, or everyone gets a set of Christmas pajamas on Christmas Eve, or you go caroling on Christmas morning… you get the idea) OR!! You can simply swoon over how awesome these books are (’cause we all know they rocked our worlds!), and by tomorrow by 11pm EST (Christmas Day – December 25th 2013), I will randomly select four winners. The winners will be contacted and once I receive a response back confirming the address information, I will forward it to the authors (who are sending your books) or if I have the book, I will send it to you myself. 😀
NOTE: The winners will have 48 hours to respond to the winning email notification. If no response is received, I will randomly select another winner. Make sure to check your email, so you do not lose your chance. THIS is open to US only, however ALL are welcome to comment!
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Baking cookies on Christmas Eve with my daughter. Merry Christmas.
My favorite holiday tradition is spending Christmas Eve with my mom’s side of the family having a big dinner and then doing a Yankee Swap. Then we go to my dad’s side of the family and ring in Christmas with champagne at midnight! But I am working this year so I won’t be able to do that,
My favorite tradition is one I do with my family or just alone. I have to watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas(animated) every year. Great giveaway! Merry Christmas all 🙂
We watch the homecoming every Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas. My husband and I have a long tradition (probably 14 years) of waking one or the other up in the middle of the night to open presents. In fact, he just leaned over to me (he had no idea what I am typing) and said “can I wake you up?”. I said “yep”.
We love driving around looking at all the Christmas lights, then come home and feed the reindeer with magic oatmeal and glitter!
every christmas morning, my hubby and I were matching pajamas when we open gifts so the grandbabies can laugh at us. haha
My son adores…I mean ADORES pigs in a blanket, so every Christmas Eve, I would make about 100 pigs in a blanket for him. Merry Christmas, Maryse, and may you have a wonderful book-filled 2014! ♥
baking cookies with my daughter
It’s hard having a tradition with my family. I think this will be the first year I will be with my boys on Christmas in a long time time, and I’ve been a cooking fool. This military lifestyle sure does suck the tradition out of family. Merry Christmas eve!
Heading to Mom’s in the morning. Enjoying a cold night watching It’s A Wonderful Life reading Beck & just cuddling with the pups.
My daughter and I make cherry but cookies on Christmas Eve. They’re delicious but a pain to make. Then we eat them until we’re sick!! Good times.
Merry Christmas! My favorite tradition is a butter streusel coffee cake on Christmas morning. Mmmmm!
I love these books. Would love to own them.
Awwww you GUYS!!! I LOVE these!!! Elizabeth… how SWEET is your husband!? Come back and let us know what you opened. 😀
My fav thing we do is a big Christmas breakfast. Everyone comes over early and we pig out and drink mimosas. Love it!!! Merry Christmas everyone.
Our newest Christmas tradition is meeting up with several other families, making and packing a hot meal to deliver to many homeless families living in a nearby neighborhood park. Our goal is to teach our young children to appreciate our blessings and to serve others who are not as fortunate.
My kids and I bake cookies on Christmas Eve, open presents on Christmas morning and go to my parents for dinner Christmas night!
Merry Christmas! Our tradition is to have a fabulous dinner on Christmas Eve and then drive around and look at all the decorated houses in the neighborhood. 🙂 It’s simple but makes us very happy!
My hubby makes me cocoa and we go look at lights with our fur-babies. Merry Christmas!
Christmas Eve in the park. Our church does a Christmas service and it’s my favorite tradition!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating cookies with all my babies! Love it!!
Opening Christmas Eve presents (PJs!) and then having orange Danish Christmas morning. Both traditions carried on from my childhood
Thank you for the giveaway!
My kids (26,22,18 & 13) have always loved dumping their stockings and after we have opened gifts and stuffed our faces with candy from the stockings they try to find the “pickle” hidden in the tree!
My favorite tradition is baking cookies with my kiddos on Christmas Eve (my birthday)!!!!
I love going to Midnight Mass with the family on Christmas Eve!!!
Letting all the kids open one present on Christmas Eve.
Every xmas morning we go to my aunt’s house for breakfast and gift exchange
Having our traditional family dinner then midnight mass on Christmas Eve.
My fav holiday tradition is the cherry but cake my mom would make every year for Christmas. Mom
Passed away a couple months ago but dad is giving it a shot this year
OMG!!! Awesome giveaways! I’d love to win! Thank you so much!
Merry Christmas!
I would love to add a new signed book to my collection of…1
We always make reindeer food and run out to sprinkle it all over the yard so they don’t miss our house. After we do this the kids know its time for bed so Santa can come. Merry Christmas y’all!!
Our holiday tradition is family dinner! On Christmas the whole family gets together and we have fun 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is opening a new ornament for the tree each year and spending time with my family! happy holidays! 🙂
We always, always watch A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve and most of the day on Christmas. I have watched that movie ever since I was little and now my daughter has been watching it and she is 8 now. all the above books I would love to hav. i have read 2 of them and loved them. these authors are the bomb. Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year.
Decorating homemade ornaments. Each of my children are teens and above…and we still carry on this tradition.
Haven’t been very traditional in the past years. One day! Thanks for the giveaway.
Watch White Christmas on Xmas Eve.
Love Night Owl. Dream come true is a signed one. Thanks for giveaway.
I would loooove any of these! Night Owl was one of my favorite reads this year, and I absolutely loved Reaper’s Property. Can’t wait for the sequels of both! Merry Christmas, Maryse!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to all. A tradition in my home every year is baking cookies and desserts with my kids.
My favorite holiday tradition is sending & getting Christmas cards.
Reading Christmas stories every night of December!
I love Christmas, but reading books takes a backseat at this time of year.
Christmas morning breakfast!!
PS…only entering for Night Owl
Baking cookies for santa and then opening one gift each before bed on christmas eve 🙂
We always watch ‘A Christmas Story.’ My husband is obsessed – we now have a leg lamp ornament adorning our tree. Anyway, it would be so great to win this bundle. I’ve read them all (except for Reaper’s Legacy, obviously) and loved them. Thank you, Maryse and authors for the chance to win. Merry Christmas!!!
My favorite tradition is making homemade candies with old friends. Unfortunately, this year was too crazy to do it. Hopefully, next year
Driving around and looking at Christmas lights
Baking Santa ‘s cookies!
I absolutely love my girls face on Christmas Morning. Best tradition ever!
Amazing books! We bring our kids outside to sprinkle reindeer food with glitter so they can see where they are going on Christmas eve, and then they jump on our bed way too early in the morning all smiles and screams. It’s awesome!
Every year since I was 8 I bake Christmas Cookies with my Grandma. We bake them for friends and family and send a very large box overseas to troops. This year was our 20th year doing it 🙂
I love your blog!!
Our Christmas eve tradition is make your own pizza night and getting to open one gift.
My favorite tradition is baking Jamaican Rum cake. I do it everyday with my mother and siblings.
We ‘re making cake balls and watching The Polar Express which we do every year and the kids get to open a gift!
I love to watch It’s a Wonderful Life! My husband loves to watch Christmas Vacation!
Preparing treats for Santa and his reindeer. We’ve always done that with the kids before bed each year and they begged me to buy carrots for the deer today!
We have dinner in christmas eve and on the 25th of the morining we celebrate mass
We love baking and watching Christmas Vacation! 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is with my mother. Two days before Xmas we back 14 dozen sugar cookies. We ice & decorate them. Takes us hours and we love it!!
Rob your neighbor game with white elephant gifts.
I love getting together with my family on Christmas Eve and eating dinner and watching movies. We wait until midnight to open presents ! And my best friend comes over to gift exchange!!
Loved Night Owl!!!
We watch It’s a Wonderful Life and eat Vietnamese food! It’s yummy!
Watching White Christmas before going to bed 🙂
I’m sick with the flu. 🙁 I feel bad that my family won’t enjoy Christmas as much because of me. My favorite part has always been just sitting back and watching the kids tear through their gifts and stockings. Oh and I loved Night Owl HARD! medicine & bed for me now. MERRY CHRISTMAS MARYSE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
My favorite holiday tradition is watching Home Alone, curled up on the couch with hot chocolate and popcorn!
I don’t really have any Christmas traditions of my own yet but growing up it was always opening 1 gift on Christmas Eve, that was always a fav.
P.S. I love, love, loved Night Owl.
My favorite Holiday tradition going to my Grandma’s house with about 50 of our relatives!! We eat and play a present passing game that always ends in presents being stolen and lots of laughs!!
Watching the Christmas story. Finally feels like Christmas.
Thank you for the amazing giveaways!!
My favorite Christmas tradition is waking my butt up at 4 am on Xmas morning and ringing a bunch of sleigh bells loud enough for my 4 year old to hear so she’ll think Santa has just finished dropping off her gifts. My mother did that for me and my brother and sister. She’s no longer here to do it so I thought I would continue the tradition. That and making kalbi-chim (Korean short ribs slow cooked with chestnuts, potatoes, carrots). Merry Christmas and all the best for 2014!
We don’t have many Christmas traditions. Usually we end up opening presents Christmas morning and going to my parents in the afternoon for dinner. Nothing too fancy. 🙂
We bake cookies every year to leave out for Santa 🙂 the kids really enjoy seeing the cookies gone the next morning!!
Christmas tradition at our house is to stay home on Christmas Day and watch movies or read.
Family get togethers! And preparing for Santa tonight with my 3 yr old daughter! Cookies ready and getting prepared for a long night 🙂 I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!
Instead of Christmas dinner, we do Christmas brunch. It’s a much more relaxed gathering! Wishing you blessings this Christmas and through the new year!
Our favorite tradition is putting up our tree every year on Thanksgiving day. My kids get giddy anticipating Santa’s arrival once that tree is up!
I would love any of these fantastic books!!!!
Our Christmas tradition is to watch Home Alone with all three kiddos in our pajamas. I am Dying for a signed copy of Night Owl, M. pierce is my new favorite author. I have recommended this book to anyone who would listen….please pick me 🙂
A favorite Christmas tradition is my sisters and myself make a craft gift for each other, and now the nieces have joined in also!
Have a Merry Christmas!
My family always opens on Christmas Eve. So on Christmas Day, we actually load up and go to the movie theatre and see a new release. Its a fun, relaxing day without having to deal with more cooking, wrapping paper, and clean-up. Its just about being together!!! By the way, the books are awesome!!!!!!!!
Getting ready for bed on Christmas Eve & opening just 1 present. Been doing it for generations.
I love opening presents Christmas Eve with my parents and baking candies with my mom late into the night.
My family and i get into matching pj’s on Christmas eve and do our gingerbread house and bake cookies for Santa 🙂
Opening one present on Christmas Eve.
Best thing is the entire family piling into Mom’s room no matter how old we get and vegging all day.
Merry Chirstmas and thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Baking cookies & watching Christmas movies with my daughter 🙂
Christmas celebration is always at my parents house every year. It’s when all my brothers and sister and family get together in one place. We look forward to this every year! Merry Christmas!
It’s hard to pick just one favorite Christmas tradition. Matching Christmas pajamas for my three boys every year. They still get them and two of my boys are now in their 20s.
One of our Christmas traditions is to decorate sugar cookies with the children. That is one that my mom always made us do up until we left fr college. As a teenager I hated it but now that I have kids and can embrace their excitement I see why my mom made us do it year after year.
As for the books I have read and LOVED Night Owl and Reapers Property. I would love to have signed paperbacks in any of these books.
Merry Christmas and thank you for the giveaway.
Steph
Love Dirty Santa gift exchange with my extended CRAZY family!! Memories made every time!
What an awesome giveaway, thanks Maryse! My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas so usually I take the opportunity to travel somewhere exciting. 🙂
I loved night owl and also sex love repeat. Merry Christmas
Baking cookies and watching xmas movies
Every year we watch National Lampoon’s Christmas. The best!
Great books make great gifts.
Our traditions are to open 1 gift on Christmas eve, then midnight service. Then up early with the kids ( grand kids now). But we open one at a time.
Reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas with the kids before bedtime.
Merry Christmas, Maryse!
Please let me win 🙂 Oh and Merry Christmas to all!
My favorite tradition is blaking Moravian sugar cake with my Grandma and get matching pajamas for my two sisters and I from our mom! Let’s not forget the mimosas every Christmas morning before we open our stockings!!!
We are so fortunate to live so close together, so every Christmas Eve my husbands parents have all of us over ( I hate to call them in laws, b/c they really are my family 🙂 ) we have a big loud family dinner and all the kids gt new pajamas.
My husband and I wait for the kinds to leave and make a baked brie. We relax after a long Christmas Eve enjoying the brie and drinking blackberry port.
The past few years we have spent Christmas in our house I. Upstate New York, it is a house that I spent ever summer in a a child and love being able to share it with my children!
My favorite holiday tradition is visiting with my family at my Aunt Georgiann’s house every year on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the chance to win. You saved the best contest for last! MERRY CHRISTMAS, Maryse!
My favorite Christmas tradition is to watch all of the Bond movies that they put on just before the 25th – from the first one till the newest movie out!
Making cookies with my mom!
My favorite holiday tradition is setting up the tree with my mom along with helping her cook! This year my three year old niece helped us and it was such a joyous occasion. This year is also my daughters first Christmas and I’m excited to see her reaction! It’s my first year in my own home with my boyfriend and daughter and I love starting new traditions!
My family all watches “A Christmas Story” and bakes cookies for Santa;). Love our special Christmas memories…..
My family lining up in our hallway by age on Christmas morning. We would then walk into the living room -in that line- to see if Santa came. The tradition still happens with the next generation of kids we have!
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas day. We wake up around 7 am, and bring the family over to the house. We all open presents. Then around noon we go to my gradmama’s house and watch a Christmas movie. Usually one that’s at least 20 years old. And then we get to make some sugar cookies and eat them. Also depending on if we got any amazing movies or video games we play them too! It’s by far my favorite to be with all of my family though! This is the one time a year we actually all get together!
We drive out of state to my parents house and have lasagne the first night because we are all so sick of ham and then on Christmas eve we have a country dinner, chicken and dumplings (from scratch), greens, etc. Then we drive back so santa can come to our house and have (sigh) ham.
I buy my kids their own special ornaments every year. They love it and so do I.
We make a gift for each other.
Watching A Christmas Story on Christmas Eve after coming home from my husbands side of the family.
Love watching my kids excited faces in the morning and all the baking and cooking during this time. Merry Christmas!
Tequila shots! Seriously. My cousins and I start and end the night with shots, it’s our thing.
Thank you so much for the giveaway!! I love that our family does dinner and presents on Christmas Eve from each other, then we do Santa presents in the morning 🙂 My husband thinks we are crazy, but I love the tradition!
<3 Merry Christmas!!!!
Every year my family makes home made noodles for chicken soup, pierogies, sarma, and many cookies. All the recipes have been passed down for generations. My fondest memories are cooking and baking with my Gram. I now get to bake with my son.
just being together as a family 🙂
Just enjoy spending time with family & friends. Thanks for the giveaway
For many years now Christmas Eve is at our house and everyone has grown to expect my red velvet cake made from scratch and takes forever to make but totally worth it just to see the smiles. Merry Christmas to all!!! Xoxo and love all the giveaways. Great reads.
I’m late!!! Lol balls SKYHARD NIGHTOWL FOREVER! ❤️
Merry Christmas Maryse! Our family loves driving around looking at Christmas lights, and baking cookies. I just love everything about Christmas.
Letting the kids open one gift on Christmas Eve.
My favorite traditions are 2- making a gingerbread house then reading “The Night Before Christmas” which we’ll be doing shortly. Meanwhile- I’ll swoon a little(or a lot)- love ALL these authors and would LOVE to own any of these books especially the new Reaper’s Property- thank you for the great giveaway and have a great Christmas!!
Our only family tradition is running around trying to see ALL of out family. And taking pics…I’m a bit of a photo whore! Merry Christmas Everyone! And thank you Maryse for leading my reading choices! I SO want to be you when I grow up!
Baking, watching The Goonies and opening our stockings 🙂
Oohhh. I read all my books in ebook versions now but for these I will make space on my old bookshelves. Loved Reapers story, and Night Owl was great.
I haven’t read Love Sex Repeat…. Might one click right now…kids are happy with their new toys and will be quiet for an hour or so….
Merry Christmas everyone, especially Maryse and her hubby.
Xx
My favorite Christmas tradition is always just visiting family that I haven’t seen in a while!
Baking with my daughter. Merry Christmas
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking homemade cookies! Spending all day with my mother and baking all day then at night watching Christmas movies!
OMG!!! I would sooo love to win! This is just amazingly awesome! You guys rock!!! Good luck to all!! Merry Bookmas and Christmas!!
Merry Christmas Maryse! My favorite tradition is decorating the tree with my husband and 2 daughters. Even though they are now 25 & 27, they still love to decorate together. We play the same CD every time & then we have Hot Chocolate, Marshmellows & Whipped Cream! 🙂
Making buckeyes with my mom!
Our favorite tradition is the advent calendar, I have to be creative as my son does not like sweets . So we do pizza night, stay up late passes, sleepover asses, etc! Have to be creative!! Merry. Christmas.
Dinner and watching a movie with my family!! And then a little reading, of course 🙂
My favorite tradition is my dad’s big Christmas breakfast he makes each year. It’s not Christmas without that breakfast tradition!
The lighting of the bonfires on the levee
Looking at Xmas lights!
Having seafood gumbo with family.
We like to find a different place around the house to put up the baby Christmas tree I sent my husband while he was deployed to Iraq.
Hmm.. My grandma and I make this old fashioned hot chocolate drink using cacao tablets for our christmas eve drink and we also make biko (a sweet rice cake cook in coconut milk) to snack on. Merry Christmas Maryse!
Hmm.. My grandma and I make this old fashioned hot chocolate drink using cacao tablets for our christmas eve drink and we also make biko (a sweet rice cake cook in coconut milk) to snack on.
I love going to Midnight Mass with the family on Christmas Eve!!!
Happy holidays! My favorite family tradition is my husband reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to our children right before bed on Christmas Eve, all snuggled up on the couch together.
Lori
Watching It’s a Wonderful Life! 🙂
My favorite Christmas tradition is setting up my Christmas tree after our Thanksgiving dinner and opening present at midnight on Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas Maryse!!!
We always watch White Christmas, Bing Crosby snd Danny Kaye akways gets me in the Christmas spirit. Then we start baking pumpkin rolls and making candy to give to family and friends. Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year to!
Merry Christmas! My family and I watch Home Alone every Christmas Eve. On Christmas day, we open presents at 11a.m. and we ALWAYS get Dunkin’ Donuts munchkins and coffee.
Tradition in our house, every Christmas Eve, we all sit around the tree and find one small present to open. We’re all in our pajamas, Christmas music playing in the background, then starting with the youngest, we each open our tiny gift. Now that I’m married, I still keep up that tradition in my home (even if we don’t have kids yet). Thanks for all the AMAZING giveaways, Maryse! Have a very Merry Christmas!
OMG!! I will just take your suggestion and swoon over these FAB books!!!! All of them are fantastic reads!!! Merry Christmas Maryse 😀
My favorite tradition is the one in our country. Everyone take time to visit all the person significant to them (relatives/Godmothers/Godfathers/closed ones), took the hand of these persons and kissed them,or just touched the hand in their forehead. It’s a sign of respect. :)) Exchanging of gifts and children doing caroling on Christmas eve “)
We open our stockings on Christmas eve. Merry Christmas Maryse!
It is the candy we have available to share and eat. Christmas is not the same without it. It brings back many childhood memories.
Baking Christmas cookies with my sons and gifting them to our neighbors.
We love that! Merry, merry Christmas!
Having Christmas breakfast with my family is my favorite tradition. Speaking of which, I gotta go. Merry Christmas Everyone!!
We always watch the 24hrs of A Christmas Story!
We put up our tree on thanksgiving night and every Saturday before christmas my mom, daughter, and now granddaughters get together and craft gifts and bake cookies and breads for friends and neighbors.
Just spending time with my family. Merry Christmas Maryse…Thanks for the time that you spend doing this blog. I don’t know what I did before I found you.
Unfortunately we have no holiday traditions, hoping to start some though!!! These books are amazing!! Thanks Maryse, Merry Christmas!!!!
Love the books! We go out to dinner on Christmas Eve.
Our holiday tradition is to have coffee first then have the kids act like Santa Claus and open our presents, then have a full breakfast and recount our previous years Christmas gifts and spend time together before the kids take their gifts and run lol.
We make Christmas stars from tissue paper or kite paper and hang them in our windows…we start the first Advent Sunday and keep making more until Christmas. Totally fun!
Visiting friends and family. Loved all these books….great giveaway! Thanks and good luck everyone!
when my kids were younger it was watching them open their gifts in the morning. Now it’s having a day I don’t have to work. Also, Night Owl!!!
I love when my parents come up on Christmas morning to watch my kids open their “Santa” gifts and then we have breakfast.
My favourite tradition was when I was a kid and one of my brother’s would wake me up in the middle of the night to sneak downstairs to see if Santa had arrived. One year, Santa hadn’t even showed up yet since my parents had been entertaining and the last guests had just left. I loved those 3 books and look forward to the release of Reaper’s Legacy.
Merry Christmas Maryse!
Watching Christmas Vacation on Christmas Eve and spending Christmas morning with the family having breakfast and opening gifts……thanks for the giveaway 🙂
My favorite holiday tradition is spending Christmas Eve with my family. Thank you for the giveaway. Merry Christmas, Maryse! =)
I love staying up till twelve o’clock in the morning on Christmas Eve so we all can say “Merry Christmas” the min. it happens……..also opening 1 present
Favorite tradition is going to church on Christmas Eve and then coming home to watch It’s a Wonderful Life. It makes my husband cry every year. It ISa wonderful life. Merry Christmas to you all!
Our holiday centers around food — special appetizers on Christmas Eve, a special breakfast on Christmas morning, baking Christmas cookies. Merry Christmas!!
Christmas Eve we go to mass & then head over to my parents for the evening. Once we get home the kids sprinkle reindeer food on the lawn for the reindeer & come inside & put out cookies & milk for Santa. Then on Christmas morning we put on The Christmas story while opening presents & eat cinnamon rolls with my husband, kids & our parents!
My favorite Christmas Tradition is hiding the Green Pickle on the tree for my kids!
After presents, over breakfast we read a letter left by Santa (hubby) that details all of our kid’s highlights throughout the year. It is very in depth and humorous including comments from various North Pole characters (elves, Rudolf, Mrs. Claus). Seriously, it must take him hours to write since we have 4 kids and one son-in-law. Lots of laughs! Ho Ho Ho 🙂
One of the traditions I love actually happens after Christmas. My grandma would always take the left over turkey and make a huge pot of turkey soup the day after Christmas. When it was finished cooking, she would call my dad and my aunts to come pick up each family’s batch of grandma’s turkey soup. My grandma, my dad, and my aunties are all passed now, but I still make turkey soup the day after Christmas and now I call my son and daughter-in-law to come pick up their batch of turkey soup.
Thank you Maryse for gifting us throughout the year with great reviews and recommendations! Your hard work is enjoyed by many.
Eating smoked salmon. Thanks for all the awesome giveaways!
Merry Christmas all my family hangs out Christmas Eve and at midnight we open our gifts.
Merry Christmas! on christmas eve we all put on our pj’s hang out in front of the fire and watch It’s a Wonderful Life. Awesome just being together.
Christmas breakfast is, by far, my favorite part of the holiday. All the friends and fams come to my home to eat and watch the kids suffer as their presents sit neatly wrapped under the tree. We take our time and draw it out – making it the most relaxing part of the season. Merry Christmas, all!!
Making pies and cookies with my daughters on Christmas eve.
Wow oh Wow!! Best books ever!! I love me some cool biker stories!! Great selection to win please Hee!! Thanks for this chance & thank you author’s for this!! Merry Merry Christmas to you & yours!! Happy reading 😛
decorating the tree together
Our Christmas tradition is that my mom and I wake early make coffee and get everything ready then get the men up to join us for present time together and also usually everyone gets new pajamas as well( which I did today :))
My kids favorite food for Christmas is peanut butter balls!
Thank you very much for the chance for these amazing books….. Merry Christmas to all!
Hello and thanks for all the good recommendations
Merry Christmas! Our family reads THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS every Christmas Eve!
On Christmas Eve, we go sing carols at church and then to my mom’s house for dinner and presents. This is my favorite part because I don’t have to do any cooking or cleaning for this part of Christmas. I am able to just sit and enjoy my family.
Merry Christmas Maryse! Christmas Eve we make Christmas cookies to enjoy throughout the next day with hot chocolate while we watch A Christmas Story! Have you ever gone to the Swoonworthy site? I happened to run across it on the Goodreads site and finished a trilogy called Broken, talk about angst! I love love love your site the most, thanks for all the give always!
Merry Xmas maryse and thanks for all the great recommendations this year can’t wait to use my best gift a kindle voucher for all my new book boyfriends next year xxx
When I was pregnant and found out it was a girl I knew I wanted to collect something and I struggled figuring it out We love Pigeon Forge and try very year to go to The Christmas place and bam it hit me ….a special Christmas ornament every year which I’d adding up to a really cool Christmas tree and after twelve years it neat to sit back and look at how her personality is changing and taste in things special to her though I’m not to fond or realizing how fast these twelve years have flown by
We sit around in our Pj’s on Christmas day doing NOTHING!!! (Well i”m reading lol)
Christmas morning having breakfast with just my husband and kids.
Our family has a traditional German meal on Christmas Eve and a traditional Italian meal on Christmas Day, combined my heritage and my husband’s. Thanks for the awesome giveaway, and Merry Christmas!
My kids are quite young so we are building our own traditions as a family. A couple of my favorites, making cookies, driving around looking at light displays and sitting around the fireplace with the family. Merry Christmas!
Eating Christmas breakfast with my husband’s family.
Christmas eve nativity at church. That’s when Christmas starts for me.
Best present is my parents getting their power back on christmas eve after 3 long days/nights due to the ice storm in Toronto. Still many without
Every Christmas, we all meet at my Mom’s house for breakfast and then open gifts. Thank you for this amazing giveaway! Merry Christmas!
A tradition I do, make tons of cookies, one year I made so many, they lasted till Valentine’s day
Nothing beats a Christmas with the whole family. No worries of work ahead. Eating a lot and lots of time for reading. <3
Christmas morning breakfast/brunch with the family…nothing like bagels, bacon and wrapping paper flying around the room to say Merry Christmas 🙂 …..and Night Owl—-*swoon* LOVE IT!
My favorite tradition is going to the movies on Christmas evening with my family. It’s always a great relaxing way to end the day no matter how the rest of it was.
My fave christmas tradition is exchanging presents at church. So each peoples will bring one present and then the present will be collected and randomly exchange. It’s so fun, feel like having surprise presents.
Night owl pleaseeee…! M. Pierce really melting me with matt and hannah story. Ia lready read the ebook version 3 times, I’m really swooned!
Thanks Maryse for the giveaways. Happy holidayyy… 🙂
We’ve started a cute little Christmas tradition the past couple of years. A family portrait in front of the Christmas tree with everyone wearing Santa Hats! This year we even managed to get our 2 cats in the picture with us…not an easy task! Hope everyone had a good Christmas!
Definitely pajamas on on Christmas Eve. 🙂 Spending time with the kids is my favorite part.
We have lots of traditions but since my first grandbaby was born in June (prettiest, smartest baby girl ever) my new tradition will be to make each Christmas unforgetable for her!! P.S. I LOVE Joanna Wylde’s M.C. series!
I love putting up the Christmas tree together as a family after our big Thanksgiving feast! Wishing everyone a magical holiday season! <3
Happy Christmas! I just finished Noght Owl yesterday a flipping loved it. I can’t stop thinking about it & can’t believe I waited so long to read it. Can I please be little bird?? Pretty please ;0)
WAITING FOR SANTA CLAUS TO COME AND LEAVE OUR PRESENTS. EXCHANGING GIFTS AT EXACTLY 12! CELEBRATING JESUS’ BIRTHDAY WITH LOTS OF BUTTERFLYING FOODS AND OFC THE KISSES!!! X
PS. I SO LOVE, LOVE, LOVE NIGHT OWL.
our family tradition is dinner or lunch at christmas, plus chocolate cake, and lots of ice cream (meaning : more hour at gym LOL)
love spending time with my 2 older girls that moved out, and time with them is sparse with them working full time and attending college, so that was AWESOME. also going to the local Salvation Army and donating all the gloves, mittens, hats and scarfs we collect on our Xmas tree from work. 🙂
Love watching A Christmas Story and a friend and I always exchange fun socks. This year I got zombie socks and owl socks. Love it!
Mele Kalikimaka!!! Christmas Jammies on Christmas Eve
We meet at my parent’s house every year for brunch with my whole family. Fun times!
Getting new pajamas and dressing gown and wearing them all day 🙂
I live in a third world country and in a third world house hahahaha so traditions doesn’t much apply to me and being grown up and not that expressive and close to my parents leave me to tend for my own emotional needs lol. So watching fireworks while covering my ears coz (duh) it’s loud has been my tradition since then.. Seriously, I just notice that recently when some fb page admin asks their likers their traditions so here comes images of me as a child covering my ears and watching the sky glow and inhaling not-so-good smoke.
Making Rum cake!
sing karaoke in the living room while the kids open up their presents! calling loved ones who are far and away; staying up late and eating noche buena!