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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2014 6:57:52 GMT
Lots of folks are "just trying to get through the month". Wishing all of them peace and hope.
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Post by ametallichick on Dec 2, 2014 7:09:11 GMT
We have always spent Christmas Eve with my inlaws. Unless I am in Boise with my family. We open our presents from my MIL and her from us and eat dinner. Not a big deal but I like to be home (we always have to pick her up and drop her off) in time to watch It's a Wonderful Life. My favorite Christmas movie of all time. My kids are 24 and almost 18 and so things are different and we are trying to adapt.
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tincin
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Post by tincin on Dec 2, 2014 9:07:03 GMT
Stockings are mandatory, 1 gift is opened Christmas Eve and homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast Christmas mornng. They will not budge on those traditions and the are 27 and 31. They also insist on helping me decorate the tree. That means I have to cook dinner for all of them of course. LOL
This year my youngest is leaving Christmas Day to fly cross country to see his GF. She just moved to Oregon last week. I'm not sure who is more upset by his leaving me or my oldest. We've always spent Christmas Day hanging out, playing games and watching movies . The youngest has to be at the airport at 10 am so that won't be happening. We will miss him but I understand his going. The only thing constant in life is change.
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~Susan~
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You need to check your boobs, mine tried to kill me!!!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Dec 2, 2014 13:34:54 GMT
Our dogs have Christmas collars with bells on them. We like to walk them around the neighborhood after dark on Christmas Eve to look at the lights. I always hope that a little kid hears them and thinks that they are reindeer My lhasa apso had a collar that had bells on it. He loved that thing. When I put it on him every December, he would just run and run just to hear it ring, lol. I sure do miss him. It's going to be a very different Christmas without him
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~Susan~
Pearl Clutcher
You need to check your boobs, mine tried to kill me!!!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Dec 2, 2014 14:29:04 GMT
My family enjoys sipping hot cocoa while riding around looking at Christmas lights every year.
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Post by giatocj on Dec 2, 2014 15:09:48 GMT
We have so many traditions, but I think my favorite would be when the whole family gets together to make batches of homemade tortellini for Christmas dinner.
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Post by lorieann13 on Dec 2, 2014 15:19:19 GMT
Starting this weekend we will watch a holiday movie on each weekend day.
The weekend before Christmas we go out in pjs with hot chocolate and treats and drive through town to see all the decorated houses.
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Post by birukitty on Dec 2, 2014 15:39:01 GMT
I write about this every year and you all are probably sick of hear about it but our Christmas is very different from the "traditional American Christmas" so here goes: I was born in Germany to a German mother and an American GI Army father in 1960. We only spoke German and didn't move to the States until 1966, so we followed all of the German traditions. My sister was born in Germany too.
In Germany Christmas and all of the celebrations are held on Christmas Eve. We all get together for Christmas dinner and when we were little kids my father would take us out driving to go look for Rudolf up in the sky driving Santa's sleigh. He'd let us each (4 kids) sit on his lap and steer the car (can you imagine that these days-we're talking 1968-1972 or so. At this point there has been no sign of a Christmas tree in the house at all. That's the way German parent's do it. It's a complete secret from the kids and isn't revealed in all of it's glory until Christmas Eve. Nowadays even though we are all grown up my parents still like to put the tree together themselves and have it all up on Christmas Eve when we arrive.
So, we'd be out doing that and Mom would be dragging the presents already wrapped and hidden in closets out (the tree would have been decorated earlier that day and we kids would have been given strict instructions to stay out of THAT room.) When you are raised by a German mother you learn to obey, and she'd be busy arranging them under the tree. It would ALWAYS be a fresh, real tree and it would never have electric lights on it, but real candles-seriously. Small white candles in special holders that we had for years and years. They clip onto the branches of the tree.
Anyway, as kids we'd arrive back home and my mother would always meet us at the door exclaiming "you just missed Santa, he was just here!" and we'd go tearing into the special room where the tree was and all of the presents. Later we'd sit back and Dad would light the candles on the tree and it would be so incredibly beautiful. We always had a fire extinguisher nearby, but Mom never trusted that so she always had a bucket of water too, just in case. In 54 years we never had a problem-knock wood. It's just our tradition.
Lately though, my parents have gotten lazy and have had electric lights and only a few candles on the tree. I miss the days when we only had the candles. But it's their tree so they can decorate it however they please. I'm still glad we haven't given up the tradition completely.
I've only "had" Christmas one time in my life on Christmas day itself and that was one year when I was about 6 years old and we were visiting my grandmother in Georgia (my father's mother). I absolutely hated it. I am so NOT a morning person. I just couldn't see the point in waking up and stumbling out of bed to go open presents in your nightgown when you are still bleary eyed from sleep with your bed head hair. Nope-I much prefer it at night. Plus for us-my mother's birthday is Christmas day, so we get together anyway the next day to celebrate her birthday.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by jenjie on Dec 9, 2014 13:57:25 GMT
We have a new tradition. I didn't know it was going to become tradition until my little guy asked if he could set up the nativity scene, "just like I did last year." He takes this job very seriously.
Our nativity is set up like none you've seen before. He puts all of the figures in a circle, all looking at baby Jesus. This time he told me he put the "gentle animals" where Jesus could see them. He tried putting the lamb right under next to him but didn't like the way it looked. The bull and the "scary looking angel" are behind Jesus, while Mary and Joseph are front and center for him to see most clearly. Sometimes he has such a tender heart. <3
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Post by jjpswife on Dec 9, 2014 15:46:11 GMT
Christmas Breakfast...Eggs Newport. I don't know why we don't make it during the year but then in December I'm glad we don't because I look so very forward to it.
We serve it on toast.
Ingredients
1-10 3/4 oz. can cream of mushroom soup 1/2 C mayonnaise (I use slightly less) 1/2 C milk 6 hard boiled eggs, sliced 8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled 1 t chopped fresh chives (optional) 4 toasted english muffin halves 1 quart baking dish
Cook bacon until crisp, drain, crumble, set aside. Cook eggs to desired hard boiled doneness; peel, slice, set aside. Blend cream of mushroom soup with mayonnaise, then gradually add milk, continuing to blend until creamy. Add chives. In baking dish, layer sauce and egg slices until gone. Sprinkle top with bacon crumbles. Bake in pre-heated 350 oven for 20 minutes to half hour, until heated through.
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Post by heckofagal on Dec 9, 2014 17:33:47 GMT
Our town has a historical area with lots of quaint little shops and each year they have "Christmas Traditions" where characters are dressed as different Christmas characters and walk up and down the street and hand out trading cards to the kids. Lots of other things like caroling, roasting chestnuts, ginger bread house display etc. We do it every year without fail and always eat at the same restaurant. We also try to find a night where we put on our Christmas jammies and take hot cocoa and cookies and drive around looking at lights. Honestly some years this does not happen. Really liking the Christmas hat idea. Even though I just lost my job I think I might need to go to Dollar Tree and buy a bunch of hats and do this with my girls. They are 15 and 18 now so don't partake in some of the other things we used to do, but I think they would really get a kick out of this one. Also, we still do elf on a shelf. My oldest is away at college right now so I put a photo on FB each day so she can see all the shananigans going on back home.
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