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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
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 Posted - Oct 29 2010 : 6:13:12 PM
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I was wondering what do you all do with family to keep close when there are too many miles to cross to all meet up at the holidays?
Here is what we do (so far)
1. We take and share many, many photos
2. We always spend phone time before and during the holidays with family and friends.
3. Traditions! We all have an 8pm central time holiday toast on Christmas eve and we make / buy and give an ornament every Christmas
especially to the younger ones, who will then have some ornaments and memories to take with them when they are ready to strike out on their own.
4. I am trying to make a new tradition, of giving to the Heifer Project as a family each holiday. We may not all give to the same charity, but I am trying to get all of us on board with the giving aspect...especially the younger set!
Just some thoughts to get us chatting about the holidays and family =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
http://palouseprairiegirls.blogspot.com/
http://prairiegirlsjournal.blogspot.com/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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J.F. Brown
True Blue Farmgirl
130 Posts
Jamie
Beaverton
OR
USA
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Posted - Nov 06 2010 : 11:38:53 AM
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We call, and call, and call... and e-mail, and sometimes send packages. This is the first year in several that my middle daughter will be home for Thanksgiving, after school and overseas travel made it impossible. Youngest can't afford the trip home that close to Christmas,and will work all day instead, so I'm sending a package. When the kids were all small, we all sent packages from the cousins to one another.
We also do silly stuff; my sister and I are rarely able to be together at Christmas, but we try to make a traditional family treat, and call each other while we do. We usually end the day with a phone call to re-cap as well. |
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Nov 09 2010 : 06:52:04 AM
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With my in-laws in Sweden my husband and I will do a Skype conference. They usually will 'toast' one another as we try to keep some of Fredrik's Swedish traditions going as well as the ones that I grew up with. I know it's hard for him to be so far from family and it has to be very hard during the holidays.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/
An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.' |
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
5602 Posts
Annika
USA
5602 Posts |
Posted - Nov 09 2010 : 07:06:13 AM
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That must be hard for Fredrik =( I have extended family in Germany, Scotland and Ireland and I hardly ever get to see any of them and I miss them especially at holiday times. We share lots of letters, emails, and photos! This Thanksgiving, it'll just be Andrew and I celebrating...but I will be thinking of family near and far and snapping photos!
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
http://palouseprairiegirls.blogspot.com/
http://prairiegirlsjournal.blogspot.com/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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