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 2005-11-29 10:18 AM |
 Philadelphia, south of New York and north of DC |  Subject: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoyI thought the hijack of colomingle's thread deserved a thread of it's own. I'll add mine later.  |
| 2005-11-29 10:21 AM in reply to: #293844 |
Buttercup  14334    | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Back when I called myself a Catholic, going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve was my favorite part of Christmas celebration. |
| 2005-11-29 10:43 AM in reply to: #293844 |
Elite 2777 In my bunk with new shoes and purple sweats. | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Caroling(can't sing a lick so I play an instrument). Church service on Christmas Eve. btw Our church group does caroling at three elderly care facilities and at the hospital. Last year we were able to sing and play for several terminally ill patients and their families, what a feeling. Finished up by caroling in the packed waiting room of the ER. Everyone was singing and and hopefully it helped them in remembering the spirit of Christmas. |
| 2005-11-29 10:45 AM in reply to: #293844 |
Elite 2863 | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy My wife, my dog and myself always go for a Christmas day hike first thing in the morning. |
| 2005-11-29 11:07 AM in reply to: #293878 |
Expert 666 St. Thomas, ON | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy New pair of pyjamas for everyone--they're the only present opened on Christmas Eve (a tradition birthed out of my parents compromise on when presents should be opened that I have carried on to my own family) Big breakfast on Christmas morning (bacon, eggs, pancakes, hash browns, etc), and my ceremonial glass of eggnog (hate the stuff, but have done this as long as I can remember) Watching the Grinch Who Stole Christmas on Christmas Eve. Hmm... can't think of any other traditions. We have other things that we do, but I wouldn't call them traditions. |
| 2005-11-29 11:09 AM in reply to: #293844 |
| St. Louis, MO | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy A Christmas Eve walk with my Dad. We always have our big dinner on Christmas eve and after dessert, Dad and I would bundle up and walk around the neighborhoods to look at the lights and luminaries. Sadly, not too many luminaries in St. Louis, but there were many in Chicago. |
| 2005-11-29 11:10 AM in reply to: #293844 |
Champion 6786 Two seat rocket plane | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy My wife and I watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (the Boris Karlof/Chuck Jones version) and eat homemade soup. The rest of the year I try to remember the words to the Grinch theme. You're a mean one Mr Grinch I guess it's time for an update |
| 2005-11-29 11:13 AM in reply to: #293844 |
| Elite 2458 Livingston, MT | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy |
| 2005-11-29 11:22 AM in reply to: #293844 |
Elite 2673 Muskego, WI | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy I'm trying to save Christmas in the other thread. Any help people? My favorite is taking each child separately to shop for a gift for my wife. It is a great time to spend one on one with each child...and despite what prevailing wisdom might say...the kids LOVE GIVING the gift they picked out. And, of course, going to mass on Christmas Eve and watching all the kids singing in our Christmas Choir. Beautiful. |
| 2005-11-29 11:30 AM in reply to: #293905 |
| Philadelphia, south of New York and north of DC | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy We observe Advent. Sunday was the first day. So we hold off on decorating the house inside. Just an advent wreath, advent calendar, and nativity scene without baby Jesus. Outside, we put up some simple lights on the porch. Every evening before dinner we light the advent wreath and sing or pray, or have silent worship Quaker style. Usually we go to Mass Christmas Eve, then come home and put up and decorate the tree. In the morning we exhange small gifts put in stockings. Christmas Day is for family and friends. The kids get to open presents from their extended family. Since we keep things low key for Advent, our house is the one to come to for the post Christmas party. The major gift giving happens on the Feast of the Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas. (We celebrate it on a Sunday rather than January 6th). This has taken a lot of pressure off of Christmas Day. There's no rush to choose gifts before Christmas. We do it afterward, and have the added benefit of taking advantage of sales. The kids love it. The tree stays up until Candlemas on February 2nd. It's usually a dry and sorry looking thing by then.  |
| 2005-11-29 12:00 PM in reply to: #293848 |
Queen BTich 12411 , | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Me too Renee!!! Renee - 2005-11-29 11:21 AM Back when I called myself a Catholic, going to Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve was my favorite part of Christmas celebration. |
| 2005-11-29 12:06 PM in reply to: #293844 |
Expert 1166 Colchester, CT | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Christmas Eve, after the kids have gone to bed (and gone to sleep), pull out all their presents and wrap, along with a 2L bottle of pepsi and a bottle of JD, watching Christmas Vaaction as we wrap and drink. Chris |
| 2005-11-29 12:08 PM in reply to: #293844 |
Champion 5183 Wisconsin | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy a few unique ones: Up until I the first time I brought home my SO, my brother and I have sleepovers-- he drags a sleeping bag into my room and we have LAWAYS tried to stay awake in order to "catch" Santa Claus. Even in college, we did this! dorks. We get books every year (surprise,) and I al,ways try to find and unwrap my book first, so I can start reading, and then make the day last longer bc I am not so eager to tear through presents. My mom makes something we always called Breakfast Pizza. (thus named bc it was a special treat like pizza not bc it has ANYTHING to do with pizza) I think most people call it Dutch Baby or kind of like Yorkshire pudding, It is so freakin delicious and we used to like to watch it puff up, we even had stools to sit on in front og the oven to peak in. My mom was a master at getting us to sit still to "help." As an adult, with no kids (which I think must make the holidays so much more fun) I just love going home and being a kid again and being spoiled by my mom and dad... |
| 2005-11-29 12:10 PM in reply to: #293844 |
Giver 18427 | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy My family always opens presents on Christmas eve. When I was a kid, my mom said Santa came to our house first. |
| 2005-11-29 12:18 PM in reply to: #293844 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Northwest Ohio | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy I started a "new" tradition (is that an oxymoron?) with my boys a few years ago. Every year, on Christmas Eve, we have a treasure hunt. I make up about 20 clues on index cards and hide them all over the house. For example, one year, a clue was "The Brown's Quarterback" who was named "Couch" at the time, so they looked through the couch cushions to find the next index card which said something about "Hogwarts School" so they knew to go look through the Harry Potter books on the shelves to find the next clue and on and on they go throughout the house until they get to the end where they find the "treasure" which is one present per child that they can open right away (the rest wait until Christmas morning). My boys are 11, 16 and 18 now and they still look forward to the treasure hunt each year. |
| 2005-11-29 12:22 PM in reply to: #293844 |
Champion 5183 Wisconsin | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy bettylou, I love that! (note to self: hurry and have 3 boys so you can do treasure hunts) |
 2005-11-29 12:30 PM in reply to: #293844 |
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| Pro 4612 MA | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Growing up in Asia in a semi-Christian family (Christian background but Dad doesn't practice), Xmas is more like a family gathering. We have a decorated tree and gifts, food etc. In school (Protestant), we had Carol night, a mass before the vacation, plus other christmas activities. |
| 2005-11-29 2:02 PM in reply to: #293844 |
| Master 2278 State of Confusion | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy At our house it starts Thanksgiving weekend with getting the tree and putting up lights. The kids love to get the tree more than anything. Neighbors enjoy watching my husband risk life and limb every year as he puts the lights on the house. I love decorating the house. We don't go overboard, but we like to enjoy the season as long as possible. Christmas eve is spent with either my in-laws or one set of my parents. We go to church Christmas eve after a big dinner. We also give our kids one present...pajamas...to open on Christmas Eve. They love sleeping in their Christmas pajamas! I know this sounds corny but we always read "The Night Before Christmas" with hot chocolate before the kids go to bed on Christmas Eve too. My son loves this story and now HE reads it to us. He loves this role! Christmas morning is reserved for just my husband and I, and the kids. We usually have the other set of my parents come for a big brunch Christmas morning after we've had our quiet Christmas. Of course the kids are up before the crack of dawn. |
| 2005-11-29 2:06 PM in reply to: #293905 |
| Pro 4174 Keller, Texas | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy ride_like_u_stole_it - 2005-11-29 11:10 AM My wife and I watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (the Boris Karlof/Chuck Jones version) and eat homemade soup. The rest of the year I try to remember the words to the Grinch theme. You're a mean one Mr Grinch I guess it's time for an update You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. You're as cuddly as a cactus, You're as charming as an eel. Mr. Grinch. You're a bad banana With a greasy black peel. |
| 2005-11-29 2:09 PM in reply to: #294143 |
| Giver 18427 | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy I like "Heat Miser/Cold Miser." |
| 2005-11-29 4:58 PM in reply to: #293907 |
| Veteran 407 Dallas, Texas | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy ChuckyFinster - 2005-11-29 11:13 AM The Christmas tussle in the sack followed by a big phat breakfast. Now we're talking about a merry Christmas! Bill |
| 2005-11-29 6:03 PM in reply to: #293844 |
| Pro 4100 Wherever the trail takes me, WA. | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy 1. Wife and I get a hotel room downtown, to shop, and fine dine the week before Xmas. 2. Christmas Eve we watch A CHRISTMAS STORY (YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!!) 3. Christmas Day after all is done.. we watch ELF... |
| 2005-11-29 6:37 PM in reply to: #293902 |
| Master 1867 The real USC, in the ghetto of LA | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy Rennick - 2005-11-29 11:07 AM New pair of pyjamas for everyone--they're the only present opened on Christmas Eve i have a buddy who does that, he gets his kids into bed easy with it. lets put on those new pajamas....... |
| 2005-11-29 7:49 PM in reply to: #293844 |
| Champion 4902 Ottawa, Ontario | Subject: RE: What Christmas traditions do you practice and enjoy I am not a practicing Catholic and my wife is Jewish but still, we go to midnight mass every year. The service is very nice and choral is heavenly. Then we all come home, pop open a bottle of champagne (Proseco actually) and open our presents. |
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