Mom’s Breakfast Club: Mmm, Special
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We have some “special-special” traditions for various mornings during the year. You know, more than just “gee, eggs would be nice this morning.” These are more breakfasts that accompany holidays or other special days during the year.
- Birthdays – A big stack of pancakes with candles. What’s better than starting out your birthday with pancakes, sometimes rainbow if I’m feeling inventive, homemade maple syrup and candles? Nothing. Nothing at all.
- Halloween – We have orange pancakes with chocolate chips (for “spiders baked in”). This year, however, we’re trying pumpkin pancakes. Mmm.
- St. Patrick’s Day – Obviously green pancakes.Are you catching our theme?
- Christmas – This one will be hard this year. Normally, we have a big eggs, toast, bacon and juice meal with my grandparents, prepared by my grandfather. This year will be our first Christmas without him, and I really don’t imagine we’ll make it through the morning without tears.
- And sometimes on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, respectively, we do a fun kids-help-serve-the-honoree morning where that person gets to choose. Super fun.
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Christmas morning always means quiche and homemade cinnamon rolls!
We wrap our favorite boxes of cereal under the Christmas tree and eat a big bowl afterwards!
Christmas day is the only time. I host the family brunch. Crepes has been may main stay
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We don’t have any special holiday morning traditions. BUT, we usually have special breakfast days on the weekend with pancakes, bacon and eggs!
That is also the only time I allow myself the treat of having coffee! Thanks! kmassman gmail
I don’t know why, but I got some weird message as I was posting my answer acting like I was trying to take one of your photos–certainly not the case…
We don’t have any special traditions, but occasionally we’ll make random days special with pancakes for breakfast. Our favorite is pancakes in letter shapes that spell out the kids’ names. The pumpkin pancakes sound great!
Also tweeted: http://twitter.com/sunnymum/status/29135170325
No special breakfasts for holiday mornings because we just want to have a bowl of cereal, then save our appetites for all of the snacking and holiday dinners that come later in the day! For other, non big holiday special breakfasts, we love biscuits with sausage and country gravy.
Weekends and holidays are for bacon and eggs after healthy weekday breakfasts.
no special breakfast tradition. It’s special enough when *I* make breakfast for everyone (heh)
on special mornings.. we add sprinkles to breakfast (pancakes, french toast…)
Usually the sprinkles are color coordinated Rainbow for Birthday, Red & Green for xmas.. Chocolate for Holidays that dont seen to have a color associated with it. 
We have a beautiful Thanksgiving meal with all the traditional food…I love that tradition! We have French Toast Casserole!
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I like Thanksgiving, just muffins, because we want to be hungry for the BIG MEAL!
hmman(at) centurytel (dot) net
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On Christmas mornings I make cinnamon rolls and omlettes.
http://twitter.com/susan1215/status/29193207797
Christmas eve mornings we have eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, pancakes and juice or milk!
On Christmas morning, we make coffee and open presents. Then I make a big breakfast, usually scrambled eggs and bacon.
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Christmas morning is the certainly my favorite morning. My kids are early morning risers, and Christmas morning is no different. They are up usually at about 6am. We watch them open all their presents while my husband and I drink our coffee. The stash of new toys keeps them busy while I start cooking breakfast. Our tradition is french toast (made with my mother’s homemade Challah bread), bacon, eggs, and homemade home fries. We feast and it usually keeps us full and satisfied until Christmas dinner is ready!