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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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 Posted - Dec 17 2004 : 05:39:10 AM
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It's always interesting to hear what other families do at this time of year so I thought I'd start a new thread! We usually visit briefly with local friends and neighbors Christmas Eve Day delivering goodies
(fudge,fudge and more fudge!) then head home to go to Christmas Eve service at 7:00 and return home for a dinner with friends afterward.
This way we all get to bed at a reasonable time and wake up to a visit from Santa the next day! Our families have sometimes come for brunch here, but usually we all go to one house in the afternoon for more exchanging and then a sit down dinner. Home to recuperate again and then the week between until New Years we visit with friends and family, the kids have ALOT of sleepovers and the tradition has become that the cousins sleepover on New Year's Eve. We don't miss the going out that night so it's turned into a sort of fun visit, sometimes first night activities are going on , we've had board game tournaments and one year we went on a horse drawn sleigh ride(complete w/bells). That was my personal favorite! Oh and did I forget...there is always food, lots and lots of delicious food everywhere we go!
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Edited by - bramble on Dec 17 2004 05:42:55 AM |
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
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cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Dec 17 2004 : 4:17:02 PM
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I have tried to keep some traditions going, but getting married late in life it's been difficult to include things which mean nothing to the d.h. Such as hanging up stockings for the eve of St. Nicholas Day (Dec. 5); we hang stockings for Christmas Eve, of course. One thing I've been doing for a long time...every Christmas morning, regardless of where I spent it/with whom, I look out the window into the backyard and say "darn, looks like I still haven't gotten a pony for Christmas". Sort of gives me something to look forward to during the coming year!
Cecelia
ce's farm
"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery" Victor Hugo |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Dec 17 2004 : 9:32:03 PM
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We deliver cheeseballs and crackers to the neighbors on Christmas eve and have tamales for supper (this year we plan to make them ourselves..I will have to let you know how THAT goes) and of course hang stockings. We usually always go "light looking" a few nights before Christmas to see all the pretty lights.
Our little town has a lighted Christmas parade the night after THanksgiving so that sort of starts out our holiday season..the kids love it. Everyone goes over to the high school gym for chili and hot cocoa and santa afterwards.
Our family always does "the 12 days of Christmas" for a family we pick out each year. It is fun! We do it with friends so that we have three stops to make and lots of kids to go put each night's surprize on the porch in "teams" without getting seen.
I ALWAYS make cinnamon rolls from scratch on Christmas morning and we have lots of relative over about 10am for them.
We always have turkey for dinner on Christmas too..and about the same meal as on THanksgiving..it is MY favorite meal. Except my family always has fried okra in addition to the more traditonal stuff.
I make matching pajamas for all the kids and they get to open those on Christmas even. The rest they have to wait and open Christmas morning. Santa dosn't wrap their gifts, so those they can have right away...the others they have to wait for me to get the cinnamon rolls in the oven first and then we open them.
I ALWAYS get a new pair of slippers from my mom. I hope she remembers. I ruined my last ones at girls camp this summer..haha
Jenny in Utah
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prairiemaid
True Blue Farmgirl
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Margret
Canada
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Posted - Dec 24 2004 : 06:57:53 AM
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| Jigsaw puzzles have always been a tradition in my family. We always have one going on over the holidays. On Christmas Eve, I break out a plate of goodies that I've worked so hard baking for Christmas. I know the kids wait for that, they won't let me forget. Santa still comes to our house eventhough the boys are big. He doesn't wrap his gifts here either and he always puts a Christmas orange in their stocking and usually peanuts. |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jan 04 2005 : 5:20:18 PM
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Aunt Jenny - I am missing you! Did you get your new slippers for Christmas?
jpbluesky
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TheSoapMaven
True Blue Farmgirl
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Susan
LA
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2005 : 03:20:29 AM
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Good morning! I enjoyed reading this thread. We are doing our best to simplify our holidays. Doing more visiting, taking baked goods etc than all out buying like when I was a child. Trying to achieve that Little House Christmas I always dreamed of!
"It's no bad thing to celebrate a simple life" ~ Bilbo Baggins
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
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CA
USA
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Posted - Jan 05 2005 : 07:32:47 AM
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Every year I remind my kids of the story from "Little House on the Prairie" where the girls get a tin cup, a candy stick and a penny for Christmas. Is this the "Little House Christmas" of your dreams? lol
PS One year I actually put just those items in their stockings :) |
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cecelia
True Blue Farmgirl
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cecelia
new york
USA
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Posted - Jan 06 2005 : 6:40:36 PM
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My fondest memories were getting an orange, nuts (which had to be cracked), some candy and little toys in my stocking (which was my Dad's heavy wool hunting socks). I think I looked forward to that stocking more than what was under the tree.
Cecelia
ce's farm
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