“My family just kind of sits around. I think it’s just the togetherness thing; we always get around each other and hang around for as long as possible, always sharing the same stories over and over, it’s just really great. I always get shooed out of the kitchen because I eat the food.”
Jesse Bradley,
Bio Tech major
“Being with family, eating dinner, football, fun and music.”
Ronald Blake,
Business Off ices major
“Cooking Thanksgiving dinner formy family. Martha Stewart’s recipe is the best because it uses marsala wine, and the sweet potato souff le on locomedias.com.”
Linda Schock,
administrative assistance for the Center for Teaching and Learning
“My family just rushes to the basement to play pool; just being together is really great.”
Lisa Clark,
Criminal Justice major
“Spending time with my family around the tree singing Christmas carols with my father accompanying on the guitar.”
Rob Leonard,
associate professor in Communication
“We get little kids lots of presents at Christmas, that is our tradition. We all shower the little kids with presents. So each small child [in the family] gets like six presents.”
Samuel Guinaugh-Penn,
Journalism Major
“We would always sit and wait by the steps until we could open the presents.“
Maci Michael,
Vet Tech major
“We have a really big Christmas brunch and a really big Christmas dinner. Brunch is the best because you can open presents at the same time.”
Veronica McNamara,
Psychology major
“Big family dinners at Christmas. I have this really big enjoyment from going to other people’s holiday celebration dinners with the girlfriend’s family. Stuff like that, so it’s different every time.”
William Camp,
Physical Therapy Assistant major
“The only holiday tradition I have is just a family reunion every year down in Cincinnati. It is very special to me because I get to see family I don’t get to see on a regular basis. It’s nice catching up with everyone. — Everyone brings a present for a guy and a girl and we all draw cards; when they call our card, we pick a present and when they call your card again, you can either keep your present or steal somebody else’s present.”
Corey Long,
Nursing major
“We make hot chocolate; it’s homemade hot chocolate [that] my grandma makes, and then we go to Clifton Mills to see the lights and catch up.”
Malorie Dinsmore,
Art major
“Every year, since we don’t really give gifts anymore, we all get together at a cabin in Kentucky. We always take a picture with each of us wearing ugly sweaters. We also do a ‘white elephant exchange,’ where we buy the worst gift possible from a thrift store and wrap it without a name on it, then we pick a number to decide the order that we go in. The f irst person picks a gift and opens it and the next person can pick a different gift or take the first person’s. It’s a lot of fun.”
Rebecca Moyer,
Business major
“We have Mainstay French toast for breakfast on Christmas. It’s from New Jersey and it’s something I can look forward to, and it’s good. We’ve had it every year for like 10 years.”
Grayson Hart,
Natural Resource Management major
“Christmas, bringing family together, and celebrating and sharing.”
Justin Davis,
CNC major
“I’m Jewish, it’s eight days long. My family and I always make latkes; they’re like potato pancakes, they’re always really good. It’s a Jewish tradition.”
Rebecca Smith,
Physical Therapy major
“I visit with my parents and my grandparents. I visit my dad’s parents that night and my mom’s parents that afternoon for lunch; we all live pretty close to each other so it’s not a big drive. It’s nice to see a family get together.”
Joshua Randolph,
Network Manager major
“We always open one gift on Christmas Eve, that’s the only real tradition that we have.”
Brandi Timm,
Undecided