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BKSir -> RE: holiday traditions (12/8/2008 6:51:51 PM)
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Have: -Making an awesome christmas dinner for my 'family', which is the people that I love and live with, and those that I know that have nowhere else to go, no family, and bringing them over. -Christmas crackers -Christmas muisc allll month long (yes, everyone else is already wanting me dead) -Putting up the tree and lights starting at midnight on thanksgiving night. -Fancy Green Beans (green beans fried with bacon, mushrooms and season salt. No holiday is right without them) -Sneaking out of the bedroom at about 4am to re-stock the presents under the tree and in the stockings (we open gifts on christmas eve here, but, it's fun to see everyone get up and having santa having been there) -Going down to a school in my santa claus suit and volunteering by reading "Twas The Night Before Christmas" to the kindergarten classes. -The feast that would make King Henery VIII pee himself! -Volunteer time cooking for the homeless shelter. -A plate at the table for my grandpa, who has been gone for many years now, but lived for this time of year, and every year that goes by, I understand more and more why. Had -With my mom passing this year, I'm really missing the hand made ornaments of hers. Every year, since I was born, I got one. This is the first year I'm not pulling them out. 32 of them now sitting nicely in a wooden box, put safely away -Grandma's lemon meringue pie. For my birthday and christmas, every year, she made one for me, and it was mine, and god forbid anyone else tried to take any. She'd go ballistic. She passed in 2007. -My aunt's minced meat pies. They were divine. She now lives in alaska, a bit far... Starting: -Going through everything we own, and, anything we don't use, if it's in good condition, wrapping it and delivering it all anonymously to a family we've found that's in need and could use it and truly appreciate it. -A plate for my mom, to match my grandpas, at the table. Christmas is for them, they loved it and all kept it alive in the family. They're fully alive and here with me at this time of year especially, in my heart and in the smiles and laughter of everyone around me.
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