Growing up, I didn’t really think much about other families’ holiday traditions. Most people we knew were Jewish and everyone celebrated similarly to how we did. At least, I assumed they did. There wasn’t Facebook or Instagram to compare and contrast your holiday experience, so the only way you were really exposed to other people’s traditions were if they invited you over. If not, you could just imagine that every family was eating the same meal, wearing the same clothes and getting the same amount of presents.
Sure, Christmas looked great on television, but so did everything! That wasn’t real!
Flash forward twenty-something years and now we all are fully aware of all the fun we are not having. Thanks to social media, I know that advent calendars and ginormous Christmas trees and neighborhood caroling and holiday cookies aren’t just the stuff of Christmas movie magic, they happen in real homes all across the country! I also know that people who celebrate Christmas get WAY more gifts than we get for Hanukah. Bigger and better gifts too!
I mean, I love a good game of dreidel and some latkes, but COME ON, Christmas has got us beat.
You know the other thing that I started to feel like I was missing out on? The holiday jammies! It always seems like so much fun to dress everyone in the same festive jammies and hang out all day opening gifts and sipping hot cocoa in one big coordinated cuddle pile on the couch. But most family holiday jammies are red and green with pictures of Santa and reindeer and sleighs and candy canes and all things Christmas. They don’t really feel like us.
When PajamaGram reached out to me this year to see if my family would be interested in wearing their holiday jammies, my initial reaction was, “You know I’m Jewish, right?”
“Yep! We’ve got Hanukah jammies too!”
“Really? Like matching ones for the whole family?”
“Uh-huh.”
“Interesting. Let me see if I can get my husband on board.”
I called Mike and asked him if would be interested in wearing some coordinating jammies with the family this year.
“Like Christmas jammies?”
“No. They’ve got Hanukah ones too!”
We then spent the next half hour on the PajamaGram site picking out our favorite pairs.
There were jammies with dreidels on them, but we preferred the more classy blue plaid flannel pajamas and winter motifs.
When the jammies arrived at our apartment, I was not sure how the girls would react, but they LOVED them.
“Wait. We all got matching?????’
“Yep.”
“YAY!!!!! Can we put them on???”
“That’s why they are here!”
We tried on each pair and I swear, you would have thought I had just gifted them a stable of ponies, they were so excited. They loved how soft the flannel pajamas were and they definitely appreciated the blue colors for Hanukah.
We did end up buying one pair of snowflake patterned pajamas in gray and red. They were fleece footie pajamas with hoods and we could not resist.
They might be the coziest pajamas ever and the girls did not want to take them off. I don’t blame them.
So, now I can proudly say, we’ve got one more holiday tradition— it’s Jews in Jammies and we’ll be wearing them every year, from here on out.
GIVEAWAY:
If you’d like you’re own selection of coordinated family jammies (yes, they have Christmas ones too!), PajamaGram is giving away a $500 gift card! Just enter here. Then comment below and tell me what holiday item do you think would make the best pajama pattern? Personally, I would buy latke patterned pajamas in a heartbeat.
Latke jammies! 😂 that is awesome! I would like ginger bread jammies!
Diwali pj’s! Love the photos – you all look great!
The classic silver bell from Polar Express.
Dinosaurs in holiday garb! They could be any color and fit into any scene – lighting a menorah, spinning dreidel or dressed for an ugly sweater Christmas party or nativity Dinos.
Sugar plum fairies and mutcrackers!
Btw, my 5th grade teacher was Jewish amd found out my mom made potato pancakes (we are Polish so that’s what we call them) and had my mom come in and make latkes for a Hanukkah/Christmas celebration about 25 years ago. She was my favorite teacher. I still have the dreidel she gave all the students as a gift.
Gelt jammies!!! Oooo, or Hanukkah candles!
Dancing polar bears and snowflakes are my fav!
I love red and white candy canes, those would make cute holiday pj’s. I’m glad to have somewhere new to look for our family Christmas pj’s!
I love the snowflake footed jammies! I want to see jammies with strings of popcorn and Snoopy.
Cookies! Or candy! 🍪 🍬
)I’d like to see jammies celebrating Diwali which is a very prominent festival in the Indian culture. It is like July 4th (fireworks), thanksgiving (family) and Christmas (holiday season) put together. 🙂 I love Mike modeling along with the entire family, he is such a sport even though you mention he is shy.
I think vintage Christmas or holiday fabrics would b so nice!
Christmas tree lights!
Dreidel jammies!
Garland!
I want dreidel pajamas for Hanukkah (but I like the latke idea, too!)
gingerbread men
We love the holiday stripe pajamas.
candy canes
Hot cocoa and stockings. Totally make me think of Christmas Eve.
I like the candy cane stripes and gingerbread people would be great too
Pajamas with an elf on the shelf (or mensch on the bench) would be a hit with all of the kids, I’m sure!
Hot cocoa with marshmallows
We’re totally into anything Charlie Brown! So cute!
I would love dachshund’s with scarves.
I have been looking for family matching pajamas that aren’t too christmas-y and that could be worn past December 25. For this reason, I adore the Peace on Earth Fair Isle Matching Family Pajamas. I love the print and they look so cozy. Would love to do family photos in these as well!
Ugly Christmas sweater pjs would be fun!
Leg lamps or something from Home Alone!!
I want a union suit with wiener dog wearing Santa hats. Very specific but that’s only bc I have thought about it a lot!
We need to be Jews in jammies too! I’d love silver and blue stars of David!
My kiddos love the cutesy pjs with Santas, gingerbread men or Christmas trees. I’m more of a traditional pj person, plaids and snowflakes are perfect!
Gingerbread people in various goofy stages (missing gumdrops, a leg like shreck, etc!) or you can’t go wrong with reindeer and jingle bells!
I like the Solstice Shearling Rollneck Lounge Set
I love the winter patterns in blue and silver (as opposed to green/red). And latkes, of course.
Vintage Cars with Christmas Trees on Top!
These are great!! I love the footie snowflake ones, but the flannel ones look super comfy too!
Bufflalo Check that isn’t looney toons.
I love anything snow and ski related. So if I could design/choose my own jammies they would have snowflakes and skiers (lady skiers please, they always have men ones…..hmmmmm). I love matching jammies and wish I could get my husband to wear the onesie.
Yetis, Rudolph, Clarice, and Santa! I am loving all the plaid this year too!
Christmas trees and snowflakes
You all are so cute! I’d love the Polka-dots Mommy & Me Matching Family Pajamas
I LOVE that they have Hannukah jammies! I have been searching high land low and the few pairs I have seen are entirely sold out! Such an untapped market!
Christmas light pajamas or reindeer
Snow (people) & Christmas Tree PJ’s would be cute! I would wear them all year long!
I’d love some Christmas lights on them – I would also sport them while binge watching Stranger Things on those magical nights when both kids are im bed and asleep before 9!
Polar bears! My daughter loves them and can’t understand why her daddy doesn’t have polar bear pj’s to match hers.
Love it!! I would rock mistletoe pjs. 😘 But those matching fleece onesies are also calling my name. 😆
Yule themed ones would be awesome… wreaths too.
Reindeer pajamas. So cute. Would love to see those. Even better to see Rudolph himself!
I’m a sucker for anything buffalo plaid! This year our family pjs are Star Wars Christmas pattern, but mommy and daddy could use some Christmas pjs with booze on em (for all the booze we have to drink to put up with our huge crazy extended family).
Dinosaurs!
I would love PJs that showed more than one holiday – Hanukkah and Christmas or maybe Christmas and Kwanzaa or even all three? Would be awesome for products to keep up with diverse families!
I would rock some Home Alone pajamas with Kevin, Marv, and Harry on them… and of course a Little Nero’s pizza box
Hooded pajamas that look like one big Christmas tree. Lights and decorations on the body and the hood could look like one big star. My kids would definitely wear that!
Holiday lights would make perfect jammies!
snowflakes, candy canes, and polar bears are always fun and cute
Gingerbread man jammies would be pretty fun.
Christmas cookies and hot chocolate would be fun!
I’m a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas, so any vintage style would be nice.
I’d like to see ones with Christmas lights that glow in the dark.
Champagne bottles, Ashley Longshore style. 100% christmas party wear.
Snowflakes or gingerbread cookies! That’s non secular, right? ❄️
I’m from California, so Palm Trees with Christmas lights would be super cute! I love that they have so many styles of holiday pajamas 🙂
Christmas cottages and snowmen
Christmas breakfast jammies! Snoqy window sills witb stacks of pancakes, coffee/cocoa, and grapefruit. ♡
Candy canes or Christmas trees
I’d love snowmen jammies drinking hot cocoa
Rudolph
unicorns with santa hats
I love music note patterns on anything
I entered! I’m a sucker for anything with penguins on it!
dreidel pajamas
Polar Bears.
Candy canes!
I would love to see a celebration of pre-/ post- Christmas birthdays with a birthday cake in the shadow of a bigger Xmas tree. As my boys will learn December birthdays get over shadowed by Xmas celebrations,
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