A romantic date full of hygge with orchestral serenades by the wonderful "A Merry Mancini Christmas" on vinyl and sipping some cheery holiday martinis.

A fun exploration of the history of "X-Mas" as well as a bevy of X-related Christmas items such as Chex Mix, “The Polar Express”, and music by Pentatonix. Plus, a little bit of cheeky "X-Rated" fun with Dirty Elf riddles and the North Pole Dancing Studio.

A celebration of the Christmas traditions in Argentina complete with cotton balls as snowflakes, building a paper mache goat to burn it down, listening to Christmas tango, and a spread of vitel tone, beef tongue, and Andes mints!

A festive recreation of Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like Christmas” complete with egg nog, matching pajamas, “Home Alone”, an Applebee’s gift card, and more!

A spin on Christmas in July but shifting to October to celebrate a fusion of Christmas and autumn complete with maple glazed ham, sweet potato pies, apple brie crostinis, and (of course) "The Nightmare Before Christmas"!

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's most cherished memories and moments 25 Dates of Christmas 2022

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's favorite events and activities from 25 Dates of Christmas 2022

A recap of our Sommerfeld family's most loved foods from 25 Dates of Christmas 2022

A celebration of the unique Christmas traditions of Wisconsin including aluminum Christmas trees, Spotted Cow beer cheese soup, Christmas polka, and more!

A family date celebrating the unique traditions of Christmas in Denmark with ebelskevers, risengrod, tomte costumes, as well as a prominent feature of their Christmas Goat!

An ambitious date observing the iconic Italian tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes complete with seven different types of seafood courses as well as a viewing of the "Feast of the Seven Fishes" movie.

An electricity-free date of French-themed Christmas dinner and games including fondue, champagne on snow, chocolate chaud, shadow puppet Christmas charades, French Christmas carols, and more!

A fun evening featuring the beloved black-and-white, stop-motion Christmas film that aired on WGN-TV in 1956 and became a Chicago-area tradition complete with Christmassy Chicago-style hot dogs, mochas (Coco + Joe), hard rock Christmas albums, and more!

A clever evening of fun that ties in elements from "Mary Did You Know" including the wonderful Pentatonix version, Rose-"Mary" crescent rolls, "Did You Know?" Christmas trivia, and more!

A heartwarming evening celebrating Christmas in Connecticut including Christmas Connect(icut) 4, Nutmeg State Spiced Cookies, and a viewing of the beloved "Christmas in Connecticut" including a menu inspired by the movie.

A cherished evening celebrating the Reason for the Season at church with candlelit carols, children's plays, and more!

A fun brunch to have with friends that celebrates the many scents and senses of the season including pecan rosemary candied bacon and cranberry orange mimosas for the parents and a holiday sensory board and Christmas tree shaker bottles for the kids.

A celebration of Santa's reindeer "Vixen" including tangential forays into Christmas with the Nixons, Dixons, Fixings, etc… as well as numerous fox-related events including a "Vixen's Festive Foxtrot" dance party.

A heartwarming and relaxing date for the family celebrating Michael Buble's beloved Christmas album and the many forms of Christmas bubbles from bubble baths to bubbly champagne to Bubble & Squeak!

A cheeky date highlighting the many variations of Christmas bombs including Chocolate Cherry Bombe for dessert, bath bombs, homemade cocoa bombs, Die Hard 2,”, and many more!