A fun and quirky holiday date celebrating the iconic Christmas pickle tradition including finding the Christmas Pickle and a menu full of pickles!

A festive Christmas date featuring some of the most iconic holiday foods in Asia including KFC, Russian herring salad, and more!

A romantic Christmas date inspired by Christmas Cards including Christmas Go Fish, the Hallmark Movie "The Christmas Card", and more!

A romantic holiday evening inspired by Plum Pudding including homemade plum pudding, plum wine, and the movie "Murder She Baked: Plum Pudding".

A fun Christmas date featuring the often unknown La Befana: The Good Christmas Witch including her Italian history, finding the hidden broomstick, and a menu of her f”, and a menu of her favorite foods!

A fun Christmas outing featuring the Germanic American Institute of St. Paul and their holiday open haus including gluhwein, applekuchen, and more!

A Christmas date for the family celebrating the iconic Christmas stocking including the history of stockings, fuzzy socks, (stocking) stuffed foods, and more!

A relaxing and easy evening celebrating Jolabokaflod (the Icelandic Book Flood), including the history of how books came to be an iconic part of Iceland's Christmas traditions

A fun and festive date celebrating all things "mistletoe" including the history of the iconic symbol, a "Mistletoe" cocktail, and putting on some fuzzy socks to watch "Die Hard" in an activity known as "Missile Toes"!

A fun date to celebrate Christmas in July with some throwbacks to 25 Dates of Christmas 2020 including rollerblading, coquito, and charades!

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's most cherished memories and moments 25 Dates of Christmas 2020

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's favorite events and activities from 25 Dates of Christmas 2020

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's most loved foods from 25 Dates of Christmas 2020

A wrap-up to the holiday season with visiting family on Christmas Day, reading Luke 2, opening presents, and looking back on the season's Christmas adventures.

A cozy Christmas date learning the history of "Twas the Night Before Christmas" as well as playing out the elements from making sugared plums to hanging the stockings with care.

A heartwarming day of cherished family Christmas traditions including making passed-down family recipes and getting families together to play Christmas Family Feud.

A packed evening featuring twelve different types of Christmassy drums including drumsticks, hot buttere"d rum", Santa (hi) hats, and numerous playings of Justin Bieber's "Drummer Boy"!

An ambitious and fun date spent discovering eleven different Christmassy pipers including piping hot hot chocolate, the corncob pipe from "Frosty", Christmas pipe organ music, and much more!

A guaranteed memorable date showcasing Germany's fiery feuerzangernbowle, Poland's star watching, Norway's broom hiding, Italian Christmas playlists, and Sweden's tradition of burning a 43 foot tall straw goat.

A creative spin on Ten Lords a Leaping including the Christmastide Lord of Misrule, a menu of classic peasant fare, and a lot of leaping from the "The Hip Hop Nutcracker".