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What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 11/19/2008 9:01:08 PM
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momma-mo
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Baking cookies, decking the halls, church, music, family gatherings.... How do you spend your Christmas season?
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 11/20/2008 2:37:17 AM
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cherish405
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We usually have a Christmas Eve service, so we go to that.
Christmas Day, the morning is just the 3 of us. Have breakfast, open gifts. Make phone calls to overseas/interstate loved ones. Lunch. Try to relax for a bit.
As we all know what it's like to be away from family and friends at Christmas, we have "open house" Christmas night. It's open for anybody who doesn't have anybody around to celebrate Christmas with. We don't like seeing people being lonely then.
We do put up decorations, but not as many as a lot of people do.
Cards, however, are displayed all over the place. We have special hangers for the cards.
We have a hot lunch. That means roast turkey and roast pork. (The house gets really hot as it's usually really hot outside). Dinner is always cold meats and salads.
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 11/20/2008 7:31:25 AM
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momma-mo
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I love the open house idea! I might try that some year!
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 11/20/2008 9:01:45 AM
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cherish405
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It's something that we've done for years.
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 12/1/2008 8:50:26 PM
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When we were children, my dad would always make sugar cookies shaped like christmas trees, bells, and angles the few days before Christmas. We (my brother, sister, and I) would decorate them with red and green colored icing, sprinkles, colored sugar, and cinnamon candies. We'd always make a HUGE mess, but had a great time doing so!!
He would also wrap "shake packages" for each of us and they would be the first under the tree and first to be opened (Christmas eve night, rather than Christmas morning like the rest of the gifts). Every night leading up to Christmas eve, we'd each take turns shaking, poking, and feeling our packages and make one guess as to what we thought was inside - they were always lop-sided packages that rattled inside when you shook them. He'd never tell us whether we guessed right or wrong though, lol. On Christmas eve we'd make one final guess and then open them. Afterwards, we'd watch a Christmas movie on television together.
Christmas morning, we'd always open our stockings first. They were usually layered, topped with a few pairs of socks, then some shelled nuts (pecans, walnuts, brazillian nuts, peanuts, almonds, and macadamia nuts, which we'd crack open and eat afterwards), then chocolates, then some smaller gifts like pencils, batteries, or jewelry, then more chocolates. We'd all have big bowls to dump them out in.
Next, came the Santa presents (even when we were in high school/college, they'd still be marked "from Santa")! These were 'special' gifts that were usually too awkward or big to be wrapped. Mom would throw an afghan over them instead. After that, we'd pass around the gifts under the tree, taking turns opening them and taking pictures.
I can't remember eating breakfast or a big lunch on Christmas (probably because we filled up on nuts and chocolates!!). But we'd usually go see a matinee at the local cinema Christmas afternoon - the only time of the year we'd all go out as a family to see a movie, and then have dinner out. We'd spend the rest of the evening enjoying our new gifts (and/or visiting girlfriends and boyfriends as we got older).
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 12/2/2008 2:35:36 PM
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garsyt
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Lots of baking for us! Having the oven on a lot cuts down on the gas bill as it keeps the kitchen warm and the furnace doesn't kick on as often. One of our favorite traditions is that after all the baking is done the week before Christmas we load up a few large covered trays and take treats to our local fire house, the ER of the closest hospital, and the local office of our state police. These are always delivered late Christmas Eve. The kids are ALWAYS involved with the baking and the delivery! The mess is so worth the surprised looks and thank yous the kids receive when they hand over the goods!
Other traditions. I either buy or make each child a new ornament each year with the intention of giving each kid their ornaments for their trees when they are adults. I also buy each kid a new cereal bowl each year. This is put in their Christmas stocking with a piece of favorite fruit and a small individual size boxes of cereal. This is breakfast along with bacon and sausage and sometimes cinnamon rolls or coffeecake.
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RE: What Are Your Christmas Traditions? - 12/3/2008 12:52:41 PM
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Searching ebay for Lenox bell ornaments in their holiday china pattern. Scored 2 so far this year, lost on 2 others.
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