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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
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Krista
Utah
USA
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 Posted - Nov 26 2025 : 1:55:17 PM
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My daughter had to create a school passport this week so that she can "visit" other countries while at school to learn about Christmas in those countries. I have only learned about the Icelandic Christmas with the 13 Yule Lads and their mom Gryla when we visited 7 years ago. Then I saw on my Christmas lights post, Debbie talking about Christmas in Germany. So I really want to know how Christmas is celebrated in other countries! I love learning about our world. Please share with me any that you celebrate or have learned about from your travels!
Krista
Farmgirl Sister #528
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Wanda Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
1684 Posts
Wanda
Murrells Inlet
SC
USA
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Posted - Nov 26 2025 : 2:13:56 PM
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Krista we did that at the school I worked at for several years, the kids loved it and so did I. They would rotate among their grade level and hear a story about that country, have a snack also from that country, and make an ornament that related to the country as well. It was so much fun!!
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
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Farmgirl of the Month: Aug/2022
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
2569 Posts
Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Nov 26 2025 : 10:49:11 PM
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My mother was German and Hungarian. We had three little wax angels with real hair that hung near the top of the tree. My grandmother brought them from Hungary around 1900. I now have one even though we don't have a tree anymore. The poor little thing has gotten rather shabby with age. Mostly what I remember is the baked goods; stollen, pfefferneuse, and springerle. I remember my mother saying when she was a girl they always had real candles on the tree and kept a bucket of water nearby just in case.
Judith
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
8027 Posts
Krista
Utah
USA
8027 Posts |
Posted - Nov 28 2025 : 2:16:33 PM
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Wanda Sue, I think its a great idea. I love how the schools are teaching other cultures and their traditions.
Judith, did your grandmother make the wax angels? I will have to search up the baked good. I haven’t heard of them before. I bet the real candles on the tree would be so beautiful, but also so scary. Thank you for sharing your story with me!
Krista
Farmgirl Sister #528
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AussieChick
Sharpshooter
410 Posts
Cindy
Esk
Queensland
Australia
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Posted - Nov 30 2025 : 3:22:38 PM
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Hi Krista - Our Aussie Christmas is celebrated in the heat of summer, so there is cricket played on the beach, outside BBQs, seafood, cold ham, salads, pavlova, trifle. Our family always manages to have a water fight (a great excuse to cool down in the afternoon after lunch). There are still many British influences intermingled like plum pudding with custard, & rum balls. Our family has started a tradition of going water skiing out on the lake on Boxing Day (26th).
Farmgirl #6058
Farmgirl Sister of the Year 2021
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StitchinWitch
True Blue Farmgirl
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Judith
Galt
CA
USA
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Posted - Nov 30 2025 : 3:58:14 PM
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Cindy -- Right now, sitting in the cold dreary foggy valley where we haven't seen the sun in almost two weeks your Christmas sounds delightful. Waterskiing on December 26 sounds like an impossible dream.
Judith
7932 FGOTM 6/21 6/24
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl
8027 Posts
Krista
Utah
USA
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Posted - Dec 01 2025 : 12:09:24 PM
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Cindy, which Christmas do you prefer? The winter kind from the United States or the summer one of Australia? For me, a summer Christmas would be very strange since I have never had a warm Christmas day. It has even started to seem strange with us getting less snow for Christmas over the last couple of years.
Krista
Farmgirl Sister #528
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AussieChick
Sharpshooter
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Cindy
Esk
Queensland
Australia
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Posted - Dec 03 2025 : 5:39:35 PM
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Krista - I must say that it was exciting to finally experience a "White" Christmas when we lived in the U.S. It's funny because, as a child, we would always be singing about dreaming of a white Christmas, Santa coming down the chimney, real Christmas trees, reindeers, etc, but we never experienced any of that in real life. My Mum even had "snow in a can" to spray on our plastic tree when we were kids. So, to finally embrace that in the Northern Hemisphere was fun. I must say, however, after several years of long, dark winters, I was ready to come home where we have very mild winters & Christmas is celebrated in the heat of summer, where kangaroos pull Santa instead of reindeers & Santa goes surfing at the beach instead of climbing down chimneys. As for the plastic tree, maybe I can swap it out for a branch of Eucalytpus.
Farmgirl #6058
Farmgirl Sister of the Year 2021
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