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We put our Christmas tree up this morning. It is so pretty. We went with a theme this year - Red, White and Blue. So now everytime I look at it I will remember to pray for our troops and keep them in my mind at all times through this Holiday season! I will try to get my hubby's best friend to come take a picture with his digital camera so I can post it. What are your Holiday traditions?
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #1 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 12:44pm » |
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From my childhood:
Everybody would come over on Christmas Eve (my large extended family and many many family friends). Liquor would be served, with lots of good cheer...Mom (the bi-polar one) would get shitfaced, start a fight with someone, and chaos would ensue. The kids would all hide and wait for Santa, the adults would try and restrain the crazy drunk lady, there was lots of laughing and crying and yelling...
For some reason, everyone came back every year... 
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on Nov 28th, 2004, 12:36pm, cschick wrote:| What are your Holiday traditions? |
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Well, every year we go to hubby's dads house after midnight (8pm) mass to open gifts and have boiled shrimp. Then the next morning my Grandma and Step-Dad come over for more visiting and gift opening, then we go to hubby's grandmas house for lunch, then to his other grandparents house for dinner, but we're breaking tradition this year and having that side of the family all meet here at my house the day AFTER Christmas. I thought that since his grandparents are getting much older and have been having many health probs lately (not to mention their house is pretty small), I thought it'd be a nice break for them not to have to worry about cleaning or anything.
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #3 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 2:17pm » |
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I'm not the only Christmas nut, yes! 
My pals think I'm nuts because I have already decorated my room... I just have 3 paper elves, lights and that's it.
But you asked about traditions. In my family, I'm the one who gets to decorate the whole house. I'll do that around 6th of December, which is Finland's independence day. On the same day I will make special Christmas cookies (pipareita).
Me and my friends have our own little Christmas party in the middle of December, in which we give each other presents. It's always nice.
On Christmas Eve, two of my mum's siblings (she has 9 all together) come to our house with their families. We have a long meal with traditional Finnish Christmas foods, talk, laugh, listen to Christmas carols and around eight or nine pm we open presents.
After my dad passed away, we have also visited the graveyard and put three candles to his grave.
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #4 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 3:00pm » |
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On Christmas Eve we always visit my husbands family delivering Christmas presents while the kids eat their own weight in sweets at every house we go to! (about six) Then we go to the park for an hour or so depending on the weather so they can burn off some of their excitement before it all ends in tears. We have a buffet-style dinner which the kids absolutely love as they don't have to eat anything they don't want and then we all settle down to watch a film together and it has to be a Christmas one! The kids are allowed snowballs which makes them feel very special and mummy has gin and tonic followed by a tipple from all the other bottles.. we don't want to make anyone feel left out on Christmas Eve now do we? 'specially not the spirits! David sits in his chair snorting chocolate cake (no one could eat that fast) and then its bedtime!
Orange juice, Christmas cake and carrots get left out for Santa and the reindeers.. we don't encourage drinking and drivin' in this house so the OJ is pure! (The adults then have the most fun of the year "staging" the evidence if you know what I mean!! 
Christmas Day we wake the kids... yes you DID read that right.. I think I have the only kids in England who need to be woken up on Christmas Day, they find their stockings at the end of their beds and bring them into our room to open them.
We then all go downstairs to where the pile of presents from Father Christmas has hopefully joined the pile from the relatives under the tree... its a tense moment every year!! LOL You can hear the cogs chugging away as they wonder have their many misedemeanours gone un-noticed!
After we have loaded a small brazilian rain forest worth of wrapping paper into rubbish bags we play the "lets put the batteries in the toys game" This is where mummy shows she has got the battery market well and truly cornered!
I start dinner whilst chaos reigns and that is pretty much the order of the day. Then in the evening I spend an hour or so ringing everyone I haven't seen and friends abroad
Boxing Day is always spent outside as much as possible with a trip to the panto in the afternoon. And then its looking forward to New Year!
We have our little dog for our first Christmas this year so it should be interesting to say the least. We got him on Jan 2nd this year so he will be coming up to his birthday too.
I've really enjoyed this, reading everyone elses traditions and reminiscing over mine. Thank you all for a lovely half hours day dreaming!
Oh and I shall be putting up our tree on 1st December which is another tradition of ours .. along with taking the tree down before New Year (usually the 30th) so we don't see the New Year in surrounded by the detritus of the old! (And to make space for the party!!)
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #5 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 3:06pm » |
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I jus think it'd be an awesome holiday if all family and even friends could get together one day or eve 'or all day and nite for that matter'.....and have dinner.....snacks.....lotsa yakkin.....drinks.....presents and card games or whatever and the whole nine yards. And put an end to all this RUNNIN.......we've got so many places we GOTTA be between now and Xmas day that some events are doubleing up and we gotta rush from one to the other. Too stressy for me.......I am a closet holiday fan cuz I hate all the runnin around for so long so often. When traditions go sour Pam
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Thanks for sharing you guys! I loved them all. Nani, God I wish there was something I could do to take away the pain of your childhood. Just from speaking with you I can tell that you are a survivor.  I am just so huggy tonight!
Karen who loves the Holidays!
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #7 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 6:54pm » |
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #8 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 7:15pm » |
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Oh Redd that is beautiful, so simple and so perfect.. and red and gold too! I love red and gold on a tree. Its so festive it makes me feel all excited every time.. betcha can't guess what colour my decorations are can you?!!
Can't wait to put mine up!! Hurry up Wednesday!
Its only quarter past twelve here.. do you think it would be unreasonable to haul my hubby out of bed and ask him to go up into the attic and get the decorations down? 
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DOH !
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #10 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 7:29pm » |
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Aww.. Don you DO have some Christmas Spirit!! There wasn't a "bah humbug" in sight!
Nice bauble BTW!
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #11 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 8:02pm » |
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BAH Humbug!
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #12 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 8:10pm » |
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If you seperate the legs of the Turkey, bone them and open them out into a strip, you can then put some sausage meat along the centre. Toulouse Sausage is a good choice but is not by any means the only option. Then roll the leg meat around the sausage meat and cover the 'joint' with foil. Roast in the oven with the sausage meat providing the fats on a good heat for an hour depending on size. Roast breats as normal, serve the white meat with sliced rolls or 'chops' of leg onto the plates of friends and family. That's my sort of Christmas decorations.
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Re: Oh Christmas Tree!
« Reply #13 on: Nov 28th, 2004, 8:36pm » |
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That's very sweet Karen. Thank you. I didn't know how painful my childhood was until the first time I went to therapy, then I started to deal with it. I spent most of my life trying to find the humor in it all, and I was pretty good at it. The next tradition I was going to tell you about is how my little sister and I (starting at a pretty young age) would always walk away from our Mom's holiday craziness singing the song Happy Holidays...
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