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« on: December 24, 2010, 07:10:56 AM »

What are your traditions?  Do you open gifts on Christmas Eve or wait until Christmas morning?  Do you light candles?  Do you attend worship?  What traditions do you recall from your childhood?

Is Christmas a great time or a down time for you?  Or is it a confusing mixture?

Happy Christmas Eve, my friends.  May the world, this season, be better because you're in it and may you be a better person because of your experiences this season.
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 07:20:47 AM »

Christmas Eve at the Baker's ...pics later
today we will have breakfast, eggs, sausage, bacon, hash browns, tortillas......
then we'll set up to start the Christmas decorations...all homemade, string popcorn, make garland, paint and decorate ornaments....

then it's out to the pasture to cut down a christmas tree....

time to decorate the tree.....
during all this it's chicken and dumplings and left over fish for Fish Tacos...

It's wonderful to have family gather at Christmas time...or any time

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« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2010, 07:25:31 AM »

We are opening gifts on Christmas Eve as we always have.  Our family will be attending Christmas Eve services.  
We will remember the last Christmas Eve that we had when my wife, Phyllis, and my kids mother, was there.  It brings us closer together.  

Wayne
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« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2010, 07:27:11 AM »

What are your traditions?

Being with family  cooldude ...

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« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2010, 11:00:07 AM »

When I was quite small we went to church every Sunday so at least a couple of us would be involved in the Christmas pageant at the old Elk Run church. Two weeks before Christmas my folks would hide two little 4 inch tall, plastic elves somewhere around the house. "You'd better be good now coz the elves are watching you", they'd say and we knew it was time to start looking around until we found them peeking out at us. Other than that, my family did everything on Christmas eve. Dad went out in the woods, picked out the tree and cut it down, hauled it back and set it up. Our Christmas tree stand was a huge piece of the trunk of an old hemlock..hollow in the center. One of my older brothers would hold the tree up while Dad hammered the wedges in around the trunk of the Christmas tree until he had it just right. He'd leave it sit for a few hours so the branches could relax a bit.

There were 7 of us and my brothers, the 3 oldest, helped with the chores and eating Christmas dinner the next day  Wink Still on Christmas eve, my mom took the four girls down to Troy to shop for everybody at the Five and Dime which later became the Ben Franklin. She gave us each 6 dollars...to shop for everybody. We usually managed to stay pretty close. Then back home to wrap presents, decorate the tree, and sing Christmas carols. Mom would be trying to bake bread and pies when she wasn't helping us wrap presents. ummm...I think it was a stressful day for her  Grin But before we went to bed Dad would read us the short story by Henry Van Dyke "The Other Wise Man." It never failed to get him all choked up and my dad was not a man who shed tears easily nor often. It was always an awe-inspiring moment for us because then, of course, we'd get all choked up too.

Daybreak and the seven of us would be lining up on the stairs, waiting for Dad to give us the okay to come down. They never put tinsel on the tree until morning after they had put the presents from Santa under the tree (not to be confused with the stuff we bought for each other). My folks had an old 78 record with a scratchy recording/reading of The Story of the Christmas Spiders. On the record we had it was a Christmas Angel who performed the magic. The legend is said to be of German or Ukrainian origin. http://www.share-christmas.com/stories/christmasspider/

When we finally got the okay to troop down into the living room we did so, in single file. (I got to go first coz I was the youngest. hee hee). Then we would open our presents, one person and one present at a time, going the rounds until they were all opened.  As we got older the girls would help with the Christmas fruit salad...always made on Christmas morning after Mom got the stuffed Turkey in the oven. Christmas dinner was pretty much the same as Thanksgiving and we loved it...ate so much we'd go outside and run around the house to pack it down so we could eat some more, then lay groaning on the floor before going back to playing more seriously with our Christmas presents and helping clean up the mess. Sure was fun.  Smiley

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« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2010, 01:32:38 PM »

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it!   We opened gifts with my wifes family on Christmas Eve, as per their tradition.  It was our turn to host, so the house was full, and though most of the kids are over 10 now, they still enjoy opening a few gifts.  Lots of food and catching up...a great time!

This morning we opened our gifts and celebrated with my wife's daughters, my kids are in NC with their mother...did my best to get them here this year, but without a constant legal battle it doesn't happen...and I don't feel like fighting with her anymore.

Tonight, my dad and brother will have dinner with us... mom passed a way a few years ago..still pretty hard on dad, but we will have a good time.   

A great Christmas, it is nice being around family...would have been perfect with my kids here, but they enjoyed the gifts we sent them!!!   


I hope everyone's Christmas was/is as good as mine!!

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« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2010, 02:25:18 PM »

The past few years havent spent time with the family. I'm not a family get together person like I once was. Work kinda gets in the way.  Cry  I usually work on x-mas and other holidays. It gives the others a chance to go home since they have kids. Like this week. I been here since Thursday and get off tonight in a few hours. Havent bought presents in a few years either. Dad wants nothing as I do in return. He has everything!  Smiley I tell him to spend it on his grandkids instead. Kit and I usually get something together. Getting furniture this year and maybe her a handgun.
I see dad most of the time anyway since he lives a mile down the road and is always doing something here at the farm. Same with the uncle. No contact with mom.
I know i'll look back and wish I did spend more time.  Undecided
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2010, 05:33:28 AM »

we open gifts that we've gotten for each other on christmass eve.  then on christmass day it is only for the kids.  my wife and i don't get anything on christmass. 

this year we were very disipointed in the chistmass lights.  it's our family tradition to drive around town and check out the lights.  there have been some nights when we've laughed so hard at some of the displays that he soon have to go home to change our pants!!! Grin
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2010, 10:25:15 AM »

As some others have noted, my wife and I open our personal stuff on Christmas Eve, thereby leaving the morning for the little ones. As always, we attended the Eve service at church, which always ends with a candle light service. Was kinda fun this year, a fellow my age was behind me and singing a robust tenor, his son was a strong baritone with the melody. I've been a bass singer my whole life, used to have a three octave range but no more. During the congregation singing "O Holy Night" I turned around and leaned over toward the two other guys, they picked up on it right away and we sang a great trio there in the pew. Funny, many folks around us stopped singing and turned to listen....got a lot of smiles, thumbs up, etc.  Too bad, they were visiting from out of town.

Afterward, my wife and I drove around looking at various favorite spots with lights, then home. A couple logs in the fireplace, a glass of wine with our feet on the elevated hearth, and opened the gifts to each other.

About the only tradition we have is each year we get one new ornament with the year noted on it somewhere. We've collected them from all over the U.S., wherever we happen to be on Christmas. It's been fun, but a couple years ago I had to write up a list of each year's ornament just so we could keep track. We now have 21, would love to collect another 21....God willing.

One gift from my wife is yet to be done; she's paying to have the trunk painted for the bike. It's a little travel project I've messed with over the last couple months, just need to get it painted and I'm done except for some pinstripping during Bike Week.
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