| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/20/2006 10:48:20 AM | | on christmas eve we have dinner, the kids have baths, we open one gift, thats always PJ's and then we watch the Grinch Stole christams. | |
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Avow
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Joined: 1/3/2006
Msg: 26 | |
| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/20/2006 12:49:48 PM | (started this in 1997)
- Go outside Christmas morning and find someone without and invite them in for dinner or give them something.
I've only brought strangers in three times, as its risky... ..And now I have my grandson living with me, So I give them food or blankets. | |
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Rus
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Joined: 1/22/2005
Msg: 27 | |
| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/20/2006 10:42:47 PM | I get to start my own traditions this year. 
For the first year since I was 18 I am not driving, flying, or taking the bus to see someone else. Mom is coming to see me.
I get to setup my own Christmas tree for the first time, cook my own turkey for the first time, the whole 9.
Gonna be a flop but it'll be my flop and they'll like it! | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/22/2006 3:20:37 PM | | When my boys were little I separated from their Dad...he insisted on having Christmas Day with them. No big deal...we started celebrating the first of December with an advent calender filled with personal little treats, making gingerbread houses in our pj's and getting all messy, making popcorn and cranberry chains for the tree, watching the line-up of Christmas specials, making a hamper for a needy family and delivering it in secret and having a fondue on Christmas Eve. They still love all that stuff. Christmas is about family and the real reason behind the season. | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/22/2006 5:42:48 PM | My favorite tradition over the last four years has been going to a friend's place for his yearly Christmas Day brunch and starting the day with mimosas. Yummmm! Nothing like spiked OJ to start the day.
Many moons ago I enjoyed hunting for a Charlie Brown type Christmas tree, usually on Christmas Eve, decorating it and then being delegated to a separate room where we would each wrap gifts for each other and his family and anyone else we hadn't had an opportunity to drop their gift off to. I would drink mega cups of coffee with GM and bailey's and soon be glowing like the Christmas tree. Before going to bed, usually about 4am we would each allow the other to open a gift. Lots of good memories around Christmas
I don't know what I will do for Christmas this year. I want to have a turkey dinner but that is a lot of work for one and everyone seems to have places to go so it might be hard to organize something myself. Lots of time to think about it though. | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/22/2006 8:24:08 PM | | Taking the kids into the back yard and cooking a nice big turkey with the blow torch.last year we even killed him first. | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/24/2006 1:27:29 PM | a few fave traditions that I have kept for the last 6 years purposely in mind with my kids:
~ Stanley Park Train... who would miss that?!?!
~ making, building & decorating a gingerbread house (and just think I DONT bake! lolol)
~ going to church on Christmas Eve night at the kiddies mass... lots of singing!
~ packing backpacks with basic necessities (toothpaste & brush, soap, socks, laces, mitts)for the homeless/less fortunate. | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/24/2006 2:29:36 PM | | Well, since being by ourselves, the kids and I have made a tradition that every Christmas morning we turn on the fireplace, drink hot chocolate and open gifts. After that, we eat breakie and do a puzzle. It doesn't matter what puzzle, but it's a "family" thing we can all do....sometimes it doesn't get finished as everyone gets bored, but the intentions are there and it gives us some quality time together. | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/24/2006 3:11:43 PM | I've always added a new ornament to the tree to signify that particular year... my hope is that one day, I'll have a tree with all unique ornaments that tell the story of our lives...
Another tradition I have always enjoyed with my son is to sing christmas carols as we decorate the tree - every year, the kids always took turns putting the angel on the top of the tree, but now that turn is gonna be divided 4 ways!!!
Santa always brings 2 presents for each kid, and it's ALWAYS the only ones wrapped in "Santa" wrap with a black permanent marker with the kid's names on it :)
It's gonna be a Christmas ripe with blended traditions this year!!!  | |
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| Fave Christmas tradition
Posted: 10/29/2006 3:22:46 PM | | ...growin' up it was the Christmas Breakfast....Mom with her homemade waffles...strawberries ...whipped cream..(ahh..the whipped cream)...bacon etc...at this time I enjoy drawing names and making a homemade gift for that person (immediate family)...and you do not know who drew your name until the holiday....also began to get the kids a keepsake ornament each year to give them some memories to leave the nest with..... | |
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