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What special do you do for the holidays?
« on: Nov 17th, 2005, 1:14pm » |
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What special do you do for the holidays?
I make party mix from check cereal.
I make Russan tea.
Pies and puddings are only made at Thanksgiving and Christamas. To keep the weight off thats the only time I cook them.
The things we like to do is go look at Christmas lights at night. Every year we also adopt a family and deliever Christmas gift to them. The fun about it is they don't know us or that we are doing it, we just take the stuff to them in the middle of the night and leave it on their porch. Its fun to play Santa its even more fun that they don't know who did it. There is always a family in need.
The night before Christmas Buddy reads the story of Jeasus being born. Then he reads the night before Christmas. Buddy does have a way of makeing that story come to life .
The making of Raindeer tracks in the yard and on the roof now thats fun to do on Chrismas eve at 3 am !
So what kind of things do you make, do ect that make the Holidays special?
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #3 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 2:41pm » |
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Sadly, the holidays aren't going to be much fun for us this year. We will only get to be with one daughter on Thanksgiving and the other daughter on Christmas. No whole family together either day.  Christmas is much more fun when you have little ones around.
Oh well, I guess this is what we have to get used to now that both daughters have their in-laws (one soon to be in-laws) to share holidays with too. We have to take turns, and I was never very good at sharing my toys, and will be worse at sharing my children.
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #4 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 2:49pm » |
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I'll be cooking lots of things for both Christmas Eve and New Year's.
There'll be plum quark, cinnamon bun, ginger bread, cheese christmastrees and four other kind of sweet stuff at the coffee table. Somebody told me that the housewives in Germany always serve 7 different kind of cookies at Christmas so I decided once that Finns can't have less...  So I keep that up. But I start baking early: often on Finland's Independence day, December 6.
We have also turkey and macaroni & cheese. That's not traditional for us Finns, absolutely not, but my family has had turkey since 1996 on Christmas dinner. And we've had macaroni dish as long as I can recall. Few years ago I decided to make macaroni & cheese and my cousins love it so much that they will make sure that I made it already in September! 
In my family, the Christmas tree is bought around December 20th. We decorate it on 23rd and on the same day we set the table ready for Christmas Eve and have glögi, which is warm drink we Finns have during Christmas time. On the eve of 23rd we add vodka on it.
My mum's younger brother and younger sister and their families join us for Christmas dinner. And usually some other relatives do, too. This year there will be 12 of us. We read a piece from Bible and then eat for hours. Back here Santa comes around 8pm on Christmas Eve. After that we have coffee and cookies and cakes I've made. Then we play board games, talk and listen to music for hours. Although my family are Lutheran we stay up to watch the mass from the Vatican.
Then on Christmas Day or Boxing Day the same crowd gathers to my aunt's place for dinner. There will be lots of good food, playing board games, talking, laughing and family fun.
On New Year's Eve we don't have clear tradition. This year me and my friends are planning to spend the evening together. We all are bringing something good to eat, we'll talk, play board games, listen to good music and watch fireworks. 
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #5 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 2:51pm » |
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My wife makes a huge breakfast at our house on Christmas morning.
Anyone that wants to see us on Christmas comes to our house. If they get there early enough, they get breakfast with us.
Even more people show up in the afternoon and my wife makes another huge meal for dinner.
Our house stays very busy on Christmas day. It's a mess and a hassle but I love the tradition of just staying at my own house on Christmas.
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« Reply #6 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 3:01pm » |
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This year, we are having Thanksgiving at my father-in-laws. I'll be bringing the pickles, olives, cranberry sauce, 1 apple pie, 2 pumpkin pies and watergate salad. My other inlaws will be bringing the rest. It'll be nice, at least I don't gotta do all the cooking this time around! (no mess to clean up either, hehe)
For Christmas Eve, we go to midnight mass at 8pm (lol), then to Jesse's Dads (my FIL) to open gifts, then it's back home around midnight and then up at 6am while we open gifts just with our little family. Then my stepdad and Grandma are over from about 9am-11am. After they leave it's off to Jesse's Grandmas house for lunch, then we go to his other Grandparents house for dinner and more gift opening.
The family is growing by leaps and bounds each year. Our immediate family consists of Myself, my husband, our 2 kids, brother-in-law #1, his wife and 3 kids, brother-in-law #2, his fiance and 2 kids, sis-in-law, her hubby and 2 kids, then 3 more brother-in-laws (only this year one of them will be gone (in the corps.)). NOW, when we go to Jesse's Grandparents house, they had 6 kids (2 passed away, one being my mother in law), 18 grandkids and 11 great-grandkids. Their house is freaking TINY! OMG, it's just horrid, LOL, but fun. 
It's crazy every year, but it's a tradition we look forward to.
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #7 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 4:41pm » |
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I'm getting a wonderful Christmas present this year (well the day after Christmas). A few years ago I had a German Exchange Student and he's coming to visit his American Mom this year for Christmas and New Year's. He's going to spend Christmas with his "real" parents and coming here the day after and staying till the 6th of January when he has to go back to college. He's excited, I'm excited and can hardly wait. We've got about a month's worth of plans to do in the two weeks he's going to be here.
so we'll get to have TWO Christmas Day's - one for Caleb and one for when Ben gets here.
Think I'll cook Christmas dinner on the second one - Ben likes to eat. Caleb is having fun buying Christmas presents for his Uncle Ben. I think we've got every talking toy in town. LOL!
And New Year's Eve --- what can I say... It's gonna be a blast...
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #8 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 5:03pm » |
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At my house for the holidays I usually freeze my ass off putting up about 4 billion lights outside.
Wrap the kids gifts at the last minute (Christmas Eve)
Go into shock trying to balance the checkbook.
Break about a dozen ornaments putting them on the tree.
Take the batteries out of the smoke detector before the wife makes cookies.
Wouldn't trade it for the world because I'm with the ones I love.
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #9 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 5:11pm » |
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I'm probably one of the luckiest people around. I have not ever had a Christmas Eve or morning without all 3 of my kids around. That's quite something when you think the oldest is 40 and the "baby" is 32.
We all go to my youngest daughter's house on Christmas Eve and then off to visit my two sisters and my Mom.
Christmas morning will find us all around the tree at Flick's house with her hubby and her two kids, Brandon and Emma-Lee along with my oldest daughter, her hubby and their brand new baby Jakob and my son, who sadly remains single!
I'm not so sure how I'm ever going to deal with it when they all finally decide it's time to make their own traditions so for now I'll thoroughly enjoy the time with them.
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« Reply #10 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 5:22pm » |
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LOL Dan and Bob G!
Sandy, I know how you feel. Two of Our children live in different states and they never come here on the Holidays. You could do like my Mom use to do. She sat down and told us all that we were going to be at her house and to make it fair with inlaws she had Christmas one year the week end before Christmas and we all went. They had their Christmas that day.Then next year they had Chrismas on Christmas and the inlaws either had to have it the week end before or they were out in the cold. It worked well for all of us. The inlaws even liked the idea. Might try something like that.
I am going to ExplodingEyeBall for Breafast and then I am coming to your house Sanna. I am hungery just reading this.
Oh Mel you should of gone to Buddy's Moms house for a get together. She is dead now and we miss her. She had a kitchen that was real small an living room and one bed room. It was so smal. She had six grown kids there kids and wifes there plus others. We sat on the floor, on the bed, you name it the house was full. There was always plenty of food and lots of fun and love in those small rooms.
Barbara, I bet it will be a blast the whole holiday season. I know you never stop. Thats what you like.
Can't wait to hear your holiday stories.
Jimmers we use to do that at our last home. But here we live so far out in the country no one would see them. The wild animals might get hurt in them or eat the lights so we only do the inside. Boy is Buddy glad of that. You need some long johns and one of those mask for your face.
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Cal\rol we posted at the same time. You are very Blessed. It sounds like it will be a Wonderful time.
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« Reply #12 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 5:48pm » |
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Pretty much the same for Christmas and Thanksgiving but better food on the latter....although I try to make some Swedish Christmas butter cookies for the crew.
I get to play with my sort of adopted neice, two really strange dogs, drink beer and talk about trains, planes and automobiles....Oh I get to carve. They humor the old fart. 
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
« Reply #13 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 6:12pm » |
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on Nov 17th, 2005, 1:14pm, LadyElaine wrote:.
The night before Christmas Buddy reads the story of Jeasus being born. Then he reads the night before Christmas. Buddy does have a way of makeing that story come to life .
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I do that every year, too! The kids think they're getting too old for it, but, tough...I'm still doing it. They grow up too fast as it is...
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I'm sure I'll get the opportunity to watch another rerun of "Gone With The Wind" on TV.
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Man I wish I could of KEPT my holiday spirit like you all even tho I still secretly still do LOVE the holidays ! Pressure between our families has been the deal every single year.....my folks don't complain and just ask me to make it over 'if I can'.....but the law has always been go to Brad's families OR ELSE !!!! Then if ya got time do whatever after that......King rule. So for a while we started splitting up for Thanksgiveing and Easter so we can see our own families and have dinner with them. Both eat at the same time......goin later to either was not the same missing the sit down meal and talking. Xmas we do mine on Xmas eve and Brad's Xmas day all day. We go to my daughters a weekend before that. We 'been' kinda working on going to mine one year and his anouther for dinner the past two years and stop at the second one for desert. (except Xmas) It's still NOT the same but eveyone eats at the same time on holidays.....why is that cuz no one EVER has dinner any other day at 1:00 pm. Who started that 1:00 pm rule ? I try very hard not to loose it over the holidays........we have a zillion people we have to buy for and it sure adds up. My dad moved out of state to Kentucky so I don't get to see him. Since the daugher and her husband don't work much cuz she quit her two jobs and he only works a few months a year we have to supply ALL the grand kids gifts and cash for them. Course the son in law spends 6 nites a week at the bars but he has no cash flow Pam
Same ole same ole rant for me !!!!! 
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« Reply #17 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 10:49pm » |
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Well gosh.....I get to cook
Goin' to the lake for Thanksgiving....My oldest son and his family will be there again this year. Of course, Thanksgiving Day is my son's favorite day to deer hunt...so he'll head out before first light, come back in time to eat...then head back out till dark.
One of my grandson's has basketball touney's all weekend....so on Friday (after turkey day) and Saturday my daughter'n law and I will drive the 60 miles to Lufkin, Tx, and watch Jayson play ball.
Other than that......it's the same ole grind for me.
I ain't cookin' Christmas.......  Somebody else better learn how between now & then.
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Seems strange, but when you alternate holidays with an ex sperm doner, it takes extra work to make holidays special.
This year is going to be an extra challenge, one of my children has adopted an alternative belief. Though two of us share this belief, the other child is very much an agnostic, and part of the belief system the other child and I share is not forcing or pressuring anyone into seeing things our way. So... hence, faith is going to be an issue this year. After Mom's passing there is one child that is questioning and seeking answers that fit rather than wearing "too small shoes". The other is in a state of flux and believes nothing....which is fine at this point to me. Just makes it hard to celebrate something, and nothing.....does that make sence?
I love both my children and don't want to to make either one feel unvalued. This will be a difficult season to be sure at our house.
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Re: What special do you do for the holidays?
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guess i'll just work xmas day like every other one since 1982
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