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Thanks for the chance at a holiday punch.  I have to say my favorite childhood memory of Christmas is every year we built a cookie castle to feed the birds.  Mom, Dad, my brother and I would all take our own corners and decorate them the way we wanted.  I remember lots of cookies, frosting, pretzels, gum drops and assorted candies!  The end result was quite interesting...what I wouldn't give for pictures of those annual cookie castles!

One of my favorite memories of Christmas is making ornaments each year with our children. Our children are grown now, and we gave each of them a dozen of these ornaments when they married. We still have some that we hang on our tree.  They bring back lots of memories of happy times together.

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One of my favorite holiday memories is actually Easter; my grandmother always sewed mine and my sister's dresses, and we loved coloring the eggs and then the great Easter egg hunt.  There was always a "special" egg with money and so much fun for whoever found it!

Love Fiskars!! My favorite childhood memory is having a bright silver Christmas tree with a color wheel shining on it! Craziness. Then when I met my husband, he says that he still has one in his garage from his childhood! Crazier!

Thanks for the great giveaway. I love on Christmas Eve my family and I always go look at Christmas lights before we open our presents. Just last year it didn't happen since my Dad spilled his hot coco on his arm and burnt his arm really bad.

Thanks for the great giveaway!  One of my favorite memories is setting out luminarias every Christmas Eve.

A favorite holiday memory for me is a couple years ago my DS began struggling with his belief in Santa.  We always leave out cookies and a drink (usually sweet tea) for Santa.  On Christmas morning, he woke up, saw that the cookies and drink were gone - nothing but crumbs left on the plate.  DS looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "He IS real!"  That moment will stay with me for a long time!  (Thanks for the chance to win punches!  They look awesome!)

One of my favorite memories as a kid would be driving up and down the streets looking at all the Christmas lights while we were in our new Christmas pajamas. We would always finish the night off with hot chocolate and candy cane sticks to stir it!

One of my favorite holiday memories was my daughters 1st Christmas! Her laughter as we opened up her Tickle Me Elmo! And the sparkle in her eyes as he danced around her! So precious and so unforgettable!

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My favorite holiday memories all involve dinner at my grandparents house.  Sitting around the table and picking on eachother as we ate, laughing until our sides hurt and the amazing food.  I miss those days and my grandparents very much.

One of my favorite memories at Christmas is going to my grandparents house and seeing their white Christmas tree with the gold birds and red ribbons.  I looked forward to seeing that tree every year!

I really treasure the holidays that my husband is home with us.  We have been through several deployments and it is so nice to have him with us.  Thank you for the chance for this fabulous giveaway.

My favorite Christmas memory was my son's first Christmas. He was 6 months old and really didn't know what was going on but his eyes light up when he saw the Christmas tree!

One of my favorite holiday memories was almost 10 years ago when my boyfriend (now husband) joked with me that he was going to give me a lump of coal for Christmas.  And on Christmas Eve he really did give me a lump of coal but it was actually a piece of charcoal that he had cut in half and put a promise ring inside.

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One of my favorite holiday memories is our Christmas Jammies for our kids.  On Christmas Eve, they get to open one gift from us at their grandparents house; it's always their jammies.  A couple of years ago, the boys opened their gifts & started stripping right there in the living room!  Clothes were flying & our youngest was dancing and singing at the same time.  I love seeing all of the kids in their jammies, opening gifts, with their giggles, excitement, and joy & just being surrounded by our wonderful family.  I also have to throw in that another favorite memory was the first year our oldest son was a part of the Children's Christmas Mass at our church.  He was a shepard & looked so adorable in his shepard costume standing up there on the alter with the beautiful Christmas decorations behind him.

My favorite holiday memory is an easy one! My oldest daughter was born on December 15th, I had an emergency c-section, so was in the hospital a little longer than expected. We didn't have any decorations up, and I was so upset that our daughter wasn't going to have any decorations for her first Christmas ( cuz you know she would notice! ;)) So I was of course already very emotional, and this was just the end of the world...then my husband made me so mad, cuz he "had to" run home the night before we got to go home, and the roads had been horrible due to all kinds of snow....we get home the next day, and he and my dad had put up the decorations for little miss e. :)

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My favorite memories is baking cookies and eating my mom's turkey potpie!

Last Christmas was and will always be my most memorable Christmas. I will cherish it forever. I spent the day with my husband knowing it would be our last together on this earth. Now he will spend the rest of my Christmases in my heart. Christmas was his favorite holiday and mine as well. We decked the house out inside. He couldn't spend much time out. Just the two of us on Christmas Day Nice quite time. Christmas eve was spent with family.

one of my fav memories are really more than one - love Christmas traditions - sitting at the top of the stairs Christmas morning with my brother and sisters, waiting for mom and dad to wake up so we could go downstairs and see if Santa had arrived.....stocking first - then breakfast - then the Christmas tree and presents....opening one present the night before....calling family members that were too far away to be with us.....Macys Parade on tv....wonderful dinners...so many traditions that I gladly pass down to my girls

My favorite Christmas memory is our traditional fun activities at my parents' house.  Ever since I was little we have drawn names, sang The Twelve Days of Christmas, and had my dad read Twas the night before Christmas. I love the traditions we have in place both in my big family and my little family of four.

One of my favorite Christmas memories is being able to decorate the Christmas tree as a family.  When I was little my dad would always lift me up to put the angel on top of the tree.

One of my favorite memories of Christmas happens every year! Our family has a long standing tradition of my Dad reading Twas the Night Before Christmas to the kids..This started when my twin brother and I were babies and has continued on since 1971!

I don't have a favorite holiday memories but just that everytime there's a family gathering, we would sit around the dinner table and talk for hours long after the food was gone.   We'd just tell each other stories and catch up that way.

One of my favorite memories is getting and decorating the tree each year.  The sunday after Thanksgiving we would drive to a Christmas tree farm, and set out to find "The Perfect Tree".  We'd find candidate trees, but my mom would always need to give final approval- it had to be the perfect shape, height, etc, lol!  When we got that tree home, we'd beg to have it set up right away so we could decorate it!  Every year my mom bought each of us kids a new ornament, so that when we grew up and moved out, we'd have our own ornament collection started.  Some very happy memories  :)  Thanks for offering the amazing giveaway!

my favorite christmas memory:  My little sister had just had her first baby and was released from the hospital on christmas morning.  She drove across FL to get from her house to where the rest of our family lived.  My mom had been with her, so we did not have our normal christmas dinner, but they arrived just before we dug into the food my dad had ordered.  My big brother was in from California, my big sister was at the house with her family and it was great!  It felt like we had two christmases, because my niece/nephews who lived in my hometown opened all of their presents from santa in the morning, and then they got to open presents all night.  There was a beautiful new addition to our family.  It was the last holiday we were all together before tragedy struck my family.  My little brother died the next year, 3 days before christmas and the day before his 21st birthday.

I guess my favorite Christmas memory (that has now become a Christmas tradition) is spending Christmas with my mother-in-law in front of the tree with the help of Skype video. Even though we are separated by over 7,000 miles each Christmas, it feels like we are together as we read the Christmas story, open presents, and chat and visit over coffee like we were in the same house!

I just love the punches and you can never have to many.  My favorite memory is my dad sold Christmas trees and my brothers and I 4 of them use to help sell, I really just played but we had to make big mounds of snow to stick the best trees in and I got to help pick out the trees.  I loved all the lights that dad use to string on the close line and some on poles.  It's a wonderful memory. Thanks for the chance to win.

My favourite Christmas memories is went we are all together as a family.  Doesn't happen every year, but when it does :)

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My favorite holiday memory is cookie baking day.  Used to be us kids, sprinkles everywhere - then for awhile we were grownup making Martha Stewart recipes - now we are back to sprinkles with our kids:)

One of my favorite holiday memories is our first Christmas at home with our oldest daughter (she was almost 2 at the time).  Santa brought her a new baby complete with a stroller, highchair and bassinet.  The look on her face when she saw it was priceless.

I have to say the best holiday memory that I have as a child was visiting Ogden Park where eve year they have little buildings all decorated inside from different sponsors. This is one tradition that I have kept going with my kids who have even invited friends who then ask to come with each yr. my kids are in their 18-20s & they still ask to go each yr. I love punches, my kids always know what to get me for christmas  the newest punch out in stores.

My favorite holiday memory is going to my grandparents' house for Christmas.  My aunts and uncles and cousins all came for a BIG dinner and gifts.  The absolute best memory was my grandmother playing Christmas carols on the piano.  She's been gone since 1975 but every time I hear "Away in a Manger", it brings tears to my eyes as I think of her.

I have to say the best holiday memory that I have as a child was visiting Ogden Park where eve year they have little buildings all decorated inside from different sponsors. This is one tradition that I have kept going with my kids who have even invited friends who then ask to come with each yr. my kids are in their 18-20s & they still ask to go each yr.

I have fodn memories fo going to see the window decorations in chicago, When I was a kid every year my parents would take us to go see the windows. The stores would have these elaborate beautiful displays and some stores would give out hot chocolate. I looked forward to going every year. We also used to go and drive around our local neigborhoods to see the christmas lights it was alway fun!

What an awesome giveaway!!!  One of favorite holiday memories is the time we went out looking for a tree, took photos and everything, only to come home and pull out the artificial tree.  I just couldn't find one that was to my expectations!

One of my favorite holiday memories was going to pick out the tree.  Our neighbor owned a tree farm, so every Halloween we'd go tag which tree we wanted, and then at Thanksgiving go cut it down and decorating it.  

I love anything Christmas. Our traditional  Christmas Eve ham sandwich and potato salad with fudge for desert has to be right up there with my favorite memories. After the Candlelight service at church our family would all gather to exchange presents. Before we could start we had to have our baked honey ham sandwich to give us the strength to tear through the gifts. LOL!

One of my favorite memories was when I was young, us kids woke up Christmas morning and there were $100 bills hanging on the Christmas tree -- one for each of us ! WOW -- we were all in shock and very, very MERRY !  LOL  Thanks for the chance!

These days - with my own family - I love the feeling of my family walking around the corner to our little neighborhood church, enjoying the service and the walking home singing all the way, rounding the corner and seeing our luminairies lit along our walkway.  ♥

One of my favorite holiday memories was of my daughter....I have pictures of her in standing in a giant gift bag....She was laughing and smiling....it was one of my favorite memories of Christmas with her.

One of my favorite memories is when we were little.  My dad loved the holidays. Christmas morning he would bang pots and pans together to wake everyone up that Santa had been there.

Awesome giveaway!  Thanks Fiskars!  I have many, many, wonderful memories including the very first one I had on my own.  Getting the tree, decorating, baking, and sharing was so delightful.

Thank you for offering such a great giveaway! It's hard to choose a favourite memory. I guess last year was a favourite...when DS met Santa. he had almost stopped believing but then we met the most amazing Santa ever. he had a real beard and he greeted my son by name. He was the Santa from Macy's but I came away from the experience believing he was real.

My favorite holiday memory would be 1985.  My darling daughter was born on Christmas Day.  Made my favorite holiday even more special.

One  of my favorite holiday memories was taking my grandsons for a horse drawn carriage ride on the plaza in Kansas City.

Thanks for a chance to win these great punches! One of my favorite Christmas memories was my first Christmas with my husband (actually it was a week before we were married). We went out on Christmas Eve, bought a HUGE Christmas tree, and made a popcorn garland for it. We had to put it in the corner since we only had enough ornaments and garland to cover a third of the tree!

One of my favorite holiday memories was my last Christmas where I lived in Germany.  I was an Army bratt and we were about to get stationed back in the United States, the middle of my Junior year in High School.  This was a great trip, I got to spend the week with my friends on the ski slopes of France.  We would ski all day and hang out with each other, before I had to head back to the United States.  I was very nervous to leave my friends behind, because I had spent half of my life out of the United States and this would be my first time back and I did not realize what a culture shock the United States would be to me and it was a major culture shock when I returned to the good old USA.  This was one of my best memories.  My last time to spend with friends before going half way around the world.

Love Love Fiskars! One of my favorite memories would have been when all four of my sons were small & we would come home from them singing at church on Christmas Eve to find Santa arrived.....we would then watch them all open their gifts, have cookies & then early to bed to milk in the morning!

One of my favorite holiday memories is from Christmas 2005.  My son was 6 and I was 8 months pregnant. My daughter was due January 10th. We had a fabulous turkey dinner, DS videotaped Mom & Dad dancing very dorkily to the Chicken Dance (Jimmy Neutron soundtrack) with my belly out to there --- and the next clip on the videotape is newborn DD screaming crying as soon as we got home from the hospital. I had gotten up at 2am to sneak some turkey leftovers and my water broke.  DD was born 12/26/05 LOL! Our belated Christmas gift!

I love punches! Okay my favorite memory of Christmas is my mom decorating each year for the holdays. I'm not talking a "normal" amount of decorating but uber decorating. I always thought it was funny that it took mom 2 weeks to put up all the decorations. She had a funny things like the reindeer that played music, or her nativity scene that always grew during the year and had at least a dozen camels b/c she thought they were cute. She remembers her mom decorating everything and she continued the tradition. Now, I decorate the whole house and now my children LOVE it as much as I did as a kid.

My grandmother always put candy canes on her tree and it looked so pretty! I continue the tradition now...

Thanks for the chance to win those great punches!  When my parents were still alive we would draw names for a "gag" gift to be opened on Christmas Eve after midnight Mass.  We had a dollar limit and we spent many fun hours looking for just the right thing.  We had to write a poem to accompany the "gag" gift, too.  We took turns opening our funny gifts and reading the poems while we enjoyed hot chocolate, coffee and banana bread.  Those are special memories!

When my brother and I were teenagers, my parents decided to cut down on decorating for Christmas since us kids were over the Santa thing.  So, instead of the great big tree, we had a small one (about 3 ft.) that sat on top of round side table.  Dad decided to decorate it with chocolate ornaments which were chocolate balls surrounded with gold foil decorative paper and had a gold loop on them.  We were told not to eat the ornaments until after Christmas.  Well of course, no one could resist, and everyone started picking them off of the back of the tree, by the time Christmas came only about 6 were left in a line on the front of the tree.  It was the funniest looking tree, but boy the chocolate was good.

My favorite holiday memory: Our son was six years old and started to really get excited about the holiday. We established our family traditions that year of driving to see light displays, family get togethers, and decorating the tree with JJ's help.

One of my favorite memories of Christmas was when I was younger we lived in west Africa, we got to open presents and then spent the rest of the day at the beach.

Wow, Christmas punches!! My favorite memories was after our school Christmas programs my dad would drive my mom, sister, and I around town to look at all of the Christmas lights. I am going to make it a tradition for my children someday too :)

One of my favorite Christmas memories was when our dgs was about 2½. His parents didn't let him have a lot of candy so I put a little candy, some small toys and one of those little individual packages of breadsticks and cheese in his stocking. On Christmas morning he reached in his stocking and pulled out the cheese and breadsticks, jumped up and down with a big smile, excitingly saying "Cheese! Just what I always wanted!" Now, isn't it every young child's dream to get cheese and breadsticks for Christmas from Santa?! LOL!  

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Growing up, I had the silver Christmas tree too!  It was decorated with pink ornaments and a revolving light changed the color of it from red to green to blue.  Oh, the stand played jingle bells too.  Can you tell I grew up in the '60s and '70s!

One of my favorite Christmas memories was going to watch Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer at my neighbor's house because they had a color TV! Oops, now I just dated myself. Yup, grew up in the 60's.

one thing I don't have now is the family get-to-gether at my house for food, fun and

gifts.

I love Halloween-so one year for Christmas my youngest son gave me an outdoor inflatable headless horseman for Christmas. We jokingly took it outside and set it up, than put a wreath around his neck. It's now a family tradition and even the kids in the neighborhood want to know when we're going to put our horse up.

My dad worked nights so he never got home before 1am. One year when i was six or seven he woke me up very quietly so no one else would hear and gave me my Mickey Mouse Sounds of the Seasons vinyle record. It is one of the few memories from my childhood that i can see clearly and i cherish it.

My favorite holiday memories would have to be my son coming into my bedroom at 6 am with our stockings & crawling into bed with me to open them up. He always got so excited about Christmas & would head off to bed early Christmas Eve (his choice) complaining that his stomach hurt. (from being too excited). Then he'd wake up early & sneak downstairs to check out the tree to see if Santa came. My rule was he couldn't wake me up until 6 am. Well, the minute my digital clock showed 6 am, he was in my room yelling at me to wake up & open our stockings. Now that he's 25 yrs old, I must admit that I miss those days.

One of my favourite Christmas memories related to our family Christmas lunch at my Grandparents place.  Grandma made the pudding in advance so the flavour would be just right .  Grandpa was put in charge of boiling it on Christmas Day.  The only task he had was to make sure the pudding kept bubbling away and keep topping up with boiling water.  Ooops - he got distracted, the water cooled down and when it came time for Grandma to unwrap the calico and cut it to serve she found it was waterlogged and stodgy!!!  Poor Grandpa - he never made that mistake again and of course we never let him forget about it either!!!

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I remember a Christmas morning when my son was 8.  There wasn't as much money for gifts as we had hoped so I had to e creative in making it a happy day.  Of course, I started by crocheting and knitting...scarves, hats, sweaters.  Then I bought necessities like socks and gloves.  Then I wrapped each sock in a separate package and each glove the same way.  In fact, every set of things was broken down and wrapped separately.  Since I had used lots of rolls of wrapping paper, I saved the cardboard inserts and made directional road signs to plant into piles of gifts.  When my son came downstairs and saw a living room full of gifts, he was so excited.  Then came the sarcastic "oh Mom, 2 different boxes."  But, by the end of the unwrapping, he was in the spirit and yelling "where's the other sock, Mom?"  "I really got a pair."  It was one of the richest Christmas mornings of our lives.

My favorite holiday memory is how my sisters and I could never sleep through the night on Christmas eve.  Usually at some point we'd get bold, and attempt to go see what Santa left for us(always a Barbie!), but we had to get past my grandmother first!  She always stayed in the bedroom closest to the living room where the tree was.  We never did make it all the way to the tree before she would corral us and send us back to bed!  

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I laugh when I look back at one year when I was putting up the artificial tree for my parents (Dad had asthma and was allergic to live evergreen). I had put all the branches into the main stand and was "fluffing" the smaller individual branches. My dad gave me trouble because he said they should all be lined up horizontally so the ornaments could dangle properly. In my world, I've never seen a tree with horizontal branches!!

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It's funny how as you get older, & have your own kids, what becomes tradition for them.

I have to have apple cider, heating in it's own little carafe, or I get grief.

I loved every Christmas with my dad!

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We do the Christmas morning gift opening, what did Santa bring :)  When our son was 5, as we were still in bed just waking up, we heard the sound of pitter patter of little feet walking into the living room, they stopped, and then he said in awe, "It's a miracle!"...so adorable, I'll always remember this moment.

I love Fiskars punches! My favorite holiday memory is the singing we do on Christmas Eve. We always end with Silent Night and then open presents.

What an awesome giveaway!!  I love fiskars!  My favorite Christmas memory is spending every Christmas Eve at my great grandmothers house. We would decorate the tree and all the presents would be there. We would have a wonderful dinner and then open our gifts to each other before going home to bed to wait for Santa.  It was great being with family and enjoying such a magical time. I now have two children and we moved away from all our family about a year ago for my husbands job.  I hope that our new traditions here in our new home create the wonderful memories for them that my times with my grandparents created for me.

Hmmmm ... favorite holiday memory?  That's a tough one!  There are so many!  We have many traditions in my family so there are always so many memories associated with those but one I remember is what we call our failed tradition.  We decided one year that we would find our own Christmas tree at this place where you could pick your own and cut it down.  We wandered the knee deep snow feilds for what seemed like hours freezing our buns off trying to find the perfect tree (does one actually exist?).  We ended up just pick one from the stack of one they had already cut in the end.  We still laugh about this to this day in how silly we were on our quest for the perfect tree

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My favorite holiday memory would have to be two years ago, when my husband and I were at his uncle's house for a holiday party.  His cousin dressed up in a Santa suit and proposed to his girlfriend there.  It was soooo sweet!  I loved it.

One of my favorite childhood memories is baking sugar cookies with my Mom. We would roll them out, use the cookie cutters to make the different shapes, and frost them and decorate them with sprinkles, colored sugar, etc. However the best part was eating one before anyone else and thinking that I had pulled a quick one over on my Mom. She always knew and always looked the other way!!! Thanks for the opportunity at such a great giveaway, a scrapper can never have too many punches?!

Wow, what a great giveaway! I would say my favorite holiday memory would be getting up in the middle of the night with my sister to check out the goodies under the tree, maybe tear back a corner of paper to sneak a peek. As we got older we would try to snoop for where the presents were hidden before Christmas (usually Mom's closet). We've never been much for letting suprises be a  suprise, lol.

My favorite holiday memory is from when my four boys were little.  They made their gifts each year for their dad, grandparents, aunts and uncles.  When you multiply that out...that was about 60 gifts between the four of them.  My boys weren't much on crafting, but at Christmastime they were really excited about getting their gifts made.  I loved that they made their gifts and that Christmas wasn't just about them.  They don't make their gifts anymore, but they also don't forget the important people in their lives...

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Great giveaway!  I love the lights :D

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One of my favorite memories is the tradition of eating summer sausage, cheese & crackers while watching A Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve.

Would love to win some punches to finish last years Christmas layouts.  My favorite memory and it's been a tradition forever is going to my Grandma's house.  She has a bi-level house and it overlooks the living room, so we'd pretend it was our stage, and sing Christmas songs from there.  Now that I'm old, my 8 year old niece has been carrying on the tradition, along with my 6 year old nephew...it's such a hoot!!

My favorite holiday memories are when I was young and we went to my grandparents' ranch for every holiday.  My grandmother always went all out for my sister and me.  She would set up a child-size table with miniture dishes of the things that were at the other table.  We would have a Cornish hen instead of a turkey, our own little miniture cakes and pies.  She made those days so special for us!

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My favorite Christmas memories are with my grandsons.  During the Christmas season, we hop in the car and each year we pick a different area in our local district to drive around and look at the Christmas lights on the houses.  I usually take a picture of them in front of one of our favorite decorated houses.  After this we go to our favorite restaurant and get wings.  It's always a great time!

My brother and I were teenagers.  We liked to shake the packages under the tree and guess what was in them.  We got too good at it.  So, Dad had begun putting codes on the pkgs. instead of names when we were pretty young.  The year we were in Junior High, he was called away on work (a train wreck he had to supervise) and didn't get home until Christmas day.  Since he had been gone a week and had been operating on little sleep, we told him to get a good nap and we would open the gifts that night.  Only he knew the code.  Within minutes of him waking up from his Christmas Day nap, he was called back out again.  Although he offered to have us open gifts while he was gone and would give Mom the code, we decided to wait.  He got back home on New Years Eve and we celebrated Christmas that night and opened gifts.  Needless to say, that was the end of coding packages for him.

my fav holiday memories are of my children and how thier faces would light up as they opened all thier gifts. One year one of my boys saw a John Deere pillow in our walmart  and begged me to buy it I went and bought it for him and I'll never forget the joy on his face when he opened his gift and saw  what it was. And over the years a whole lot of memories just like that one have been added

One of my favorite memories is making Christmas cookies. When we were close to done with the cut-out style cookies we'd put our hand on the dough, and my mom would trace it/cut it out. We'd then bake and frost our "hand cookies" any way we wanted to AND we could eat them right away (unlike the other Christmas cookies). I've passed this tradition on to my kids now (ages 3 & 4) and I even made a layout about it.

Thank you for offering this great give away.  I have so many wonderful holiday memories that I plan to write a book/scrapbook to pass on to my children and grandchildren.  One of my favs is now a tradition.  The whole family including our eight grandchildren gather to decorate Swedish pepparkakor cookies. Of course the little ones really pile on the frosting and candies and the pepparkakor men have characteristics of the person who decorated them.  It does not matter that the cookies are not decorated in the traditional way because everyone is having such a great time and creating new memories.  I also set aside a dozen or so cookies that are not decorated so I can enjoy the flavor of the cardamon and other spices.  Mmmmm - so good, and with a mug of glogg even better.

Great idea! I have two separate, yet frighteningly related stand-out memorable holiday experiences.

The first was in 3rd grade. My mother was invited to the school to explain Hanukkah to my class. She had me up front with her so we could light the menorah, and some how in putting the shamos (the helper candle that's above the others - on our menorah, much above) back into its holder, my mother managed to set my hair on fire. In front of the entire class. Being 8, I wasn't frightened, but boy was I mortified!

The second, I was in 10th grade. We had just moved that summer, and my mother couldn't find the box with the Hanukkah stuff, so she asked my brothers to build a menorah out of Construx (these plastic building toys - kind of erector set meets lincoln logs). Anyway, when we came in to light the candles, I said to her, "you're not actually lighting them, are you? the plastic will melt!!" She said it would be fine...long story short a couple of hours later, we discovered a 2 foot ball of fire in the den where it had been left burning unattended! Fortunately, my parents were able to extinguish the fire quickly, and everything turned out ok, but it definitely was another memorable Hanukkah!

My favourite christmas memories are from Christmas Eve ( in my country we celebrate that). We usually spend wonderful time as a family together in candle light (and yes we have real candles on our Chritmas tree that is also our tradition). I love that so much.

What else, Christmas at Disneyland! The place is crazy busy that day, but you have to do it at least once IMO.

I love traveling home for the holidays!  Thanks for the chance!

Thanks for the chance at a great giveaway!! One of my favorite holiday memories was when my little boy was just three and my dad called him and pretended to be Santa, the look on my little one's face was priceless.  He then told me that he had to hurry up and go to sleep so Santa could come.  I loved the innocence of the whole experience :)

wow what a give away  they're pretty cool    my fav. memories of the holidays are sneaking of to shake the gifts and try to figure out what's in them  we always managed to find out what they were  so no surprise there

I love Christmas, and I love punches - would really love to win this giveaway!!

My Mom could stand pine needles on the floor for two weeks and two weeks only - so, as my b'day is the 18th, we would always get the tree on my birthday and then, on New Year's, while Dad and my big bro were watching football games, she and I would take it down. So I always associate my birthday with the tree. As an adult, I have carried on this tradition; at least the first part about setting the tree up on my birthday - we keep the tree up until Epiphany. I have amassed a HUGE assortment of ornaments over the years, and one of my newest favorite memories was starting a new tradition last Christmas with our DGS - he gets to pick ANY ornament he wants off of G'ma & G'pa's tree for his very own. He picked a wooden choo-choo last year and seemed really happy with it; of course, I scrapped the event! We are expecting a 2nd "grand" around Labor Day, and while that baby will get a "Baby's First" ornament just like Gavin did for this Christmas, NEXT year we'll have TWO babes choosing ornaments from our tree. I think the traditions we devise for our families are almost the best part of the holidays.

Awesome giveaway!! One of my fav memories was the first Christmas after my oldest daughter was born. She was 4 months old and getting really good at rolling. You could put her down anywhere in the living room, in any direction, and when you came back she would be under the tree, staring at the lights.

Great giveaway! My favorite memory is of my twin sons when they were two years old in their footed pjs and they saw the Christmas tree decorated and all lit up. They went up to the tree and were fascinated by all the different ornaments. I have great pictures of this! Precious.

Thanks for the opportunity!  Christmas Eve at my grandparents' house was one of my favorite traditions -- lots of happy memories.

My favorite Christmas memories were when my niece and nephew were very young.  I would spend the night at their house so I could watch them open presents Christmas morning.  I'll never forget one year when my nephew jumped up and down on my bed at 4:30 am saying Santa Claus had come.  He is now in his twenties and very "cool," but I will never forget his excitement on Christmas morning.

One of my favorite holiday memories for me was leaving cookies and milk out for Santa. I discovered years later that my sister would consume a bit of the cookies and milk and of course the carrots I left for the reindeer in order to give the illusion that Santa had been there.

This is only one of my favorite memories of Christmas.  After someone told my son that there is no Santa (before we wanted him to be told) he would search the house trying to find where we hid his gifts.  Day after Day before Christmas, he would rummage through the house.  He never found them.  Christmas Eve was soooooooooooo long, because he tried to wait us out to catch us in the act.  Mom's are smarter than kids!!!!

I love Christmas.  My favorite memory is taking my daughter to sit on Santa's lap for the first time.  She didn't even cry!  Thank you. ;o)  We made it a tradition and have pictures of her sitting on the Mall Santa's lap until she was "too old" to be cool.  Just love looking at those pictures and remembering when she was little. Even in her 20's she still loves Christmas too!

My favorite memory is the last Christmas my family spent with our beloved grandmother.   All of the kids and grandkids were there.  It was a magical time to have everyone together.

One of my favorite Christmas memories is going to church every Christmas Eve with my entire family to watch the Christmas program.  After church we all went home to my parents for treats and presents.

One of my favorite Childhood Christmas memories is visiting my grandparents and they would always have a gumdrop tree! I Loved the plastic tree that as a small child I thought was some kind of shinny glass or crystal. The colorful gumdrops with plenty of sugar coating them, would always sparkle in the lights from the christmas tree. My grandparents are no longer with us but every year I set out the gumdrop tree!  

I have so many wonderful Christmas memories.  One of my favorites were just after my husband and I got engaged.  He had wanted to get me a bigger diamond ring but just couldn't afford it.  So he found another cluster diamond ring that he liked and gave that to me for Christmas.  It showed how much he loved me.  Thank you for the chance to win the punches...I love making Christmas cards and recording those special holiday moments.

Watching my kids' faces on Christmas morning when they see the tree and that Santa Claus has come is probably one of the happiest things in my life.

My favorite holiday memory was almost 10 years ago when my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas together as husband and wife.... and we found out we were expecting our first child! What a great Christmas gift! :-)

My memory of Christmas as a child is always loving the memory of waking up on Christmas morning with my stocking, which was handcrafted by my mother, filled with trinkets. Although i can not tell you one trinket that I received, I do know that I always remember getting an apple, an orange, and a banana. When i became an adult, i asked my mom why and she said it was because fruit was not an option in their house as children, due to cost, since there were 11 kids, so she put them in there to remind me that some things can't be taken for granted. This I will never forget. So, I really need these punches, because I made a New Year's resolution, no punches for one year, at least none that I could purchase. Since my drawers are over flowing with them right now. LOL, but I could definitely find room! tfs Tami

My favorite memories were the family traditional breakfast at my Aunt Loise's house!  It was actually a brunch and she did all the cooking!  She fixed everything under the sun...Sausage, Country Ham, eggs, grits, fruit, homemade biscuits, fruitcake, pound cake...the list went on and on!  She had a small Jim Walter's home and my aunts, uncles and cousins would show up as well as my family so everyone ate in shifts but we didn't care.  The house was packed with a lot of food and a whole lot of love!

My favorite Christmas memory was falling asleep beside the tree....convinced that i would see Santa when he came down the chimney.  Long after i knew the secret about Santa, i still loved to fall asleep by the Christmas tree.

My favorite holiday memories involve wrapping presents with my Dad singing along with favorite Christmas Carols.  We also met aunts, uncles, and cousins up at Grandma and Grampa's the day after Christmas to eat left overs and play games.  Memories that are even more precious as both Grandparents are no longer with us.

My parents weren't great travelers, and one Christmas they flew in to Chicago where my oldest sister picked them up at the airport.  On the way to my sisters (2nd oldest) home, they had a flat tire.  When we all sat down for dinner later in the day, the turkey was only partially cooked.  My sister (the non-cook) didn't know she needed to defrost the turkey for a few days prior, and had only somewhat thawed it that morning in cold water.  It was a good thing she had also made a ham, so we didn't have to go out for Chinese food.  Needless to say, that was the last holiday trip my folks out of state.

I have to say one of my best Christmas Memories is my first Christmas with my boyfriend and his family in 2007.  We all gathered the day after Christmas and while his mom made Horse Cookie Treats with the grandkids, his sister and I went shopping at the local Scrapbook Store.  This was only the SECOND time I had been in the store.  (Wenona was the reason I got hooked in scrapbooking).  They guys were out hunting.  We opened gifts that evening and had a blast.  That morning when I arrived Wenona and Madi were in the bathroom getting ready and Madi was very impatient trying to hurry up and get ready before I left and she didn't get to see me.  When she rain into the living room she gave me a HUGE BEAR HUG!  That night after she opened her pony I had bought her she gave me another hug and told me I was the BEST "UNCLE ROBIN" in the world.  Since that day, I have been TAGGED UNCLE ROBIN.  Everyone laughs.... but I love it!  The next day we all spent the day playing on Ronnie's land and having a blast.  I think this was the first christmas I had really enjoyed in many years.  It honestly seemed like Christmas to me.

My favorite holiday memory was seventeen years ago. When my baby girl had her first

christmas morning.  It took my breath away to see her eyes light up at the sight of all

her gifts Santa left for her.  She kept telling me. ( I must have been really really good this year.)

Of course I had to smile to myself and agree.

Thanks for the chance to enter the giveway.

My favorite holiday memory is probably the first time I remember making Christmas cookies with my mom and sister. It's something we do every year, but it is still so memorable. It just gets better now that my daughter is old enough to help decorating them!

One of my favorite Christmas memories is my Mom allowing my sister and I to open one gift on Christmas Eve. Something about the anticipation of that moment, right before we would head to bed ( and no doubt like awake from anticipation) just makes me smile. I can only remember one of those gifts - my Donny Osmond doll. He had a purple jumpsuit and I loved him dearly. Not sure why I didn't want the Marie doll.... well, truth be told, he is still my favorite Osmond!

One of my favorite holiday memories is... My family always takes a family photo on Christmas Eve. It is after Christmas mass when everyone is still all dressed up. Many times we take them with a timer on the camera. Each year I do a layout of the photo and add it to our Christmas album.

My favorite memory is the year we didn't have much money, so my mom made my sister and me a Barbie mansion, complete with little mattresses, pillows, and matching sheets.

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I loved last Christmas, first arrived to my in-laws, had dinner, we sang was all my husband's family and had a great time, after we passed the house of my mom and my cousins ​​were playing kinnect, neither my husband nor I we had played so it was fun until my daughter had fun 4.

I loved last Christmas, first arrived to my in-laws, had dinner, we sang was all my husband's family and had a great time, after we passed the house of my mom and my cousins ​​were playing kinnect, neither my husband nor I we had played so it was fun until my daughter had fun 4.

Two Christmases ago, my daughter's boyfriend surprised her (and me) with an 8 week old English Bulldog. I wasn't ready for another dog, but ready or not, she was here and full of puppy mischief. Needless to say, she has changed our life. She is just too cute and we love her so much.

As a little girl I rember the christmas all us kids got new bikes.  To see 5 shiny new bikes all line up in the living room with baskets, horns for the girls and big ten speads for the boys. We all couldn't wait for the sun to come up and get out and ride those bike.

My favorite holiday memory was when my son asked to place Baby Jesus in our nativity set. He carried Him with care and placed Him in the manager by his Mommy and Daddy and the tooth fairies (aka the angels)

Love the punches.  My favorite holiday memory is making homemade sugar cookies and decorating.  What a fun and delicious mess!

A couple of years ago my family and I went to the Smokies and stayed in a cabin for Christmas. It was reallllllllly fun and I will always remember the memories we made that week! :) I love these punches!