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Christmas is coming… it’s the time of year for fabulous giveaways.

UPDATE: You can find our most recent Christmas giveaway here…

Also, check our giveaway roundup regularly so that you don’t miss our giveaways or other giveaways from our blogging friends. We’ve been hosting giveaways at 5 Minutes for Mom since 2007. We love handing out prizes to our readers! Find out more about how our giveaways run and find other contest sites where you’ll find more blogs hosting giveaways.

Christmas Giveaway 2015

Throughout November 2015 published a series of fabulous giveaways from our sponsors. Since all those giveaways have ended long ago, we have removed them from the site.

Our most recent Christmas giveaway is for $100 Amazon Gift.

A few of our favorite kids gift ideas that we featured in this event are:

  1. Project Mc2 Ultimate Lab Kit
  2. VTech Innotv Educational Gaming System
  3. Happy Dance Snoopy
  4. Smart Gift Ideas to Get Kids Thinking and Playing
  5. I See Me! Personalized Books for Kids
  6. Teach My Learning Kit
  7. Mani-Pedi Spa Basket for Tweens
  8. Holiday Gifts from Minted

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Christmas Giveaway 2015

 

Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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  7. My favorite part of the holiday season is getting to eat all of the special foods that my friends and I only seem to make at that time of year.

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  14. My favorite part of the holiday season is visiting with friends and family who live far away. Also love baking vegan sweets to share.

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  29. My favorite part of the holiday season is typically cooking and spending time with the people closest to me. This year is a little different for me. This year my favorite part is seeing the excitement and amazement of the Holiday Season in my son’s eyes. He is 5 months old and this is his first holiday season. He is obsessed with lights. So, I cannot wait to see his eyes light up when he sees a Christmas tree lit up for the first time!!!

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  34. My favorite part of the holiday season is sending and receiving cards, plus seeing all the pretty decorations.

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  38. I like the spirit of the season. It just seems like everyone is much more friendly and in a giving mood during the holiday season. I also love the beautiful decorations. Thank you!

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  39. My favorite part of the Holidays is when we sit around the tree opening presents. Watching the looks on my husband & sons face is the best thing in the world

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  42. Just how the holidays transform people’s moods into jovial goodness (except for the scrooges). While it may be over commercialized, people are so much cheery this time of year.

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  43. My favorite thing is the holiday decorations and music. Even if I’m in a bad mood just looking at the lights will make me smile.

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  60. I think my favorite part of the Holiday Season is knowing that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the Son of God, he who gave his life to liberate humankind.

    God bless,
    Miles

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  66. I love honoring God on His Birthday, spending time with my loved ones and all the pretty lights and decorations! Thanks and God bless!

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  72. Mom work twice as much than us but receive less credit for all she does. This year we take the time to let her know how much we appreciated her and all she does for all. After that she went back to cook,,clean,serve and all the other thinks she do so wheel . Thanks, mom

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  77. My favorite part of christmas is absolutely everything! The tree, spending time with family, christmas cards, and the Christmas songs!

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  78. My favorite part of the holiday season is seeing all my family and friends and eating and making yummy food!

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  86. My favorite part is spending time with my daughter – decorating, shopping, watching holiday shows and movies.

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  89. Even when I was a little girl I loved being with my family on the holidays. Since Dad was in the Air Force, we moved a lot & weren’t always near family, so the holidays we would make the extra effort to see them. Since being an adult, I still love being around my family. I married into a large family which wasn’t as cozy as mine, but it was fun having so much action & it doubled the fun & food which was awesome. Neither side of our family had many small children, though. Last Christmas was our daughter’s first Christmas so she was completely spoiled by both sides of the family. This year we have another new one (they are 16 months apart) & she will be spoiled, also. It will be so much fun having a toddler around, too, so I am so excited!

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  92. I love cooking and hosting my family during christmas. getting everyone together and enjoying the holiday is what I love most.

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  93. My favorite part about the Holiday Season is just the general atmosphere everywhere you go. The lights, the hustle and bustle, the cool air, the smell of wood burning, people seem nicer and in better moods this time of year.

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  97. My favorite part of the holidays, is getting to spend time with family. We don’t live near family, so it’s one of the few times we’re able to get everyone together.

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  98. I love everything about Christmas! My fav part would be spending time doing crafts & decorating a gingerbread house with them! Also another fav is the church service I go to & singing Christmas songs. To me Jesus is the reason I celebrate. 🙂 Thank you for the chance to win! 🙂

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  100. My favorite part of the holiday season is putting up the christmas tree! I love decorating it and getting to see it everyday

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  105. My favorite part is the decorations. Finding and decorrating a tree. Putting up lights. All the festivities.

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  107. My favorite part is all the family coming together. It doesn’t seem to happen but once a year, sadly.

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  116. My favorite part about christmas time is spending more time with my family and gathering around to continue family traditions. From decorating the home and our tree, to baking cookies and cooking up a feast… Christmas is my most favorite holiday and i look forward to the chilly winter every yeaf all year long

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  121. MY favorite part of the holiday season is sharing the holiday with my family and seeing the delight on my little nephews’ faces when they see all the presents under the tree on Christmas tree. Thank you for the chance to win. Happy holidays!

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  130. My favorite part of the holiday season is Christmas! The birth of Jesus celebration, family togetherness, great food. There is nothing better than that.

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  138. My favorite part of the holidays and Christmas is all the decorations and lights. My girls think the lights are just magical.

    boylaneely at hotmail dot com

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  159. My favorite part of the holiday season is being together with my family and watching everyone be so happy and lots of smiles and laughter.

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  160. My favorite thing about the holidays is being off from work and spending extra quality time with my children. We make lots of wonderful memories and continue to celebrate our family traditions.

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  165. Food, family, friends, the snow, music, the decorations, celebrating Jesus’ birth (the whole reason for the season), I just love it all. What’s not to love?? Other than the traffic and crowds in the stores, that I could do without LOL.

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  168. We have a very large family and every holiday we travel to see them so we can visit and celebrate. However, for Christmas we stay home. My favorite part of Christmas is being with my husband and son, in our own home, sharing Christmas stories at night in front of the lit tree. It is such an amazing feeling of home and togetherness … a sense of family union that can’t be replaced.

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  173. My favorite part is Christmas morning, when everything is wrapped and under the tree, and the look of delight on my son’s face when he wakes up and sees it all.

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  191. My favorite part of the holiday season is having all of my kids and grandbaby under one roof! Family is what it’s all about, no matter the time of the year! 🙂

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  199. My favorite part of the holidays is the way people treat each other. For a few days a year people criticize less, give more, and even remember to call their family members because they genuinely want to check up on them!

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  206. I would say my favorite part is going to see all the lights and decorations in a town close to us. I love the wonder and amazement on my little boys face.

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  208. My favorite part is seeing family members I don’t normally see much throughout the year. Well some of them, anyway, lol.

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  217. My favourite part of the holiday season is all the events and get togethers we have with friends and family – it is so much fun to get together with everyone and enjoy the Christmas spirit.

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  220. My favorite part of the season is the joy and love that flows through people during the Christmas Season..
    @tisonlyme143

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  230. My favorite part of the season is getting together with the whole family.
    I love to have them all around my table laughing,chatting and enjoying good food.
    This is the part I really look forward to.

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  231. My favourite part of the holiday season is on Christmas Eve when it’s all peaceful, the Christmas music is playing, the tree lights are on and just relaxing with the family.

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  233. simply giving…whether it’s time, love, in actions, in doing…just simply giving as it flows so abundantly more during Christmas time than any other time it seems – or maybe it just seems that way 🙂

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  241. My favorite part of the holiday season is getting time off from work and school. It’s nice to get a break during this time of year. I also really like all the great food that comes with the holidays.

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  244. My favorite part about Christmas would be buying gifts for people. The smile on their face when they realize that you were thinking of them. Priceless.
    Also, making and eating the holiday baking !! Om nom nom 😉

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  245. I love the lights and decorations, food and shopping, but most of all time with my family. I also love Christmas is a time when everyone believes in magic a little more 🙂

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  246. I just love being with family. Most of my family live out of state…. so whenever I get the chance to visit with them i’m so happy. Holidays are perfect for that. 🙂

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  248. My favorite part of the holiday season is putting up the Christmas tree. I love to see the excitement in my kids as we decorate, and I love the memories that come along with certain special ornaments.

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  254. My favorite part is eating all of the desserts, knowing the month of December is the only month I can binge eat sugary food. The rest of the months, I spend trying desperately to hold on to my failing New Year’s resolution.

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  255. My favorite part of the Christmas is spending quality time with family. I love to just hang out, play games, reminisce, watch movies, etc. – Making memories that last a lifetime.

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  258. Family of course
    but also being able to listen to music other people make fun of me for listening to at other times of the year.

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  259. My favorite part of Christmas is getting to spend quality time with my family, making memories(making gingerbread houses, decorating the tree, making cookies, etc.)!

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  262. My favorite part of the holidays are family baking and giving praise to the lord Jesus for it’s his birthday!

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  270. All the traditions, from watching Christmas movies and specials, to the cookies I bake, to attending Christmas Eve Candlelight worship.

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  271. I love the family get togethers and the good food, also the baking of cookies and eating turkey with all the trimmings

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  272. My favorite part is continuing on the traditions we’ve started as a family. Things like visiting a live nativity with friends of ours, and having them over for hot cocoa after.

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  280. My favorite part of the holiday season is to spend time with family I don’t get to see during the rest of the year!

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  281. Hahahaha……my favorite part of the season is the end. Planning and preparations are too stressful, now that I’m getting old.

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  284. Spending time with my family is my favourite part of the season. My second favourite part is giving to others but we do that all year long.

    Besos, Sarah
    Journeys of The Zoo

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  292. My favorite parts of the holiday season are the chances to possibly see family, to rest and take time off of work and school and the magic that is in the eyes of children.

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  296. My favorite part of the holiday season is settling down from our busy lives to spend time with and cherish our family. And the delicious food!

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  301. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with my family. The joy that surrounds the holidays is a close second. 🙂

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  302. the best part of the holiday is definately the good food,the decorations and of cause spending quality time with families and love ones

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  303. My favorite part of the holiday season is remembering what Christmas is really about. Praying together with family at dinner, and attending church for the Christmas Eve service. Also, volunteering at the soup kitchen to help those less fortunate.

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  306. my favorite thing about the holidays is definitely the looks on my children’s faces on Christmas morning when they come down the stairs and first see everything that Santa brought for them. those are such beautiful and special moments to me. they are for sure some of the memories that i will carry with me throughout my life.

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  320. The best part of the holidays is the opportunity for people to show the best part of themselves, the caring, generous, loving and compassionate traits that make the word “human” something special.

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  321. This is so awesome! My favorite part of the holidays is definitely spending time with my family. That’s always the best time!

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  323. My favorite part of the holiday season s all the pretty decorations!! Really, mostly the lights! I love all ht lights 🙂

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  329. See all of our family that we only see around this time of the year. that and our daughters ice hockey christmas tournament that is always fun.

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  330. My favorite part is when all of the family gets together, eats great food, creates fabulous memories and keeps the tradition going for our kids / grand kids etc.

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  334. I love the smells, the feelings of the holidays. I love feeling cozy and connected to not only my family and friends but strangers.

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  345. My favourite part of Christmas is a much needed break from school, as well as time to see friends and family. It’s also fun to see my dog jump around in the snow! haha.

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  347. I love baking vegan treats for my family, friends, and co-workers. Usually just cookies, but sometimes muffins and breads too.

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  348. My favorite part of the holidays is spending time with family. My parents went to heaven this year, so the holidays will be bittersweet.
    Thank you for the chance to win.

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  352. My favorite thing about Christmas is the overall feeling of joy throughout the season. I love everything about Christmas, it is the best celebration of the year!

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  362. I love EVERYTHING about this season. Love the food, love decorating my house, love to get together with family and friends, love all the lights and red!

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  364. I love baking and the cozy feeling of the holidays! Having time off of work to spend with loved ones also makes this time of year so wonderful <3

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  365. My all time favorite part of the holidays is just being able to have all your family come together and just spend time with everyone in the same house. Nothing I love more than spending time with my family and the holidays are the one time we all get to be in the same house.

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  372. The best thing about Christmas is all the love in the air and making memories with your family and traditions to last a lifetime and many more!

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  375. I love when my girls come to visit the family for Christmas! I’m also thrilled that I have all of my boxes out of storage, and I can enjoy all of my decorations again!

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  388. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with extended family I hardly get to see throughout the year.

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  395. My favorite part of the holiday is being with all my family and enjoying the magic of the season. The lights, decor, food, and atmosphere just make this such a happy time for me.

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  404. I love the holidays because I get to see my family. It’s always nice to be able to see everyone and catch up with others and I love giving gifts. (:

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  419. My favorite part of the holidays is getting the whole family together and watching the kids get all excited opening and playing with their presents.

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  423. My family’s in the Philippines so, it’s not always possible to spend time with them without spending the money to get there. But when we were children, we’d look forward to a festive Christmas and New Year as a family. We’d give and receive Christmas and New Year dishes from our neighbours, play and sing Christmas carols or go caroling. We’d open Christmas presents and rewrap them for display till the season was over. For New Year, the whole country welcomes it with firecrackers and we jump for joy (and to get taller) when it gets midnight. Then of course, we begin the midnight feast, that is also done on Christmas Eve as Noche Buena. Traditionally, kids also go around on Christmas Day to relatives and godparents to receive Christmas money, kind of like the red envelope for the Chinese New Year. I miss these nostalgic memories and traditions as it’s rather lonely in Toronto without my family. I still look forward to the midnight feast, which is jsut about what is left of the original festivities from my Philippine days.

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  427. My favourite part of the holiday season is spending time with family, Christmas movies & awesome food & treats!

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  433. I just love all the holiday decorations. It’s fun putting up the tree and lights and seeing how much my daughter likes helping.

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  434. My favorite thing about the holidays is just being with my family and spending quality time with them. Life just gets too busy for everyone anymore.

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  458. My favorite part of Christmas is decorating. I’ve been lax about it lately and am really looking forward to getting into it this year for my 3 year old twins.

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  464. My favorite thing about the holidays is when all our family gets together. It don’t happen a whole lot anymore. My kids have a lot of fun too.

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  485. I know it’s corny, but I really like the Christmas songs 🙂
    but by actual Christmas they’ve been played so much I’m sort of sick of them, but right about nov 28th or so I love them 😀

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  490. My favorite part of the holiday season is the silly traditions we have like gift card exchanges and eating manwhich sandwiches with potato ships on Christmas eve with my family.

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  498. I love the food and the lights and the music and the movies and the tv show specials and pretty much just about everything

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  500. I love the preparation… decorating the tree and home, baking cookies and wrapping gifts. I especially love unpacking and setting up my small nativity set.

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  518. Thank you for the great giveaway. I love the Holidays so much, it really gets my creative juices flowing.

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  525. One of my favorite things is to find gifts for my family. I like to surprise them. When I can’t find the item in my community I turn to Amazon. I like browsing through their site both the Canadian & US. I’ve had great success with their sites.

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  533. My favorite part about the Christmas season is all the beautiful decorations and getting together with family to enjoy a great meal together.

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  537. I like that we get to see family members we have not seen all year. I also love all the good food each special person makes.

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  543. My favorite thing about the holidays is time spent with my family and friends. We always have a lot of fun.

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  548. My favorite part of the holidays is spending Christmas eve at my in laws, to be able to spend every minute of Christmas day with our family. No one has to get in the car to rush from family to family. We are in our pajamas half the day, just relaxing together.

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  549. My favorite part is when the entire family is all together! It doesn’t happen every week, that is for sure. For Christmas, even the out of state kids come home.

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  558. The night we decorate the Christmas tree with all our special ornaments, listening to old xmas music & having hot chocolate 🙂

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  560. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with family, especially my nephew. He’s four and very excited for Christmas.

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  572. All of it!! I love the music, the decorations, the wonderful aromas. I enjoy seeing my family and friends and seeing my kids get increasingly more excited. Most of all, I love celebrating the birth of Jesus and all that means.

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  573. I enjoy seeing all of the decorations in the stores and on everyone’s homes. That’s my favorite part of it all.

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  579. I love the family time we have. It’s not often we get to spend so much time with each other except during the holidays.

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  594. I love everything about about Christmas. I love decorating the tree, and finding the perfect gifts for loved ones.

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  606. My favorite part of the holidays is the smiles on my kids faces. I also love that my whole family gets together and enjoys the holiday.

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  609. I need to win this so bad because I don’t have a job which means, once again, no money for christmas presents for anyone in my family. I just want to be able to buy my husband and my grandma something for christmas just once.

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  611. This is the third year we’ve traveled for Thanksgiving. I love it. This year we are going to Florida Keys and Disney World!

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  613. My favorite part of the Holiday season is the traditions we celebrate with our families and the memories of past seasons that we revisit every year.

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  617. My favorite part of the holiday is the lights. I love driving around and looking at the decorations, going to the zoo and the arboretum, and having candlelight throughout the house during the darkest time of the year.

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  623. Our fave part of the holiday season is enjoying our local boat parades, we get to see one on the Gulf and one on the bay, they are just gorgeous and there is lots of cheering and singing that makes it even more fun

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  629. When the big day is over, and things are tidy and clean, and there are leftovers in the fridge, and we can just veg out and watch movies and relax!

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  631. The best part of the holiday season for me is getting together with our family. I love being around my brothers, and it never feels like there is enought time.

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  633. Being with my family that I miss so much they live across the country so spending time with them in the Holidays makes it extra especial.

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  639. My favorite part of the holiday season is watching my little ones enjoy the holiday and creating new memories and traditions with them.

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  640. my Fav part of the Holidays is, family time!! …now My Hubby would tell you it’s Hallmark channels holiday movies which by the way have already started

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  648. My favorite part is cooking. I don’t get to do as much cooking as I like the res of the year, so it’s fun to do it during the holidays.

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  651. My favorite part of the holiday season is all of the parties and hearing from friends and family that I’ve lost touch with throughout the year.

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  652. I like getting together with the women in the family for our annual Candy/Cookie Day. It’s usually on the second weekend in December. Thanks.

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  661. What I love about Christmas is being able to see family. This is the first year in about 10 years this family will not be dealing with some kind of injury or illness and would love to be able to have them all come home.

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  669. My favorite thing about the holiday season is getting together with the family, despite conflicting schedules. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  683. My favorite part about the holiday season is the joy and happiness that I am surrounded by. Everyone seems to be very thankful and in an overall good mood.

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  686. My favorite part of the holidays is the two-week break from school and getting to spend some stress-free time with my husband and kids.

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  695. My favorite things about the holiday season are spending time with family, giving back to the community (a year round joy, but I’m especially busy this time of year), and peppermint mochas. 🙂

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  697. Aside from the obvious of watching others open presents, we love to load up in the van and look at decorations.

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  701. I love so may things about the Holiday season, but what I love the most is seeing my kiddo’s excitement and anticipation about all things that have to do with Christmas! Leaving cookies for Santa, getting and giving gifts, and seeing family that come over for the day!

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  710. My favorite part of the season is just the energy in the air, the spirit that goes with the season, and getting to slow down to spend time with family.

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  711. My favourite part is being with family and all the traditions we have. . .

    On another note- everytime I enter contests here it tabulates the entries, but it never includes the +10 for posting on twitter. . . I always post, are those entries counting?

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  716. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with my kids and grand-kids. I just love the holidays.

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  727. My favorite part is visiting with family member that don’t live close. It is so special to me! And it seems as I get older, I really appreciate it more and more. Thank you for the chance!

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  737. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with family and friends. Enjoying good food and being together.

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  748. My favorite part of the holiday season is getting to spend time with family and see relatives that I don’t get to see very often.

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  751. It’s changed over the years. I used to love watching the kids enjoy the season, but now that they are older and my parents are no longer with us, I think about all the times we’ve spent together.

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  756. My favorite part of the season is the festive look all the houses take on, the lights, the trees, the decorations.

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  765. My favourite part is getting together with family and friends. Throughout the year, even with the best intentions, we don’t get to see most of our friends and some of our family, too often. During the holidays, everyone makes a better effort to get together.

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  768. My favorite part is getting together with family. My family mostly lives out of State and we only get to see them a couple times each year. Christmas my kids, husband and I, host having my family visit for a few days.

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  793. Christmas is my favorite Holiday 😊, I enjoy being able to give to others sharing and spreading the joy of the season . My favorite thing to do is to make cookies and gifts for my family and friends ❤️

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  794. My favorite part of the holiday season is the whole family gathering together at my Moms every year but this year we will be celebrating her 90th Christmas we are all so blessed,We will have 5 generations in together.

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  795. I love seeing family during the holidays. There are some family members we only really see during this time of the year.

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  803. I love get togethers. Love seeing family who don’t usually get together all at one time/place. Makes great memories.

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  804. My favorite part of the holiday season is spending time with family and close friends. Although, all the delicious desserts are a close second! 😉

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  808. My favorite part of the holiday season is seeing family members, especially my oldest daughter, who lives out of state. It’s the only time of year I get to see all of them!

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  809. I love going to visit family, decorating, listening to Christmas music, and watching Christmas movies! This year my favorite thing will be watching my little one open her presents!

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  813. My fav part is all my family coming together and eating good homemade food while catching up with everyone we don’t see very much but still love and care very much about.

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  814. My favorite part of the holiday season is being with family and friends. Everyone is in a festive and happy mood, enjoying each other 🙂

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  828. I love everything about Christmas, going to the tree farm and picking up the perfect tree, decorating the house then having everyone over Christmas day

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  830. Seeing and spending time with family and good friends. That’s always gold. Our lives are so busy that some times we need the holidays as an excuse to meet up.

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  833. My favorite part of the holiday season is listening to people saying “Merry Christmas” to strangers and driving around to see all the beautiful lights.

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  837. The best part of the holiday season is getting to go shopping for unique gift that my family will love. I also love getting the chance to bake cookies with my kids, my cousins, and my mom. I love that quality time we all share.

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