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| blackfootblood |
Posted - December 11 2008 : 1:28:36 PM
Tis' the time of year when we pull out the Christmas decorations, untangle the lights, and fight the crowds at the stores. But besides all the hustle and bustle of this busy time of year, what are some of you're family traditions before Christmas arrives and when that special day does come. It will be nice to hear what some of you folks do and maybe you're traditions will be something you can share with another family to start.
As far as my husband and myself, we don't have any traditions yet. We've only been married six years but we are still working on getting down our own Christmas ways. Well, since our son arrived two years ago, we kinda base our holiday around him. (as I'm sure all parents do) Up until Christmas we read him Christmas stories at night in bed, during the day I work with him to make different holiday crafts that he can help with, and now that he is starting to take an interest in the TV, I turn on the old Christmas cartoons. He loves em'! We usually open the gifts up on 25th and open the stockings that night, maybe the night before, just depends. Not to mention getting together with family and friends and celebrating with the ones we love. |
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| Obediah |
Posted - December 23 2008 : 10:27:39 PM
A very pleasant thing happened to us...every Christmas morning we pick up our Granddaughter from her Mom & Step-dad & head on down to my wife's sister's for the day. Well, this year April (mother of Skylar [granddaughter]) invited us for their traditional pancake breakfast! Of course we said yes. I told Pauline she should work this cancer for all she can... There are some positives about this situation. |
| blackfootblood |
Posted - December 23 2008 : 2:12:14 PM
Wishing everyone out there in Mohican Land, a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!! Be safe if you are traveling and enjoy you're "White Christmas", if you have one, lol!!
Love, Melissa and family
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| blackfootblood |
Posted - December 13 2008 : 2:54:48 PM
Well, it looks like everyone so far has great family traditions, thanks for sharing those with us!
My hubby and I took our two year old son out this weekend to start a new tradition of cutting you're own tree down. Well, let's say that the pine trees that they grow down in southern Texas are not like the pine trees of the upper northeast or upper midwest. They were so scrawny and bare. Just like the Charley Brown tree. So we ended up walking back to the truck empty handed. But we tried. We did manage to pass a Oregon Christmas tree stand on the way home and picked out the perfect tree. So it all ended well.
Oh Red, the Taco Cabana's down here ROCK!!!! Who knows maybe that might be a new tradition for us to start, lol!
And you are right Rich, Jesus is the reason for the season! |
| richfed |
Posted - December 13 2008 : 10:29:25 AM
Christmas Traditions! What a pleasant topic! There was probably never a kid who got as excited as I did during the glorious Christmas Season!
As a parent, traditions included:
- Going out as a family to pick and cut our tree.
- Decorating
- Leaving the homebaked cookies and milk out for Santa
- Each child hanging their own stocking
- Being woken up at 2AM on Christmas Morning - maybe an hour after finally hitting the hay - by a passle of uncontrollably excited kids!
- Letting the kids peek at the glow of the tree in the winter darkness with presents spread everywhere, but forcing the critters to refrain from opening anything, but instead sitting with hot chocolate and reflecting
- Finally setting them loose and enjoying the spectacle of sheer joy!
- Mass -- the Reason for the Season
- A delicious home-cooked, traditional feast for dinner
- Enjoying a well-deserved NAP!!
How I miss all of that! |
| winglo |
Posted - December 12 2008 : 4:53:56 PM
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Originally posted by RedFraggle
(if you're me) help Mom in the kitchen all day.
Then he went off to play with his new toys (computer game, etc.) while I spent all day in the kitchen making a big meal.
What were you thinking, Red? I'm glad you are using some common sense this year. (Unless, of course, you like to cook, in which case you were using common sense last year, too.) Just think, next year you'll be snapping photos left and right!
My birthday is Christmas Day, so the day gets to be a bit much. When I was growing up we celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve, and my birthday on Christmas Day. But, my husband doesn't like to do that--he makes a big belgian-waffles-with-strawberries-and-whip-cream-breakfast and we open the presents after that. I go nowhere near the kitchen, and am not really in a position to place demands on what and when we eat. So, my birthday pretty much just gets a little corner of the day. I guess I'm old enough to be glad that no one remembers I'm a year older!! |
| RedFraggle |
Posted - December 12 2008 : 2:59:35 PM
My Christmas "traditions" are different depending on whose house I'm at. And they've also changed over time, of course.
When I was a kid, at my parents' house, everyone got up early on the 25th, read the note left by "Santa," unloaded stockings, and unwrapped gifts. Then my two sisters and I would go off and play with our new toys while poor Mom spent the whole day making a gigantic Christmas dinner all by herself and Dad snoozed in front of the TV (when he wasn't working on Christmas, that is). Then, after all three girls reached the teen years, tradition became get up late, fix hair and put on make-up (so as not to be ugly for the pictures), THEN unload stockings (no more notes from "Santa"), unwrap gifts, and (if you're me) help Mom in the kitchen all day.
At my in-laws' house there is a tradition of unwrapping one gift on Christmas Eve and saving the rest for Christmas morning. Everyone gets up a bit early, the girls in the family fix their hair and put on make-up (for pictures' sake), and everyone opens gifts. Gift opening is a process, though, because each person only gets to open one gift at a time, in order from youngest person to oldest person. (It can be very tedious if there are a lot of people or a lot of small gifts!) Once all the gifts are opened, people can do whatever they want. Cooking a big meal isn't really part of the in-laws' tradition. I think we had Taco Cabana fajitas the last time I was at their house for Christmas!
Last year hubby and I spent Christmas together at our apartment, with no relatives around. He insisted on keeping his family's tradition of opening one gift on Christmas Eve. The rest (mailed to us by our parents) we opened Christmas morning. Then he went off to play with his new toys (computer game, etc.) while I spent all day in the kitchen making a big meal.
This year we're spending Christmas at our apartment again, but I won't be making a big meal. Baby will be hitting the 38-week mark right at Christmas, and this pregnant lady is NOT standing in the kitchen all day to make the usual turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables, and pie. Who knows. Maybe we'll take a non-traditional tradition from hubby's family and go have burgers.  |
| Obediah |
Posted - December 11 2008 : 2:26:36 PM
Just don't get him a Red Ryder BB-gun; he'll shoot his eye out!
Not too many traditions here, other than attending the Christmas Eve service at our church. Some years we don't even put up lights...this year we only put up a few of them--and no tree either!  Christmas can be so much simpler in many ways after the kids have flown the nest... |
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