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holiday traditions - 12/7/2008 11:05:11 AM   
NazjamRa


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Status: offline 		what are some traditions that you plan to keep or start with the holiday under full swing?
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RE: holiday traditions - 12/7/2008 11:18:48 AM   
sub4hire


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There are a lot of traditions when it comes to the holidays to name just one or a few.


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RE: holiday traditions - 12/7/2008 11:20:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		This year we have found a new way to torment people in our house; all the presents are numbered.  There are no names on any of the presents under the tree.  Alandra has made the list of which number goes to which person.  So far, it is working wonderfully.  The frustration of the little ones not knowing which present is theres is fun to watch.  Plus they are all trying to figure out what the pattern of the numbers are  *g*

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/7/2008 11:28:17 AM   
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RE: holiday traditions - 12/7/2008 11:32:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		tell everyone i encounter "Merry Christmas"!  spend as much time with family as possible!

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 12:05:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		i'll probably be hanging out with the family, and try to convince my grandmother that going out this Christmas is a good thing.

:-) happy holidays.

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:09:24 PM   
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Status: offline 		       Christmas Eve margaritas.  The salt on the rim of the glass looks like snow. Very festive.

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:13:52 PM   
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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:29:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Cooking Christmas dinner on Christmas eve
Christmas eve carol service in the old church.
Nightmare before christmas party on chistmas eve for the offspring 3rd year
wandering around naked at Midnight bellowing Merry fucking Christmas.
Being dragged downstairs at 5.30 am by offspring
Being pissed on by better off brother at around 11 am, he stays three minutes.
Whole family eats into a coma and sleeps through queens speech
Young and old single sexy friends arrive for tea and flirt outrageously.
Drink till urine goes flammable.
while drunk get on phone and talk shit to people all over the world not seen all year
Come round with telephone on toilet.
Go downstairs to where friends are still shagging find paracetamol and coffee
bully friend into doing huge fry up while calling people I rang last night to apologise
unwrap presents I was too drunk to unwrap when given them
lose labels and don't know who to thank
receive neighbours for drinks to apologise for christmas eve bellowing
Go upstairs and throw slaves out of ny side of the bed.
sleep until Mother in Law comes round to get stoned and tell me what a shit I am
Swear never to do any of this again.
merry fucking christmas!


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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:38:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		One we are starting this year, since its the first christmas we have as a family, is the adding an ornament to the tree. When I was younger, several of my friends families did this as well. Everyone who came to christmas dinner, or who visited the house over the holiday week or so, brought a small ornament and added it to the tree. Sometimes, if I wasnt going to be around for christmas, Id mail the ornaments, hand made ones, to people. The trees grew every year, and fewer and fewer of the store bought balls fit on and more of the hand made, ecclectic ones from friends took over. I loved those trees.




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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:48:55 PM   
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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 6:51:51 PM   
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-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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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 8:25:11 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ever since my Uncle Charlie died 9 years ago, my cousins and I trek to a small village in upsate NY on Christmas Eve to spend the night with my Aunt Mary.  Although she is now 77 years old, she still lives in a large old house that sleeps the 8 of us comfortably.  We each have our assigned contibution to bring to the gathering and stay up late in front of the fireplace eating, drinking and telling old family stories.  After Aunt Mary falls asleep, we take her jewelry and head back to New Jersey.

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/8/2008 9:30:59 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I want to have Christmas at tweedydaddy's house  .
Do you really want to spend January in a) cardiac ICU or b) Rehab?

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 12:39:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Christmas Eve dinner is always seafood.  It's an Italian tradition.  I also have luminaries up the driveway on the Eve.  We end the night by going and robbing SummerWind's house while he's at Aunt Mary's in upstate NY.
I have seen my sisters and parents (while living) every single Christmas Day of my life.  We go to my sister's home for Christmas Day dinner and watch all of our children tear through their gifts.  The Christmas Day when I had just gotten home from the hospital with my newborn daughter the night before consisted of my sisters and father coming over with an entire Christmas meal (enough for an entire week) and gifts for us, staying for half an hour and then leaving so we could quietly eat and sleep and get to know our new one. 
My Christmas night ends with a huge openhouse birthday party for Jesus at a good friends home.  Been going there for the past 18 years. 

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 5:27:47 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

quote:

ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I want to have Christmas at tweedydaddy's house  .
Do you really want to spend January in a) cardiac ICU or b) Rehab?


Nope, but since you have yet to invite me to what I KNOW would be a delish fest at yours...  .

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 5:42:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I long to start a holiday tradition of spending Xmas week ( or longer ) in a thatch hut, on the beach in Mexico, in a bed with mosquito netting, spearing and grilling fish , drinking tequila, doing nasty things with some slut and toking on a bong. Oh yea, and a sign outside posting "Bwana No Home".  And NO fucking Xmas "music" !

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 5:49:42 AM   
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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 6:17:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		I have something in mind involving My tree, and My cat...

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RE: holiday traditions - 12/9/2008 8:38:33 AM   
Shiroka


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Status: offline 		well growing up my sister came up with this litlte treat on christmans morning.

a cold can of coke and jelly roll. out of memory for her i make it a habit every year to have a coke and jelly roll.

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